River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-08-22
MISCELLANEOUS.

Criminal and civil proceedings
against all persons concerned in the
fraudulent transactions in connection
with the construction and furnishing
of Pennsylvania $13,O00.000 capitol
were recommended in the final report
of the capitol investigation commits
sion, made to Gov. Stuart, who prom
ised that action should be prompt
and vigorous.
That the practices of the Marathon
County Railroad company, owned by
Lieut.. Gov w. D. Conner, are "un-
lawful, inequitable and socially and
economically parasitic" was the con-
cEusion of a decision handed down by
the Wisconsin railroad commission.
]. Warren Hastings, since 1864 a
trusted official at the United States
subtreasury in Boston, was arrested
on the charge of embeZzling $4,000
from the government.
Several thousand gallons of gasoline
in the Standard Oil company's tank
at Brodhead, Wis, exploded, Destroy
ing the tank and causing a panic in
the town.
A suit to annul the franchises of
1900 which were granted to the Mil
waukee Electric Railway & Light COM
pany was begun in the circuit court
at Milwaukee by Attorney General F.
l.. Gilbert on behalf of the state of
Wisconsin.
A fake check for the exact amount
Of the fine recently imposed upon the
Standard Oil company by Judge
Landis at Chicago was received at the
treasury department in Washington
from an unknown sender 1t was
mailed at Toledo, o.
Miss Elizabeth Gallighan, of St.
Louis, leaned too near fast revolving
ny wheel in the shoe factory in which
she is employed and her entire scalp
was torn from her head. The scalp
was removed from the fly wheel intact
and surgeons performed a rare opera
ton by sewing it back in place.
Attorney General Bonaparte, reply
ing to criticisms of Wall street, as
serted that his department would con-
tinue to prosecute wealthy men and
corporations that violate the laws, and
that honest business men should be
glad Of it.
The Burlington Railroad company
was found guilty of violating the eight
hour Geographic law and was fined
5000 by Judge Grail at Chillicothe, Mo.
During an excursion of the Vermont
Association of Boston, to South Hero
island, Lake Champlain, George Cou-
ture, of Burlington, was drowned and
Mrs. Fletcher D. Proctor, wife of the
governor of Vermont. narrowly es-
capped death.
Assessor Henry Alexander of Abse-
con, N. J., has raised the taxes of
wealthy bachelors in his district 500
because. of the fact that they are
bachelors.
A large portion of the business sec
ton Of Princess Anne, the county
seat of Somerset county, Maryland,
was destroyed by fire.
The Hudson river steamer Adiron-
dack caught fire and was grounded
at Roseton, where her 500 passengers
were safely taken off by other vessels.
Fred Nye, a brother of the late
"Bill' Nye and an assistant editor of
the New York Sunday World, died OF
injuries received by being struck by
a trolley car
An agreement was reached for the
ending of the strike of Southern Pa
cific railway boilermakers.
Averill Hartman, son of E. H. Har-
riman, the railroad magnate, was
Frustrated by heat in Omaha.
Louis C. Bath, an insane patient
who escaped from the asylum at Mid
dletown, N. Y, has been captured
through clews from souvenir postal
cards he mailed.
John d. Rockefeller prophesied that
financial disaster and chaos Would
be the result of the administrations
antitrust campaign.
Caid Sir Harry MacLean was hand
ed over by his captor, the bandit, Rails
uIi, to the Elkmes tribe, who in their
turn set him at liberty.