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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-02-12
ANTITRUST BILL PASSED.
The LittIefield Measure Is Adopted
by the House by IA Vote
of 245 TO o.

Washington, Feb. 9.-The Littlefield
antitrust bill passed the house 245 too
ON roll call
The bill, as passed, requires corpora
lions thereafter Organized'' to file re-
turns covering it's articles of incorpora-
ton, financial composition, condition,
etc, with the interstate commerce
commission on penalty of being re-
strained from engaging in interstate
commerce, prescribes penalties for
false returns, etc. The commission is
given authority in it's discretion to call
for similar returns from existing cor
porations doing an interstate business.
The commission is given power to com
pei the answer to questions, and fine
of not to exceed $1,000 is imposed for
failure to obey the commission in this
respect. Rebates by carriers is made
punisha bic with fine of not less than
81 900, and corporations violating the
provisions of this section are forbidden
the use of the instrumentalities Of the
interstate commerce. Carriers are
prohibited from knowingly transport
ing articles produced, manufactured
or sold in violation of the Sherman act.
In case Of prosecutions, no person is to
be excused from testifying on the
Ground that such testimony would tend
to incriminate him, but for such tes-
timony the witness is not to be prose-
cuted The circuit courts are given
Jurisdiction in cases of violation, and
it is made the duty of the district at
torneys to institute proceedings to
preventvioIations and individuals dam
aged by violations are given authority
to sue
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-02-12
WEST AND SOTTH.

The coal investigation at Topeka de-
veloped the fact that the average Kan
sas miner earns only $3.50 year.
At Rossdale, Ind. John Stark, sa-
loonkeeper, killed his wife and him
self. Domestic trouble was the
cause.
At the Indianapolis conference the
miners and operators scale commit
tee made no progress toward settle
ment.
Will Calling (colored) and Steve
Clark (white) were hanged at Poplar
Bluff, Mo-, Clark for the murder of
his betrothed, while Gatling had killed
a negro.
Officials in San Francisco are urged
bv commercial bodies of that city
to cooperate with United States of
fcials in stamping out the bubonic
plague.
At Atlanta, Ga, Miles Johnson (col-
ored) was hanged for assaulting a
white woman.
In Indiana nearly all the large rivers
are on the rampage as the result of
heavy rains and thaws.
At Leadville. Col, Valentine Cas-
grande, miner, killed his wife and
himself
At Wrightsville. Ca, Lee Hall (col-
ored), who shot Sheriff Crawford. was
taken from jail by mob and Iynched.
In southwest Texas 100000 acres of
land, upon which Beers are to settle,
have been bought by the Hartman
lines.
\ bill has passed the South Carolina
legislature prohibiting child labor in
textile manufactures and mines.
Earthquake shocks were felt in
southern Illinois. southeastern Mis-
souri, and northern Kentucky.
At Newport News. Va. the keel was
laid for the new 16,0O0-ton battleship
Louisiana.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-02-12

Indianapolis, Ind, Feb. "a scale
that provides for an increase in wages
that averages IA per cent. was offered
by the soft coal operators Saturday to
the miners of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois
and western Pennsylvania. 1t was
taken up at the convention Saturday
afternoon and was ratified and accept
ed. The convention then adjourned
to meet at Indianapolis next year. The
offer came at the end of weeks work
by the scale committee and its sub
committee. The miners made some
concessions. By this proposition the
day laborers are advanced 1919 per
cent. and the drivers % per cent. While
the new scale signed is only for three
entire states and western Pennsyl-
vania, it will be used as the basis in all
other states.
The operators say that on the above
basis the total increase in cost of coal
production in the United States will be
$40, 100000 annually. The price for min
ing is to be increased ten cents per ton
on screened lump coal, pick mining, in
western Pennsylvania thin vein, the
Hooking district of Ohio, and both the
block and bituminOus districts of In
diana; six cents per ton on mine run
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-02-12
TRADE AND INDUSTRY.

