River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-10-22


said, for hardness In returning home
from school.
1t is feared there will be an out
break of the Sioux Indians at Fort
Yates, s. D., if the government order
providing for the removal of the In
dian graves in the military cemetery
there be carried out.
The Union National bank of Sum-
merville, Pa, was closed by the bank
examiner.
William Randolph Hearst was
served with papers notifying him that
suit for 100000 had been brought
against him for SANDER and libel by
Gov. Charles N. Haskell of Oklahoma
in the Douglas county (Nebraska) dis
trict court.
The German balloon Busley came
down in the North sea. The two men
on board were rescued by a passing
steamer. This is the fourth air craft
in the international race to fall into
the sea.
The American battleship fleet ar
rived at southeastern Japan but bad
weather delayed its entry into Yoko-
hama harbor.
Forest fires broke out again in
northern Michigan, the towns of Metz
and La ROGUE being burned and
others threatened.
John Cook, aged 70 years, in Jail at
Champaign, Ill, awaiting trial for the
murder of Mrs. Edna McLennan, COM
mitted suicide by hanging.
Reports of the murder of J. o. Cur
wood of Detroit by Indians in north
ern Canada were untrue.
The Hindu colony in British Column
bia, 1000 persons, will be moved to
British Honduras.
About lao of the students and teach
ers Of the South Lancaster academy at
South Lancaster, Mass, are suffering
from ptomaine poisoning, believed to
have resulted from eating some canned
corn.
The Christian Science Publishing So
ciety at Boston will publish daily
paper called the Christian Science
Monitor.
Capt. William Tretheway, a veteran
lullS OuCldI5 was hlllSu NY III
the Calumet and Hecla mine.
The fortieth annual convention of
the National American Woman Suf-
frage association opened in Buffalo,
N. Y.
Seven men were killed and % others
injured, some fatally, by premature
explosion at the Ingleside lime quarry,
near Fort Collins, Col.
Dr.. Angel Ugarte, minister from
Honduras, announced that he was to
be transferred to Mexico. DR.. Lazo
Arriaga succeeds him.
The plants of the Barber Asphalt
Company and the Barber Roofing Com
pany at North Venice, Ill, were de-
stroyed by fire. The loss is about
$4,000.
Frederick S. Baird, Chicago law
yer, was found guilty by jury at
Omaha of conspiracy to defraud the
government of public lands in Ne
braska.
A memorial tablet to mark the
place where the debate between Abra-
ham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas
occurred on October Is, 1858, was un-
yelled at Alton, III.
Gov. Deneen appointed John r. Mar
shall of Chicago commanding the
Eighth infantry, Illinois National
Guard, as commissioner to the ma
tional negro fair at Mobile, Ala, in
1909.
Two more of the balloons in the in
ternational race for the James Gordon
Bennett trophy have descended in the
North sea, and one, the German entry
Busley, manned by DR.. Niemeyer and
Hans Hiedemann, has not yet been
heard from.
Chicago's National league team
the Cubs-are still champions Of the
world. They captured the fifth game
of the series from the Detroit Tigers
by a score of to 0, thus winning four
games, to one for the Detroits.
Col. William F. Tucker, assistant
paymaster of the United States army,
on whom warrant was served at De-
catur, ILL.,, early Tuesday, charging
wife desertion, left st. Louis for Hot
Springs, Ark. He is a very sick man
and may not survive long.
Henry Standing Bear, a full-blooded
Sioux Indian, who is graduate of the
Carlisle Indian school and formerly
was fullback on the Carlisle football
eleven, was accused Of bigamy by
Hazel M. Moran of st. Louis, a gradu-
ate of Smith college.
The twelfth annual convention of
the National Grain Dealers associa-
ton opened in st. Louis.
Fire in Davenport, Ia, destroyed a
grain elevator and other property, the
loss being S150,000.
Owing to the pacific condition of
the country, full martial law has been
raised in all the provinces of Poland
with the exception of Pietrkow, in
which the great industrial center of
Lodz is located.
A ten-pound note Of the English col
ony of New York, issued February Is,
1771, has been presented to Comp
troller Metz of New York with re-
quest for payment. Its redemption,
with interest, would cost the city about
$4,000.
Mrs. George Collier of Occidental,
CAL. fell into a vat of wine and was
drowned.
William Writ, aged SO, well-known
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