River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-05-09

President Livingstone, of the Lake
Carriers association, said that the
lake freight traffic would be greater
this season than ever before.
Secretary Taft decided against the
steam shove men employed on the
Panama ca. who had asked large
increase of pay. In some other mat
tiers he ruled in favor of the workmen.
Very great destruction Of life and
property was caused at Canton by the
explosion of a gunpowder magazine.
Twenty-one bodies have been recov-
cred from the ruins. 1t is feared that
at least 100 more are dead. Hundreds
of persons were injured. Fifteen
buildings were RACED to the ground
and over a hundred were seriously
wrecked A section 200 feet long
from the massive city wall was thrown
down.
Guatemala has apologized to the
Mexican government for insinuating
that the Mexican legation at Guate-
mala City was harboring the men who
are suspected of attempting to assas-
sinate President Cabrera, of Guate-
mala.
One of the great walls of the Chu-
viscar dam, near Chihuahua, Mex,
gave way and about 20 workmen were
killed and 10 injured.
Nicaraguan soldiers in Puerto Cor
tez, Honduras, nearly beat to death a
negro from Louisiana, and the police
refused to arrest them. Commander
Fullam, of the Marietta, had the chief
OF police and others concerned arrest
ed and put in irons and announced
that the guilty men must be punished.
The International kindergarten
union, in session at New York, decid-
ed to make a crusade against the
comic supplements of Sunday news
papers.
Monroe Salisbury, we'll known
horse owner and breeder of San Fran
cisco, died in New York, where he had
gone for treatment for cancer.
"Scully de Robber," notorious
thief, was captured by the Chicago
police, after a lively revolver battle,
and locked up. During the night he
was seized with paroxysm of cough
ing and spat out $500 diamond he
had concealed in his mouth.
Sir Alexander Swettenham retired
from the post of governor of Jamaica
and went to his residence in the hills,
where he will stay until he leaves the
island.
supposed desperate who was
killed at Willows, Cal, after running
fight with a posse of officers, has been
identified as Count Otto Won Valid
stein, of Austria.
The Arkansas house passed the sen
ate bill prohibiting the sale, manufac-
ture or giving away of cigarettes or
cigarette papers.
p Smiley, until recently editor of
the Warren co. Tribune and for years
q prominent figure in northeastern
Ohio politics, died suddenly of acute
indigestion.
Serious anti-European riots have &C.
Cured at Rawalpindi, in the Punjab.
A Hindu mob burned two bungalows.
pillaged the mission church, looted the
post office, burned garage and all
the motor cars in it, destroyed the
plant of power house and smashed
the windows in the houses of many
Europeans.
Ruth Nash, 16, of Flint, Mich, and
her two little nephews were killed by
a Grand Trunk passenger train.
Peter Maytubby, for two terms gov
ernor of the Chickasaw tribe of In
dams, is dead at his home in Caddo,
/. r., aged so years.
Practically all of the operators of
the Pacific States Telegraph & TeIe-
phone company struck for increased
wages.
John L. Routt, thrice governor of
Colorado, was declared too insane to
manage his estate and his daughter
was appointed conservative.
Gov. Deneen appealed to the people
of Illinois for help for the starving
peasants of Russia.
The Overland limited on the Santa
Fe was derailed at Tampas, Cal, but
none of the passengers was hurt.
The Dominican congress ratified the
new treaty with the United States.
King Carlos of Portugal has accept
ed an invitation to visit Brazil.
Mrs. L. J. Appleby, of Chicago, a 49,
year-old bride, was killed by an ex-
plosion of gas in her residence.
The British tank steamer Silverlip
was destroyed by explosions of ben
zine in her cargo, five of her crew
being killed.
Mrs. Annie Wheeler, one of the
most notable philanthropists in Can
ada, died in Montreal, aged rs.
The bodies of II dead have been re-
covered from the Whipple mine, West
Virginia, where an explosion of gas
occurred
The volcano of Alarcon, province of
Neuquen, Argentina, lis in full activity
The Missouri senate has passed the
bill extending the fellow servant law
to apply to mine operators.
Charles ]. Steedman, of New York
son of the late Rear Admiral Steed-
man, committed suicide by shooting
in a Paris hotel
Mrs. Maggie Muchberger, widow
of Virden, ILL.,, shot and killed Michael
Finnegan because he tried to kiss her
The Mexican government learns
from prominent person who has just
returned from Guatemala that in his
opinion, unless all signs fail, Estrada
Cabrera will be unseated as president