The Santa Fe railway, in building its
cutoff through Abo Pass canyon, will
work 600 men at night under electric
lights.
Russia has 37,319 miles of railway
in operation; 1921 building by the gov
eminent and 1852 by the Chinese rail
way company In addition 1884 miles
are planned.
Quito, the capital of Ecuador, is to
have a cotton mill. The machinery for
it must be carried on the backs of
mules to an altitude of 10000 feet in
the Andes in sight of Chimborazo.
Germany's trade with Venezuela is
trifing in amount. The statistics for
five years show that but one-ffth of
one per cent. of Venezuela's exports
were to Germany, and but One-tenth
of one per cent. of her imports came
from that country.
The richest copper region is that of
Lake Superior, the copper being all
in the native state. In Minnesota
mine one mass taken out was As feet in
length, % feet at the greatest width,
and the thickest part was more than
eight feet 1t weighed about 420 tons
and was over 90 per cent. copper.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-02-12
FROM WASHINGTON.

The president has been Informed
that the Alaskan boundary treaty will
probably be rejected by the senate.
The president has again declined to
arbitrate the Venezuelan dispute, as
requested by the allies, and the case
will go to The Hague court.
The resignation of Naval Constructor
Richard p. Hobson has been accepted.
Several United States senators were
said to have received kilograms from
John D. Rockefeller that antitrust
legislation must stop. Other senator's
denied the report.
It is said that fresh proposals will
be presented for the purchase of the
Danish West Indies by the United
States.
The representatives of the powers
continue negotiations as to Venezuela,
and will lift the blockade as soon as
protocols are signed.
H. G. Hayes, for years prominent as
a correspondent and legislative re-
porter, died at his home in Washington,
aged "A years.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-02-12
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

Off Duraborg reef 30 persons were
drowned by the wreck of the French
bark Van Stabel.
Orders have been given by the ear
for the severe punishment of those
Finlanders-14,79 8 men in all-who
failed to comply with their military
obligations in 1902.
Adelina Patti has signed a contract
calling for 60 concerts in America, be-
ginning November next.
j. II. Carroll, United States consul
at Cadiz, Spain, died at Mentone,
France. He was appointed from Mary
land.
Admiral Frank Wildes, of Boston.
commander of the Cruiser Boston in
the battle of Manila bay, died on a
ship bringing him home from Asia.
Gen. Uribe-Uribe, the former revo-
Iutionary leader of Colombia, commit
ted suicide
Over a thousand lives were lost as
the result of a hurricane and tidal
wave which swept over the South Sea
islands.
A dispatch says that old Boxer lead
ers in China, headed by the dowager
empress. are plotting vigorously to
again attempt to crush the foreign
ers.
Advices received in London strength
en- the belief that the situation in the
Balkans is serious, and that Russia is
determined to secure Constantinople.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-02-12
MINERS AND OPERATORS
AGREE UPON WAGE SCALE.

coal. pick mining, in the bituminous
district of Indiana ard at Danville, the
basing point of Illinois. The price OF
machine mining is to be increased eight
cents per ton in western Pennsylvania
and the Hooking district; ten cents per
ton in the block and bituminOus dis
tricts of Indiana; and six cents in the
bituminous district of Indiana and at
Danville.
The wage scale signed directly and
indirectly affects the wages of 100000
miners. Those directly affected are
the miners in the states of the central
competitive district, composed of Ohio,
Indiana, Illinois and the Pittsburg dis
trict of Pennsylvania. Of these $4,000
are, in the Pittsburg district, $4,000 are
in Ohio. 5000 are in the Indiana btu
minous fields, and 5000 are in the In
diana block coal fields, and 10000 are
in Illinois. Those whose wages are
indirectly affected are the 10000
miners of central Pennsylvania, 5000
of Michigan, $4,000 of Iowa, 1000 of
Kentucky, $4,000 of Alabama, $4,000 of
Tennessee, and about 10000 of Kansas,
Missouri, Arkansas and Indian Terri
tory. All of the latter base their wage
demands on the scale adopted in the
central district.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-02-12
WHAT THE LAW DECIDES.

The maintenance of a tower by a
land owner on his land in such a way
that ice formed on it, from freezing
rain or spray from a cataract, falls
on to adjoining property so as to in
iure it and endanger human life, is
held, in Davis VS.. Niagara Falls Tow
er company On. ", 81 L. r. a. 545,
to be properly enjoined
A life insurance agent is held, in
Tomsecek VS.. Travellers Insurance
company (Wis.), 81 L. r. A. 455, to
have no implied authority to accept
as payment of a premium on a policy
an agreement to give him credit upon
his individual account, which he shall
trade out with the insured in the or
binary course of business.
The loss to be made good under a
policy of fire insurance is held, in
Pennsylvania company VS.. Philadel-
phia Contributionship (Pa.), 81 L. r.
A. SO, not to be limited to the cost
of replacing the structure described
in the survey, if, when the fire occurs,
the statutes require, as a condition of
rebuilding, more substantial and ex-
pensiye structural work.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-02-12
LATER NEWS.

