River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-01-23
MISCELLANEOUS.

The Brazilian police said they dis
covered and foiled an anarchist plot
to destroy part of the American bat
tleship fleet at Rio Navy officials in
Washington were surprised and skep-
tical.
John r. Walsh was convicted in Chi
cago of Disappointing the funds of
the Chicago National bank, which
failed.
At Corydon Junction, Ind, three
train men were killed and two fatally
injured when a freight train of the
Southern railway plunged from 90
foot trestle, turning a complete somer-
sault in the air.
Charles Emory Smith, editor of the
Philadelphia Press, former minister to
Russia and former postmaster general
died suddenly at his home, aged 65
years. Death was caused by heart
trouble.
Allen Campbell Burrows, professor
of English in Ohio State university,
died suddenly at his home in Column
bus, o.
The Gueatemala Northern railway,
the third line of rails within Latin
America connecting the Atlantic and
Pacific oceans, was opened with elab-
crate ceremonies.
After having been entombed 46
days in the Giroux mine at Ely New,
A. d. Bailey, F. j. Brown and Fred Nc
Donald were rescued. They were
weak but otherwise uninjured by the
experience.
Fire which started in the attic of a
cottage of the Missouri Colony for the
Predetermined and Epileptic, at Mar
shall. did damage amounting to $780,
0O0 and imperiled the 125 patients.
Fire destroyed the Sunflower Glass
ccmpany's plant at CoffeeviIle, Kan
causing a loss of 100000
Greeks attacked the village of ORA
gooh, Macedonia, drove the people
into their houses and cremated them.
Cleveland Franklin (colored) shot
a white man in Dothan, Ala. and was
lynched
District Attorney Langdon at San
Francisco announced that immunity
would no longer granted to Abe Ruef
Two masked robbers looted the First
National bank OF Texola, Okla They
overpowered Assistant Cashier Jones.
bound and gagged him, knocked him
in the head and ransacked the vault
for money.
An army of 800 unemployed men in
vaded fashionable church in Boston.
and asked for sermon on their needs
and collection.
The st. RENT convent at st. Remi,
Quebec, was destroyed by fire with a
loss of $4,000 All the children were
safely removed.
serious earthquake occurred at
Gonaives. Hayti. A few houses were
destroyed and others were damaged.
No loss of life has been reported.
The coroner's jury practically ex-
onerated the coal mining company for
the great disaster at Monongah, w.
Va.
The officers of the American battle
ship fleet were breakfasted by Presi
dent Penna at Petropolis and later
attended garden party at the Ameri-
can embassy.
Five persons were drowned while
skating in the Jimtown reservoir, near
Connellsville, Pa.
The prince regent of Bavaria. who
recently pardoned two murderers SEN
fenced to death, declared his intention
not to sign any more death warrants.
John S. Peters, one of the jurymen
who found R. Meade Shumway guilty
of murder at Beatrice. Neb, aff1xing
the death penalty, committed suicide.
1t was positively asserted that Sec
rotary Cortelyou would not resign
though he was virtually offered the
presidency of the Knickerbocker Trust
company.
Hepburn hall, the girls dormitory at
Miami university, Oxford, O., was de-
etroyed by fire.