River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-03-29

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children was set aside and a new trial
| ordered.
Thousands are still facing starya-
ton in famine-stricken districts OF
Japan, in spite of foreign contribu'
tions and the passing of winter.
| Coal-carrying railroads, believing a
strike in the bituminous coal fields
certain, refuse to carry coal to mar
! ket, and will store 1t for their own
use. Prices probably will rise at
once. Nine million tons of anthracite
coal are now In storage yards to
meet the threatened strike.
! The body OF Gov. Curry, of the
Island of Samar, who was missing
after an engagement between the con-
stabulary and force Of Pulujanes,
fanatical natives, has been found, bad
ly hacked by his murderers. The con-
stabuIary report that 16 of their num-
Der were killed and wounded. They
buried 80 of the Pulujanes.
Twenty-three miners are believed to
have lost their lives in the recent mine
explosion at Century, w. Va. Twenty
two bodies have been recovered.
Russian officials are unable to stop
agitation caused by Schmidt's death,
which threatens new danger to the
car.
Many New York wholesale and job
bling firms may be criminally prose-
cuted for underbilling and misrep-
resenting shipments. The interstate
board has began an Inquiry.
The Wisconsin state railroad COM
mission will hear arguments in the
two-cent rate fight early in April.
John d. Rockefeller journeyed in
secret from New Jersey to his sons
residence in New York city, and saw
his grandson. Attorney General Had
ley called off his process servers for
the event.
Trustees of Northwestern uni
versity voted to suspend intercollegi-
ate football contests for five years.
Democratic leaders face the prob
lem of 1908, in which Hearst and
Bryan seem likely to be the principal
factors.
Chattanooga people appealed to Pres
ident Roosevelt to prevent federal
prosecution of the lynchers of the
negro hanged after the supreme court
had granted a stay.
An insane man opened fire on
mourners gathered to attend the
funeral of his brothers child in Bal
timore, Md, wounded nine, burned
the house and met death in a battle
President Roosevelt has begun a
crusade to rid the departments of all
corruption, clumsiness and needless
red tape.
A victory for Germany and COM
plete defeat of every French Morocco
contention is regarded by an English
publication as the Algeciras confer
ence outcome.
Judge O'Sullivan nullified District
Attorney Jerome's opinion that polit-
ical contributions by life insurance
companies are no crime, holding that
they may be indicted for larceny.
Anton F. Mispagel, former cashier
of the st. Charles, Mo-, Savings bank,
has been found guilty of embezzle-
ment and sentenced to two years i'm
prisonment.
The Mutual Life has begun suit
against Richard A. McCurdy and asks
damages of $3,250,000 on the grounds
of wastefulness and neglect of duty.
Fearing an attempt of the beef
packers to secure control of the cured
| fish business, four of the largest con-
Germs in Gloucester, Mass, entered
into an agreement to work together
in resisting competition.
Two miners were killed and a third
probably fatally injured by a fall of
shelI-rock in new slope of the III. g.
Frick Coke company. near Uniontown,
| Pa.
r. G.. Dun & Co. reported spring
trade opening with good outlook. 9th
er conditions are satisfactory.
| The commerce commission will force
officials of companies under trial to
answer questions or subject them to
punishment on refusal.
| Members of a Chattanooga mob who
lynched a negro may be punished by
federal authorities through the SUI
preme court connection with the case.
The Ohio senate passed a bill pro-
vlding for the fine and Imprisonment
of students found guilty of hazing and
| of members of college faculties who
permit it.
Gov. Gen. Ide sent Secretary Of War
Taft cablegram justifying the fight
on Mount Dado.
The giving of political contributions
from the funds of life insurance
company by the officers Of such a
company does not constitute larceny
or any other crime, in the opinion of
District Attorney Jerome, submitted
to Justice O'Sullivan in the court of
general sessions in New York.
| In the Atlantic storm of March 10
and 20 at least a dozen vessels were
wrecked or damaged and six lives lost
off the coast of Massachusetts.
Hon. w. G. Arnold, of Dubois, Pa,
ex-congressman of that district, died
very suddenly at Muskegon, Mich,
where he was looking after legal mat
! tiers.
According to the London Daily Tele-
graphs correspondent at Toxic, it is
now estimated that several thousand
persons were killed by the recent
earthquake in Formosa.
Mrs. John Jefferson, of Kokomo,
Ind, swallowed supposed headache
powder that had been thrown on her
| porch as an advertising sample. II