River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-10-08

The Canadian Pacific mach1nlStS
strike was formally called off. The
men return to work Internationally.
The International Congress on Tu-
berculosis, just before adjourning, put
itself on record in opposition to the
theory of DR.. Robert Koch, minimizing
the danger of human infection from
bovine tubercle bacilli.
Rev. Daniel camden either fell or
jumped into the Calumet river at
South Holland, ILL.,, and was drowned.
The new st. Boniface cathedral at
Winnipeg, Man, erected at a cost OF
100000, was dedicated.
Col. J. c. Marcy, formerly a promi-
nent attorney, was burned to death at
his home in Minot, N. D.
Rear Admiral Sperry decided not to
give shore leave to any enlisted men
at Manila because of the cholera. The
feet was given a joyful welcome by
the people and there was big marine
parade in the harbor.
Foley, the county seat of Benson
county, Mimi, village of 1000 peo-
pie, was practically destroyed by fire.
AS the result of report made by
the civil service commission, Presi-
dent Roosevelt removed Lincoln
Avery collector of the port at Port
Huron, Mich, and also directed the
removal of Charles H. Daley, special
agent of the treasury at that place.
The State bank at Deweese, Neb.,
was dynamited and robbed of $4,000.
Fire at Winthrop Beach, near Bos
ton, Mass, destroyed Crest hall and
the Oceanview house, summer hotels
1t is said the recent changes in
the immigration department in Cali
fornia were the result of an investiga-
ton disclosing widespread corruption
in the service along the Mexican Dor
der, by which hundreds of Chinese
have gained illegal entrance to the
United States.
The Turkish army was reported to
be moving toward the Bulgarian
frontier and Bulgaria to be hurriedly
preparing for war.
Montreal was selected as the con-
vcntion city of the League of Amer
lean Municipalities for 1909. Silas
Cook, mayor of East st. Louis, Ill,
was elected president.
Jewels valued at $4,000 are said to
have been stolen from diamond deal
ers ir New York
Masked men held up an interurban
car at Wellsville, o., and took $21
from the conductor.
The post office at Franklin Grove,
ILL.,, was robbed by safe-blowers.
Great damage was done by hur-
ricane that swept over the Bahamas.
The thirty-fourth annual convention
of the American Bankers association
at Denver came to an end with
the election of George M. Rey
nolds of Chicago, president, and
Lewis E. Pierson of New York
first vice-president. The convention
placed itself squarely on record as
against both the proposition to guar
antee bank deposits and that to es'
tablish postal savings banks.
The Atlantic battleship fleet arrived
at Manila and prepared to take part
in a water fete.
Two lives were lost and 20 or more
persons were injured in Spencer, n.
| c., by the explosion of powder stor'
age house on the yards of the South.
ern Railway Company.
Over a score of men, women and
children were injured during the great
historical and industrial pageant in
celebration of Pittsburg's sesqui-cen-
tennial anniversary.
| Six boys were killed at Sugar Ridge,
| O., when a freight train on the Toledo
& Ohio Central railroad crashed into
| a heavily laden excursion train re.
| turning from a fair at Bowling Green,
Mrs. Hattie Demer of Kalamazoo,
Mich, was instantly killed and Louis
J. Feys of Detroit was probably fatal
| ly injured when the automobile in
which they were riding was struck by
a street car.
Sheriff Lane of Westchester county,
New York, on advice of Attorney Gen
eral Jackson, refused to take Harry
Thaw to Pittsburg in compliance with
writ of habeas corpus issued by
Federal District Judge Archibald.
Mrs. Roselle Bergman was shot and
killed in her home at Corona, L. l.,
by her brother, William Rates, Is
years old, who is attached to the
schoolship Newport. He says the
shooting was accidental.
DR.. Robert Koch stirred up re-
newal of the old discussion on the
sources of pulmonary tuberculosis in
the congress on tuberculosis at Wash
ington, when he repeated his opinion,
stated in 1901 in London, that human
beings may be infected by bovine tu-
bercle bacilli, but serious diseases
from this cause occur very rarely"
The legislative inquiry into the
bribery charges made against Gov.
Hanly and Senator Wickwire of Indi-
ana by Representative Knisely ended
in a complete vindication for the gov
ernor, finding that Knisely would
not have accepted bride if rendered,
and the making of scapegoat of
Wickwire by the house.
The Wisconsin supreme court de-
clared unconstitutional the eight-hour
railroad telegraphers' law, which was
enacted at the 1907 session of the leg
islature.
Lazare WELLER, prominent French
financier and aeroplane promoter,
announced that he had ordered the
| construction of so aeroDlanes on the