INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS Representative Lee O'Neil, Browne of INTERNATIONAL FALIS PRESS. Ottawa, 111., Democratic leader of the Christ church, Oxford, where -he attended hearty and unqualified support and his the public lectures for a year, and presence at important Masonic functions lower house of the legislature, was indicted afterwards resided for three or four was always sought for and usually PRESS PUB. CO., Publishers. by the special grand jury at terms at Cambridge for the same purpose. with success. On his eighteenth birthday he Leader in Society. Chicago on a charge of bribing Charles was made a colonel in the army, with From the time of his marriage he INTERNATIONAL FALLS, MINN. A. White, Democratic member from L's Monarch Passes Away In Colonel Bruce as his governor. He received was the leading figure in English society, the Order of the Garter on the and to a great extent its arbiter. O'Fallon, 111., to vote for William Lorimer same day. Possessed of unrivaled and unfailing IMPORTANT NEWS for United States, senator. The First Officlal_ Appearance. tact, of an extremely level head, and of A Brief Illness, and George knowledge of the world, his majesty's specific charge mentioned in each of The first official appearance of the position as Prince of Wales and as king young prince was at the opening of the the 11 counts of the indictment is that endowed him with a social power su* coal exchange in London, Oct. 30, 1849. perior to that enjoyed by any continental Browne paid White $850 at the Briggs Queen Victoria was detained by sickness Ascends the Throne. sovereign. and was represented by the prince NOTES OF A WEEK house, in Chicago, on June 16, 1909, as The English people are indebted to and the princess royal. He also assisted King Edward for many reforms, part of a total bribe of $1,000. At the in the opening of the exposition of brought about by him in his role as social 1851, and was present with the queen same time the grand jury returned indictments arbiter, and which afforded an excelent at the house of lords for the first time indication of his character. It charging perjury against when the answers to her message announcing is, thanks to him, for instance, that the opening of the Crimean London, Eng. King Edward VII Representative Robert E. Wilson of they had underestimated him. He hard drinking and coarseness of language war were read. went out of fashion. And if a died at 11:45 p. m. Friday. The As Prince of Wales his majesty traveled Chicago and Michael S. Link of Mitchell. showed evidences of careful study of higher tone of moralitv and a groate1* extensively. At the age of seven LATEST HAPPENINGS THE WORLD Prince of Wales is king, assuming the They are accused of having perjured European and colonial conditions, he sense of propriety of the last centurv he journeyed to Ireland for the first lt is in a great measure due to the uriobstrusive title of George V, and took the oath time, and in 1855 visited Paris with his themselves In testifying before was widely read on every subject. He OVER TOLD IN ITEMIZED but excellent care which his parents and the princess royal. With the grand jury that they had not participated before the privy council at 2 o'clock made speeches that were clear, majesty took to keep out of societv thos his tutor the prince walked through FORM. who had forfeited their rights "to remain in the alleged "jack-pot" distribution Saturday afternoon. straightforward, illuminating, forceful. the west of England, incognito, when within its pale. He was as ready 14 years old, and later visited for some Gathered around the bedside of the at St. Louis, which was one He showed himself one of the best informed as any other votary of pleasure to meet time in Germany. Many journeys to eying king were the queen and princesses. all parts of the continent were taken, EVENTS HERE AND THERE of the features of the White "confession" men in England on naval affairs. the prince generally going incognito, No hope had been held out on which the Browne indictment under the name of Baron Renfrew. is based. liroughout the day for the' recovery It is apparent that King George The prince decided to visit Canada and the United States in 1860. Arriving at his majesty, whose death, it is be'icved, hasn't been wasting his 44 years. The horror of the great earthquake Condensed Into a Few Lines for the St. John's, he visited Niagara falls and traveled west to Chicago, where he was was due to pneumonia, following at Cartago, Costa Rica, is growing by Marries His Brother's Fiancee. Perusal of the Busy ManLatest met enthusiastically, although he followed bronchitis contracted shortly after The prince came into the world a leaps and bounds. The loss of life, at his custom of using the name of Personal Information. Baron Renfrew. return from Biarretz. "younger son." Death in 1892 made first estimated at 500, is now placed, The prince went from Chicago to St. Throughout the empire the word him heir to the British throne by carrying according to the latest news from the Louis and arived in Washington late in October, where he met President -n flashed, and flags are floating at off his brother, the duke of Clarence, ruined city, at not less than 1,000, and Buchanan and spent several days in PERSONAL. 