River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-03-21
MISCELLANEOUS.

A negro who says he is one of the
discharged troopers of the Twenty
fifth infantry confessed that the col
ored soldiers did the shooting at
Brownsville, Tex, and said many of
them helped to clean the guns.
Two men arrested in New York for
attempting to smuggle $4,000 worth
of diamonds and jewelry are wanted
abroad for a $4,000 robbery.
Two hundred and fifty pounds of
dynamite exploded in Cincinnati and
did great damage to hospital and
many residences and stores.
Copies of official papers show that
the original cause of the dispute that
has brought on the war between Hon
duras and Nicaragua was the theft
Of a mule by Nicaraguan cavalrymen.
w r. Rhea killed A. Newall in Ell
Reno, Okla, alleging that Newall had
ruined his home.
Capt Kosloff of the East Siberia
Sharpshooters, resenting a slur on the
Russian army in a st. Petersburg
hotel dining room, cut off the ear of
Prince Wharfage of Kutias, and was
shot twice by the prince.
Lloyd G. Griscom, the new Ameri-
can ambassador to Italy, was received
by King Victor Emmanuel
Word was received of a terrible
massacre of Jews in Podihilo, Rou-
mania.
1t was reported that John D. Rookie
Teller had provided in his will a gift
of $250,000,000 for charity and educa-
ton and was about to give $50,000,000
to New York city.
Gen. Joseph Stockton, a civil war
veteran and one of Chicago's Oldest
residents, died aged IA years.
Miss Josie Gray, cashier of a furni-
ture store at Evansville, Ind, was
locked in the safe by robbers who es-
capped with several thousand dollars.
Deciding to leave the world togeth-
er, Mr.. and Mrs. l.. H. Terpening, of
Hillsdale, Mich, the former II and
the latter 6S years old, wrapped ban
dages saturated with chloroform
about their heads during the night
When discovered Mrs. Terpening was
dead Her husband was resuscitated
J.. L.. Walden, superintendent of the
Purcell mines in the Serrita noun
tains, Arizona, was killed by the ex-
plosion of a blasting cap which he
was crimping between his teeth.
Fire in the harbor of Genoa, Italy,
destroyed $4,000 bales Of cotton and
also damaged several vessels The
loss is estimated at more than a mil
lion dollars.
Mgr. Thomas p. Thorpe, a we'll
known prelate in the Cleveland do
cese of the Roman Catholic church,
died of arterial scelerosis.
Secretary Taft refused permission
for the diversion of a certain portion
of the waters Of Lake Michigan into
the Chicago drainage canal through
the Calumet river.
Mrs. s. n. Castle, an early mission
airy in the Hawaiian islands, died at
Honolulu, aged 80 years.
Samuel Kovates killed his young
wife and himself at Lorain, O., be-
cause of jealousy.
brakeman, missing three months, was
drowned in a creek near Kankakee,
III. 1t is believed tramps threw him
from a train.
A car in a freight train on the Gin
cinnati Hamilton & Dayton railroad
jumped the track on bridge over a
creek, six miles east of Decatur, and
carried the structure down with two
ears and caboose. Brakeman
Thompson will die and Conductor
Dowell is badly hurt.
Trinity college, a school for negroes,
located at Athens, Ala. and owned by
the Congregational Society of New
York, was destroyed by fire.
Roll calls show that the probable
number of deaths resulting from the
explosion on the French battleship
lena at Toulon is 120.