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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-11-19
NO ENGAGEMENT-ELKINS.
Senator Denies His Daughter and
Abruzzi Are Betrothed.

Washington, Nov. Ex-senator
Stephen B. Elkins Sunday night made
the emphatic announcement that no
engagement EXISTS between his daugh-
ter, Miss Katherine Elkins, and the
Duke d'Abruzzi.
The statement was made with the
knowledge and consent of Miss Ell
kins, who desired that it should be
given to the public which has mani
tested so great an interest in the mat
ter. The statement follows:
Il do not care to say anything
further than that my daughter and the
Duke d'Abruzzi are not engaged to be
married, and that l regret exceedingly
the annoyance that must have come
to the duke and his family by reason
of the almost daily discussion of the
matter in the press and the constant
publication of rumors for so long a
time, rumors which | venture to hope
will now cease"
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-11-19
BLOODY BATTLE IN
OKMULGEE OKLA.
SEVEN MEN ARE MURDERED BY
NEGRO DESPERADo-
HE is THEN SLAIN BY MOB
Sheriff and Police Official Among His
Victims-Quiet Restored When
Governor Prepares to Send
Troops.

Okmulgee, Okla, Nov. 16.-Eight
persons were killed and ten others
wounded Sunday afternoon in a fight
between Jim Deckard, a negro des7
perado, and law officers.
The dead: Edgar Robinson, sheriff
of Okmulgee county; Henry Klaber,
assistant chief of police of Okmulgee;
two negroes named Chapman, BROTH
ers; Jim Deckard, negro; three UNI
identified negroes.
The wounded: Steve Grayson, In
dian boy, fatally beaten; Vic Farr,
chief of police, shot through shoulder;
deputy sheriff, name not learned, arm
broken; seven others slightly
wounded.
Deckard Stays Seven.
The disturbances began at the St.
Louis e San Francisco railroad sta
ton where Jim Deckard engaged in
a fight with an Indian boy, Steve
Grayson, and beat him into insensi-
bility with a rock. Friends of Gray
son notified the police and when PO-
liceman Klaber went to the station
Deckard fed to his house nearby bar
ricaded himself in and when Klaber
approached, Deckard shot and instant
ly killed him.
Sheriff Robinson gathered posse
in few minutes and hurried to the
scene Part of this posse was made
up of a group of negroes, whom the
sheriff commissioned as deputies AS
J,0
Deckard opened fire with rifle, firing
as rapidly as he could load his
weapon The sheriff fell first, in
stantly killed Then five of the negro
deputies were slain
Murderer Himself Killed.
Deckards house was soon sur
rounded by a frenzied mob of armed
men. Fire was set to a house just
north of Deckard's. Volleys were
poured into Deekard's house and he
was shot down. He was seen to roll
over on the floor, strike a match and
set fire to his own house, which was
soon a roaring furnace in which his
body was baked. Deckard evidently
had a large quantity of ammunition
stored in his house, for many cart
ridges exploded while the house was
burning.
Gov Haskell at Guthrie was notified
of the battle and of the bad feeling
between whites and negroes that had
grown out of it and threatened race
riot The governor at once ordered
the militia company at Muskogee to
prepare to go to Okmulgee and a spe-
cial train was made ready to carry the
troops, the governor remaining at his
office to keep in touch with the situa-
ton News of the preparation to send
militia here had a good effect on the
disorderly element of both races, and
at seven o'clock Sunday night the
crowd had dispersed and further trou-
BILE was not expected.
When it became known that no
other negro had assisted Deckard
against the officers, the talk of re-
prisals subsidized.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-11-19
BRIEF REVIEW OF
A WEEKS EVENTS
MOST IMPORTANT HAPPENINGS.
OF THE PAST WEEK TOLD
IN CONDENSED FORM.
ROUND ABOUT WORLD
Information Gathered from All Quar-
tiers of the Civilized World and
Prepared for the Perusal of
the Busy Man.
PERSONAL.