7/ho was 10 years his senior. it may largely exceed that figure. Hundreds the White House. He visited other places of interest in the east and sailed Prince George, then 27, succeeded Rear Admiral McCalla, TJ. S. N., were seriously injured in the collapse for home from Portland, Me. The following his brother in the affections of the of buildings. The property loss died at Santa Barbara, Cal., of apoplexy. year he again traveled on the continent of Europe and later spent popular Princess May of Tech, as well will amount to many millions of dollars. some time in Egypt and the Holy land. as in the line of succession. Just a Rev. Alexander McLaren, the noted Weds Danish Princess. month before the duke of Clarence Manchester (England) preacher, died William Randolph Hearst entered While on this visit to Europe the was to marry the Princess May an attack Prince of Wales met the Princess Alexandra at Edinburgh. suit in the federal court against Henry of Denmark, and their betrothal of influenza carried him off. The Paris reports say the engagement of Watterson individually, for $100,000, was announced Sept. 9, 1862. The wedding marriage of Prince George and the ceremony took place in St. Jay Gould and Miss Beatrice Godfrey and the Courier-Journal for the same George's chapel at Windsor, March 10 princess was at the wish of Queen Victoria. Van Brunner will be announced soon. sum. The suit against Mr. Watterson of the following year, and the prince and his wife furnished an establishment Lieut. Sir Ernest H. Shackleton, R. is based on his editorial which, according at Sandringham. Albert Victor, Queen May, whose full name is Victoria N., holder of the farthest south record, to the petition, applauded the Duke of Clarence, was the first child, Mary, was destined for a throne born in 1864. He died in 1892. The lectured in Chicago and was presented attack made on Mr. Hearst by Mayor other children in the order named were from her birth. She was born in the with the Helen Culver gold medal by Gaynor at the Press banquet in New Prince George of Wales, born 1865 New Queen of England. royal palace of Kensington on May 26, Princess Louise, Duchess of Fife, born the Geographic society of Chicago. York and "accepting as proven Gaynor's in 1867 Princess Victoria, born 1868 1867. She is the mother of six children. charges." them in the sphere to which they had," Princess Nobuko Fumi-no-Miya, Princess Maud, Queen of Norway, born descended and to treat there with kindness in 1869, and Prince Alexander, who 18-year-old daughter of the emperor Fire, caused by an older child playing and consideration, but he would was born in 1871 and died the same New King a Family Man. not tolerate their presence in houses of Japan, was married to Prince year. with matches, resulted in the loss that were respectable, and took ouiet The new king and queen are very Ireland received a visit from the Asaka. of two lives at Deimling, Mich. The means to eliminate them therefrom. Prince of Wales and his wife five years devoted, and are seen everywhere together. One of the most pleasing traits of Senator McCumber of North Dakota after they were married, and in 1868 home of Matt Servis was destroyed King Edward was his singularly happy Queen May is pretty, a great they traveled extensively through the has rallied from the effects of a second and a three-year-old girl and an infant home life. He was the object of many east, returning through Russia. The lover of her home, and is thoroughly operation and physicians at Washington stories of a more or less slanderous were burned to death. The parents prince made his memorable visit to nature, which he always considered it English in her thinking and tastes. India in 1875. report his condition to be encouraging. were absent. beneath his dignity to deny or refute. The death of William I of Germany She knows no other language. But it was only necessary to see the caused the celebration of the prince The Northern Baptist convention, king among his family at Sandringham, Prince Eddie, new prince of Wales, and princess' silver anniversary to be Thomas H. Croft, founder of Pasadena and to observe the affection with which comprising several denominational societies, a quiet one. The eldest daughter, is 14 now, and is studying at the Royal his nephews and nieces spoke of "Uncle and a California resident since Princess Louis, was married to the opened^jyts fourth annual session Bertie," to realize that much that was Naval college, Osborn, Isle of Wight. Earl of Fife in 1889. The prince figured 1873, has been committed to the state spoken and written §,bout him as absolutely in Chicago. as a witness in the famous baccarat He goes through the same studies as false. insane asylum at Patton, Cal., following case in 1891. The Princess Maud King Edward is seriously ill. Sudden England's New King. the rest of the pupils, works in the of Wales was married to Prince Charles a stroke of paralysis. King Geer V. half mast the worid over. Besides the and unexpected announcement of Denmark in 1894 and in 1906 they George V, Prince of Wales, who succeeds shops and the foundry, and likes it. Informal announcement was made In became king and queen of Norway. to the throne, was born at Marlborough social gloom which the king's death was made that the monarch is suffering With a strong inherited taste for the New York of the engagement of Miss Coronation In 1002. House, London, June 3, 18G5and ~asts over England, several important from bronchitis, which causes was the second son of King Edward. army, and is already enrolled in the Mary Harriman, daughter of Mrs* E. Upon the death of Queen Victoria in He became heir-apparent to the: anxiety to his physicians, three of and long planned official events must 1901 the Prince of Wales assumed the ranks of the famous, Gordon Highlanders. H. Harriman, one of the richest women title of King Edward II. With Queen whom are sleeping in Buckingham abandoned. The Prince and Princess Alexandra he was crowned with great in the world, and Charles Cary palace to be on hand in case of need. of Wales were to go to South ceremony in Westminister Abbey, Aug. Rumsey, a sculptor, and son of Lawrence ust 9. 