River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-06-07

Racial warfare between the Armeni-
ans and Tartars has recommended.
Several hrmenians have been killed
| in the district of Djevanahnski.
The Windber coal strike which has
been the cause of bloodshed is over.
Five persons were killed and eaten
by savage dogs on the Labrador coast
the past winter. The dogs, which
have largely interbred with wolves,
have frequently killed people hereto
fore.
F'raternal societies are not liable as
regular life insurance companies &C
cording to a ruling by the Missouri
supreme court. Mary Westerman sued
the knights of Pythias for 1926 for
the death of her husband. The lodge
refused to pay because Westerman
failed to make payment.
George w. Silste, general manager
of the Butte Miner, died of Bright's
disease, aged 40 years.
The Madrid police arrested an ele-
gantly dressed Englishman, who gave
his name as Robert Hamilton, as he
was boarding train, as the person
nearest to fitting the description of
the author of the outrage; but
lengthy interrogation of the prisoner
gave no satisfactory results.
A bomb Of terrific power was hurled
at the king of Spain, Alfonso Kill,
and his queen, Victoria, as they were
returning from the church at Madrid,
where the marriage ceremony was per-
formed. The royal couple escaped in
jury, but 16 other persons were killed
ana many were injured.
Pendennis White, a millionaire
banker and lumberman, was killed
and Edwin A. Bell and Richard B. Ly-
man, stock brokers, were injured in
collision between an automobile and
trolley car at Buffalo.
Ambassador Reid gave farewell
luncheon at London to Robert c.
Ciowry, president of the Western
Union Telegraph and Cable company.
Andrew Carnegie was among the
guests.
The French cabinet decided to intro
duce in parliament a general amnesty
hill, covering persons convicted of par
ticiDation in the recent strikes and
church inventory disturbances and in
the anti-military movement.
A heavy wind and rain storm passed
over central Kentucky, doing much
damage. Telephone lines were broken,
destroying the connections with out
lying points. Trees and fences were
blown down and many buildings were
| damaged.
Delegates to the annual meeting of
the tri-State Grain Dealers conven-
ton and country grain men generally
met in Minneapolis. South Dakota was
we'll represented. The association is
composed of country grain dealers of
Minnesota and South Dakota principal
ly.
W. E. Flentje, postmaster of Cape
Girardeau, Mo-, a brick manufacturer
ano merchant, was nominated for
railroad and warehouse commissioner
by the Republican state convention.
u. White, of Brookfield, was nominal
cd for superintendent of schools.
Twelve persons were wounded at
Cienfuegos, Cuba, by the premature
explosion of fireworks at the celebra-
ton of King Alfonso's wedding.
Negotiations are pending between
Ecuador and the United States for the
establishment of joint quarantine reg.
ulations for the canal zone and Quay.
aquil which will lessen the danger Of
the transmission of yellow fever.
Austria has extended Indefinitely
the provisional commercial arrange
ments with Servia.
Ohio state university won the Big
Six intercollegiate track meet held at
Columbus, with total of Is points.
At Newburg, Ind, lightning struck
large barn where number of chill
dren who were attending a Sunday
school picn4c had gathered during a
severe storm. Malvin Greer, aged IL,
was instantly killed and five children
were injured
District Judge Raper, Nebraska, re-
fused Charles nj. Chamberlain a new
trial and sentenced him to the peni-
Tertiary for five years. Chamberlain
was convicted of wrecking the Cham
berlain bank of Tecumseh.
Memorial day the president deliv-
cred patriotic grafton in the beauti-
full grounds of the naval hospital at
Portsmouth, Va, and directly after
ward unveiled a handsome marble
shaft erected by the army and navy
union in the cemetery adjoining the
hospital grounds to the memory of its
fallen comrades.
The French cabinet is meeting twice
daily to decide on the programme for
presentation at the opening of parlia-
ment. A deficit Of approximately $751;
100000 is shown in the budget and
method to meet this is being dis
cussed.
Most of the Filipino students in
America who are in agricultural cool
leges, and many of those in normal
schools, will go to work on farms.
Those who are studying law will go
into law offices, and many others will
go into shops and factories. A num-
Der of the engineering students are
trying to get places in surveying par
ties sent out by the United States
geological survey.
The Mutual Life Insurance company
of New York appealed to the British
courts for an order restraining the
North British and Mercantile company
and D. c. Haldeman from using the
lists compiled by the Mutual in can
wasting policyholders.