River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-11-21
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A WEEKS EVENTS
RECORD OF THE MOST IMPOR-
TANT HAPPENINGS IN ITEM.
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HOME AND FOREIGN NEWS
information Gathered from All Quar-
tiers Of the Civilized World and
Prepared for the PerusaI of the
Busy Man.

number of persons dubbed as the re-
suit of a riotous demonstration made
by striking street car employees and
their friends in Louisville after hear
ing an incendiary speech by a woman
President Roosevelt has invited the
governors Of the states and territories
to meet him at the White House May
13, IA and Is next, to discuss the
question of means to conserve the
natural resources of the country. In
Vitations are to be extended to the
members Of both houses of congress
and to the inland waterways commits
sion.
After calling a friend on the tele-
phone and telling him that he had
shot his daughter and intended to
commit suicide, Maj. Frank McLaugh-
lin, of Santa Cruz, CAL, prominent
politician, swallowed prussic acid.
When the friend arrived Mclaughlin
was lying on the floor dying and the
girl was found in an adjoining room,
fatally injured.
Lyman ]. King, proprietor of poul-
shot and killed two chicken thieves.
James Circuit was fatally hurt during
a football game at Warsaw, Ind, be-
tween two high school teams.
Secretary Metcalf signed contracts
aggregating in amount $2,270,000 with
the Electric Boat company of New
York for the construction of seven
submarine torpedo boats.
The business district of O'Leary
City, Alaska, was destroyed by fire.
The establishment of the Mills &
Averill Tailoring company. st. Louis,
was Quilted by fire, the total loss be-
ing estimated at 100000.
The revolt of company of Chinese
troops in Formosa resulted in the
murder of 63 Japanese policemen and
civilians.
The converted cruiser Rainbow,
carrying Secretary of War Taft and
conveyed by the cruisers Chattanooga
and Galveston, arrived at Vladivostok.
DR. w. C. Whitney, member of the
Ohio legislature from Franklin coun-
ty, was badly burned in fire in a
barn at his home near Westerville
Prince Robert Charles Louis Marie
de Bourbon, infant of Spain and duke
of Parma, died of heart disease near
Reggie. Italy.
David M. Wolfe, who disappeared
in October, 1901, after confessing to
embezzling $4,000 from the First Ma
tional bank Of Tyrone, Pa, was arrest
ed at Tacoma, Wash.
James D. Carrier a well-known club
man of Asheville, ~ c., accidentally
shot and killed himself while hunting.
Four sharp earthquake shocks
alarmed Manila, but did no damage
Lucien M. Underwood, professor of
botany at Columbia university, cut his
throat and died at Redding, Conn,
after desperate effort to kill his
wife and 20-year-old daughter.
William Kirkwood. one of the Oldest
members of the Chicago board of
trade, died at Musselborough, Scot
land, where he was on his annual visit
to relatives.
In his inaugural address Gov.
Haskell of Oklahoma declared in ia
vor of prison sentences for offending
corporation officials, and announced
that the liquor prohibition lew would
be rigidly enforced.
Dr. Moncure D. Conway, the distin.
guished American author, died in
Paris. aged rs.
Joseph Henry Eckstein, a lumber
nf
killed near Harrington Park, N. j.,
and former Justice of the Supreme
Court Alfred Steckler, his wife and
Mrs. Eckstein were seriously injured
when a West Shore train caught the
automobile in which five persons were
riding and wrecked it.
A jury at Grand Haven, Mich, found
William Shimmel guilty of the muir
der of Martin Golden, a storekeeper at
Dennison, but Circuit Judge Padgham
Immediately set aside the verdict.
Frank Frantz, governor of Oklahoma
territory, would not participate in the
ceremonies incident to the Inaugural
and the Democratic state ticket, be-
cause of attacks made on him by Has
kell during the campaign.
Daniel Bitter, Il years old. and his
wife, Ga, were burned to death at their
home near Mount Victory. o.
Henry Phipps is interested in
Thomas A. Edison's recently invented
concrete house and is planning to
build city of cement where rentals
to working people will be low.
The emperor of Germany was the
guest of the city of London at the
Guild hall There were no disturb.
ances but the populace was very
chilly.
Six men were killed at South Mil.
waukee when a fast Northwestern
train plowed across a grade crossing
John Ferris, assistant agent on the
Csceola & Au Sable Steamship com
pany's dock at Au Sable, Mich, was
killed by robber.
Fire that threatened the entire bust
ness district of the city of Parsons,
Kan, destroyed 100000 worth OF
property.
Rear Admiral Asa Walker was re
tired on account of having reached the
statutory age limit.
Superintendent Shelton, of the Ute
Indian agency at Ship Rock, N. NJ,
denied the report that a battle took
place between the disaffected Utes
and the United States troops.