1902. On the eve of the date Africa with the squadron, and the Two companies of the state militia originally fixed for the coronation D. Rumsey of Buffalo. prince was to open the first parliatmen at Danville and Champaign were ordered which was earlier in the summer, the James A. McClurg, extensively interested king suffered an attack of illness and of the new confederation, but to Danville, 111., by Governor was obliged to undergo a serious operation. in mining In the west, died his accession to the throne will prevent Deneen at the request of the sheriff For a time it was feared his at Denver, Col., of pneumonia. McClurg life was in danger. this. of Vermillion county to assist that official As a ruler the king displayed the was a son-in-law of David H. The death of his majesty must also same tact and political sagacity that in maintaining order in the Danville Moffat, the banker and builder of railroads. had distinguished him for so many mean the abandonment of the principal mining district. years as Prince of Wales. functions of former President All his life long his majesty was a The story of Representative Charles Prof. Frederick L. Paxson of the champion of outdoor sport, and each Roosevelt's tour. The official receptions A. White that he was paid $1,000 for year his stable carried away a list of University of Michigan has been notified and the embassy entertainments the most costly prizes offered by the voting for William Lorimer for United of his appointment to the chair English turf. In 1900, while still will be cancelled, and the presentation States senator and that later he received Prince of Wales, he headed the list of of American history at the University of the freedom of the city and the winning owners, gaining the "triple $900 as his share of a general of Wisconsin. He will present his crown" by capturing the Derby, the luncheon at Guild Hall probably will corruption fund or "jack pot" was corroborated St. Leger and the Two Thousand resignation to the University of Michigan be given up. Guineas races. His winning for the before the special grand regents at their next meeting. season amounted to $148,000. Horse The Prince of Wales succeeded to jury by Representative H. J. C. Beckemeyer racing was one of his principal pastimes the throne immediately, according to and his influence did much to make the of Carlyle. GENERAL NEWS. English truf freer from fraud than the laws of the kingdom, without official A large part of Cartago, Costa Rica, that of any other racing country in ceremony. His first official act the world. A press dispatch from Washington was destroyed by a powerful seismic was to despatch to the lord mayor the announced that John D. Rockefeller Used Tact su Politics. movement. Details are very meager, That the king was deeply interested announcement of his father's death, in had abandoned the idea of securing a Dowaaer Q: Alexandra. as the telegraph wires have been leveled in both domestic and foreign politics pursuance of custom. His telegram every one knew. As Prince of Wales national charter for his proposed foundation. between San Jose and Cartago. throne on the death of his elder brother, he frequently visited the house of lords read: Starr J. Murphy, personal the Duke of Clarence and Avondale The operators at the latter place were and there were few more attentive listeners on January 14, 1892. "I am deeply grieved to inform you to the debates. But whether counsel for Mr. Rockefeller, and killed. Five hundred persons are dead Prince George Frederick Ernest Albert, he leaned toward the conservatives or speaking for the Standard Oil president, that my beloved father, the king, his full name, began his career as^ and fully as many are wounded. Half toward the liberals, whether he favored a cadet of the Roval Navy on the training the nationalist cause in Ireland said the statement was entirely passed away peacefully at 11:45 tonight." The Late Edward VII. ship, Brittannia when twelve years the houses in the city have been destroyed. or that of the Orangemen, whether he of age. In he and his brother'started without foundation. Mr. Murphy also Edward VII, who ascended the throne 1SS7 Hundreds of men, women preferred an understanding with on a two years' cruise around' upon the death of his mother, Queen (Signed GEORGE." France to one with Germany, or vice said that Mr. Rockefeller had nothing and children are homeless. the world on the Bacchante, an experi-. Victoria, Jan. 22, 1901, was born in versa, few could say positively. This ence which he renewed in l&jl when to do with the "Economic and General Bucking-ham palace- Nov. 9, 1841. He His Last Words. was because his attitude on public Forty-five white men and 90 negroes as Duke of Cornwall and York, he made was christened