River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-04-11

Advices received at Curacao say
that President Castro of Venezuela
has suffered a relapse.
At a meeting of a committee of the
Allied Provisions Trades union of
Paris, comprising butchers, bakers,
grocers, etc, it was decided to call a
general strike.
Fire of incendiary origin destroyed
the Daisy rolling mills at Norfolk,
Va, entailing loss of 100000.
Fifteen or more lives were lost and
vast amount of property destroyed
by a tornado that swept across Lou
isiana, Mississippi and part of Ala
bama.
United States Senator Penrose of
Pennsylvania denied that he had
told the president of the alleged
rich mems cabal' to defeat the aims
Of Mr. Roosevelt, and said he never
had heard Of it.
Rioting by strikers at the American
Shipbuilding company's yards in
Lorain, o., practically ceased owing to
the presence of troops under arms.
Canada has an option on Michael
Pablow's herd of about 500 bison,
now in Montana. The herd comprises
about one-half the surviving bison.
The jury in the case of Edward
Collier, at Kenosha, Wis, charged
with manslaughter in the fourth de-
gree for the running down and killing
of William Dryer while driving an au-
tomobiIe, brought in a verdict of
guilty.
Fire destroyed the Chinese portion
of Stevenson, B. c., at the mouth of
the Frazer river. Five hundred Chi
nese are homeless.
In a collision between two freight
trains on the Mexican railway seven
men lost their lives.
Maj. Daniel J. O'Brien, senior vice
partment, G. A. r., died suddenly at
Albany of heart disease.
The Tiger Republican club of Kan
sas City, Mo, appointed a committee
Of prominent citizens to raise 100000
to bring the Republican national com.
vention of 1908 to that city.
The London Daily Mirror said the
car of Russia would abdicate soon
and military dictatorship would be
established under Grand Duke Mi
chael.
Anthony Comstock made three raids
in New York in which he seized Is, SOC
picture postal cards which he claims
are obscene.
Col. Charles Morton, Seventh caval-
ry, now in the Philippines, has been
selected for promotion to the rank of
brigadier general upon the retire
ment April IL Of Gen. Markley.
The steamer City of Troy was
burned to the waters edge at Dobbs
Ferry, N. Y. All the passengers, some
60 in number, were landed safely.
Mercos Flores, supposed to be in
sane, was arrested in New York for
writing letters to the United States
pension department threatening the
president.
Fifteen hundred brewery workers in
Pittsburg went on strike.
Andrew Carnegie made an endow-
ment of 100000 to the Carnegie In
stitute of Pittsburg.
Several persons were injured in the
wreck of a ST Louis & San Francisco
fast mail train at Catoosa, /. T.
The whipping post was revived at
Baltimore, a negro wife-beater receiv-
ing nine lashes.
Col. A. S. Hutson, assistant adjutant
general of West Virginia. was indict-
ed for embezzling state funds.
The president has decided to an
point George Otis Smith Of Maine to
be director of the geological survey to
succeed Charles G. Walcott, who has
been appointed at the head of the
Smithsonian institution.
The Chicago-Cairo express on the
Illinois Central was in collision with
a coal train near Duquoin, Ill. The
fireman of the passenger train was
killed and the engineer slightly hurt.
Numa Pompilio Liona, Ecuador's poet
laureate, died in Guayaquil. He was
% years old and noted educator.
France and England are disturbed
over the Cuban situation, according
to dispatches received at Havana. and
may bring pressure to bear on the
United States to insure the protection
of property when the American troops
are withdrawn
William II. Huffman a veteran of
the civil war. ran amuck at the Sol
diers' home, Dayton, O., and stabbed
five veterans while they were asleep.
Howard Gould, the New York
courts say, will have to pay S2S,059
because two years ago his wife call
ed Abner j. Haydel a id archi-
tect" and expelled him from a room
in the Waldorf.
A general strike of tailors and cut
tiers was begun in Germany. Ten
thousand men are involved.
e. M. Holbrook and E. T. McCar-
thy, rich mining men; E. E. Iona
baugh, attorney, and Robert McPhil-
amey, real estate dealer, all of Sheri-
dan, Wyo., were indicted for conspir-
ing to defraud the government.
Three prisoners in the county Jail
at Los Angeles, Cal, one a murderer,
made a desperate attempt to murder
the night jailer and escape. Two of
them were shot and wounded and all
three captured
BY the explosion of an Internal ma.
chine believed by the police to have
been sent him by a rival for the affec-