River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-03-28
MISCELLANEOUS.

MISCELLANEOUS
SIX persons were killed and II in
jured when a special carrying stu
dents and the Overland limited on the
Santa Fe collided head-on at Los An
geles.
The ruling dynasty in China was
reported to be in grave peril as a re-
suit of the famine, and the United
States and Europe were concerned for
the safety of white residents in China.
fund was being raised in Port
land, Ore, to employ Heney and Burns
of San Francisco to uncover munich
pal graft in the Oregon city.
The conservative cabinet of Rou-
mania resigned and liberal minis
try was formed under the presidency
of M Sturdza. 1t is hoped the dis
orders in the country will soon be
ended
Joseph Demar, wealthy italian,
was murdered by Black Hand agents
at Bellefontaine, o.
Eleven race horses were burned to
death in fire which destroyed three
buildings at the Sheepshead Bay race
track.
Fire destroyed the store Of A. G.
Spalding Bros. in Chicago, with $780,
900 worth of sporting goods.
Prof. Claude II. Van Tyne, head of
the department of American history
in the University of Michigan, declin-
ed an offer to take the same chair at
Yale university.
Nine hundred veterans in the Old
Soldiers home at Leavenworth, Kan,
were poisoned by tainted hash, and
one died
Arthur Sanderson of Carthage, Mo-,
who killed Dr. S. d. Sanderson be-
cause he mistreated Mrs. Sanderson,
was acquitted by jury.
Speaker Cannon and members of
congress were not permitted to land
at Colon until the six days quarantine
against Venezuela had expired.
Eight miners were buried alive in
an avalanche of snow at the Britannia
mine on Howe sound, 40 miles north
of Vancouver, and four were taken out
dead.
Interrupted in an attempt to commit
suicide Charles Wallace, saloon
keeper, of Memphis, Tenn, shot and
seriously wounded his brother-in-law
J. e. Rousch, and firing two bullets into
his own breast, ended his life.
Fire at Minersville, Pa, destroyed
the Union Brewing company's plant
and four tenement houses.
Cleveland Harding (colored) was
lynched near Florence, Ala, for attack
ing white woman.
France obtained three rich prov
lnces by new treaty with Siam.
DIR. Mauchamp, a Frenchman, was
murdered in Morocco and the Moors
then made a general attack on Euro
peans. The British consular agent
was forced to fire, killing two men.
A concrete dam and power house
Just completed near DEBORAH, Ia, sank
into the river.
Secretary Taft was entertained at
Charleston. S. c., on his way to the
lsthmus of Panama
M. Pobiedonostseff, ex-procurator
general of the holy synod, died at his
home in st. Petersburg, aged so
years.
Former Senator Joseph r. Burton,
of Kansas. on reaching his home at
Abilene, delivered an address in
which he called himself a martyr and
said the sugar trust had plotted to
ruin him.
William Henderson, of Oregon City;
Ore, killed his wife, wounded her
father and then committed suicide.
The fish store of Joseph Tulsa in
Philadelphia was wrecked by a bomb
supposed to have been thrown by
BLACK Hand agents.
Two colored women, accused of a
murderous attack on a white woman
we're killed by a mob near Stamps
Ark
A bomb was exploded in front OF
Judge Ogden's house in Oakland, Cal
The whole front of the house was de-
stroyed, but none of the inmates was
injured.
Mrs. Russell Sage gave $150,0OO for
the erection of new sailors home
in New York
The Il. X" ranch of 100000 acres
in the Texas panhandle was sold FOL
about 100000 and will be cut into
farms
An American mail bag whose con
tents were worth about 100000 was
stolen from the French line steamer
La Provence.
A turn of sinister and widespread
significance was given to the Central
American war by the finding, on the
persons of captured Nicaraguan sol
diers, of proclamations promising then
the loot of the first cities which they
can capture in both Honduras and Sal
vador.