River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1909-07-08


onet of large estates.
The body of the man found in the
river at Spring Valley, ILL.,, was identi-
fed as that of Charles Butler of Peru,
ILL.,, after it had been exhumed from
the potters' field.
Fire swept 5000 acres of grain on
several ranches near San Fernando,
Cal, and the loss is estimated at
$4,000.
While another man was a prisoner
charged with the crime, James E..
Cunningham, San Francisco laborer,
confessed to the murder of Miss Caro-
line Brasch, cashier, who was killed
in the Office of the Gray Brothers
Construction Company.
Striking coal miners in Kansas,
numbering 5000, have been ordered
back to work pending a conference OF
operators and employees.
AS a central feature of the celebra-
ton of the four hundredth anniversary
of the birth of John Calvin, the corner
stone of massive monument to the
Reformation was laid in Geneva,
Switzerland, representatives of many
Protestant nations participating.
President Taft, Gov. Hughes and
many other notables took part in the
Lake Champlain tercentenary eXer-
cises at Ticonderoga, n. Y.
Several thousand Danish-American
citizens celebrated the Fourth of
July at the ancient city of Aarhus,
Denmark, where national exposition
was in progress.
The celebration of the tercentenary
of the discovery of Lake Champlain
opened at Crown Point, N. Y, with lit
erary exercises, water pageants and a
presentation of the Indian drama
"Hiawatha."
The forty-seventh annual conven-
ton of the National Education associ-
alton began in Denver, Col, with
large attendance.
The Descendants of the Signers
held their yearly meeting in the old
state house in Philadelphia where
their ancestors signed the Declare
ton of Independence.
Camp Taft at Toledo, o., was for
mally opened and the great military
tournament began with 5000 officers
and men representing every branch
of the regular army service.
After one day of failure and an
other of only partial success, Orville
Wright finally got his new aeroplane
to working satisfactorily and circled
the Fort Myer grounds many times,
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Washington B. Thomas president,
and Arthur Bonner, Charles H. Senff,
John E. Parsons, John Mayer and
George H. Frazier directors of the
American Sugar Refining Company
were indicted on charges of conspiracy
in restraint of trade.
Earthquake shocks as severe as
those which caused 100000 deaths in
southern Italy and Sicily in Deem
Der were felt in Messina and Reggie
and further loss of life was reported.
The Harvard varsity crew. proved
it's superiority over that of Yale in a
boat race on the Thames, winning by
six lengths.
Fear of Fourth of July is believed
to have caused the death of Gustave
THESE at Akron. 0.
An Indian student shot and killed
Lieut.. Col. Sir William HUT Curzon
Wyllie and DR.. Calais Lalcaca of
Shanghai in an assassination of po-
liticaI character in London.
The marines who were ordered off
of United States warships by Presi-
dent Roosevelt are again on the YES
sells.
Mayor Mcclellan of New York has
caused one of the greatest political
stirs that turbulent city has known in
years by ousting Theodore Bingham,
commissioner of police, and several
other heads of the department from
office.
The attendance for the first month
of the Alaska Yukon-Pacific exposition
was 667,971. President ]. E. Chilberg
said the net profits for the month
were $4,000.
Capt. John c. Raymond of the Sec
ond cavalry at Fort Des Moines, Ia,
who was shot by Corporal Lisle Crab
tree three weeks ago, died of his
wound.
The Alabama supreme court de-
cided that liquor when kept in lock
ers by individuals and is not for sale
is personal property and that any
municipal ordinance prohibiting such
possession is void.
Gov. Johnson of Minnesota, speak
ing at Jackson, Mich, said he hoped
| to see the time when woman would
join her husband in political affairs,
because politics would be better with
her refining influences"
leased from Jail without bond and
must appear in court on July 8.
A verdict for $3,145 was awarded
at Laporte, Ind, against the estate of
Mrs. Belle Guinness in favor of the
administrator for the estate of An.
drew Helgelein, one of her several al
legged victims.
Joseph Jurette, farmer near Alton,
| ILL.,, has trained ducks to eat bugs of
| potatoes and plans to hire them out at
one dollar day for each duck to
clean potato fields of the pest.
1t has been discovered that Arkan-
sas has a new law prohibiting the sale
of cannon crackers or toy pistols and
dealers are dispensing of Fourth OF
| July stocks.
The strike of the Pittsburg street
car men was settled through the Ell
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