River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-09-10
GENERAL NEWS.

Fire destroyed large part OF the
mining town of Rawhide, New. Three
thousand people were rendered home
less and the business district was
wiped out The property loss is over
$750O0O.
Salt Lake City won over Washing
ton for the forty-third encampment of
the Grand Army of the Republic next
year by vote of 461 to 104.
The Republican campaign in Ohio
was opened at Youngstown with
speeches by Gov. Harris of Ohio, Gov.
Hughes of New York and Senator
Beveridge Of Indiana.
The American battleship fleet sailed
from Melbourne for Albany, West Aus
tTalia.
Daniel Godell of Omaha shot and
killed Miss Edna Kenneth because she
was about to marry another man.
The executive board of the Amalga-
mated Association of Street and Elec-
trio Railway Employees of America de-
clared itself in favor of a general
strike of the $4,000 members of the
association in New England.
The business section of Sumner,
Miss, was burned and one man lost
his life.
Gov Hanly issued call for an
extra session of the Indiana legisla-
ture to meet in Indianapolis Septem-
Der 18 to consider the county local OPP
ton law and to give him power to deal
with the night-rider troubles.
Fire in the city of Niigata, near
Tokyo, Japan, destroyed 1000 houses.
A. S. Waters of Tampa, Fla, killed
himself at Hot Springs, Ark, by jump
ing from a hotel window.
Peter J. Schollert of St Paul, Mimi,
his wife and her brother, Lewis Chris
Hansen, were asphyXiated by illuminat-
ing gas.
Mrs. Walter Allen, wife of hotel
keeper of Wichita Falls, Tex, shot
and killed Lille Wheatley who was in
a carriage with Allen.
Chief of Police Maurice Fitzgerald
of Ware Mass, was fatally shot by an
alleged horse thief, who then commit
ted suicide.
Germany's policy in the Morocco af
fair has annoyed British officials ex
cessively, and they feel that the kaiser
is trying to secure an advantage over
the other powers. Great Britain in
tends to recognize Mulai Hafid after
he has pledged himself to accept al
the obligations of the former sultan.
Col Henry NJ Nevius of Red Bank
n. j., was elected commander-in-chiet
of the Grand Army of the Republic
Mass, was chosen president of the
Womans' Relief Corps.
Chester Jordan, an actor, killed his
wife HonOrah, an actress, during {
quarrel in their home in Somerville
a suburb of Boston, and then dismem
bered her body and tried to take il
away in a trunk.
More than $4,O0OOOO was left te
charitable institutions, the Metropoli
tan Museum of Art and Yale univer
sity by the will of Frederick Cooper
Hewitt, who died at his home il
Owego, n. Y.
Daniel Walser, a Detroit confec
toner, was shot and killed by burg
lars at his store.
Mrs. Earl Hallam of Springfield
H., declared that George Richardson
was not the negro who attacked her
1t was his removal from the city
which caused the bloody race riots.
Dr. Frederick T. Rustin of Omaha
Neb., one of the most famous sur
geons in the west, was shot and killed
by an unknown person.
Frederick Cornelius of Muskogee
Okla, and his sweetheart, Miss Bah
bic Metcalf of Tulsa, were drowned
while boating.
Forest fire threatened the destruc
ton of the famous Calaveras group O.
giant sequoias.
The members OF the American team
which captured chief honors at The
Olympic games in London were re
ceived by President Roosevelt at Sag
amore HILL
The Nevada Democratic state con
vention nominated Francis G. New
lands for United States senator AM
George A. Bartlett for congressman
A new comet was discovered at tn
Yerke's observatory at Lake Geneva
Wis, by Prof. d. w. Morehouse O
Drake university.