River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-06-04

runor was not verified.
Three young boys held up a Great
Northern train near Great Falls, Mont,
and robbed the passengers. They
were arrested and confessed
Peter H. Jetberg of Amherst, Wis,
was found robbed and murdered in
Neenah, Wis.
Society women of England and
France were passengers in several OF
the 81 balloons participating in the
international aeronautic contest which
started from birmingham, Eng.
| DR.. Robert Koch, the German bac-
teriologist, visited the leper colony on
Molokai, Hawaii, and commended the
conditions there.
William Eidelman, his wife and two
children were drowned near Riverton,
n. j., their boat being upset.
The eight new bishops of the Meth
odist Episcopal church were conse-
Grated at Baltimore, Md.
Almost simultaneously in Washing
ton and New York, indictments were
returned against Theodore H. Price,
the cotton operator; Frederick A..
Peckham and Moses Haas, both of
New York, and Edwin S. Holmes, Jr,
formerly assistant statistician of the
department of agriculture, for alleged
participation in government crop re-
port leaks
Judge James S. Young of the United
States circuit court at Pittsburg ap-
pointed receivers for the Wabash
Pittsburg Terminal Railroad company,
the Gould line over which the Wabash
system gained entrance into Pittsburg
several years ago, and an important
link in the proposed Gould trans-con-
tinental system.
Denver was selected as the city in
which next years general assembly of
the Presbyterian church in the United
States of America is to be held.
Serious damage was caused by a ter
rife wind and rain storm in north
western Indiana and southern Michi-
gan.
Joseph Soderlind vice-president of
the First National bank of Ivanhoe,
Mimi, committed suicide by cutting
his throat.
Extreme heat caused the closing of
many schools in Cincinnati.
The battleship Kentucky was quar-
antined because a case of smallpox de-
veloped aboard.
Might riders" destroyed the tobac-
co beds of four farmers near Hatha-
way, Boone county, KY.
Thieves on board the Pittsburg and
Cincinnati packet steamer Queen City
held up and went through the passen-
gers in wild west style several miles
below Gallipolis, 0.
The personal property left by Mrs.
Belle Guinness was sold at auction on
her farm near Laporte, Ind, bringing
high prices.
Twenty passengers were seriously
injured when the observation parlor
car on the Royal Blue Flyer train on
the Baltimore & Ohio railroad left the
rails two miles from Garrett, Pa, and
plunged down an embankment
Because of an outbreak of rabies the
entire pack of fox hounds of the Myo-
pia Hunt club of Boston, Mass, has
been killed.
Representative Theodore Burton of
Ohio, it is definitely stated, has been
selected to nominate w. H. Taft at the
Republican convention.
Forest Park, a new summer amuse-
ment place at Chicago, was badly
wrecked by storm. Tornadoes, cleo
trical storms and heavy rains did
great damage in Central Illinois, Okla
homa, Kansas and Missouri.
The jury in the Smell will case at
Clinton, ILL.,, decided that the million
aire was of unsound mind and his will
invalid.
The Presbyterian general assembly
put the government of the church in
the hands of an executive commission,
breaking the ring headed by DR.. w.
H. Roberts of New York.
William Patterson of Ligonier, Ind,
attempted to kidnap Mrs. A Sargent
in an automobile and was shot to
death by his brother-in-law, Ernest
Franks.
Fire in the Kiang-Li coal mines, in
China, cost the lives of about 1000
men,
West Virginia and Arizona Demo
Gratis instructed their delegates for
Bryan.
The body of George Clinton, first
governor of New York, was taken to
Kingston, n Y, for final burial.
The inhabitants of Samos, a Greek
island off the west coast of Asia
Minor, are in revolt against the prince
of Samos and the governor of the
island.
The civic dam on Current river, at
Port Arthur, Ont, broke, causing a
loss of three lives and a property loss
of $5O0,OOO
The battleship Michigan was
launched at Camden, N. j., Gov.
Warner of Michigan being among the
guests and Miss Carol Newberry,
daughter of the assistant secretary OF
the navy, being the sponsor
Justice Lambert in New York de.
cided that the ballot boxes used in
the McClellan-Hearst mayoralty cleo
ton should be opened.
w. r. Hearst gained q votes in the
recount of the first two ballot boxes
opened in New York.
After drifting helplesssly in the lit
tie launch Zeus of Avalon, Santa Cata-
lima island. for two days. E. E. Easton