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

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is held at Victoria, B. c., for attempt
ing to run number of Japanese into
Canada.
The American mail train which left
Dublin carrying the mails and pas
sengers to Queenstown for the Cunard
line steamer Umbria, met with an ac-
cident at Tivoli station, near Cork.
The year 1903, the oil fields of the
United States produced 134,717,580
barrels of petroleum, as against Ill.,
080,960 barrels in 1904.
Statistics prepared by the geologi-
cal survey of the natural gas industry
show that in the calendar year 1905,
the value of natural gas produced and
sold, exceeded that of any previous
year by $3,066,099.
The value of the annual output of
Alaska increased from $2,400,OOO, in
1895, to over $15,00O,000 in 1905. The
gold production of 1905 increased
probably 60 per cent. over 1904.
Large buyers of alcohol, distillers
and others interested are preparing
to fight, by appeal to the department
of justice at Washington and by con-
gressional action, if necessary, the
recently formed Distillers' Securities
corporation and the high price which,
it is charged, that corporation in
tends to maintain for denatured alco-
hol
Gov. Magoon visited the national
insane asylum at Havana and discov-
cred a deplorable state Of affairs
there. One thousand six hundred and
sixty persons of both sexes are crowd
ed into filthy and dilapidated build
ings with a capacity for 400 persons
only.
In the midst of crowd of people
returning from church at Arkansas
City, Kan, John c. Moore shot and
fatally wounded his wife, Jennie
Moore, from whom he had been sep
arated.
The steamer George Farwell, tim
ber-laden, from Jacksonville, Fla, for
New Haven, Conn.,, is ashore off Cape
Henry, and will probably be a total
loss, but all on board were saved.
At Los Angeles, Cal, United States
District Attorney Oscar Lawler start
ed the machinery of the United States
government in an investigation of the
Santa Fe rebate situation in southern
California.
In the destruction by fire of the
home of j. w. Yelkins, two miles
north of Deering, Kan, Yelkins and
one son were burned to death. Three
other members of the family escaped
safely
Miss Mamie B. Jordan, member
Of the Gingerbread Man company,
died at Ottawa, Ont. Miss Jordan's
stage name was Miss Howe. She was
22 years old.
While walking on the ST. Paul
railroad tracks near Menominee,
Mich, Olaf King, 80 years old, was
run down and killed by a freight
train.
The union of True Russian Men,
operating in conjunction with the
Black Hundreds, has issued nrocla-
nation to the people of Odessa to
maintain rigorous boycott on all
Jews
Gov. Folk announced that he will
grant respites for both Mrs Aggie
Myers and Frank Hoffman, who are
under sentence of death for the MUIR
der of the woman's husband.
United States Sub-Treasurer Ak
ems suspended Marshall B. Ferguson,
paying teller, pending the result of
the investigation into the alleged
shortage in the funds of the sub-treas-
ury at st. Louis.
With fitting tributes from a host of
representatives of many states in the
south, Mrs. Jefferson Davis was laid
to rest in Hollywood cemetery, Rich
mnnd, Va, where rests the body of
her distinguished husband.
A memorial gateway of granite to
commemorate the movements of the
continental army was formally dedi-
Gated at Cambridge, Mass, by mem
bers of the Daughters of the Ameri-
can Revolution.
Ebert Hargis, John Smith and John
Abner, charged with the assassination
of DR.. B. n. Cox during the Breathitt
county, Kentucky, feud troubles, were
admitted to bail in the sum of 100000
each.
Secretary Taft, by direction of the
president, has instructed Maj. Gen.
Greedy to dispatch a troop of cavalry
to Wyoming to round up the Ute In
dams.
In fire at Birmingham, Ala, sup
posed to have been set by burglars
ten men were burned to death, two
seriously and perhaps fatally injured
and a third slightly hurt.
Paris BARLEY, cashier, and F. G.
Stokes, assistant cashier, surprised
two robbers at work in the Auxvasse,
Mo-, State bank, and opened fire on
them with shotguns. The robbers es-
capped.
Much business was cleared up at
the first days formal sessions of the
| triennial convention of the Worlds
Christian Temperance Union in Bos-
| ton. The delegates met in fremont
Temple, which was crowded through
out the day.
Japanese Consul Uyeno intimates
| that the possibility of international
| complications between the United
States and Japan unless japanese chill
dren are allowed to attend all the San
Francisco public schools instead of
being relegated to the oriental schools
| with Chinese, Indians and negroes