Ten of the officials of the Retail Coal
Dealers Association of Illinois and
Wisconsin were found guilty of the
charges of conspiracy as stated in the
indictments returned against them by
the grand jury at Chicago some weeks
ago
War has been proclaimed between
Guatemala on one side and Salvador
and Honduras on the other.
An attempt to hide robbery and
murder resulted in the wrecking by
dynamite of an Italian boarding house
at Portage, Pa. Two persons are dead,
two are injured, and a score OF others
narrowly escaped death.
The town of Krutz, Austria, was
families are destitute.
A race war is threatened at Fayette,
Mo-, on account of the public fogging
of negroes.
San Francisco is declared free from
the bubonic plague.
The Dominican government has in
formed United States Minister Powell
that it will not accept the demand OF
the American government in the mat
ter of the Clyde line of steamers and
that under the law, cases such as the
Clyde line claims must be settled in
the courts of the republic and not by
intervention.
BY intensely hot molten metal from
a ladle which tipped over, one man
was killed and eight injured, three OF
them fatally. Thomas Grove, super
intendent of converters at the Mime
qua steel plant, Pueblo, Colo, where
the accident happened, was painfully
but not dangerously burned.
John w. Pratt, we'll known news
paper writer at Seattle, Wash, com
mitted suicide by shooting during fit
of insanity.
Fire at Richmond, Va, damaged the
Tudor iron works to the extent of
500, 900.
Having received official information
regarding Turkey decision to mobilize
two army corps at Adrianople and Mo
nastir, the Bulgarian government ad-
dressed representations to the powers
Invoking their good offices at Constan-
tinople to procure the cessation of the
Turkish military preparations.
A force of 100 constables, under In
spector Keithly, Sunday defeated 200
insurgents near Mariquina, seven miles
from Manila, after severe engagement
in which Inspector Harris and one man
of the cOnstabulary were killed and
two other men were wounded.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-02-12
PRESIDENT DECLINES
TO ARBETRATE.
Allied Powers Dissatisfied With Bowen's Atti-
tude---Ask President to Arbitrate CUES
ton of Preferential Payment
HE Refuses

American states as to whether block
AIDES and bombardments entitle pow
ers to preferential treatment at the
hands of their debtor. Coming from
The Hague, it will establish a prece-
dent, while a decision on the point
from President Roosevelt would have
carried no such weight as decisive of
point of international law. The ef-
feet of an adverse finding by the
president, therefore, could not have
prevented the allied powers from re-
peating their blockade next month
if they desired, whereas an adverse
verdict from The Hague would add
new canon to the law of nations and
stop such a course of practice COM
plctely. 1t was to gain this princi-
pie, which necessarily vitality affects
not only the future of Venezuela
but of the other republics of this
continent, that Mr.. Bowen stood out
for arbitration by The Hague tribu-
nal instead of by the president.
A Secret Alliance.
Washington, Feb. 9.-The existence
of a secret treaty between Germany
and Italy, by which Germany agreed
to secure to Italy the same treatment
received in the settlement of the Ven
ezuela affair accorded to Great Britain
and Germany, has been discovered. The
treaty was made without the knowl-
edge of Great Britain, and Sir Michael
Herbert, the British ambassador, only
learned of its existence late Saturday
afternoon. Its discovery at this late
hour cannot affect the settlement of
the Venezuelan affair. 1t will serve,
however, to put all of the negotiators
more closely on their guard in the
drafting of the protocols, which they
hope TO submit to Minister Bowen dur
ing the next few days.
Minister Bowen continues optimis-
tic of an early settlement and speedy
raising of the blockade. He is hope
full no perpleXing or veXatiOus prob
lens may intervene now that the mat
ter has progressed SO far, and that it
will not be long before the whole ques-
ton is settled in it's primary stages,
the raising of the blockade, arbitration
of the question Of the preferential
treatment and protocols signed for the
settlement of the claims themselves,
including those of the allied and Of the
unallied powers.
The British protocol provides for the
reference of the contention of the al
lies for preferential treatment to The
Hague for settlement, for the payment
by Venezuela to Great Britain $500
cash and for the immediate raising
of the blockade. The matter of the
adjudication of the claims and the col
lection of the 80 per cent, out of which
they are to be paid, has been left for
the second protocol.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-02-12
KEPT FROM HER SON.
EIOping Wife of SaxOny's Crown
Prince Refused Permission to
Nurse Her Boy, who Is Ill.

