River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-10-15

| liamsburg bridge, was cornered in a
small space at the top by two police
| men and a bridge employe, and, after
terrific struggle, was prevented from
Flashing his throat and then throwing
| himself into the river
Luman Mann, the son of Orville c.
Mann, a prominent and wealthy citi-
zen of Oak Park, suburb of Chicago,
is locked up on the charge of being
the murderer of Mrs. Fanny Thomp-
son, who was found strangled and
bound hand and foot with a clothes
line in a rooming house at 1912 Mich
igan avenue July 1.
The United States circuit court of
appeals at Milwaukee, in reviewing
the federal court injunction issued
several years ago against the striking
iron molders of Milwaukee, held that
the lower court went too far in prohib-
iting peaceful picketing.
A tradesman at Trelon, France,
committed suicide before a moving
picture machine which he had TO-
cussed and set running
Frank Keiser, who escaped from the
Illinois penitentiary at Joliet Septem-
Der 25, was captured in Chicago.
Before concluding it's nineteenth an
nual session in San Francisco the
trans Mississippi congress defeated in
dorsement of the parcels post PROPOSE
ton, 40 to go.
approximately 10000 deaths from
cholera in the Philippine islands since
January 1 of this year are announced
in detailed report made to the pub
lie health service by Chief Quaran-
tine Officer McClintic at Manila.
Mr. and Mrs. b. Banes of Brooklyn,
N. Y, fastened themselves together
with wire, jumped into Jamaica bay
and were drowned.
All the great events of Philadel-
phia's 225 years were set forth in a
historical pageant, the most magnifi-
cent thing of it's kind ever planned in
America and the eliminating feature
of Founders week
Charges of discrimination in award
ing the galloway contracts for the
Panama canal were denied by Col.
George w. Goethals, head of the 18TH
milan commission, at the inquiry be-
fore Inspector General Darlington.
Ora Lee, 81 years old, a handsome
factory girl, was found shot to death
on the road between Wadsworth, O.,
and the hamlet of Custard Hook. Guy
married, is detained by the sheriff
pending developments of the police
investigation. Rasor denies all knOwl-
edge of the tragedy.
With drafts and money on his per-
son to the amount of $4,000, and a
drove of horses, F. H. Peters of Rog-
ers, Ark, has disappeared
The new town of Taft, on the Island
of Samar, was destroyed by the re-
cent typhoon in the Philippines.
During manuevers of the Turkestan
army corps in the vicinity of Askabad,
Gen. Mistchenko, who played a con-
spicuous part in the Russo-Japanese
war and who is now governor general
of Turkestan, was wounded in sham
battle. A revolutionist plot is sus-
pected.
Hongkong dispatches asserted the
real reason for Sir Robert Harris re-
cent visit to England was to bring
about an alliance between China, the
United States and Great Britain to
conserve the interests of the nations
in the far east.
The Atlantic fleet sailed from Ma
Mia for Japan.
Gov Wilson of Kentucky sent
company Of state troops to Hickman,
KY, to prevent an attack by night rid
ers.
Fire destroyed the business section
of Inkster, N. D., the loss being $119,-
O0O
A 15,000-gallon water tank supply
ing Tombstone (AriZ.) Consolidated
Mines Company was blown up with
dynamite and the pipe lines supplying
the mill damaged.
Mrs Rose d. Rittman of Memphis,
Tenn, leader of the so-called anti-ad
ministration element in the Woman's
Catholic Order of Foresters, was
elected president of the order by
majority of one vote over Mrs. Eliza
beth Rodgers of Chicago.
Chicago won the National league
baseball pennant by defeating New
York in a game witnessed by a record
breaking crowd.
The jury in the case of Abe Raymer,
alleged mob leader, charged with de-
struction of property during the re-
cent riots in Springfield, ILL.,, returned
verdict of not guilty.
Charles H. Trotter, an American,
and Vicente Toledo and Jose Canayan,
Spaniards, were killed in the province
of Pampagna by party of Filipinos.
Comptroller of the Currency Muir
ray announced that he would put into
immediate action a plan for the for
nation of IL districts of national bank
examiners, with chairman examiner
in charge at each of the following
cities: Boston, New York, Philadel-
phia, Pittsburg, Nashville, Chicago,
Minneapolis, Kansas City, Fort Worth,
Denver and San Francisco
John w. Richardson, a Virginia far
mer, killed his fatherin-law, his sister
in-law and himself
Messages of congratulation from
President Roosevelt and Messrs. Bry-
an and Taft were read in the trans
MiSSisSiDDi congress in San Fran.