River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-05-02


creek, near Pittsburg, Pa. The en-
gineer and fireman were killed and
the escape of the passengers was con-
sidered marvellous.
Secretary of War Taft laid the cor
ner stone of the new Y M G. A. build
ing at Dayton, o., and delivered the
principal address.
Frank Kenworthy, Of Winchester,
Ind, was thrown from an automobile
and killed as he was going to see the
wreck of Grand Rapids & Indiana
railroad train at Collett, Ind.
Maude Harrison, the actress, died
suddenly of paralysis in New York.
The volcano on the Island of Strom-
boil was in violent eruption, damaging
vineyards and terrifying the peas
ants.
President Cipriano Castro, of Ven
eZuela, according to information re-
ceived in New York from two indie
pendent sources, is planning to retire
from office on May %. The reason is
his continued i'll health. He will seek
recuperation in the mountains OF
Switzerland.
Mayor Schmitz made a partial con-
fession concerning graft in San Fran
cisco, in the hope of securing lenient
treatment.
While fishing in Fox river, near FL
gin, ILL.,, Stephen Boras hooked a
bundle of clothing which he pulled
ashore and found to contain the bodies
of three infants, twin boys and girl.
People in Mexico were wildly ex-
cited by report that mob had
stoned the American and Mexican lega-
tions in Guatemala City, and Mexican
troops were modified on the Guate-
malan frontier
DR. George Nichols, formerly secre-
tary of state of Vermont and for sew
eral years a member of the national
Republican committee, died at the age
Of so years.
Pietro Pintinello, a fruit dealer, was
arrested in New York, charged with
being the head of a gang of kidnapers.
W. r. Stead revisited Chicago and
said he found it had reformed greatly
since he was there IA years ago.
Frank Fitzmaurice, president of the
Citizens bank, of Eagle Grove, Ia,
eloped with and married Miss Nellie
Ferguson, a nurse who attended him
in a recent illness.
Congressman Waldo, of New York,
charged that in warships built by pri-
vate concerns rivet holes had been
found filled with soap, putty and wood.
Eddie" Tate, the safe-blOwer, who
escaped from a Peoria hospital, was
arrested in Chicago and told a story
making serious charges against for
mer Chief of Police Collins, of that
city.
Mrs. Mate l.. Chester, of Chicago,
grand secretary of the Order of the
Eastern Star, was instantly killed by
a fall down an elevator shaft in a
Peoria hotel
Eight workmen were drowned at
Locust Point, Baltimore, by the col
lapse of a new railroad pier
Rufus B. Bullock, former governor
OF Georgia, died at Albion, n. Y. aged
70 years.
The Central Trades and Labor
union of St Louis refused to indorse
a resolution attacking President
Roosevelt for his denunciation of
Meyer and Haywood, officers of the
Western Federation of Miners.
Binger Herman, former congress
man from Oregon and former commits
sioner of the general land office, was
acquitted of the charge Of destroying
public records by the verdict of a
jury
Albert Zimmerman and John Beck
er were killed and eight men were in
jured at Luxembourg, suburb of St.
Louis, by an explosion of dynamite,
while they were attempting to extin-
guish fire.
Lack of money-about 100000 to
finance the expedition, may mean the
abandonment of the dash to the north
pole which Commander Robert E.
Peary has planned for this summer
Excise Commissioner Thomas E.
proceed Immediately to close 200 sa-
looms located near public parks in ST.
Louis
Dennis Kearney, who in 1870 head
ed the sand lot" agitation against the
Chinese in California, died at Bradley.
Cal
The fishing letter Searchlight of
Harbor Beach, Mich, was believed to
have sunk in Lake Huron with her
Crew of six men,
Fire in Allegheny, Pa, destroyed
the plant of the Zoeller Packing com
pany. the loss being about 100000.
Ed Tate. safe-blower, who was held
in Peoria. ILL.,, on the charge of blow
ing the school board safe and destroy
ing the N. @. Dougherty script, es-
capped from the st. Francis hospital.
three-story brick building, occu.
pied as pattern shop and storehouse
at the navy yard at kittery, Me-. was
ruined by fire.
Theodore Schmitt, one of the best
known architects in Ohio. was thrown
from an automobile in Cleveland and
probably fatally injured.
Former Gov. Jennings of Florida
and President Lincoln HUXLEY, of Stet
son university at DeLand, came t.
blows in a Tallahassee hotel lobby
over a movement in the legislature tc
secure an amendment in the univer
sity's charter to prevent the board Of
trustees perpetuating itself