River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-11-08

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steamships for the United States.
Gen. J. w. st. Clair, prominent law
yer and Democratic politician died in
Fayetteville, W. Va. He was former
senator and member of the board of
managers of the worlds fair at Chi
cago.
tuberculosis has made alarming in
roads upon the personnel of the navy
and marine corps in spite of the
measures taken by medical officers to
check the disease. The annual re-
port of Rear Admiral Rixey, surgeon
general of the navy, shows that in 1905
the number of tuberculosis cases in
the service was 243, or 6.1 for every
1000 men. In 1905 the ratio was only
3.2 to every 1000. Practically all the
cases are pulmonary tuberculosis.
Five indictments for peonage
against wellknowE manufacturers
were returned by the federal grand
jury at Atlanta, Ga. Those indicted
are: F. b. Cole, one bill; Jean Rein
hold two bills, and H. L. Ziegler, two
bills, all of Newman, Ga.
The strike of machinists on the
Southern railway which was inaugu-
rated recently for an increase in
wages has been settled.
The government at Washington has
taken steps to aid the Japanese in
their fight to secure admission to the
public schools of San Francisco
The wages of all employees of the
Pennsylvania railroad system on lines
east and west of Pittsburg are to be
increased Nearly 10000 men will
be affected.
Four Japanese officials visited Rich
mond, Va, for the purpose of buy
ing tobacco for the Japanese gov
eminent. 1t is said to be the purpose
in their mission to do away with all
middlemen in the buying of tobacco
for their government monopoly.
Perley Hale was acquitted by jury
by direction of the judge of charge
of soliciting bribe of two lots for
favorable sewer legislation when a
councilman-at-large at Akron, O.
William Schultz, Herman Thristo-
phal and Otto Breitzman, all married
and having families, were drowned
near Milford, Wis, in the Bark river,
while dragging for carp.
An engine in the factory of the
Standard Candy factory of Nashville,
Tenn, ran away, and big fly wheel
went to pieces. A flying spoke
Drained Harp Crockett, negro fire.
man, and the same piece struck De-
witt Dortchaw, a negro Waterman,
cutting his throat and breaking his
neck.
Volume 20 of the official records of
the union and confederate navies in
the war of the rebellion has been com
pleted, and volumes 10 and 20 dis
tributed during the year, according
to the annual report of Charles w.
Stewart, superintendent of library and
naval war records of the navy depart
ment.
Placing a special guard about the
juneau county Jail at Mansion, Wis,
tie sheriff made his preparations for
defense so apparent that mob which
had been organized at New Lisbon,
intent on taking the life of Thomas
Ryan, dispersed.
An infectious, painful and repulsive
disease is reported by Admiral Rixey
as being prevalent in the Island of
Guam. Naval surgeons are studying
and treating the disease which has
SO far been confined to natives.
acknowledgements mutilans is the name
given to the disease, which is sort
of liberation that destroys the nose
and upped part of the face.
The old employees in the Office of
the late Russell Sage have received
in addition to their regular October
salaries checks from Mrs. Sage for an
equal amount, which virtually doubles
their salaries. Five men, all old en-
ployes, were rewarded by Mrs. Sage's
gift.
John d. Rockefeller made to the
American Baptist Missionary society
conditional gift of $4,000 toward re-
building of destroyed and injured
Baptist churches in and about San
Francisco.
Notwithstanding the repeated state
ments that there is not the faintest
hope for reconciliation between the
Countess de Castellane, formerly
Anna Gould, of New York, and Count
Boni, her husband, which were made
in the opening address of the divorce
suit, it is claimed the count has not
given up hope of such an outcome,
which course might be taken, it is
said, to prevent the exposures which
are almost sure to come out.
The monthly coinage statement
shows that the coinage executed at
the minis of the United States during
October, 1906, amounted to $9,172,317,
as follows: Gold, $5,9O0,00O; silver,
$3,176,077; minor coins, $96,240.
Guy Samson, sc years old an insur-
ance broker and shipmate of Admirals
Sampson and Dewey during the civil
war. died at Pittsburg. Pa, as the re-
suit of bullet wound through the
heart
Reporting the most successful year
and the most profitable meeting in the
history of its organization, the execu-
tive committee of the Womens For
eign Missionary society of the Meth
odist Episcopal church closed its
thirty-seventh annual conference at
Omaha, after "a weeks session. The
Northwestern branch will entertain
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