River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-09-27
MISCELLANEOUS.

MISCELLANEOUS
A race war Of alarming proportions
began at Atlanta, Ga. 1t ragged with
varying vigor. Nine negroes and one
white man were killed and score of
both races wounded. The downtown
streets in possession of eight COM
panies of the Fifth Georgia infantry,
with battery of light artillery in re-
serve.
A burlap bag stamped with the
name ~. K Mano," a strip of wonl-
ans skirt and an oil cloth table COW
ering bearing a rude sketch of the
landing of Columbus, are the only i'm
mediate clews to the perpetrators of
a revolving murder committed in New
York
Bishop G. G. McCabe, of Philadel-
phia, who is presiding over the SEES
sion in progress at Ishpeming, Mich,
of the Detroit M e. Conference, in
sermon in the First NJ. e. church on
Religious Liberty" said that he
would like to see war declared against
the sultan of Turkey.
1t transpires that the Black Hun
dreds acting in collision with the an
archists, had elaborated plans for a
violent attack on the Jews at Odessa
on the occasion of the Jewish New
Year, and that the carrying out of
these plans was only averted by the
extraordinary alertness and energy
shown by the authorities.
The Paris Tempts says it learns
from an absolutely unquestionable
source that the latest consultations of
medical advisors of the sultan Of Tur
key established the fact that Abdul
Hamid was suffering from cancer of
the kidneys
During a squall a towboat contain
ing two men and two women was
swamped in Maumee bay, at Toledo,
and the women and one mans were
drowned.
Six entire families of Allegheny,
Pa, whose members number over a
score have been poisoned through
the product of bake shop
Rev. W. J. McNab, supreme chan
cellor of the Catholic Mutual Benefit
association, died at Niagara Falls, n.
Y. He was born in New York 1914
and ordained in Philadelphia
The chief of police of Moscow has
forbidden workmen to vote for their
representatives in parliamentary
elections on the ground that the gov
eminent considers that the council
of workmen's delegates is revolution
airy organization.
The French warships Chasseloup
n. f., upon the completion of the sum
mer's fishery patrol.
There are strong suspicious that the
throwing of a bomb at Gen. Sollogub,
governor general of the Baltic prov
inces. at Riga, was stage affair ar
ranged to strengthen his position
which is said to have been greatly
shaken owing to his inability to re.
store order in the Baltic provinces.
Deputy sheriffs have been stationed
at the approach of the temporary
bridge across the Cimarron river at
Dover, Okla, where the Rock Island
wreck occurred, to prevent trains
passing, and traffic is at a standstill
AS a result of an exchange of notes
between the Spanish cabinet and the
Vatican an arrangement has been
made based on the same principles
as the modus vivendi of last year.
1t is reported that the Japanese are
erecting Notifications in southern Sag
halin, contrary to the treaty of Ports
mouth.
Validity of Union Pacifics titles to
Wyoming coal lands was brought up
before interstate commerce commits
sion at Omaha.
Capt. Grammer, of New York Cen
trail, urged rule against allowing ex-
port and import freight rates lower
than domestic.
General staff of the army at Wash
ington is making preparations for in
vading Cuba if armed intervention be-
comes necessary. War maps are be-
ing printed instructions are issued
for the purchase of horses and mules
and members of the staff are ordered
home
The suburb of ST. Petersburg adj
joining the Narva gate was shaken by
the explosion of a powerful bomb.
which was thrown by one of three
well-dressed men and which tore an
enormous hole in the ground and
broke all the windows in the vicinity.
There was no loss of life.
Ten were killed and 16 injured in
plunge of London and Edinburgh ex-
press through bridge.
Mrs. L. w Cooper and Miss Nellie
Manning, of Charlotte. N. c., were Sc
verely injured in collision between
a street car and an automobile on
which they were riding at Denver