River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-05-24

1 killed by an explosion.
WI Ting Fang, who was entrusted
with the task OF codifying the Chinese
laws, is memorializing the throne for
electrocution instead of the decaplta
ton of criminals condemned to death.
In the supreme court at Boston ex-
Senator r. W. Dalliner, of Cambridge,
was appointed receiver for the Ameri-
can Birth Insurance company.
The British channel feet, consisting
of 16 battleships, will visit Cronstandt
probably at the end of July.
Ida Grove, Ia, won the state high
school field meet with 43 points to 20
for West Des Moines.
Il charge that these three acts of
the president are Of the anarchistic
socialism which now threatens the life
of our country. I firmly believe that
they are outside of law, subversive of
law destructive of constitutional gov
eminent" Thus does Chancellor James
r. Day of Syracuse university close his
latest screed against President Roose-
welt
In direct contradiction to Vice Presi-
dent Thayer's statement that the Penn
sylvania railroad had no allowances or
concessions since 1899, Frank B. Wig
ton, head of the Morrisdale Coal COM
pany, declared before the interstate
commerce commission at Philadelphia
that the Pennsylvania road gave re-
bates as recently as 1903.
The douma unanimously adopted the
address in reply to the speech from
the throne demanding constitutional
ism and liberty for the Russian peo-
pie.
A daring attempt was made to loot
the United States subtreasury at San
Francisco.
President Castro will assume control
of his Office May %. and on that day
he will grant general amnesty to po-
litical prisoners.
Alexander Berkman, who attempted
to assassinate II. G. Frick during the
Homestead strike, was released from
Imprisonment, after having been incar-
cerated for IA years.
BY the unanimous vote of the con-
vention of the Iron, Steel and Tin
Workers association at Cincinnati,
Patrick J. McArdle,, of Pittsburg, was
reelected as president.
S. H. Terry, the star half-mile run
ner of the University of Pennsylvania
track team, died at Philadelphia, after
an operation for appendicitis.
The British ministry is expected to
introduce a new Irish bill at next ses-
sion which will be a compromise to-
ward home rule.
Fourteen men were hurt, three of
them fatally, in the National Tube
works at Benwood, w Va. The men
were working on scaffold which col
| lapsed under the weight of a huge cast
! ing
The M. E. general conference at
Birmingham, Ala, elected the follow
ing new bishops DR.. Seth Ward, as
sistant missionary of the M. E. church;
Dr. John Tigert, book editor; DIR.
James Atkins, Sunday school editor.
To about 25 officers and members of
the merchant marine league, who
called upon him, the president ex-
pressed himself as heartily in favor of
the ship subsidy bill now pending IN
| the house.
+ The last imperial garrison in Can
ada, that of EsquimalC, which has been
replaced by Canadian troops in accord
ance with the recent decision of Can
ada to take over her own defenses from
Great Britain, left for England.
Beside the dead body of her father,
Mrs. Anna Sheehy, of Cincinnati, not
withstanding the strenuous efforts of
her husband to prevent her, drank car
bolic acid, and died before help could
be secured.
That the oil report of Commissioner
Garfield and the accompanying mes
sage to congress by President Roose-
welt are inaccurate and unfair is the
burden of a long statement issued to
it's shareholders by the Standard Oil
company. The company denies that 1T
profits by secret rebate agreements with
railroads and lays special stress ON the
competition which it declares 1t is
| forced to meet in every section OF the
! United States.
The Illinois house, by vote of n to
! So, adopted the conference committee
report on the Shurtleff bill. The SEN
ate passed The conference committee
bill by a. vote of 81 to a. The leglsla-
! ture adjourned after the senate had
passed a bill appropriating $4,000 for
payment of the expenses of the ses-
! sion.
| Resolutions favoring the erection OF
a bureau for the test of the health and
product of all breeds of cows, to be
conducted by the department of agri-
culture, was adopted by the American
Guernsey Cattle club, held at New
| York.
Elbridge C. Jordan, Of Eau Claire,
who was on the United States gunboat
Pontiac during the civil war, has been
/ allowed S16.49 as his share of prize
money for the capture of a confederate
gunboat on the Savannah river in
| 1866.
The Cuban senate passed the house
| bill amnestying all who have engaged
in revolutionary attempts, but amend
ing it so as to exclude participants in
the CienfeEgos trouble of September
/ %, 1905, and the Guanbacoa outrage CT
February "a, 1906.
The national association of man
ayers of newspaper circulation meets
at Louisville June s. and T.