Albert Edward, Prince questions was so rarely expressed. Foundation," for which a charter is One the last utterances attributed to a tour of the British Colonies on the' are entombed in No. 3 coal mine at of Wales, receiving the name Albert When %he believed it wise and for the Ophis. being sought from the New York legislature King Edward was: after his father and Edward after the public good to make his influence felt Palos, Ala., as the result of an explosion. After the cruise of the Bacchante, Duke of Kent,, his grandfather. The in affairs of state he went about the for "an aged man of wealth," "Well, it is all over, but I think I Prince George was stationed on the All hope for the entombed title of Duke«of Cornwall fell upon him business so quietly that few were Coda, rose to lieutenant in 18S5 and: said to have $2,500,000 to spend on have done my duty." at birth, he being the eldest son of the aware that he had anything whatever men has been abandoned. It is commander in 1891. In 1891 the ancient ruler, and he was made Prince of Walis to do with bringing about the results. charity. The political situation is terribly dukedom of York was revived in-I thought that any who escaped the explosion, and Earl of Chester before he had lived He took no pains, however, to conceal his favor, he being the twelfth holder' Edward VII., king of Great Britain complicated by the death of the king. a month. The other titles that fell his belief in.an understanding between which is believed to have of the title since its creation by Edward upon hiw were the Duke of Rothsay. Great Britain and the United States, and Ireland and emperor of India, is Hia world-famed diplomacy was believed III. been caused by gas and dust, have Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, Prince of which friendly feeling for America and He was made a captain in 1S93 and' dead. His illness, which lasted less Saxony, Earl of Carrick. Earl of Dublin, equal to the task of settling the Americans he inherited from Iris mother. been suffocated by black damp. he then ended his sea service, although Baron Renfrew and Lord of the than a week, became serious only three disputes between the Liberals and he was raised to the rank of rear-admiral Isles. "It was not a fair or truthful statement," King Edward was the most promi- in 1900. days ago. The king returned to England Conservatives, but no such strength is exclaimed Secretary Ballinger from a vacation on the continent credited to the new king, George V. BUCKINGHAM PALACE, WHERE KING EDWARD WAS BORN AND DIED •during the Ballinger-Pinchot investigation, ten days ago in the best of health. He It is predicted that the abolition of referring to a sentence in former had reigned nine years. He was sixtynine the house of lords may follow the Secretary Garfield's letter to the president death of the king. years old. The Prince of Wales last November, which read: "He succeeded to the crown Immediately, Shortly after the king's death, messages (Ballinger) directed the reclamation according to the laws of the kingdom, of condolence began pouring in service to prepare lists for restoring without official ceremony. He will from all over the world. The following the withdrawn lands, but to do so take the oath of office before the privy was received from President Taft: slowly in order not to attract public council and will be proclaimed king as "In the sad occasion of the death of attention." George V. His first official act was to Kind Edward, I offer to your majesty Striking employes of the Columbus dispatch to the lord mayor the announcement and to your son, his illustrious successor, 3« *m (O.) Railway and Light company voted of his father's death, in the most profound sympathy to accept an agreement for peace proposed Kss S- pursuance of custom. of the people and of the government by Mayor Marshall, under which Hmi More than half of the male population of the United States, whose hearts go -h four discharged union men are to be of Palos, Ala., Is believed to have out to their British kinsmen in this, given the option of returning to work their national bereavement. To this I perished as the result of the explosion at wages equivalent to their former add the expression to your majesty in mine No. 3 of the Palos Coal and pay or accepting employment under and to the new king of my own personal Coke company. About 200 men—45 an the city administration. sympathy and of my appreciation white and 150 negroes—are thought to President Taft gave a vigorous denunciation of those high qualities which have been killed. Eleven bodies have of William J. Bryan for the been found. made the life of the late king so potent letters of criticism of the appointment in influence toward peace and Irving Hanchett, the fifteen-year-old of Gov. Charles E. Hughes of New justice among nations." boy who was convicted of the brutal York as associate justice of the United During the last trip abroad made by murder of Cleire Tedder, a thirteenyear-old States Supreme court Mr. Taft decried girl, near Deland, Fla., in his fathex*, King George, then prince of the "cant of the demagogue" and February last, was hanged at Deland. Wales, had to take on his shoulders the "disposition of public journals" to some of the kingly duties. The result Three firemen were killed and three make unjust charges against men in others were injured at Macon, Ga., startled England. The baptism was