River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-01-10
SUMMARY OF 4
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.

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National bank of Philadelphia, threw
a bomb that killed himself and the
cashier, injured six others and
wrecked the bank.
Zinat, Raisuli's stronghold, was cap
tured by the Moroccan army and he
and his followers fled to the noun
tains.
All the negro troops now in the
United States have been ordered to
prepare for service in the Philippines.
Nine buildings were wrecked by an
explosion of dynamite at Lowell,
Ariz.
Miss Mary F. Johnson, sister-in-
law of Gov Guild of Massachusetts,
eloped with and married titled sew
ing machine agent.
A convention of shippers in Chicago
decided to ask President Roosevelt to
issue a special message urging de-
murrage legislation.
J. w Roney, manager of the Ameri-
can Home Finding association OF Chi
cago, was killed by train.
A bomb thrown from an elevated
railway platform in New York in
iured five persons, two of whom will
die.
One of her crew was killed and six
others seriously injured when the
Cunard liner Etruria was fighting her
way through a severe storm.
The entire family Of George Devino,
at Winooski, vt, consisting of six
persons, the father, mother and four
children, were killed by Illuminating
gas which entered the house from a
break in the street main through q
sewer pipe.
Col. William c. Williams, a we'll
known veteran of the civil war, died
at indianapolis after four days illness
with pneumonia.
Three firemen were killed during a
fire that burned out the interior of
Hills paper warehouse on Roosevelt
street, New York.
A statement issued by the bureau of
statistics Of the department of COM
merce and labor announces that this
country now ranks third in the value
Of manufactures entering the world s
internal commerce, the amount of it's
exports for the past year having ag-
gregated more than $700,000000
During a storm the Greek sailing
boat Urania went on the rocks near
Ancona, Italy, and was wrecked.
Thirteen members of the crew were
drowned.
Frederick r. Martin, of Portland
Ore, shot and slightly wounded his
wife, shot to death Miss Emma
Helms, his sister-in-law, and then sent
bullet into his own head
Missionaries in the Pacific islands
declare that France has coded Tahiti
to Great Britain in consideration of
territorial concessions in Burma or
Further India (Indo-China).
The death is reported in the prov
ince Of Kiev. Russia, after a long i'll
ness of Stephan Vassilievich Annikin,
the foremost leader of the peasants.
founder of the Group of Toll and ex-
member of the lower house of parlia-
ment
Mrs. A. B. Sims, prominent in Des
Moines, Iowa, society and holder of
the national whist championship, Gre
ated a sensation in Des Moines by de-
nouncing whist playing at the Univer-
sity Place Church of Christ, ad declar-
ing that she never again would touch
cards.
Andrew Carnegie has given $50. 900
to build a Creek memorial at Okmul-
gee, |. r., in honor of the celebrated
Creek chief Esparhacker.
Emma Goldman and Alexander
Berkman who went to prison in 1892
for assaulting H. C. Prick, were ar
rested at a melting of anarchists in
New York.
Three persons were killed in hotel
fire in Delhi, n. Y
The Pacific liner City of Panama,
which was thought to be lost, arrived
safely at Mazatlan Mexico
Papers were signed for the settle
ment of the Southern Pacific firemen's
strike.
Nine persons We're killed by an ex-
piosion at the Laf1in-Rand powder mill
near kenoSha, Wis.
Two terrorists shot and killed two
gendarmes in Warsaw, Poland, and
fed. Soldiers opened fire on them
and wounded four pedestrians.
Fred Zimmerman, accused of shoot
ing Mrs. Guam in Owatonna, Mich,
committed suicide by hanging himself
in his cell in the Jail.
Brig. Gen. George A. Bell, u. S. A.
retired, died at his residence in Wash
ington. He was nataive of Maryland
and was graduated from the military
academy in July, 1853.
Joe Cans and Jimmie Britt were
matched to fight at Tonopah, New, for
a purse of $4,000.
Tremendous rains fell in Arkansas.
doing much damage in Hot Springs
and causing q general suspension of
railway traffic.
Frederick S. Camp. one of the most
prominent millmen in eastern Connec-
ticut, took his life by shooting at Nor
witch. Conn.
President Roosevelt shook the hands
of thousands of persons at his New
Years reception.
Thomas Harris shot and killed his
stepfather, Henry Miller. at the lat
ter's home in st. Louis, because his
mother had been severely beaten by
Miller.