River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-10-25

Voting in the election winch is TO
decide who shall control the Mutual
and New York Insurance companies
and their $500, 100000 of assets has
begun and will continue until Decem-
Der Is, when the polls will close.
The annual meeting of the Presby-
terrain synod of Iowa met at Vinton.
Rev. John McAllister, of Missouri
Valley, was chosen moderator.
Ex-United States Senator ]. D.
Walker, one of the prominent lawyers
of Arkansas, fell down stairway
leading to his office at Fayetteville,
and was killed, his skull being frac-
tured. He was 76 years of age.
Fire which broke out in the six
story building of the ,Prowell Hard
ware company, on First avenue, near
Nineteenth street, Birmingham, Ala,
burned for six hours, causing loss
of about 100000.
Theodore Roosevelt will again be a
candidate for the presidency, if Hearst
is elected governor of New York." de-
clared a Republican leader close to
the nations chief executive. He said
that if the Democrats win in New
York the next Democratic candidate
for the presidency may be William
r. Hearst, and that the Hearst peril
is the only thing that can induce
Roosevelt to change his decision not
to run aagin.
Attorney General Herbert S. Hadley
of Missouri has decided to institute
proceedings in the United States su-
preme court to establish title to Island
park in the Missouri river, between
Clay county, Missouri, and Wyandotte
county, Kansas.
The tropical hurricane which swept
over Cuba, cutting off communication
south of Jacksonville and flooding var
ious places in it's course, is apparently
safely away from land and heading
toward the Bermuda islands and the
ocean beyond.
Three Apache Indians, representing
the $50 members of the Geronimo
band, held prisoners at Fort Sill,
Okla, called on Secretary Taft and
urged that they be allowed to take
up lands in New Mexico and Arizona,
where they formerly lived.
In his annual report Brig. Gen.
Henry G.. Sharpe, commissary general
of the army, recommends that each
military camp have a school of in
struction in baking and cooking dur
ing their annual encampment.
AS a sequel of the South African
war stores scandal, Secretary for War
Haldane and the army council are ar
ranging to create a new supply de-
partment. This department will be
composed of specially trained officers
assisted by civilian experts.
The twenty-fifth annual convention
of the Methodist Women's Home Mis-
sionary society concluded its sessions
at Lincoln, Neb.. Boston, Mass, was
selected as the meeting place next
year.
Quarantine regulations were fully
restored by the Louisiana state board
of health on advice from Surgeon Gen
eral Wyman, of the marine hospital
service, that future yellow fever con-
ditions at Havana are uncertain.
A southwestern railroad locomotive
exploded near Almogordo, N. M, kill
ing Fred Dobbin, the engineer, and T..
E. Brandon, the fireman, and serious
ly injuring c. o. Gallagher, brake
ban.
The anti-British movement in India
is receiving much encouragement
from Japan, where every effort is be-
ing made to foster a feeling of kin
ship between the two dark races and
to preach the lessons of the Russo
Japanese war.
While there is some apprehension
with regard to yellow fever i'll Cuba,
the situation is not regarded as espe-
cially dangerous. The number of
cases under treatment in Havana is
ten. There is one case at Cruces, two
at Cienfuegos. DR.. Finlay, chief OF
the department of health and SANTA
ton, said that while the fever in Ha-
vana was epidemic, the situation was
| not one to cause serious alarm and
| that there was every expectation that
| the spread of the disease could be
prevented.
The controversy which had been
waged between the American and
Canadian lake fishermen for the past
| 20 years has been placed in an en-
| tirely different light by report made
| to the state department by Capt. 3. G.
| Chayter, commanding the United
| States revenue cutter Morrell on the
| great lakes. The report shows in sub
stance that the American fishermen
have been transgressors and that the.
have been treated with the greatest
| consideration by the Canadian fish
| ing patrol.
At Lockport, n Y, the jury in the
| case of Mrs. Della B. Sweeting against
| the steamer Western States reported
to Judge Hazel in federal court ver-
dict of $4,000 in favor of the plain
tiff Mrs. Sweeting, whose home is in
| Jackson. Mich, sued for $4,000.
James B. Mapen claims that on
shipments of baled straw from Cen
ter Point, Ia, to Chicago the Rock
Island road charged him Ia cents per
| hundred pounds on a weight of "a
| 900 pounds to a car, although the pre-
else weight was only 1920 pounds.
A man named Scheve, who tried tC
sell to the French government the Sc
cret of the manufacture of the Ger.
man nickel-coated cartridge, has been
| sentenced to four years in the peni
| tertiary for treason