River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-05-07

York & st. Louis express on the Pan
Handle railroad at Pittsburg, over
powered the express messenger and
got away with four bags of currency.
More than 200 men, including the
captain and many other officers, per-
ished when the Japanese training
cruiser Matsushima was sunk by the
accidental explosion of a projectile.
Mirror Lake, fine fishing place
near Baraboo, Wis, was ruined when
high water destroyed two dams.
Heavy frosts in southeastern Iowa,
northeastern Missouri and western
Illinois badly damaged strawberries
and other-fruits
The mayor of Fort France, Mar
Unique, and several other men were
killed in political fight.
DR.. j. d. Garrison shot and killed
J. d. Williams, an electrician, at Flat
Creek, Ala, in duel
Eleven thousand pounds of green
coffee which was confscated by the
United States government on the
ground that it contained deleterious
and adulterous substances, was
burned at Nashville, Tenn.
An attempt was made to destroy the
quarters of the fashionable Phoenix
club in Cincinnati with bomb.
Ray Lamphere Of Laporte, Ind, was
held on charge of numbering Mrs.
Della Guinness and her three children,
who were burned to death.
Ambassador Reid announced the en-
gagement of his daughter Jean to
Hon. John Hubert Ward, brother of
the earl of Dudley.
Two seamen of the German battle
ship Elsass were killed and six others
were wounded at Kiel, as the result of
the explosion of mine.
Three thousand Christian Ar
menians are reported to have been
massacred by Kurds in the provinces
of Persia recently invaded by Rus
sian troops on a punitive mission.
Several of the buildings on the
jamestown exposition grounds were
destroyed by fire.
Fire in Joliet, ILL.,, destroyed the
Boston store and damaged an Office
building. Loss, $4,000.
Herman H. Peters of Port Huron,
Mich, committed suicide because he
lost $4,000 by the failure of the
United Home Protectors fraternity.
Two leopards leaped among the
spectators in the Baltimore zoo, bad
ly injured boy and caused a panic.
The plant of the John A. Bum Chain
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burned, the loss being $4,000.
The private bank of Malone & Son
of Cayuga, Ind, was closed by the
state bank examiner.
Republican conventions in Maryland
and North Carolina instructed for
Taft and that in Maine declared him
its choice without instructing the dele
gates.
Serious damage was done in Leon
county, the tobacco section of Florida,
by wind storm.
Three French officers and 81 native
soldiers were ambushed in Dagana,
West Africa, and all but one officer
massacred
The largest Y. M. G. A. building out
side of New York. city was dedicated
in Dayton, O.
Two state conventions were held by
Mississippi Republicans, one faction
indorsing the administration and the
other Foraker. West Virginia Repub-
licans instructed for Taft, and those
publicans of Vermont and Democrats
of Connecticut elected uninstructed
delegations.
A plot of Koreans in San Francisco
to murder Bishop Harris on his arrival
from Korea was frustrated by the au-
thorities.
The battleship fleet left Santa Bar
bara on it's way to Monterey.
Steps were taken in st. Louis to
form a $300,OOO,OOO combine of yellow
pine companies.
Part of the Standard Oil COM
pany's plant at Cleveland, O., was
burned. the loss being over 100000.
Following the suicide of Charles
Coster, a prominent broker and So
ciety man, the firm of Coster, Knapp
e. Co., of which Mr.. Coster was a
member, announced it's suspension on
the floor of the New York stock ex-
change.
Bandits robbed the Scandal State
bank of Crookston, Mimi, of $4,000
and terrorized the town.
Returns from the districts in the
south ravaged by tornadoes show that
at least $50 lives were lost and 46
towns were badly wrecked.
1t was stated in London that two
bags of mail from there, whose con-
tents were valued at 100000, were
stolen in New York.
Robert Harrison and his six-year-
old son, Thomas, were killed by light
ming at their home near Huntington,
w. Va.
Mrs. Belle Guinness, 40 years old,
and her three children, were burned
to death in fire which destroyed
their home near Laporte Ind, and Ray
Lamphere, formerly in her employ,
was arrested.
John Edward Libbey, president, and
Charles B. Church, vice-president, re-
spectively of the Oldest Inhabitants
association of the District of Column
bia, died in Washington on the same
day.
Several men were injured by
boiler explosion on the British battle
ship Britannia.