River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-08-16
MisccELLANE

ern district or new YORK returned III
dictments against the Standard Oil
company, of New York; the Pennsyl-
vania railroad company, and the
Vacuum Oil company, of Rochester,
for violations of the interstate COM
merce law.
What is said to be the first instance
of the conviction of lyncher in the
history of the state was furnished at
Salisbury, n. c., when George Hall, q
white ex-convict of Montgomery coun-
~, North Carolina, who was one of
the party that lynched three negroes
in Jail for the murder of the Lyerly
family, was found guilty of conspiracy
in connection with that crime and was
sentenced to is. years in the peniten-
tiary.
C. T. Wells, former vice president
of the J. p Baden Produce company,
of Winfield, Kan, was arrested at
Arkansas City on charge of perjury
in swearing to a false statement of
the condition of the company on June
30, 1904.
Charles P. Thurston, who was
killed in San Domingo, is a son of
c. e. Thurston, of st. Paul. G. E..
Thurston is storekeeper in the Unit
ed States customs warehouse.
The navy department has ordered
a court of inquiry to determine the
responsibility for the grounding of
the collier Nero on Block island.
Dr. George Bailey of Philadelphia
resigned as international treasurer of
the executive committee of the Inter
national Sunday School association.
f. A Wells, of Chicago, was unani-
mously elected as his successor.
The Toledo CO., ice trust and the
railroads alleged to be back of it will
be investigated BY the federal author
tiles.
Former Senator James K Jones of
Arkansas denied that he in any man
ner represented the Standard Oil
company when he visited the presi-
dent at Oyster Bay.
Congressman J. w. Babcock has
formally announced his candidacy fol
denomination.
Frank Leach, Superintendent of the
San Francisco mint, was notified by
the secretary of the treasury that
gold from Alaska and the Yukon
will be minted this year at the Frisco
mint instead of Philadelphia
Messrs. T. J. Mueller and George
Holden, of Cleveland, o., and Spring
field, Mass, left San Francisco on a
motor cycle trip to New York
Albert M. Crone, charged with kill
ing his former sweetheart, Miss Ber-
tina Bowlin, in Kansas City, was held
on the charge of first degree murder
without bail.
Prosecutions are about to be COM
menced by the state of Kansas
against the alleged miller and lumber
combines of Kansas.
Chinese labor will be given a thor
ough test on the Panama canal. Con-
tracts calling for $500 Cinnamon for
canal work have been prepared and
advertisements will be issued by the
Isthmian canal commission asking for
proposals from labor agents.
Kid Herman, of Chicago, was given
the decision over Benny Yanger, in a
glove contest, at the end of the tenth
round before $500 people at the Indi-
annapolis baseball park
Frank Kowalsl1i, paying teller of the
wrecked Milwaukee avenue bank, at
Chicago, committed suicide by shoot
ing himself through the head.
For the first time in her his
Persia is to have a national assembly.
The claim of Mrs. G. ]. Devlin
against the estate of the late G. j.
Devlin for the sum of $620,661 was
tisallowed by N. H. Loomis, special
referee in bankruptcy, at Topeka
Kan. The amount of the claim is the
equivalent of the life insurance turned
over by G. ]. Devlin, with the consent
of Mrs. Devlin. beneficiary, to the re-
ceiver of the First National bank as
collateral security.
Between 40 and so passengers were
injured, none fatally, but several seri-
Ously, when the north-bound train of
the Fort Worth & Denver railroad was
wrecked a few miles south of Fruit
land, Tex. The sleeper and chair car
left the track and rolled down an en-
bankment
The common council of Superior,
Wis, passed an ordinance, the read
ing of which discloses the omission
of the Sunday closing law, leaving the
closing of saloons in the hands of the
state officials. The new ordinance
also takes from the hands of the new
mayor all power TO close saloons.
Secretary of War Taft has promised
the Republican state central commit
tee that he will make two speeches in
Kansas during the campaign this fall.
Secretary of State Elihu Root has
accepted an invitation to speak be.
fore the Mississippi congress in
Kansas City November 20 to %.
Assistant Secretary Newberry has
been selected as president of a board
of seven officers to consider desired
personnel changes in the navy.
Thomas Moran, a well-known citi-
zen and son-in-law of the foreign min
lister, died suddenly of cerebral con-
gestion at Mexico.
Commander J. c. Fremont has been
appointed naval attache at the Ameri-
can embassies in France and Russia
Frank Staffier died at Minneapolis
as the result of fight in which his
brain was pierced by the point OF an
umbrella. Staffier and John Harris
Quasrelsd over five dollars.