Geneva. Feb. 9.-The Crown Princess
of Saxony and NJ. Giron have parted
forever, the princess giving up her
lover for her children's sake.
The sudden end of the Saxon royal
romance is said to be due to the re-
fusal of the Saxon court. influenced by
Emperor Francis Joseph, to consent to
a divorce. 1t is reported that the prin-
cess sought her fathers pardon in
order to get permission to see her chill
dren, but was refused everything un-
less she left NJ. Giron. Her lawyer
visited Dresden, but failed to get any
concession beyond the offer of small
allowance and the promise if the crown
princess gave up NJ. Giron and returned
home, that no legal proceedings would
be taken against her.
Dresden, Feb. 9.-The crown prin-
cess of Saxony made an urgent re-
quest of the Saxon court after her sep
aration from Andre Giron Friday that
she be allowed to come to Dresden to
nurse her son, Prince Frederick Chrls-
tan. who is dangerously i'll. The mat
ter was debated Saturday by the king
of Saxony and his ministers at spe-
cial council. 1t was finally decided to
refuse to grant the request of the
crown princess. 1t is believed that
the ground for the refusal was partly
because it was known that her return
to Dresden would be the occasion for
disturbance by the people.
Geneva, Feb. 9.-The counsel for the
former crown princess of Saxony an
nounced that owing to the great physi-
cal and mental depression caused by
the refusal to allow her to visit Salz-
burg or to see her sick child, the prin-
cess on Sunday entered the sanitarium
of Lametairie at Nyon in order to seek
the quietude and medical attention
necessary in her delicate condition.
Nyon is situated on the shore Of Lake
Geneva, in the cantonment Of Naud.
The sanitarium is well known for the
treatment of mental and nervous dis
orders
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-02-12
4 WEEKS HISTORY
The Important Happenings OF a
Week Briefly Told.
IN ALL PARTS OF THE UNION
All the Latest News of Interest from
Washington, From the East, the
West and the South.
IN ALL PARTS OF THE UNION
THE LATEST FOREIGN DISPATCHES



A debate npolyamy, growing out of
the statehood bill, occupied the United
States senate on the 5th, the influence
of the Mormon church over politics oc-
cupying large share of the discussion.
In the house the senate bill to eXpe-
ite antitrust prosecutions was passed,
as was the post office appropriation
bill. The conference report on the
diplomatic and consular appropriation
bill was adopted and the army general
staff bill was sent to conference.
The session of the United States
senate on the 9th was largely devoted
to the discussion of the isthmian canal
Senator Morgan predicting that If the
United States continued it's policy with
reference to the construction Of an
isthmian canal, war with Colombia was
inevitable. In the house debate on the
antitrust bill closed. The naval ap-
preparation bill was reported. 1t car
ries a total of $79,04S, APO and PROVIDES
for large increase in officers and men
The statehood bill claimed the
greater share of the United States
senate's attention on the 9TH. The
committee on appropriations report
ed the District of Columbia apprOprI-
alton bill, which carries $9,396O9C.
In the house the antitrust bill was
passed by a unanimous vote, 245 to
o. Memorial services were held on
the Sth.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-02-12

Fifty-six bank robberies are reported
to have occurred in this country during
the last four months. Illinois and Ne
braska report seven each, Indiana five,
Texas and Missouri four each, Iowa,
Kansas and Minnesota two each and
New Mexico one. These surprisingly
numerous crimes suggest a widespread
bank-robbing organization. Under the
present national law, banks with small
capital are multiplying in towns and
villages. Bank-robbing gangs appear
TO have increased CORRESPONDENCE The
situation suggests careful precaution
on the part of banks.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-02-12

Some of the worst of the recent rail
road accidents show a similarity that
should attract the attention of rail-
road managers. Several of them have
been caused by heavy express trains
running at top speed into the rear of
local or slower ones. They seem to as
sumo that they have the right of way
and to be run under orders to make
time, regardless of consequences. 1t
might be we'll for railroad managers
to consider whether some things are
not of consequence as we'll as making
time. Human life should not be to-
tally ignored.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-02-12

