River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-05-16
BRIEF REVIEW Or
A WEEKS EVENTS
RECORD OF THE MOST IMPOR-
TANT HAPPENINGS IN ITEM
lied FORM.
HOME AND FOREIGN NEWS
Information Gathered from All Guar
tiers Of the Civilized World and
Prepared for the PerusaI of the
Busy Man.

more than a score injured in the
wreck Of q special train on the South
ern Pacific at Honda, Cal, bearing
Shriners from Reading, Pa, and Buff
falo, N. Y, and their families. The
train was deraiIed by a defective
switch and the cars smashed.
Tree fruit crops in the southwest
we're reported to be practically des-
troyed by the late frosts and other
fruit and berries badly damaged.
Senator Foraker issued statement
saying that he was making no deal
with anyone, but he would accept the
results of the Ohio Republican conven-
ton.
The city jailer of Newport, KY, was
arrested in a raid on a crap game and
was locked up in his own jail.
Ninety Mexican miners lost their
lives in a fire in the Lenares copper
mine at Velardena, in the state of
Durango.
State Senator Charles H. Hughes, of
Illinois, died at Excelsior Springs, Mo.
He was thrown from his horse recent
Nv. and sustained the injury which
caused his death.
Services commemorative the TWEEN
tieth anniversary Of the inauguration
of the Salvation Army of ST. Louis
were conducted by Commander Eva
Booth,
Mrs. Agner Barlow Houser, wife of
Daniel NJ. Houser Of ST. Louis, presi-
dent of the Globe Printing company,
publishing the Globe-Democrat, died
from the effect of self-inflicted bullet
wound in the right temple.
Engineer N. B. McGinnis and Fire
man Sullivan were killed in a wreck
of a passenger train on the Southern
Pacific in New Mexico.
Fire in Perry, Ia, destroyed four
business buildings, the loss being $685.
600
Rev W. NJ. P. Richards, a colored
pastor Of Carlisle, KY, was shot and
killed and his alleged murderers, a
man and woman, were threatened
with lynching.
Unknown persons set off a charge
Of some high explosive under the
house of Samuel Cook, negro, at
Ruston, La, blowing the house to
pieces and killing Cook and four other
negroes.
Joris Karl Huysmans, the celebrated
author, is dead in Paris. He was born
In 1848
The distillery and grist mill of the
II. Corby company at Belleville, Ont,
were destroyed by fire, originating, it
is believed from spontaneous combus-
ton. The loss is placed at $250,000.
Mrs Matte Connally, Of Maysville,
Ala, killed her son-in-law, Frank Al
bright, because he went home drunk
and drove out his family.
The extra session of the Missouri
legislature came to an end after the
passage of II important measures.
The supreme court of Kansas grant
ed writ to GUST Peter Everhardy,
mayor Of Leavenworth from office
for failure to enforce the laws against
saloons and other resorts.
Thieves stole a searchlight weigh
ing 200 pounds from the top of a
building in Chicago
The grand jury at Youngstown, o.,
reported frightful conditions existing
in the Mahoning county infirmary.
Lieut.. Gov. Sherman, of Illinois,
was appointed by the president as a
member of the Spanish treaty claims
commission.
Elias Hartz. famous 'goosebone"
weather prophet, of Reading, Pa,
whose predictions usually came true,
died at the age Of 80 years.
Edward Kemeys, noted sculptor of
wild animals, died at his home in
Washington
William Quinn, chief of police of
Greenville, Miss, Committed suicide.
James r. Palmer, aged 81, who OPP
Grated the first bus line in New York
city, was present at the laying of the
first rail of the first railway in the
United States and was once an init
mate friend of Henry Clay, died in
Chippewa Falls, Wis.
Writs of custer were issued by the
supreme court of Kansas against the
N0SlGIu OulO1 IS1CSIdpn CODup
and the Pullman company for not
complying with the Kansas corpora
tion laws.
1t was announced in Baltimore that
the Susan B. Anthony memorial fund
of 100000 for the cause of equal suf-
frage had been raised.
The National Association for the
Study and Prevention of tuberculosis
in session at Washington, elected DR.
Frank Billings, of Chicago, president.
H. Clay Pierce, head of the Waters
Pierce Oil company, surrendered him
self in st. Louis on the indictment re-
turned against him in Texas charging
perjury. and was released on bonds.
Shriners at Los Angeles selected st
Paul for the conclave of 1908, the
dates being July Is to 1S
Gov. Magoon appointed Cuban dele
gates to the second peace conference
at The Hague as follows: Antonio
De Bustamente, Gon1alo De Queseda
the Cuban minister to the United
States, and Manuel Sanguily. Owes
ties Ferrera has been made secretary
10 the legation.
Twenty-nine ST. Louisans have beer
subpoenaed to appear before the fed
eral grand jury at Denver, Col, Il
tell what they know of supposed
scheme 10 combine large number q
coal land claims under the control o
some syndicate whose identity has
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