River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-09-17

mitted suicide.
Harry K Thaw was transferred to
the jail at White Plains, n. Y.
Mrs. Ella Isbester of Salem, Wis,
saturated her clothing with kerosene,
set herself afire and burned to death.
George Sands, 70 years old, was ar
rested at his home in Kansas City,
Kan, on a charge of making counter
felt money. Five glass fruit jars con-
tanning 338 spurious silver dollars
were dug up in his back yard.
A government crop report estimates
the total Canadian wheat yield at
124, 100000 bushels, an average of FL
bushels per acre. The total yield of
oats is estimated at 269, 9O4, 900 bushels,
and the total barley yield 49,4S8,000
bushels.
The towns of Grand Marais and
Beaver Bay were reported to be burn
ing and many other places were en-
dangered by the forest fires of Michi-
gan and Minnesota
A hurricane of great fury swept
over Turks Islands, B. w. l., and the
town of Grand Turk was devastated.
A number of lives have been lost, but
just how many cannot yet be said.
Emperor William disappointed the
general expectation that he would set
foot on French territory in the course
of a sightseeing voyage along the
Vosges range.
In flight lasting one hour, ten min
utes and 26 seconds, Orville Wright
surpassed all his exploits for time
and distance flight for heavier-than-
air machine.
The number of unemployed in Lon
don, England, was strikingly Illus
trated when 5000 men surrounded and
attempted to make their way into a
hospital which had advertised for a
porter at a wage of $3.50 a week and
meals.
Warm praise was given President
| Roosevelt by Judge e. HI. Gary, chair
man of the board of directors of the
United States Steel corporation, at a
banquet given for him by Sir Hugh
Bell, president of the Iron and Steel
institute, and others.
The plant of the Cosmosdale Cement
Company, located at Cosmosdale, II
miles southwest of Louisville, burned
with a loss estimated at 100000.
American workingmen and working
women, represented by the American
Federation of Labor, will cooperate
with the coming worlds congress on
tuberculosis to prevent the spread of
consumption in workshops, homes and
public buildings.
The formal notification of John Tenn
pie Graves of his nomination as vice
presidential candidate of the Independ-
ence party took place at the Ponce de
Leon Casino in Atlanta, Ga.
Descendants of Maj Gen. Alexander
Macomb, first commander-in-chief of
the United States army, gathered in
Detroit from many parts of the United
States for the unwilling of a statue
of Gen. Macomb, erected at the site
of his birthplace under the auspices of
the Michigan Society of the Daughters
of 1912.
Twelve hundred employees of the
Great Northern Paper Company at Mil
linocket, Me-, went on strike.
The commodities clause of the Hep
burn railroad act was declared uncon-
stitutional by the United States cir
cult court for the eastern district of
Pennsylvania.
Judge Kenesaw Lands, who fined
the Standard Oil Company of Indiana
$29,000,000, is charged with having
permitted outside influences to govern
his decision by the attorneys for the
company in their answer to the appli-
cation for a rehearing filed in the
United States court of appeals.
County Attorney English at Omaha,
Neb., filed complaint against Charles
e. Davis, charging him with murder
in the first degree in connection with
the shooting of DR.. frederick Rustin.
In a flight requiring great skill on
account of a ten-mile wind, O-ville
Wright in his aeroplane circled around
the drill ground at Fort Myer 5S times
in 65 minutes and So seconds, break
ing his own worlds record.
Jacob Hernesniemi, with his two
sons, respectively II and Ia years old,
met death while trying to fight off the
forest fires that swept their homestead
on Otter river near Calumet, Mich.
Falling a victim to it's policy of over
extension and poor management the
well-known fish, oyster and sea food
house of A. Booth & Co. of Chicago,
the largest in this country, was forced
into the hands of a receiver.
The supreme court of Oklahoma up
held the validity of the depositors'
guaranty law, denying the injunction
prayed by the Noble State bank to re-
strain the state from levying one per
cent assessment upon the deposits of
the bank.
Miss Patricia Egan, daughter of
Maurice F. Egan, the American minis
ter to Denmark, was married in Copen-
hagen to Jerome Elmer P. Murphy of
Los Angeles, Cal.
A severe gale caused many casual
ties among smaller craft along the
coast of Great Britain. The schooner
Phyllis Gray, laden with coal, went
aground and turned turtle and the
crew of six men. were lost.
The board of directors of the Nation
al Federation of Women's Clubs Sc
lected Cincinnati as the place of the
1910 biennial convention.
Philip Lilienthal, manager of the