River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-01-24


Sakhalin and Elizabethpol
BY the explosion of the boiler of a
Reading engine attached to one of
the Atlantic City flyers at Blue An
Choir, N. j., the engineer, Edward Nc
Conaghy, the fireman, Frederick Ar
thur, and an ext a fireman named
Clark were instantly killed.
Joseph N. Good, motorman, was
killed and Willard Bradhurst, conduc-
tor, was severely injured at Bryan, o..
when a passenger car on the Toledo
and Indiana Traction line ran into a
box car.
Railroads are practically at a stand
still in Oregon and Washington be-
cause of the inability of the companies
to obtain fuel for locomotives.
An appropriation of $2,600,000 will
be asked from the legislature by the
University of Illinois. OF this sum,
$1,600,000 is for running expenses and
the remaining $1,000,000 for new
buildings.
Frantic because she believed her
husband was dying, Mrs. Walter
Mills rushed from her home at Zanes-
vile, o., and her body was found on
the banks of the Muskingum river.
Her husband died.
The dreaded nun butterfly is appear
ing everywhere in Bohemia, threaten
ing the devastation of the forests. The
woods of SaxOny and SILICA are also
threatened. The ministry of agricul-
ture has appointed a commission of
investigation.
Many persons are dying in Indian
Territory of strange disease that re
sembles meningitis.
Plantations in the Salto district of
Uruguay have been laid waste by a
plague of locusts.
Mohammed Ali Mira was crowned
shah of Persia, the ceremony being
most elaborate.
The Illinois board of charities has
condemned the insane asylum at Ches-
ter, used for demented criminals.
The Dundee steamer Naworth Cas-
tie was run into and sunk by the Red
Star liner Vaderland off the British
coast.
Five large steamers were driven
aground and $1,500,000 damage done
by terrific gale that swept Buffalo,
N. Y, for many hours.
Fire destroyed several large build
ings in Youngstown, o., the loss being
about $7OO,O00
Five Indians were burned to death
in bn ioil ut tho in
Oregon.
The Atlantic Creosoting works at
Norfolk, Va, second largest in the
world, was destroyed by fire.
The secretary of the treasury Sc
lected for the site of the new post Of
flee building in Pittsburg the prop
erty at the corner of Fifteenth and
Penn avenue.
David P. Dyer, Jr., son of the United
States district attorney at st. Louis,
and teller in the sub-treasury there,
was acquitted by jury in the United
States district court on a charge of
having embezzled $61,5 of govern
ment funds.
The federal grand jury at Chicago
presented it's report on the indict-
ment of John r. Walsh, the indictment
covering 1872 different counts, chief of
which is the alleged misapplication
of funds of the Chicago National
bank
The chief of the rural administra-
ton at Smolensk, Russia, was killed
by schoolhoy.
Senior Coronado and members of his
staff in Havana were challenged to
fight duels because of the publication
by Senior Coronado's paper, Discus
sion, of a police raid on a cock fight
at Marianao, Cuba, Sunday
G. H. Grub, of Macon, NO. and p
B. Robinson, of Cameron, Mo-, en-
ployed as linemen on the Burlington
railway were struck by train No. Is,
near Eola, Ill. Grub cannot live.
The Idaho house in committee of
the whole voted to pass an anti-pass
bill effective Immediately after its
passage and approval by the governor.
About 1000 feet of the Franklin
tunnel on the main line of the Santa
Fe road in California caved in follow
ing the burning out of the timbers by
fire which is supposed to have been
started from the sparks of a locomo-
tive.
The training squadron which sailed
for Honolulu January Is, turned back
to Yokosuka. The squadron encoun-
tered a severe storm lasting three
days The masts of the vessels were
broken and other damage was sus-
tanned.
Business men of Finley, N. d., have
sent an appeal to the Great Northern
railway for coal. The town had not
had local freight train since De-
cember Fl, although there were
freight trains on the road nearly
every day.
Santa Fe passenger train No. 4,
east-bound, the Chicago Limited, was
wrecked at Hutchinson, Kan, the en-
gineer killed and a number of passen-
gers injured.
The Bank of Midwife, Ca, was dyna-
mited by three robbers, but as the
blast failed to wreck the safe no
money was taken. Cashier C. w
Powers was seriously wounded by the
robbers.
Attorney General Davidson turned
| over to the Texas house the documen.
tary evidence that he had in his pos
session, which, it is charged. impli