The Nevada County picayune. (Prescott, Ark.) 190?-current, 1906-09-14

and reached a total of zoo ~.
ounces for the month. The raw .S
increase promises large new sunnfau
to meet the new demand for ro,s
throughout the world. n0'u
Forty-one railroads in Indiana o.,
charged with making preferent;a,|
oil rates for the Standard Oil oona
pany.
II. Clay Pierce, the southwesto,r
oil magnate. on the witness stand i
St. Louis admitted that the Wato,a
Pierce Oil company paid between
600 and 700 per cent annually md
is controlled by the Standard
John Dickinson, town marshal =.
Trenton, KY, was shot and fatally
wounded by Godfrey Ray, colored
whom he attempted to arrest for
wife-beating.
In full view Of 1000 spectator.
jefferson county fair, OskaIoosa
Kas., jerry Turner, an inexperienced
balloonist. fell 200 feet from .
trapeze suspended from a parachutsI
and was killed instantly. The fail
broke his neck, jaw, left arm, collar
bone and both wrists.
In a Big -Four wreck at Norris
City, ILL.,, Engineer Frank Erwin
was killed, his head being severed
by the wheels of his own engine. h
leaves a widow and two children At
Mount Carmel, Ill.
While a score or more of fremenI
were fighting fire in a retail gro.
Gerry store in st. Louis gasoline iuI
The basement exploded. and overall
We're burned severely.
Roger Sullivan, democratic ma.
tioHal committeeman from I,linoi.
has made reply to W. J. Bryans
attack and demands that h resign
as committeeman. He as .orts that
Mr.. Bryan's political assets consist
in having led the party twice to de-
feat.
Under the floor in lonely hut oc.
cupied by hermit named James
James, near Sault Ste. Marie, Mich,
The skeleton of a man was discovered.
The hermit committed suicide, and
the authorities. in searching the
place where James had lived alone
for years, made the find.
The Rev. Sam Small, the evan.
gcIist, who spoke at Terre Haute,
Ind, on the slavery Of the liquor
traffic, said afterwards. in speaking
If what he calls the new issue "The
old crusade against human slavery
came out of the north, but the new
crusade against the liquor traffic is
coming out Of the south New
York state has more retail liquor
dealers than the entire solid south
Indiana has more than five times as
many liquor dealers in proportion to
population As Georgia. and nearly
twice as many as Kentucky Mr..
Small said that Georgia. Tennessee,
Mississippi and North Carolina were
sure to become prohibition states. In
Arkansas out of So counties voted
for prohibition at the recent cleo
ton in that state.
Captain William Matteray ascend
ed in n balloon at Oconte, Wis,
sailed over Green Bay and Lake
Michigan, landing twenty miles
from Wolverine, Mich, having
travelled more than goo miles. He
was up during the night. The cap
tain was almost exhausted when he
reached terra frma once more.
Forgeries for more than $250,ooO
by Frank X. Nipple, the suicide
president of the defunct Phlladel-
phia Real Estate Trust company,
have been discovered by Receiver
Earle.
The newspaper, Kysten, OF Chris.
tiania, Norway, states that United
States Senator Knute Nelson Of
Minnesota has proposed that the
American government purchase the
steamship Gjoa, which recently COM
pIeted a voyage through the north
west passage, in order that she may
be the first vessel to 90 through tht
Panama canal, and thus be the only
hip that has sailed around America
Dr. f. b. Gault of Tacoma hal
been appointed president OF tn'
| south Dakota university. I'M!
nnds long controversy and political
fight.
John L. King, an aged man, de
spondcnt because Of i'll health, com
mitted suicide at Shreveport, La a.
by taking morphine and carooh'
acid. Relatives of the dead MAJ
4.ftn tA