River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-09-26


! lost for hours in the Grand Canyon,
Arizona.
| The two-cent fare law, enacted at
the recent session of the Pennsylvania
| legislature, was adjudged invalid, un-
constitutional and void in its appl1ca-
ton to the Susquehanna River & West
ern Railway company.
The hearing in New York in the fed
eral suit against the oil trust revealed
the large earnings of the subsidiary
companies of the Standard. The
Standard of Indiana made more than
| 1000 per cent. profits in 1903 and
1906.
The long-expected arrests of those
held to be responsible for the frauds
| committed in the furnishing and dec
Grating of Pennsylvania's $13,000,OOO
| capitol were made in Harrisburg, the
attorney general causing warrants to
be issued for IA of the IS persons and
firms named by the capitol investiga-
ton commission as being involved in
| the scandal.
| The governor general of the Philip
pines has issued a formal proclama-
ton converting the national assembly
on October 16. Plans have been made
| to render the inaugural session of the
assembly brilliant function.
Forty thousand dollars, mainly in
| large bills, is declared to have been
secured by the robbers who held up
the Great Northern train near Rex
ford, Mont, September IL.
Directors of copper companies con-
| trolled by the Amalgamated ordered
| the output reduced so per cent
The Shipbuilders' Federation Of
! England announced that between 49,
900 and $4,000 members of the Boiler
makers society would be locked out.
Motive power officials of the Harri-
man railway lines recommended the
installation and use Of steel passen-
| ger coaches on the Pacific coast.
Three men were imprisoned in a
burning mine at Sparta, MINI.
Alvah w. Trowbridge, former presi-
dent of the American Bankers associ-
alton, died at his home in Hacken-
sack, N. J.
Edward Richards, of Dayton, an
aeronaut, dropped 1000 feet to death
at the Miami county fair grounds at
Troy. o.
At a meeting Of the directors of the
Illinois Central railroad the charges
recently made against President J. T.
Harahan and Vice-President J. G. Hack.
staff by Stuyvesant Fish were dropped
upon the recommendation of COM
mittee of investigation.
The decision of the Belgian govern
ment to oppose obligatory arbitration
is attributed to the command of King
Leopold, who is fearful that his claims
in the Congo might be effected in the
event of the adoption of the proposal.
The kings action in this connection
is regarded at The Hague as being in
the nature of a scandal.
Trouble has arisen over the extra
dition of w. H. Adsell, accused of
murder at Hongkong. He took refuge
on the American warship Galveston at
ChefoO and the American authorities
insist on trying him themselves.
A Japanese steamer, the TATTOO
Maru, has been burned three miles
off Ching Kiang, on the right bank of
the Yangtsekiang, As miles from Nan
king. 1t is reported that 100 lives
were lost
The corOner's jury investigating the
recent wreck on the Canadian Pacific
railway at Caledon, in which seven
people were killed and others injured,
made it's report at Toronto, Ont, and
directed the arrest of Engineer Hodge
and Conductor Grimes. The railway
company was blamed for putting mex
perienced men in charge of passenger
trains.
Every railroad in Mississippi was
indicted by the grand jury at Jackson
for failure to furnish the state rail-
road commission with list of passes.
Members of the legislature and state
officials may be indicted.
The largest bonds in the history of
criminal jurisprudence-$6,0 900, 900
were fixed by Judge Peter S. Grosscup,
of the United States circuit court, to
secure the governments $29,240,000
judgment against the Standard Oil
company of Indiana pending an appeal
AAOAA Cuc SSuCSuCS lnpOS0Q ny JuOSS
Lands.
George G. Taylor, who inherited the
income of $2O,0OO,OO0 from his father,
Moses Taylor. is dead at his home at
Great River, L. /. He was about 70
years old.
In the federal suit at New York for
dissolution of the Standard Oil com
pany of New Jersey it was disclosed
that the company had made $490,315,-
934 profits in the eight years from
1899 to 1906 inclusive.
In the Oklahoma and Indian Terri
tory election the constitution was
adopted, the statewide prohibition
proposition carried and the Democrats
elected their ticket headed by Haskell
for governor.
A protocol was signed at the state
department by the diplomatic repre-
sentatives of the five Central repub-
lies, accepting the invitation of the
United States and Mexico to meet in
Washington at an early date to ne
| gotiate an agreement providing for
permanent peace between the coun-
tries represented.
Ludwig Szcygill, a Catholic priest
| from Chicago, was convicted of muir
der in the second degree at Pittsburg,
n g. Ill -