River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-09-03
GENERAL NEWS.

1ENE HAL- NGN0s
The American battleship fleet ar
rived at Melbourne and was given a
rousing welcome by the officials and
people.
With the number of dead estimated
at a hundred and the financial loss
placed at from two to five million dol
lars, the floods throughout the Caro-
linas and Georgia have been the most
severe experienced by these states in
their history. In the cities business
has been demoralized and stores and
residences ruined, and in the country
the crops have suffered most seri-
ously.
Five men were killed, another fatal
Iy hurt, and five seriously injured in
a collision at the Warrior Run col
liery of the Lehigh Valley Coal COM
pany, near Wilkesbarre, Pa.
At Minerva, KY, John Bruce, aged
20 years, shot and killed his father,
Lewis Bruce, As years old. The elder
Bruce had attacked his wife, when
the son interfered and shot him.
Five young oarsmen of San Fran
cisco who went for row on
the bay disappeared, presumably be-
Ing drowned.
The police or Atlantic City were
looking for w. S. G. Williams, hus-
band of the woman who was with
Charles G. Roberts of Baltimore when
he was shot on the board walk.
Because she rejected his attentions,
A. G. Summers of Belleville, Ill, killed
Mrs. Eva Neinninger and committed
suicide
The British steamer Dunearn sank
in typhoon off Japan and only two
of her crew of So survived.
Two men were killed and six others
dangerously wounded on board the
Danish cruiser Hekla by the prema-
ture explosion of shell.
Capt. P. G. Hams, Jr., and his broth
er, T. Jenkins Hams, were held with
out bail for the action of a grand jury
at New York on a charge of the MUIR
der of William E. Annis.
Rev. l. B. Milligan, well-known
minister and golf player of Canton, O.,
shot and killed himself.
Arm, just south of Kamloops, B. c.,
are threatening to go on the warpath,
fearing that they are to have their
fishing rights taken away.
The Imperial Japanese bank of San
Francisco was closed by the state
banking commission, the officers being
accused of making loans to them
selves.
The Associated Advertising clubs in
session at Kansas City elected James
Gibbs of Chicago president and de-
cided to meet next year in Louisville,
Ky.
The American battleship fleet sailed
from Sydney for Melbourne.
Frank Halliday of Rosedale, Pa,
fatally slashed his 19-year-old wife
with a razor because of jealousy.
Vance Williams, negro accused of
murder, was lynched near Louisville,
Ky.
The national rife team match for
the national trophy, authorized by
congress, and $500 was won at Camp
Perry, o., by the United States infan-
try team.
The post office at Rushville, Mo-,
was robbed of $500 by burglars who
had failed to loot the bank there.
Hostilities between the Netherlands
and Venezuela were brought a step
nearer by the receipt at The Hague
of an unofficial copy of a second note
from Castro's foreign minister, Jose
de Jesus Paul, setting forth VeneZue-
las grievances and stating that that
country awaited satisfaction.
Gov. Magoon announced the Cuban
elections would be held November Il
and the new president installed Janu-
airy % next.
Burglars cracked the safe of the
post Office in Waukegan, H., and got
away with money and stamps to the
value of $4,000.