River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-11-26


were reported to have contracted the
foot and mouth disease, an outbreak
of which among cattle caused the
states of New York and Pennsylvania
to be guaranteed.
Several cattle infected with the foot
and mouth disease were found IN
Philadelphia and ordered killed.
United States Judge Taylor at Cleve-
land, o., granted an Injunction against
the American Telephone & Telegraph
Company (Bell long-distance SYSTEM
and the Central Union Telephone Com
pany BELL company operating in Ohio,
Indiana and Illinois), restraining them
from interfering with the business of
the Independent companies operating
in those and adjoining states.
The bank of Sweet Springs, at
Sweet Springs, Mo-, was robbed OF
$500 in currency by professional
cracksmen who blew open the vault
with dynamite.
A memorial arch on San Juan hill,
Cuba, was dedicated in honor of the
American soldiers who died in the
battle there in 1898.
Conveying to the American govern
ment the gratitude of the Chinese peo-
pie for remittance of a debt amounting
to nearly $14,000,000, Tang Shao vi,
powerful figure in the affairs of the
Chinese empire, arrived in San Fran
cisco on the steamer Mongolia. With
him was Prince Tsai Flu, a member of
the royal family, and a large retinue.
S. B. Tremble, a Chicago bond
broker, was accidentally shot and
killed by DR.. Frank Stuart of Marshall,
Mich, while they were hunting near
Ellsworth, Kan.
Gross misrepresentation of values
and Justification of accounts on the
part of the management of A. Booth
& Co. of Chicago, are indicated clear
tered accountants who have made an
examination of the company's books
and it's business affairs
James B. Van Woert, an aged bank
er of New York, was run down and
killed by an automobile.
"CAIJ pei oOuS W0I6 USllSVSu
to have lost their lives in an explosion
of gas which tore up a great section of
Gold street, Brooklyn, N. Y. The ex-
plOsion occurred in a 50-foot deep eX-
cavation, where a water main was be-
ing laid. The gas main sprung a leak
and spark came in contact with es-
Gaping gas.
A revolution has broken out in south
ern Hayti. Gen. Simon, former COM
mander Of the troops in the southern
department, has seized the city of Les
Cages and the adjacent region.
A court-martial convened on the bat
tleship Louisiana at Manila for the
purpose of trying Lieut. Commander
Jewell of the Louisiana and Lieut..
Bowers of the Rhode Island on charges
of personal misconduct during the
visit of the fleet to Japan.
John D. Rockefeller was cross-ex-
amined by Attorney Kellogg in the
governments dissolution suit against
the Standard Oil Company. His mem
DRY concerning rebates was very poor,
but he admitted the company earned
about $SO,O0O,O00 in 1907.
Miss Margaret Atkins and Joseph
Meyer were drowned when an auto
mobile containing eight persons
plunged into the Calumet river at Chi
cago.
The state having rested it's case in
the trial of Ray Lamphere at Laporte,
Ind, the defense opened with a state
ment to the jury by Attorney Worden
and the hearing of several witnesses
whose evidence tended to diSprOve the
sIpposition that the body of an adult
found in the ruins of the farmhouse
was that of Mrs. Guinness.
The Cairo Qll) city council granted
a 50-year interurban franchise and a
20-year street railway franchise to the
Mckinley syndicate. An interurban
line will be built to connect Cairo
with Mounds, Mound City and Villa
Ridge.
Hugh Thompson, a wealthy young
farmer living near Danville, KY, be-
came suddenly insane and shot and
killed his nephew, Frederick Garrison,
aged IS years. The boy after being
shot seriously wounded his uncle.
The greatest transaction in leaf to-
bacco ever made in America was
closed at Louisville, KY, when the
Burnley Tobacco society sold to the
American Tobacco Company the crop
of 1906 and part of that of 1907. The
American company pays an average
of 201a cents pound for the former
and II cents for the latter, the total
being about $14,00O,0 900.
Mrs. Mary Harbour, accused of the
murder of Miss Rose Adams, her
foster daughter, was found guilty of
murder in the second degree at Sioux
City, la.
The plant of the Indianola (Miss.)
Cotton Compress & Warehouse Com
pany and several adjoining buildings
were destroyed by fire, the loss being
100000.
John Krauss, said to have been con-
nected with the Pacific State and Sun
set Telegraph Company of San Fran
cisco, committed suicide on the steam
er Adriatic as it was entering Queens
town harbor.
]. B. Walton, representing the Corn
Products Company, known as the
starch trust" had a most uncomfort-
able time trying to answer the ques-
tions of the house ways and means
committee at the tariff revision hear.