River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-07-12

! ndJfed and rancOr IN PUBIC OmcldlS
/ and in private citizens and a plea for
charity in the administration of all
duties.
When Sir Joseph Ward, premier of
New Zealand, stepped from the train
at Oyster Bay to keep luncheon en-
gagement with President Roosevelt he
frankly said the thing nearest his
heart in America was the development
of a reciprocity sentiment between
New Zealand and the United States.
When Sir Joseph returned to the sta
ton two hours later he remarked:
Reciprocity is not an easy thing to
bring about in this country"
About one person in every 1000 was
blind and one in every $50 persons was
deaf in the United States in 1900, ac-
cording to special census report on
the blind and deaf in the United States
in that year just issued by the census
office.
Four persons were killed and six
injured, one of them seriously, by the
explosion of large gasoline tank in
the boiler house of the Cosendal dye
works at Saginaw, Mich.
Gov. Stokes, of New Jersey, signed
semblyman Jones bill authorizing
cities to construct, acquire and operate
electric light and gas plants.
Dr. Motono, the Japanese minister
to Russia and his staff were received
in audience by Emperor Nicholas at
the Peterhof palace.
G. N. Holden, of Springfield, Mass,
driving dauble cylinder machine, won
the open hill climbing contest Of the
Federation of American motor cyclists
over Dugray hill, Rochester, N. Y.
Former United States Marshal ]. H.
Wolman, Grand Christian and Frank
D. Cooper, pleaded guilty in the United
States court at Helena, Mont, Of illegal
fencing of government lands, and were
each fined $500 and sent to Jail for "a
hours.
The state supreme court handed
down a decision holding Mayor w. w.
Rose, of Kansas City, in contempt for
having assumed the office of mayor
after the court had ousted him for the
non-enforcement of the prohibition
law and the law against gambling.
Walter L. Houser, secretary of state
of Wisconsin, was acquitted in the
Dane county municipal court OF the
criminal charge Of having attempted to
Assemblyman Jones' bill authorizing
er of insurance.
Judge w. ID. Robinson, of the Indi-
ana appellate court, dissolved the tenn
porary restraining order and held that
the action of the city council in GUST
ing Mayor Bidaman of Terre Haute
was legal and that Bidaman had no
claim on the office.
The report of the committee of ex-
perts of the Illinois Manufacturers
association and the Chicago CONNER
cial association, while freely CRITICS
ing some of the existing conditions in
the stockyards, declares the food pro-
duced by the packers is wholesome.
William r. Hearst is not a candi-
date for the Democratic nomination
of the presidency in 1908, according to
his own statement made in an inter-
view.
graduate of the Iowa university, class
of 1895, has been elected president of
the Montana State School of Mines.
Japanese foreign trade for the first
six months of 1906 shows an increase
of $1O,000,000 in exports and a de-
crease of $30,O00,00O in imports as
compared with the same period of
1905,
The seventh annual convention of
the International Federation of Com
mercial Travellers organization adopt
ed a resolution declaring for a fiat two
cent rate to the travelling public.
John S. Gray, president of the Ger
man-American bank of Detroit, Mich,
vice president of the National Candy
company and prominently connected
with a number of other large business
enterprises, died from heart trouble.
Mrs. Solomon Gobbau and her six
children were burned to death in a
fire that destroyed their home at La
fayette, Ind Solomon Gobbau, the
husband and father, was badly burned,
but will recover. The entire family
was asleep when the fire started.
Former Judge A. H. Tanner, of
Portland, Ore, who committed perjury
in order to shield his law partner, the
late United States Senator John H.
Mitchell, was pardoned by the presi-
dent June &c.
A detailed statement of the work
| of the house of representatives dur
ing the first session of the Fifty-ninth
congress shows there were 4,501 bills
| passed by the house and 1862 left un-
| disposed of.
Fire Friday destroyed the Belle
view, the principal hotel in Libby,
Mont. Michael Brink and John Null.
Inns persisted in the flames.
Four members of the Illinois naval
reserve out of a crew of six were
drowned in the lake at Chicago. All
were inexperienced men except the cox
swain and went out in a dingy for a
cruise for the first time since they
! joined the service. The boat was over
turned in a Squall.
Bertha Ely, cook on the steamer
Herschel, shot and almost instantly
killed Mrs. Mary Kunna, wife of the
captain, after a quarrel between the
/ two women.
John Harmoneck, of Minneapolis
Mimi, met instant death at the hands
of Steve Shurba, Is years of age, who
had been quarreling with his father