River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-11-14
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the demands of their country CORE
spondents and depositors for currency.
They declared that the suggestions
made from several western sources
that they were not meeting legitimate
demands for currency from the west
were entirely unfounded and that
they were, on the contrary, taking
every practicable measure to aid the
west and south.
The first direct reports from the
scene of the great earthquake at Kara
tagh, Russian Turkestan, say the vic
tins number about $4,000; the city
and many villages were destroyed.
An earthquake caused a serious
landslide close to the village Of Val
combre, Spain, the population OF
which fed.
Iquique, Chill, was visited by fire
which entailed losses amounting to
over $1,0OO,O0O and rendered 1000
persons homeless.
Louis Emery McComas, associate
justice of the court of appeals of the
District of Columbia, former United
States senator and for four terms con-
gresham from Maryland, died at his
home in Washington.
Three persons were badly burned,
one probably fatally, and number of
others had thrilling escapes in a fire
at Columbus, o.
AS the result of quarrel over an
election bet, William Hopkins and
Frank Foley, of Fernalda, KY, fought
a duel. Hopkins was instantly killed
and Foley fatally wounded.
The transforms and floods through
out Italy continued. Railroad tracks
were carried away in several places,
and reports were received of the de-
struction of houses. Several lives also
have been lost.
Edmund A. Morrow, aged Sc years,
a retired shoe merchant of Philadel-
phia and lately a cottager in Atlantic
City, disappeared and foul play was
suspected.
William Cline, a prominent citizen
of Bolivar, Pa, was robbed and muir
dered.
Emanule Gianturco, the italian min
lister of public works, died at Rome
of cancer.
General municipal elections were
held in Rome and the anti-clericals
gained their greatest victory since the
fall of the church from temporal
power.
Fire in Toronto practically de-
stroyed the Anderson & Macbeth Of
flee building, occupied by manufacture
ing agents and wholesale houses. The
loss was $150000.
John Bjorlin, butler at the country
home of Paul G. Thebaud, New York
commission merchant, killed himself,
after he had shot and dangerously
wounded his employers son, Paul, Jr.,
presumably by accident
Giovanni De Chichicia, formerly lieu
tenant in the Italian army, who de-
serted, married and came to America,
York, where he was locked up on COM
plant of his brother who had refused
him money.
Mrs. Julie Wyman of Philadelphia,
music teacher and noted oratorio
soloist and divorced wife of a Chica-
go millionaire, committed suicide in
New York.
Crazed with jealousy, Fred M. I'm
derhill of Wilmington, Del, shot and
killed his wife and then turned the
revolver upon her sister, Rachael Mel
son. firing five bullets into her body.
After blowing open the outer doors
of safe in the offices of the Jefferson
Ice company in Chicago, robbers mis-
took a large sack, containing about
$50 in silver, for one that was locked
in another compartment and was said
to have contained $4,000.
The attorney general of Texas be-
gan suit against 30 Texas milling
companies for violation of the anti
trust laws.
Nine. Bressler-Gianoli, while singing
the title role in Carmen" in the Man
haitian opera house, New York, was
painfully stabbed by accident
King Edward celebrated his sixty
sixth birthday and was presented with
the Cullinan diamond, the largest in
the world, by the Transvaal govern
ment
Minister of State Jonkheer van Pan
hugs, of Holland, his brother and May
or Leek and their wives were all
drowned while out driving, their car
riage falling into a canal.
Seven bandits held up the town OF
Canova, S. D., blew open the bank
vault and escaped with $500.
The Cunard turbiner Lusitania. car
rying s10,000,000 in gold, reached New
York, having made the trip in days
10 hours, 10 minutes, new record.
One man was killed and "a persons
were injured in a wreck on the In
diana Union Traction line in Indianap
oils.
The absolute necessity for a reor
ganization and an increase of both
officers and men in the marine corps
is set out in the annual report of Brig
Gen. G. F. Elliott, commanding.
The Guthrie hotel, ten stores and &
livery stable at Oneonta, Ala, were
destroyed by fire.
Judge Olin Wellborn, in the United
States district court at Los Angeles
fined the Atchison, Topeka & Santa
:Fe company $3.50, 900 for rebating.
A violent earthquake occurred al
Tore la Ribera, province of Huesca
Spain, and a number of lives were