River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-12-03

and other officials the state was quar-
antined
More cattle infected with aphthous
fever were found near Detroit and
quarantine against that state was es-
tablished by Illinois and Canada.
The department of agriculture or
dered quarantine against the entire
state of Maryland so far as cattle and
sheep, etc., are concerned, on account
of the appearance of foot and mouth
disease.
President William A. Shanklin of
Upper Iowa university received a
check from Andrew Carnegie for $780,
600, in payment of his pledge to give
that amount when $4,000 had been
raised.
William Montgomery, former cashier
of the Allegheny National bank of
Pittsburg, which failed for over $1,000
900, was sentenced to Is years in the
Western Pennsylvania penitentiary.
The Iron and Steel Trades Journal
of London states that English and
American tin plate manufacturers
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troll the industry throughout the world.
United States and Japan have made
an agreement which not only contains
a mutual guaranty to respect each
others territorial possessions in the
Pacific, but defines the attitude of the
two countries towards China, binding
each to defend by every peaceful
means Chinas independence and in
tegrity, and to give equal commercial
opportunity in the Chinese empire to
all nations. The agreement, in the
event of complications threatening the
status quo, binds the United States
and Japan to consult each other with
a view to acting together.
The Philippines coasting steamer
Pointing, carrying large number of
laborers from Narvacan to the rice
fields in Pangasinan province, struck
rock and sank during a storm off
the town of San Fernando and about
100 persons were drowned.
William Kallebrun of Jersey City
shot and killed his brother Leo and
then his aged mother, Mrs. Victoria
Kallebrun, in New York.
Nellie Morton of Belleville, ILL.,, con-
fessed that she watched her sweet
heart, Sydney Baker, chloroform aged
Peter Waeltz, who was found with his
skull crushed.
Sixteen thousand miners attended
the funeral of Rev. H. F. O'Reilly, rec
tor of a Catholic church at Shenan-
doah, Pa, for 40 years. All the col
leries and schools closed and business
was suspended.
Martin H. Halloran, a Pittsburg,
Pa, mining engineer, was robbed of
$4,000 in Kansas City.
DR.. D. X. Pearsons, the Chicago
philanthropist denying a story that
his fortune was gone, said he still had
100000 to give to colleges.
The Chinese government decided
on Tuesday, December 1, as the date
for the browning of Pu vi, the infant
emperor.
A hotel exclusively for Jews was
opened at Seventy-second street and
Lexington avenue, New York, where
all the old Mosaic rules of diet will be
observed.
The Panama line steamer Finance,
outward bound, was run into off Sandy
Hook in the fog by the White Star
freighter Georgia, and sank within ten
minutes. The Panama carried SO pas
sengers and of these three were
drowned, together with one member of
her crew.
The Grand Prize automobile race at
Savannah, Ca, 402 miles, was won
by Louis Wagner with a Fiat car. The
contest was most exciting and the
pace was the fastest ever set in an
international automobile race in Amer
lea.
The census bureau says the divorce
rate in America is higher than in any
other country, at least one marriage to
IL terminating in divorce.
Protestant pastors throughout the
Kansas and Missouri zinc mining dis
trict offered Thanksgiving day prayers
for a higher tariff on zinc ore.
Under circumstances puzzling to the
police, Salvatore Baldona, a wealthy
Italian grocer of Philadelphia, was
found murdered on sidewalk near
his home in Chestnut Hill. Baldona
recently received a number of threat
ening letters demanding money.
AS the result of a quarrel over
cock fight at Pocahontas, Va, Frank
Butt of Bromwell, w. Va, was shot
and fatally wounded; Judge Owen, po-
lice justice of Pocahontas was shot
through the lungs and Lee Carter of
Pocahontas received a bullet wound.
Official denial was made in Hayti of
the report that Minister of the Interior
Leconte was killed by the rebels.
Peter Cunningham and wife of Pa
terson were asphyxiated by gas from
a leaky main, three children were
overcome and three men were badly
injured by an explosion when they
lit a match to find the leak.
The British steamer Sardinia of the
Ellerman line, bound for Alexandria,
with crew of A Englishmen, IL first
and six second cabin English passen-
gers, and nearly 200 Arab pilgrims
aboard burned close to the port of
Valetta, Malta, and more than hun
dred persons lost their lives, including
the captain and many of the crew.
Ernest Verweibe's wonderful work
as fullback on Harvards football elev-
en-, which defeated Yale, has been rec
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