River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-07-09

San Francisco by Battling Nelson Of
Hegewisch, ILL.,, who thus became
/ lightweight champion.
Regarding the condition of the Uni
| ted States treasury Secretary Cortel-
you issued statement which was op-
| timistic
The bodies of 214 persons recov-
cred from the Rikovsky mine at Yoso-
vo, European Russia, which was the
scene of of an explosion of gas, were
buried. The horror of the situa-
ton was added to by fire.
The United Box Board and Paper
company is in bankruptcy. Receivers
were appointed. This is a $28,967 400
| corporation, managed and owned main
ly by Chicago interests.
Shocks of earthquake were felt at
San Diego, Cal, and in Mexico.
Two men were burned to death and
ten others were injured in fire which
followed an explosion on barge at
Philadelphia
Mrs. Ida May Wolff, at st. Louis,
turned on the gas jets and almost
asphyxiated herself, her husband and
three other members of the family.
Judge William Howard Taft, the Re
publican candidate for the presidency,
accompanied by Mrs. Taft and their
son Charlie, went to Hot Springs, Va.
Seven persons were killed, at least
two others were fatally injured and
fully 80 more were severely hurt as
h. g
The fire followed an explosion of fire.
works on display in the store.
Five persons were killed, 40 injured
and many rendered homeless by tor
nado at Fort Summers, Guadeloupe
county, n. NJ.
Premier Marquis Saionji of Japan
rendered his resignation. He consult
ed with the members of his cabinet,
who decided to lay down all their port
folios, also, and all the designations
were rendered to the emperor.
AS a climax to a series of mySterl-
Gus hold-ups on railroad tracks west
of Coldwater, Mich, Libro lombard
was found dead with nine cuts in his
throat and Cascanzo Di Clio has two
bullets in his arm.
An Internal machine, the explosion
of which would have wrecked the
courthouse, killed Sheriff Beck and
family, as well as prisoners in the
jail, was received at the courthouse in
Houghton, Mich.
At least 200 miners are believed to
have lost their lives in fearful disas-
ter in the Rikovsky mine at Yusovo,
Russia, caused by an explosion of gas.
A Milwaukee man who hanged him
cremated and the ashes given to a
young woman for tooth powder.
Three small children of Mr.. and
Mrs. Adams Claus were burned to
death in fire which destroyed the
family home at Windsor, Col.
The federal authorities have for
hidden the issuance of passports" to
travellers by the office of the governor
of Ohio.
Mexico will ask the United States to
punish severely the local authorities
of Del Rio, Tex, and possibly others of
acted, on the grounds that the officers
knowingly failed in their duty by al
lowing persons who partook in the
Las Vacas raid to return to the Texas
side of the river and to bring with
them their wounded
Justice Bischoff of the New York
supreme court decided that making
oral, individual bets on races was not
against the law.
More than 600 persons were lost by
the upsetting of boats in storm at
Batavia.
Denver, Col, was commended by the
board of directors of the National Ed
ucation association as the place for
the next annual convention of the as
ISOLATION.
Francis G. Bailey, the president of
the Export Shipping company of New
Jersey, who, together with his brother,
Albert w. Bailey, Charles H. H. My
ers and Capt. Albert Oxley was placed
aboard the Norwegian steamer Ut
stein at Puerto Cortez, Honduras, in
custody of Lieut.. P. w. Berry of the
New York police department, made
his escape in a small boat.
The Minnesota Republican conven-
ton nominated Jacob F. Jacobson of
Madison for governor and adopted a
platform indorsing the work of the
Chicago convention and pledging the
party in Minnesota to continue the
work of railway regulation.
Count Zeppelin outdistanced all
world records for steerage balloons.
He remained in the air for IL hours
and traversed the greater part of
northern Switzerland, attaining an
average speed throughout of "a miles
an hour.
Mrs. Frances Thompson, wife of a
Fargo. n. D., school teacher, was
found strangled to death, gagged and
bound hand and foot with a clothes
line, in her apartments in a rooming
house in Chicago.
Walter ]. Bartnett of San Francisco
was sentenced to ten years in the pen
itentiary for having hypothecated
bonds and securities to the amount of
$205,000 belonging to the estate of
Ellen M. Cotton, of which he was spe-
cial administrator
Two men were killed, and three
badly injured in the collapse of liv-
cry stable in Minneapolis.
In order to escape trial on a charge
| Of heing imnlicated in the robbery and