River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-11-08
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.


It is the intention of the provisional
government to have the American
troops make extensive practice
marches throughout Cuba. This
should not be interpreted as a
threatening demonstration; the step
is taken for It's moral effect on the
restoration Of confidence
Theodore d. Shafer, 81 years of age,
was shot and killed in the Empire
hotel, Cleveland, o., by w. F. Willis,
railroad switchman. Shafer heard
Willis wife screaming for help, and
while endeavoring to gain admittance
to the Willis apartments the door was
flung open by Willis, who fired three
shots at Shafer, killing him.
DR.. l.. f. Urclay, physician of
Merida, Yucatan, died on board the
New York. His death was due to
apoplexy.
Fire destroyed the livery stables of
William Hamilton & Sons, Pittsburg,
Pa, cremating 80 horses and burning
&c carriages. Loss, about 100000.
Unsuccessful in their alleged at
tempts to blackmail Francisco Mes
sina, a prosperous tailor of Brooklyn,
members of the so-called BLACK
Hand society hurled a dynamite
bomb against the front door of the
tenement house in which he lives and
conducts his business, and caused
damage of $4,000 to the building and
surrounding property.
The British steam launch Fienam
has been seized by pirates on West
river, China. The passengers and
crew were robbed. The pirates raid
ed several Chinese launches and en-
gagged in running fight with an
armed launch of the Salt commission
ers.
The North German Lloyd steamship
Witteland arrived in Charleston s.
c., from Bremen with 420 immigrants
and a large cargo of fertilizer mate
rails. Nearly all the immigrants
passed examination successfully.
Theodore f. Griffith, a well-known
wholesale millinery merchant, died
at Indianapolis. Death was due to
thinning of the blood. During the
civil war he served in an Ohio volun-
teer regiment.
Coroner Gaskill announced that ex-
a loose rail caused the accident of the
Pennsylvania railroad at the Thor
oughfare draw, in which more than
so persons lost their lives.
Mrs. Frances Santego was burned to
death; Harold son, four years of
age, is in critical condition from
suffocation, and four other children
had a narrow escape from fire in
Pittsburg, Pa. Mrs. Santego was
pouring oil in the fire when the can
exploded.
According to the annual report of
Maj. John Pitcher, acting superintend-
ent of the Yellowstone National park,
the monopoly enjoyed by the Yellow
stone Lake Boat company for the
transportation of tourists from Upper
Geyser basin to the Thumb is becom-
ing a serious problem.
Missionaries report most severe
famine in the northern part of XII
angsu province, central China. 1t is
estimated that 100000 people face
starvation.
Capt. John F. Ayres, who for many
years was superintendent of the Unit
ed States Memorial society, died at
Mexico of paralysis of the heart. He
was so years of age.
Mrs. Edgar w. Nye, widow of the
late "Bill' Nye, the famous humorist,
died at the home of her daughter,
Mrs. E. W. Pharr, at Avoca planta-
ton, near Morgan City, La.
In quarrel over a woman at Hen
derson, KY, Henry Hughes, white, and
an ex-convict, fatally shot James Muir
rell, white man. in the abdomen
Hughes was placed under arrest.
Col Henry Steele Olcott, of Adyar,
Indian, the president-founder of the
theosophical society and coworker in
her lifetime of the late Helen F. Blav-
atsky, has been seriously injured in a
railway wreck in Italy.
The Standard Oil company has
bought AZ acres in the Caddo City
field, 20 miles north of Shreveport,
La, and will begin operations at
once in the development of the prop
erty.
A band of 100 Ute Indians, it is re-
ported, captured a wagon loaded with
5000 pounds of flour and supplies
bound from Arvada to the Tenth and
the Sixth cavalry
Three hundred striking and sus-
pended Lawrence university freshmen
and sophomores have capitulated.
Judge Joseph E. Gary, the oldest
member of the Chicago bench, and the
man who sentenced the anarchists to
hang, died suddenly, aged SIS.
William A. McLain, an employe of
the Big Four railroad, fell under a
moving car at Greencastle, Ind, and
was instantly killed.
In a decision handed down by the
Indiana state railroad commission, a
number of new rules were .ordered
adopted that will compel the railroads
hereafter to consider their own neg
lect, weather conditions and the man
ner in which shippers are to be mott
fled of the arrival of cars.
Advices received at army headquar-
tiers at Omaha from Maj. Grierson, in
command of the detachment of the
Toufh oavalrv which fret took fho