performed in St. nent living Free Mason. For more He was married to his second cousin. public life. "All I am speaking for George's chapel. Windsor, with great than thirty-five years he was identified when the tire on an auto .engine exploded New King a Surprise. Princess Victoria Mary, daughter of the is justice and a square deal," he said, ceremony in January, 1842, and the with the order during which time he Duke of Teck, July 6, 1893. They have on the way to a fire and overturned The new king previously had been early education of the child who was served as grand master of the grand "not especially for myself, for, indeed, six children, as follows: Edward Albert, heir to the throne was intrusted to lodges of England, Ireland. Scotland the engine. The engine was best known for the things he didn't Lady Lyttleton, a sister of Mrs. Gladstone. born, June 23. 1894, who became I am in a position where I can get and Wales, and also grand prior of the do. Even the most loyal supporters of going at high speed when the accident Lady Lyttleton cared for the order of Knights Templar in England Prince of Wales and heir-apparent to along better than some of the rest mental training of the prince, as well and grand patron of the Ancient Accepted the throne Albert Frederick. Dec. 14, occurred. the royal family did not take him seriously. as the royal children who followed him, without it. But I am appealing for Scottish Rite of Free Masonry 1895 Victoria Alexandria. April 25* Good-hearted, quiet, reserved, Moving-picture men have offered to until he was 6 years old. in the United Kingdom, having received 1S97 Henry William. March 31. 1900 justice in dealing with all classes." The following year Rev. Henry Mildren the thirty-third and last degree in that George Edward, Dec. 20. 1902 ami unenergetic, perhaps a little negative assist the study of geography and history Birch was appointed tutor and branch of Free Masonry. There was Mr. Taft was speaking at a luncheon John Charles. July 12. 1905. —this was the general estimate. in the New York schools by providing served until 1851, when he was succeeded not a member throughout the world King Edward celebrated the homecoming given by the Business Men's league for seven years by Frederick who took a deeper or more active interest from the tour of 1901 by raising But when Prince George took the. educational pictures free. in St. Louis. W. Gibbs. His royal highness studied in the affairs of the Masonic order. him to be Prince of Wales. In 1905 filler, he forced his critics to admit Approximately 6,000 trainmen and for a session at Edinburgh, entered Masonry everywhere received his the new king and his wife -jured India. To the disappointment of the several conductors of the New York Central hundred people who used physical railroad east of Buffalo will receive force, cajolery and friendship to pry NOT CONFINED TO STERN SEX Through her influence her husband history records as having existed between wage Increases averaging 30 per cent, their ways into the criminal courtroom, had persuaded the great man to leave men but later on in his life by a decision by E. E. Clarke and P. Logan D. Swope went on the witness Mrs. he was forced to lean upon the unselfish H. Morrissey, arbitrators in the controversy his comfortless den and take lodgings stand and, generally speaking, devotion of a woman—his between the railroad and its in the elegant Thrale villa, where Women Also Are Capable of "Platonic" as before the .death of her husband, calmly gave synopsis of the Swope employes. adopted daughter, whose soul he acknowledged he enjoyed as much personal independence until the end of his own life. For 16 tragedies. With Mrs. Swope's testimony Friendship. would "one day be capable The National Association of Retail years Dr. Johnson was soothed, upheld as if living in a home of his in the state rested its case. of that perfect and sacred friendship Grocers opened their annual meeting There are instances when men of and inspired by the friendship of own. He repaid Mrs. Thrale's friendship Grand jury investigation of the legislative to which we do not read any of her in Springfield,. 111., being welcomed by genius have been sustained and inspired Mrs. Thrale, who, says his biographer, "by an affection as pure as the bribery scandal was temporarily Governor Deneen. sex has yet attained.'—Mary E. Bryan, in their work and life by the ministered to him in body and halted at Chicago by the absence of affection of a father, tinged with a in Uncle Remus' Magazine. Thfe arfoual tourney of the Woman's friendship of women. For 35 years the mind, and was the most tender of State's Attorney Wayman, who went gallantry which, though awkward, was National Whist l«ague began in Chicago poet Cowper—a victim of fits of melancholia—was nurses—no comfort that wealth could more prized by her than the flatteries forth supposedly in search of evidence vith abgut 209 players taking cheered and supported purchase or womanly ingenuity, set of society." Montaigne asserted that to corroborate the story Reprf of There really are six and not mwely part, the ministering friendship of Mrs. to work by womanly compassion, could women were incapable of great and Charles yy tentative A. White. five fine arts the sixth and highest devise being wanting to his sick-room. (Jnwin, in whose home he lived after enduring attachments like those which art is the art of living.