River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1905-12-14

flames by the use of dynamite.
Herbert Shannon and John Turner
oil drillers, were blown to pieces by
the explosion of boiler on the Burk
hart lease, seven miles east of Cha
mute, Kan.
The United States battleship Idaho
was launched at the yard of the
Cramp Ship Building company, Phil
adelphia. The vessel was christened
by Miss Louise Gooding, the 13-year
old daughter of Gov. Frank R. Good
ing, of Idaho.
Female lawyers Of New York incor
porated Women's Bar association.
Cows. Hanly, Of Indiana, and War
ner, of Michigan, declared at confer
ence in Chicago that rate regulation
in traffic is certain.
Attorney General Moody is prepar
ing to sue the Standard Oil company
basing his case on facts learned from
Garfield's inquiry in Kansas.
The country home of Charles
James, a widower, aged 65 years, was
burned at Hamilton, O. James
cnarred corpse was found in the
ruins.
Federal control of life insurance is
POSSIBLE through a voluntary supervi
sion law like that governing national
banks. A bill keeping within consti
tutional limits is being devised.
The intercollegiate committee on
football rules met at Philadelphia and
declared for a more open game with
increased penalties for attractions OF
rules. but formal action was deferred
Ex-Justice of the Michigan State Su
preme Court John w. McGrath~ died al
his home in Detroit after lingering al
deaths door for two weeks.
Special meetings in memory or tne
hundredth anniversary of William Lloyo
Garrison's birth were held in New YORK.
and Boston.
John Farson, of Chicago, owner OF
various interurban electric lines IN ILL
nois, plans through trolley line from
Chicago to Madison, Wis, by way OF
Rockford and GAINESVILLE.
American merchants and Chinese
guilds at HongkOng agreed upon IL de'
mands which it is declared will end the
Chinese boycott on our goods.
Events in the West Indies and South
America are watched with anxiety by
the administration There is trouble
in Venezuela, Santo Domingo and Bra
I'll.
Baroness Won Suttner, of Austria
who inspired The Hague conference
has been adjudged the winner OF the
Nobel peace prize.
Senator Chauncey NJ Depew will be
dropped from the Yale corporation al
the end of his present term, which ex-
pires in June, the alumni having or
ganized against him.
Postmaster General Cortelyou sug-
gests remedies for postal ills in annual
report and advises increased salaries
for departments employees.
Commissioner General Sargent, OF
the immigration bureau, said in his
annual report that the influx of aliens
into America is the nations gravest
problem.
Thomas f. Ryan, on the witness stand
before the insurance investigating COM
mittee, declined to testify regarding
threats E. H. Hartman is said to have
made when refused a portion OF the
Equitable stock, and District Attorney
Jerome is asked to inffct punishment.
United States Senator John H
Mitchell, of Oregon, died at the Good
Samaritan hospital in Portland, death
resulting from complications which
followed the removal of four teeth.
Robert HI. McCurdy, general manager
of the Mutual Life Insurance company
has resigned.
The six powers and the sultan have
come to an agreement over the Mace
DOMAIN finances.
Railroads entering Chicago issued ar
ultimatum refusing the demand Of
switchmen for an eight-hour day and
% per cent. increase in wages.
Japanese Minister Takahira ex.
pressed his regard for the American
people on the eve of his departure fol
Toxic.
Secretary Hitchcock in reporting to
the president regarding the work of the
interior department says large por-
ton of the public domain has been re-
covered from land thieves.
Commission merchants will send a
delegation to congress to plead fol-
adjustment of private car lines.
The Wisconsin legislature ordered an
investigation of the affairs of the state
university.
Following the action of several east
ern roads in disseminating passes the
Trunk Line association may vote to
abolish free transportation on all lines
China's American boycott is likely
to spread, as congress shows no dispo-
sition to modify the exclusion act.
Representatives of Ii colleges in con-
ference in New York voted not to abol-
ish football, but to reform it.
The annual report of Secretary Taft
shows that there are 1854 men in the
United States army and that the fight
ing strength of the nation is increased
by 121 .90S by the state militia.
w. H. Thomas, a deputy United
States marshal at Springfield, Mo-, was
fined $1,000 in the United States dis.
trict court at Kansas City, for having
falsified his expense account with the
government.
Mrs. Ina Berry, who had been bar
ricaded for nearly week in a railroad
car at Girard, Kan, was taken out aft
er being stupefied by the fumes of am.
monia.