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


famous Calaveras big tree grove was
brought under control and tho great
trees were saved.
The special grand jury at Spring
field, ILL.,, returned III indictments in
connection with the race riots, and
made final report in which it com.
mended certain officials and severely
condemned some of the police for
their cowardice.
Late returns from the Michigan
primaries put Gov. Fred Warner in the
lead for denomination.
OryilIe Wright made a fairly sue
cessful test of his aeroplane built for
the army at Fort Myer. Near Ithaca,
N. Y, two Cornell students made a
good flight of several miles in an
aeroplane of their own construction.
Spanish war veterans voted to hold
next encampment at Tacoma, Wash.
The territorial supreme court at
Manila decided that the sultan Oh
Dunaharra must hang for the part he
took as a leader of the raid on Par
ang, island of Mindanao, in January,
IOOOJ W. hODOhoAO VI SANS
place was killed by the raiders.
Judge Vandeventer in the United
States circuit court at st. Paul en-
joined the Arkansas railway commits
sion from enforcing the two-cent-fare
law.
Chief of Detectives Gill Of East st.
Louis and Patrolman Ransome Paine
were shot while trying to trap bur-
glars in the home of Philip Wolff,
treasurer of st. Clair county.
The condition of the natives of the
Aleutian Indian village in Akutan har-
Dor, Boring sea is most deplorable,
according to the report of Dr. Robert
Olsen, assistant surgeon on the rev.
enue cutter McCulloch.
The First National bank of Niles,
o., failed and a receiver was ap-
pointed.
The United Spanish war veterans
drew the color line by declaring the
Charles M. Thomas camp of Washing
ton unattached"
William H. Taft and Senator For
aker met in Toledo and entire har-
mony between them was assured, the
senator promising to take the stump
for the Republican ticket.
Charles o. Jones, a noted aeronaut,
fell 500 feet with his blazing dirigible
balloon at the Central Maine fair at
Waterville, and was killed. The acct
dent was witnessed by $4,000 persons.
The parade of the Grand Army of
the Republic at the encampment in
Toledo was reviewed by Mr.. Taft,
Senator Foraker and others. About
10000 veterans were in line.
James S. Stackpole, member Of the
firm of Stackpole Brothers, publishers
Of the Lewistown (Pa.) Gazette, while
mentally unbalanced committed sui
eide near Mifflintown by shooting.
Fifteen thousand Americans and
view and parade at Pennington, a SUI
burb of Melbourne. The Victorian
journalists gave a reception in honor
of Rear Admiral Sperry. 1t was his
birthday and the city of Melbourne
commemorated the occasion by pre-
senting him with a silver bowl bear
ing a suitable inscription.
A Paris newspaper prints an inter
view with Sidi ell Mokhri, Moroccan
minister of foreign affairs, in which
he declares that Abd-el-Aziz has def
nitely resolved to give up the strug-
gle.
Unknown persons dynamited the
bank of the Illinois and Michigan
canal at Channahon, IL miles south.
west of Joliet, and the entire district
was flooded.
Foreclosure proceedings against the
Pittsburg- Wabash Terminal Railway
company were begun in Pittsburg by
the Mercantile Trust company of New
York.
Wisconsin primaries resulted in the
nomination for United States senator
of Isaac Stephenson, Republican, and
Neal Brown, Democrat; for governor,
James o. Davidson, Republican, and
]. A. Awkward, Democrat.
Republicans carried the Vermont
election by a plurality of about 2S,-
600, a decrease of eight per cent. from
the vote of 1904. The Democratic
vote also showed a decrease.
The crew on board the racing bal
loon Willie de Dieppe tried to descend
at Niagara Falls The rip cord failed
to work properly, resulting in poor
landing. The three men in the basket
got a bad shaking up and narrowly
escaped death in the whirlpool rapids.
Secretary George Mclaughlin of the
state commission of prisons in report
on a recent inspection protested
strongly against the keeping of Harry
K. Thaw in the Duchess county jail
at Poughkeepsie.
Judge A. H. Huston declared uncon-
stitutional the Oklahoma school law
providing separate school boards and
separate schools for negroes in the
new state.
Fire in Atlanta, Ga, destroyed the
| plants of the Atlanta Trunk factory
and the Empire Printing & Box COM
pany. The loss is estimated at $780,
| 600.
| Standing at the stern of a motor
boat which he had stolen and with
bullets whizzing over his head, Ed
ward Burnett, full-blooded Pottawat-
tonne Indian, led two detectives an
exciting chase through the downtown
section of the Chicago river clear to
the drainage canal before he was cap,