Washington, Feb. G.-Irritated by
the note of Minister Bowen, Nenezue-
las representative, addressed TO the
British ambassador on Monday last,
refusing to accept the allies proposal
for scheme of preferential payments,
by which Great Britain, Germany and
Italy were to receive 20 per cent. and
the remaining eight creditor nations
tenpercent. of the customs of La Quay
ia and Porto CabelIo, the allied powers
have instructed their representatives
now to submit the question of prefer
entail treatment for settlement to
President Roosevelt, and in the event
that he declines to act as arbiter to
take this, and possibly the entire Ven
ezuela question, to The Hague for set
Element, thereby breaking off negoti-
ations with Mr.. Bowen.
WnlNot Serve
Washington, Feb. Z. = President
Roosevelt has declined the invita-
ton of the allied powers to arbi-
trate the question as to whether they
shall receive preferential treatment
in the settlement of their claims
against Venezuela over the other
creditor nations. He reached this de-
cision shortly before four o'clock
Friday afternoon, and instructed Sec
rotary Hay to dispatch a note to the
British embassy at once, advising the
British ambassador to that effect.
The matter, therefore, now will be
referred to The Hague tribunal. This
will result in the immediate raising
of the blockade.
Would Not EmbnrrnSs Bowen.
The administration, it is stated in
an official quarter, was unwilling to
approve the effort of the British
government to eliminate Minister
Bowen from the negotiations, and
moreover the president could not
have accepted the invitation of the
allies even had he been so disposed,
without the consent of the other ne
gotiator, Minister Bowen, and this
the allies did not obtain or request
in their note Of invitation to the
president.
A Victory for Bowen.
In administrat ton and diplomatic
circles, the reference to The Hague
is regarded as a victory for Minister
Bowen, as Venezuela hereby is ena-
bled to recover from the distressing
effect of the blockade before start
ing upon the payment of her debts.
The cumbersome machinery of The
Hague, it is expected, will delay mat
tiers considerably, and the payment
of creditor nations cannot begin I'M
til the important question of priority
payment for the allies is decided.
The finding of The Hague tribunal
may not be handed down for some
months. The tribunal also will de-
eide the vital question to South
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-02-12
THE EAST.

Exchanges at the leading clearing
houses in the United States during the
seven days ended on the 9th aggre-
gated 81, 1881, 2OO,657. The increase com
pared with the corresponding week OF
last year was IA.
In a New York street wireless tele-
graph messages were sent from an au-
tomobile to brokers' office in the Wal
dorf hotel
In the United States there were 264
business failures during the week end
ed on the 9th, against 243 the same
week in 1902.
The senatorial deadlock in Delaware
over j. Edward Addicks' candidacy is
without parallel, only one United
States senator having been elected
since 1889.
Trade reviews report car and fuel
famine felt in many industries. Activ-
itv in building trades is noted.
A gang of Iaborers was razing an old
tannery building at Buffalo, n. Y.
when the building collapsed and three
were killed.
The secretary of war, in an address
at the New Y DIRK Union League club, de-
clarcd failure has resulted from be-
slowing citizenship and equal rights
on negroes.
In Philadelphia Hardie Henderson, a
well-known baseball player, was in
stantly killed by the cars.
John Romans, one of heleading sur.
geons of the United States, died in Bos-
ton. During the civil war he was as
sistant surgeon in the navy.
1t is reported that Marconi is at
work on an invention to give an unseen
vessels latitude and longitude, and tc
send duplex messages on air currents.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-02-12
A BLOODY BATTLE.
Sultan of Morocco Has Desperate
Struggle with the Strong Forces
of the Pretender.

London, Feb 6.-According to dis
patch published in the Morning Lead
er, from Tangier, the Spanish embassy
has received news of a still more
bloody battle than that which took
place January 20. The sultan's troops.
numbering $4,000, attacked the pre-
tenders new encampment, treachery
and bribery again giving the Shereetian
army the advantage. A terrible fight
took place around Blu Hamara's person
and, according to the latest accounts,
continued right up to the gates of Fee,
where, after losing $500 slain, the reb-
els succeeded eventually in rescuing
Eu Hamara.