River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-11-01
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The circuit court at Toledo, o., up
held the decision of Judge Kinkade,
of common pleas court, in the SEN
fences he gave Reuben Lemon, Roll
land Beard and Joseph Miller, convict
ed of conspiracy in restraint of trade
in the sale of ice.
The first test of the federal eight
hour day law at Cincinnati, ended In
a victory for the government. After
being out only Is minutes the jury in
the United States court found Sheri-
dan-Kirk Contracting company guilty
of violating the law in the construc-
ton of the big Ohio river dam at
Fernbank.
A thrilling story of the rescue of
half dozen men in the recent storm
off the Florida keys and the subse-
quent suicide of captain was relat-
ed by Capt. Rudolph Rubelli, of the
Standard Oil company's steamer Cap
tain A. M. Lucas, which arrived at
New York, after the most tempestu-
Gus voyage of her career.
Holding fully 100 terrified citizens
at bay, band Of robbers "shot up the
town." deliberately dynamited the
Odin (Ill.) bank, took $4,000 from the
wrecked safe and escaped.
The Utes are now headed northwest
toward the northern Cheyennes,
whose reservation lies about so miles
east of Fort Custer, Mont. 1t is said
that their purpose is to induce the
northern Cheyennes to join them in
some kind of a raid.
Mrs. Lillian M. Stevens, of Port
land, Me-, as president, opened the
thirty-third annual convention of the
National Womans Christian Temper
ance union at Hartford, Conn. More
than $50 delegates from all parts of
the United States were present. Dele
gates from Austria, Japan, England,
Greece and other countries were on
hand.
Sensational incidents marked the
offering of testimony before the inter
state commerce commission in ses-
sion at Des Moines. After several
members of the Cereal club had tes-
titled that they could not remember
that the organization had ever voted
to fix prices for grain, r. w. Harper
testified that he had often attended
its banquets and meetings and that
after discussion of prices the vote of
the meeting was taken on motion by
the secretary of the Grain Dealers
association and expressed by lifted
hands as basis for quotations for
the ensuing week furnished to mem
bers of the association.
Believing he had killed his sweet
heart with four bullets he fired at her,
Frank Dorsey, clerk whose home
was in Brooklyn shot himself dead
in Fourth avenue bird store at New
York, where both were employed.
Fire at the Paris (Ill.) hotel caused
a hurried adjournment of banquet
at which Speaker Cannon was being
entertained by Republican politicians.
John FOCUS, well-known war vet
eran, of Marietta, o., was bitten by
small family dog three weeks ago
and developed hydrophobia. He be-
came unmanageable and was taken to
Jail, where he died.
The Bank of Jamestown, in Moni-
teau county, Mo-, was entered by
robbers, who blew open the safe and
secured $1,000.
Samuel Mcclellan Hay, for 5S years
identified with the interests of Osh-
kosh, Wis, and a pioneer merchant
and banker of wide reputation, died,
aged 81 years.
Eugene t. Wilson, bank examiner
In charge of the Aetna Banking and
Trust company at Butte, Mont, issued
a statement to the< comptroller in
which the liabilities of the concern
are given at $4S5,S2S, and the nominal
assets at $461,526.
The knights of Pythias have deter
mined to fight through the courts the
organization recently formed by ne
groes in the state of Georgia calling
themselves the supreme lodge Knights
of Pythias of North America, South
America and Australia.
Four persons are known to be dead,
eight others are missing, two are ia
tally injured and SO are more or less
seriously injured as the result of the
fire which destroyed the Chamber of
Commerce building In Kansas City,
Kan
The Trans-Alaskan-S Siberian Rail-
way company, with an authorized
capital of $6,000.O00 was incorporated
at Trenton, N. ].
In joint convention the Kentucky
State Grange and Farmers institute
passed resolutions condemning the
government free seed distribution.
More than dozen persons were in
Jured and babe was killed in fire
which destroyed the chamber of com
merce building, four-story brick and
stone structure, used as a store and
tenement building, at Park and Gen.
trail streets in the Riverview district
of Kansas City. Kan.
Benjamin Sager, farmer, was shot
dead and his son, Claude, aged 81,
fatally wounded at Paris, Mo-, by John
Sebastian, an aged farmer. The
Sagers had rented field from Sebas-
tan, and were to pay Sebastian for
rent half the crop of corn grown
thereon.
Running at speed estimated at so
miles an hour, the fast train between
Cleveland and Pittsburg on the Fort
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