River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-06-06

| sis of French commerce.
At a meeting of the executive COM
mittee of the Bondholders' Protective
| association of the United States INDIE
pendent Telephone company, resolu-
| ton was passed favoring the sale OF
the properties to the syndicate which
recently offered 100000 for them.
President Roosevelt, in his Indian
apolis speech, clinched his policy to-
ward railroads, saying stock jobbers
must be punished, overcapitalization
checked and publicity enforced, while
at the same time honest operators
must be encouraged.
Secretary Taft in an address at st.
Louis praised the nations altruistic at
titude toward Cuba, Porto Rico and
the Philippines, and declared the sac
rifice being made for them is worth
while.
Senator Foraker, in Memorial day
address at Steubenville, o., declared
the people may safely be trusted to
name their own officials and entered
a protest against one-man power in
the nation.
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served in northern cities, the serv-
ices including the decoration of the
graves of the dead, while in many
places the observances were of a more
elaborate character.
Finding the constant care of her lit
tie crippled sister too great, Cora
Leaderbrush killed the child and her.
self near Springfield, ILL.,, the discovery
of their bodies leading first to re-
ports of double murder.
John r. Walsh's Chicago newspa-
per, the Chronicle, has quit publica-
ton.
Relief from the existing tariff was
the keynote of an address by Judson
Harmon before a Cincinnati club
President Finley in speech to mill
ers' convention said unjust rates will
react on public by causing inferior
service.
National Committeeman Frank O..
Lowden declares "Uncle Joe" Cannon
is making gains in the race for the
Republican presidential nomination.
The great destructiveness of rats is
pointed out in statement issued by
the department of agriculture.
In complaint to the state depart
ment an American sailor asserts that
| he was asked to aid in scuttling a
steamship by the captain of the YES
sci.
| Chinese rebels have issued procla-
nation declaring their intention to
kill all officials and overthrow the
| government.
The Spanish government submitted
to parliament a plan for the distribu-
| ton of uncultivated lands.
Japanese newspaper urges the gov
eminent to demand of the United
| States that San Francisco officials be
made to protect Japs in treaty rights
| In welcoming visiting British jour
nalists to Germany Herr Buehlberg,
undersecretary of state, asserted that
his country is for peace, seeking only
free and fair competition in the
| worlds markets.
| San Francisco Japanese issued a
statement blaming race prejudice for
! recent assaults and demanding pro-
| lection
| Comptroller Ridgley in an address
told Detroit bankers that under the
Aldrich law the treasury is able to
| keep volume of money in circulation
up to maximum by placing govern
ment funds with banks.
In a speech at a dinner signaling
his retirement from the federal bench
| of New York Judge William Wallace
asserted the Bryan plan to abrogate
! judicial life terms is blow at exist
ing government.
/ Sentence of Abraham Ruef on a
| plea of guilty of extortion was post
poned for two weeks by request of
| the prosecutor.
! Mrs. Howard Gould demands $780,
900 alimony, which sum the husband
refuses to consider.
1t is reported that the Standard Oil
company is about to grasp control of
the turpentine market of the world
| Government Chemist Wiley declared
any man could live to be 100 years
old.
Peoria fugitive deposited three
| $1,000 bills in Davenport bank and
was arrested as suspect in Chicago
subtreasury robbery.
A frightened horse endangered the
lives of Queen Maud, of Norway,
Nine. Fallieres and Gen. Michel, latter
saving ladies from going into lake
with landau.
Packers agent at New York was
arrested because chickens are sys-
tematically sold at short weights to
| butchers.
The New York senate, under spur
of Coy Hughes, passed bill in the
| interest of w. r. Hearst, providing
| for recount of the New York mayor
atty vote in 1905.
Actions against Klaw & Erlanger for
damages for injuries and loss of life
in the Iroquois fire were dismissed
by New York court because the plain
tiffs attorneys delayed in preparing
| their cases.
Indiana supreme court ruled that
| the liquor traffic is lawful and consti-
tutional unless prohibited by the state,
the decision reversing lower courts.
Right of cities to restrict the traffic to
prescribed areas also is upheld.
Thomas D. Jordan, former control
Ter of the Equitable Life Assurance
society," was indicted at New York for