River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-07-26
with the peasant war spreading

| tates are burning in scores, the lower
house of the douma adopted the long
looked for proclamation to the nation
on the agrarian situation.
The six-story brick building at the
corner of Tenth street and Broadway,
owned by the Frankel-Frank Whole
sale Millinery company, was partially
destroyed by fire at Kansas City. The
fire started in the sixth story, which
was struck by lightning.
The Sewer Pipe Trade association,
Familiarity known as the ''sewer pipe
! trust" practically entered a plea or
guilty to the charges of secret con-
tract to limit the production and
control the territory and prices OF
sewer pipe before the federal grand
| jury in jamestown, N. Y.
Action of greatest Importance in Ia
Dor circles is contemplated in direc-
ton given by the president to officers
in charge of public works, at the in
stance of Secretary Taft. This is to
employ the governments own officers
to direct and punish violations of the
| law of 1902, providing except in case
Of emergency, work upon government
buildings, ships and other properties
shall be limited to eight hours each
day for each workman.
The reports regarding the earth
quake at Socorro have been exagger-
ated, the damage to date being linn
tied to the falling and topping over
of loose chimneys and shaking OF some
/ IF f1n 11c Of hYIi1 iTc NO nj q h.
stantial character.
The Georgia Bar association conven-
ton was addressed by William Travis
Jerome, district attorney of New York.
There is one injustice which public
opinion not infrequently does" he said,
"and it is one which lawyers can do
much to correct, and that is the criti-
cism Of judges for decisions which
they could not avoid making If they
obeyed the law.
| Some interesting railroad rate sta
tistics as applied to the carrying of
oil were submitted at Kansas City,
Mo-, when the Missouri board of rail-
way and warehouse commissioners re-
sumed the oil rate hearing postponed
at st. Louis on July 9. The indie
pendent shippers presented the fig
ures which formed comparisons Of
railroad rates for oil in car load lots
in several states.
That a justice of the Wisconsin SUI
preme court tried to obtain by letter
rebate from the Union Central Life
Insurance company was the statement
made by James G.. Albright, of Mil
waukee, general agent for the COM
pany, before the insurance investiga-
ton.
A collision took place between the
excursion steamer Thomas Patten, of
the Patten line, and Perseus, of the
Iron Steamboat company at New
York. The vessel had about 1,500
passengers on board and wild pan
ic ensued, but no one was seriously
injured.
The porte sent a note to the am
bassadors accepting the powers de-
mands regarding the three per cent.
increase in customs duties.
According to statement issued by
the United States geological survey
the value Of the products of clay in
the United States in 1905 was $149,-
697, 1888, as against an output valued
at $131, O23,24S in 1904.
Three thousand coal miners in the
Fifth Ohio district will return to work
at once as result of the settlement
reached here by the operators and
miners delegates. The scale of 1903
was adopted in it's entirety.
Rev. B. Royal Cheney, pastor of the
Second Congregational church of Be-
lott. Wis, was killed in an elevator
accident at Florence, Italy. Rev.
Cheney was spending the summer in
Europe.
There was a demonstration at the
tomb of Emile lola, commemorative
of the acquittal of Dreyfus. The lat
ter sent wreath of roses and or
chids.
The governments colossal fight
against the Standard Oil company is
to be transferred from Cleveland to
Chicago Immediately. Claiming that
enough evidence has been brought out
to make a clear case against the al
legged oil trust, but the federal court
lacked the legal jurisdiction for indict-
ment and prosecution, the government
Unexpectedly and summarily ended the
proceedings before the Cleveland grand
jury.
District Attorney Morrison of Chi
cago has received transcript of the
evidence taken before the Cleveland
grand jury in the Standard Oil inquiry
and he is going over it with Oliver
E. Pagin, special attorney delegated
by Attorney General Moody to have
supervision of the prosecution of the
Standard Oil company.
Much evidence was introduced at
the ice investigation in Kansas City
in support of the theory of County
Prosecutor |. B. kimbrell that some
ice plants were closed down and the
output of other plants was curtailed
in accordance with deliberate plan
of the alleged ice trust to reduce the
supply of ice.
The breach between Harry X. Thaw.
accused of the murder of Stanford
White, and his mother, Mrs. William
| Thaw, of Pittsburg, as to the char
acter of the defeuse is wider than
ever. 81
A disastrous fire broke out in the
bonded warehouse of James Watson
& Co., at Dundee, the largest concern
of its kind in Scotland. Large guam