River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-07-19
SUMMARY OF A
WEEKS EVENTS
MOST IMPORTANT HAPPENINGS
AT HOME TOLD IN CON-
DENsED FORM.
LATE FOREIGN DISPATCHES
Interesting Items Of News Gathered
from All Parts of the Globe and
Outlined in the Briefest Manner
Possible.


nouncing Dreyfus' reinstatement and
promotion, and the inscription of his
name on the list of chevaliers of the le-
oign of honor.
The scene of tumultuous disorder
which marked the enactment OF the
law restoring Alfred Dreyfus to the
French army was followed by bloody
duel at night, in which Under Secre-
tary of State Sarraut was dangerously
wounded by the sword of M. Pugliesi-
Cont.
At Nikolayev, Russia the represent
ative of a sugar factory while going to
the bank was waylaid and robbed OF
$4,000 One of the robbers was cap
tured and the soldiers shot another.
The remainder of the band escaped.
Mrs. Edmund w. Pettus, wife of
United States Senator Pettus from Al
ALBANIA, died at her home at Selma,
aged 50 years. She has been i'll since
her return from Washington at the
close of the session of congress.
At Mimi Novgord a fire which
broke out ragged for six hours before it
was checked. When it was finally ex-
tinguished 275 houses had been de-
stroyed and more than 5000 families
had been rendered homeless.
During drunken revels among Sla-
vonian laborers at Fogelsville, Pa, an
oil lamp was upset, setting fire to
boarding house. Eight frame houses
were destroyed and Stefan John Evon-
ic, aged So, his son Michael Evonic,
aged %, and Michael Tebuth, aged 80,
were burned to death.
The battleships Illinois and Missouri
have had important changes made in
their mechanism, with view to safe
guarding the officers and crew from
the liability of explosions of ammuni-
ton during gunfire.
A remarkable instance of the feeling
of Buddhists and Shintoists towards
Christians is furnished by the action
of their leaders, who have decided to
contribute voluntarily to the cost of
rebuilding the Christian church, which
WIS destroyed during the disturbance
In Toxic last September.
An imperial trade calls 1900 re-
cruits to the colors for service at Ye-
men.
Consul General George E. Anderson,
in a report to the bureau of manufac-
lures from Rio JaneirO, charges that
while some bona fide Brazilian dia-
mond mines may result profitably,
that country is full of schemes which
are either out and out frauds or which
are based upon claims and facts so
slight as to make them little less than
frauds.
The council of the empires accept
ance without amendment of parlia-
ment's bill appropriating $7,500,000 for
famine relief came as a surprise, but
has occasioned the greatest jubilation
in the camp of the lower house, as it
is regarded as vote of lack of conf
dence in the Goremykin ministry on
the part of the upper chamber.
Both Guatemala and Salvador have
accepted the tender of the good Offices
of this government looking to settle
ment of their differences.
San Francisco is arising from it's
ashes with rapidity that surprises all,
and building is progressing on all
sides.
Secretary Taft will return to Wash
ington before the beginning of October,
but will leave again in the course of a
week or two to enter into the Ohio
campaign, and early in November will
accompany the president to Panama.
The bureau of manufactures has
called attention to a decree issued by
the president of the French republic
June Is reducing the duty upon cod
fish imported into the Island of Guad-
eloupe from $5.79 to $3.S6 per 220
pounds, this reduction to be effective
until May 81 next.
The Salvadorian army attacked the
Guatemalan forces at Platanar and OBJ
tanned victory over them. The Qua
temalans suffered loss of 1000 men in
killed, wounded and prisoners.
A former sailor named Shetenko,
who was arrested confessed that he
was the murderer of Chouknin.
An international swimming contest
at distance of nine miles in the Seine
was won by the French swimmer Roug-
min in three hours and six minutes.
A train of two trolley cars, west
bound from Lockport on the lines of
the International railway, ran into an
open switch at siding just east of
Martinsville, N. Y, and crashed into
a trolley freight motor. Five passen-
gers were killed outright, and score
injured, some of whom may die.
In the United States appellate court
at st. Louis, former Attorney General
Crow, of Missouri, for the government,
began searching investigation into
the methods by which rates on coal
are made and maintained by the rail-
roads on the east side of the Mississ-
ippi river.
The automobile bearing Vice Pres
iden Fairbanks and party from DAN
vile, ILL.,, to Champaign crashed into
a buggy driven by Joseph NJ Dough-
erty. The two vehicles came together
with a loud crash at a curve in the
road, and. Mr.. Dougherty was thrown
out and painfully bruised.
A half score of persons were injured,
five painfully, by the stampede of a
bucking broncho during the perform
ance of wild west show at Granite
City, III.
Mrs Carrie Nation was arrested at
Cleburne Tex, charged with having
misused the mails.