River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-04-25


William T. Ravens, messenger of
the Independent Packing company OF
Chicago, disappeared with $1,000 Civ
en- hin to deposit
William January who was sent TO
the penitentiary at Leavenworth IL
years ago for robbing a post office
and escaped three years later, was ar
rested in Chicago. lie had married
and become a prosperous business
man.
The Chinese government has or
dered 100000 rifles through Ger
man firm in Shanghai, with the object
of arming the troops throughout the
empire with the same type of wea-
pom.
Fire destroyed large part of the
native quarter of Manila.
Sir George Armstrong, proprietor
Of the London Globe, died at his resi-
dence in London.
The British torpedo boat Ariel
struck a breakwater at Valetta, Malta,
and sank. one man being drowned.
John b. Bundren of Tennessee, who
was 101 years old April /, announced
that on August 26 he will marry Miss
Rose Mcclure of England, who will
be 100 years old on that day. They
were lovers in their youth, but were
parted by Miss McGuire's parents.
DR.. Kennard, writing from Russia,
said 20000,000 peasants will starve be-
fore the next harvest unless they re-
ceive aid, and many will have to be
fed for a much longer time.
Former Judge Abner Smith Of Chi
cago was found guilty of conspiring to
defraud stockholders and depositors
of the Bank of America, of which he
was president while it existed, and his
penalty fixed at Imprisonment and
81 900 fine. G. F. Sorrow, vice presi-
dent, was given the same penalty, and
]. v. Pierce, cashier, was fined $500.
Secretary Root in an address at
Philadelphia denied that there ever
was danger of war between America
and Japan over the San Francisco
school question.
Miss Mary e. Tomlinson, we'll
known Christian Science healer of
Concord, N. H., committed suicide by
leaping from window of the Parker
House in Boston.
Sarah Ropes, who died at Salem,
Mass, left $4,000 for Swedenborgian
churches and institutions in Ohio
Jasper Mason, serving a life SEN
tence for murder in 1876, was released
by order of Gov. Cummins Of Iowa
under permission granted by the legis-
lature, and given a conditional par
don.
Thomas Longboat, Indian runner, OF
Toronto, Canada, broke the record for
the Boston Athletic associations 25-
mile Marathon road race from Ash
land to Boston, and defeated a field of
ia.
A. G. Hunt of Elizabeth. N, j., fore
man for the Hall Signal company, was
instantly killed when his motor car
was run down by fast Chicago &
Northwestern train at Marshalltown,
Ia.
Coal miners of eastern British Col
umbia and Alberta quit work, leaving
the Canadian Pacific railway almost
without fuel
A Canadian legislative committee
reported that there was a lumber
combine in western Canada and that
prices were too high.
The American Academy of Political
and Social Science began its eleventh
annual meeting in Philadelphia, the
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American colonial policy and admins
tration.
The constitution framed for the pro-
posed state of Oklahoma was adopted
by the convention.
L. F. Ford, of Philadelphia, super
intendent of construction of the Penn
sylvania railroad, committed suicide
by jumping overheard from the Clyde
line steamer Comanche off Jackson
vile, Fla. .
Mrs. Aggie Myers was taken to the
penitentiary at Jefferson City, Mo-, to
begin her life sentence for numbering
her husband.
Ex-Congressman John v. l.. Findlay
died suddenly of heart disease at his
home in Baltimore, Md. He was 81
years old.
The town of I1oilo, Island of Panay,
and the second city of the Philippines,
was totally destroyed by fire, with the
result that 10000 persons are home
less.
Thomas M. Huntington, Ami b.
Todd and Fred Hoyt were convicted
in the United States court at Omaha
on charges of conspiracy to defraud
the government of about half mil
lion acres of public lands.
The volcano Puyehue in the prov
ince of Valdivia, Chill, is yet in active
eruption, and new craters have
opened. The losses in the neighbor-
ing country are enormous, and the
inhabitants are panic-stricken. Show
ers of hot ashes are falling and there
are continued earthquake shocks &C.
companied by subterranean explo-
sions Earth shocks were felt in the
Island of Luzon, Philippines; in
Charleston. S. c.. and in Algeria. On
the Atlantic there was an extraordin-
airy storm, presumably caused by seis-
mic disturbances.
Secretary Taft evaded answering
Porto Rica's demand for citizenship
| in a speech in Porto Rico. He said
Roosevelt is favorable and hints
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