River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-04-04
SUMMARY Of A
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.

Harry X. Thaw was questioned for
hours by the lunacy commission and
eross-examined by Mr.. Jerome, and
stood the ordeal remarkably well.
Jerome induced the commission to
hear the testimony of the alienists for
the prosecution, and its report to the
court was corresponding delayed.
Former Congressman Galusha 4.
Grow died at his home in GlenWood,
Pa, as a result of general break
down attributed to old age.
Fire in the PaIazzo del Drago, Am
bassador Griscom's house in Rome,
did about $4,000 damage. Mr.. Girls
com was slightly burned.
Victor l. Berger announced the
plans OF the national executive board
Of the Socialist party for spreading So
Gialigm In &c states of the union where
interest is lukewarm He said Presi-
dent Roosevelt had stolen many of
the ideas of the socialists.
Chili's failure to send minister to
Washington is due to the failure of its
plan to raise the Chilian representa-
tive to ambassadorial rank.
Druzsaninnikof, an ex-policeman
who was sentenced February Fl to a
years imprisonment for torturing Rus
Etan peasants during punitive expedi-
ton, has been killed by peasant pris-
Omers IN the jail at Kursk.
1t IS currently reported that ]. Pier
p0Rt Morgan. of New York, has &C
guIred for s1.200,000 the unique col
lection of Jules Van Den Poreboom, OF
Brussels, which comprises furniture,
pictures, arms, brasses, ancient en-
cravings and chimney pieces.
William b. Thayer, member of the
Emery, Bird Thayer Dry Goods COM
pany, conducting department store
at Kansas City, Mo, died, aged SIS
years.
The dead body of Paul ]. Weller, of
Chicago, clothing cutter, was found
in a swamp near Youngstown, N. Y.
There was a bullet hole in his head
and a revolver lay beside his body
Two Kansas City men and their
wives were killed when a train hit the
carriage in which they were riding.
Mrs. E. S. LOveIand, niece of the
late Coils P Huntington, was killed
while operating a new automobile, at
Oneonta, N. Y.
Jim Williams (cOlored), charged
with attacking Lille Mizener (white),
near Colbert, !. T.. was lynched at
Durant by mob of thousand peo-
pie
Another attempt to wreck a train on
the Pennsylvania railway was made
near Youngstown, o., telephone pole
being tied across the tracks.
Mrs. Otto Drifting of Milbrook, N. j..
drowned herself and two little chill
dren.
A Russian student killed two police
men who tried to arrest him as he was
entering revolutionary meeting place
In Moscow
William K. Niver, former mayor of
Syracuse, N Y, died, aged 72 years.
Secretary Taft accepted Senator
Foraker's challenge by declaring him
self a candidate for the United States
senate as we'll as for the presidency,
and proposing that the one who lost
at the primaries should retire from
Ohio politics.
The city of Bitlis. Turkey, was
wrecked by an earthquake.
Mrs. W. H. Ogden, of Ripon, Wis,
shot justice of the peace in the chest
because he fined her husband one dol
lar for theft
The attorney of Cook county, ILL
nois, began suit against the estate of
the late Marshall Field for $I,76S, 946
in back taxes on personally.
The North Jersey Street Railway
company was indicted at Newark for
maintaining dirty cars, providing use
less tenders and allowing its cars to be
Overcrowded.
Mrs. Russell Sage is the largest in
dividual tax payer in New York city,
being assessed on $7,500,000.
H. e. Bowman, an insurance agent
representing himself to be from Co
lumbus, was found dead in Delphos
(O) hotel.
A hundred passengers were jolted
and bruised in a collision between a
passenger train and q freight on the
Baltimore & Ohio near Fairmont, w.
Va.
Most Of the business district of VOL
eottville. Ind, was destroyed by fire.
The chatham mill at Howard and
Berks streets, Philadelphia, occupied
by q number of textile concerns, was
damaged 100000 by three fires that
were discovered within period of II
hours.
The British war Office has removed
the ban from Chicago meats.
Sixty thousand tailors in Germany
demanded a wage increase of from 40
to 100 per cent, and are threatened
with a lockout.
Dynamite exploded at the Southern
railwa. station in Atlanta. Ca, killing
two negroes and a white man and hurt
ing others.
The first distribution by the gen
eral education board of John D. Rock
efeller's s32,0o0,O00 was made as fol
lows: Yale university, 100000;
Princeton university, 100000; Bow
dom college, Brunswick. Me. $4,000;
MiltsaDs college, Jackson. Miss, SIS.
600.
Mrs. James r. Hemphill, of Akron
O., going insane, strangled her daugh
ter and tried to commit suicide.
The Minnesota Title Insurance com
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