River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-03-28

Roumania to Austria.
Nicaraguan forces captured the
strongly fortified Honduran town of
Choluteca and President Bonilla fed
in boat. 1t was believed this prac-
tically ended the war.
Ten men successfully passed the
governments first competitive ex-
animation for positions in the con-
sular service.
The pope set April Is as the date
for the next consistory, when he Will
create six cardinals, all Europeans.
Mai. G.. w. Penrose, of the Twenty
fifth infantry, was acquitted OF the
charge of neglect of duty, preferred
against him at the instance of Presi-
dent Roosevelt for alleged miscon-
duct in connection with the shooting
up" of Brownsville, Tex, by negro
soldiers of the Twenty-ffth infantry
last August.
Mrs. Mary Peters, widow, commit
ted suicide at Cleveland, o., by Jump
ing from a high bluff into Lake Erie.
Hudson Maxim announced that he
had perfected a safety decorating fuse
by which a steel she'll can be sent
clear through the armor OF battle
ship or cruiser and made to explode
at exactly the distance behind the ar
NOR designed by the gunner.
Caryl Young, one of the pioneers
of Chicago, died He was 70 years
old Born in New York state, he went
to Chicago in 1857.
George Nicholson shot and killed
John Kurd at country schoolhouse
near Carmi, ILL.,, because Kurd critl-
cised the efforts of Nicholson's little
daughter in the closing exercises OF
the school.
Following a raid on a gambling
house in Fort Worth, Tex, County At
torney Jeff D. Mclean was shot and
killed and Hamil p Scott, a member
of the raiding party, fatally wounded
by William Thompson, proprietor OF
the resort raided Thompson was sur
rounded in a lumber yard and cap
tured after desperate fight in which
Thompson received bullet wounds that
will probably cause his death.
A cablegram from the American
consul at Portsmouth, England, said
the authorities there had a boy who
answered the description of Horace
Marvin.
Fire in Pine Bluff, Ark, destroyed
the plant of the Bluff City Lumber
company, and a number of small
dwellings.
The steamship Northwestern, for
merly the Orizaba of the Ward line
on the Atlantic, was wrecked on the
south end of La Touche island on the
southwestern coast of Alaska.
Fire destroyed a lumber plant and
several fine residences in Ironton, O.
The Russian evacuation of Man
churia was completed.
Lady Dorothy Stanley, widow of Sir
Henry M. Stanley, the African explor-
err, was married in London to Henry
Curtis, F. r. G. S.
The Warren house and the Royal
shoe factory, at Randolph, Mass, were
burned. The guests in the Warren
house escaped in safety. The loss is
100000
James Shippee and William Cole,
highway commissioners, indicted at
Freeport, ILL.,, for being interested in
bridge contract that they had part
in letting, pleaded guilty and were
fined 5000 and costs.
Horace George Rayner, who killed
William Whitley, the general pro-
wider" of London, was convicted and
sentenced to death
A feud which began in Nome, Alas
ka, five years ago, was ended in Gold
field, New, when Jack Hines shot and
killed a man known as Count Podhor-
ski of Warsaw, Russia.
Arthur Bean killed his wife with
an AK at North Baltimore, O., and then
committed suicide by shooting him
self
Every member of the grand jury
at Rolling Fork, Miss, indicted him
self for violating the Sunday liquor
law and each appeared before Judge
Booth and was fined $40.
H. Clay Ewing, who was attorney
general of Missouri from 1874, and
for many years a banker, died at his
home in Jefferson City, Mo-, at the
age of H9.
The Chicago limited on the Penn
sylvania railway was derailed by
train wreckers at Stewart, Pa.
Four men were blown to atoms in
Northern Pacific tunnel near Lom-
bar, Mont, as the result of the care
lessness of workman.
Two persons were fatally injured
when a Michigan Central train
smashed street car in Detroit.
President Roosevelt's son, Theo-
dore, was appointed second assistant
manager of the Harvard crew.
An incendiary fire at East Grand
Forks, Mimi, destroyed the city hall,
fire station and electric light plant.
Former Senator J. r. Burton, of
Kansas, was released from the coun-
ty Jail at Ironton, Mo-, and said he in
tended to publish a newspaper, but
would not seek revenge for his pun
iShment.
Arthur c. Biles, son of Bobert Biles,
of Kansas City, was convicted at st.
Louis of first degree murder for the
death of Robert Harvey, of Usage
City, Mo.
w. H. Martin, a prominent citizen
of Detroit and director of the Mich
igan Mutual Life Insurance company,
was drowned while surf bathing at
San Diego. Cal.