President-elect Taft announced that
he would call special session Of con
gress soon after March to take up
tariff revision.
Senator Elkins made the emphatic
announcement that no engagement ex-
lists between his daughter, Miss Cath
crime Elkins and the Duke dBruzzi.
Rather than suffer the disgrace Of
arrest on charge of forgery, Rollo T.
Sturgis, one of the states chief wit
nesses against Abe Raymer, alleged
leader of the Springfield (Ill) race
riots, shot and killed himself.
The German politician and theolo-
gian, DR.. Adolf Stocker well known as
an anti-Semite leader, resigned his
seat in the reichstag after almost 20
years continuous membership in that
body
Secretary of the Navy Victor H.
Metcalf rendered his resignation to
the president to take effect December
j on account of i'll health. Assistant
Secretary of the Navy Truman H.
Newberry will be named as Mr.. Met
Ldll ouCCCocOIs
William Arnold Shanklin, president
of Upper Iowa university, Fayette, Ia,
was elected president of Wesleyan
university, Middletown, Conn.
Dean Thomas Frederick Crane of
the Cornell university faculty, who
has been connected with the uni
versity for Al years, has resigned.
Gov. Hughes filed his certificate OF
election expenses with the secretary
of state of New York, giving his total
expenditures as $369.65.
Prof Richard MacLaurin, head OF
the physics department of Columbia
university, was appointed president OF
the Massachusetts Institute of Tech
nolOgy.
Emperor William was severely cen
sured by leaders of all parties during
the debate in the reichstag on the in
terpellations concerning the converse
tions published with the permission
of the emperor in the London Daily
Telegraph
Emperor William conferred on
Count Zeppelin the Prussian order OF
the Black Eagle.
President Castro Of Venezuela has
been advised by his physicians to go
to Europe for medical treatment for
the malady from which he has been
suffering recently.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-11-19
TAFT WILL CALL
SPECIAL SESSION
TARIFF REVISION TO BE PUT UP
TO PRESENT CONGRESS.
SO SAYS PRESIDENT-ELECT
He Leaves Washington HurriedIy for
Cincinnati After a Busy Day
AS Guest of Mr.. Roose-
welt

Washington, Nov 16.-That a spe.
cial session of the Sixty-first congress
will be called soon after the fourth of
March to take up the matter of tariff
revision became known positively
Sunday, when William H. Taft, presi-
dent-elect, after spending the day at
the White House as the guest of Presi-
dent Roosevelt, stated that he intend
ed to call the special session to meet
as soon after his Inauguration as
would be reasonable.
Judge Taft left at 7:05 o'clock Sun
day night for Cincinnati, where he
had been summoned on matters of fam
lily Importance, but which Judge Taft
assured the newspaper men who had
gathered at the White House were in
no manner connected with politics.
Busy Day for Judge Taft.
The day proved to be busy one for
the president-elect. He spent the
night at the White House as the presi-
dents guest and breakfasted with the
family. During the early forenoon
the president and the president-elect
discussed matters of Importance to the
present and the incoming adminiStra-
ton. No announcement was made as
to the principal topic of the discus.
sion, although Judge Taft admitted
that it was not the weather
About 10:45 o'clock Judge Taft
emerged from the White House to at
tend services at All Souls Unitarian
church, his usual place of worship
when in Washington. Five minutes
afterwards President Roosevelt start
ed for the Dutch Reformed church.
according to his custom.
Politics was discussed at luncheon
at which Secretary of State Root and
Representative Nicholas Longworth
also were the presidents guests. Am
bassador Henry White, Postmaster
General George Won l.. Meyer and
Beekman Winthrop, assistant secre-
tary of the treasury, dropped in during
the afternoon to pay their respects.
His Plans for Immediate Future.
Following the various conferences
of the day, Judge Taft talked freely
about his plans for the immediate fu-
ture. After spending two or three days
in Cincinnati, he said, he again will
join Mrs. Taft at Hot Springs. On
December he will be in Washington
on his way to New York, where he will
attend meeting of the North Caro-
lima society of that city. He will re-
turn to Washington for the meetings
of the American Red Cross society, of
which he is president. While here he
and Mrs. Taft will be the guests of
Miss Mabel Boardman, who has been
active for several years in behalf of
the society.
This visit to Washington will be
limited to three or four days, after
which the president-elect and Mrs.
Taft will be the guests of H. w. Taft
and family in New York. They will
leave for Augusta, Ga, on the evening
of December 16 or the morning of De-
cember II, where they will seek rest
for a month and a half. Further than
that no definite plans have been made
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-11-19
GENERAL NEWS.

The Cuban elections resulted In
sweeping victory for the liberal ticket
headed by Gen. Gomez.
Five buildings of the Indiana state
reformatory and nearly the entire
plant of the Indiana Manufacturing
Company at Jeffersonville, Ind, were
destroyed by fire.
The post office at South Bend, Ind,
was robbed of $18,653 in stamps.
A negro desperate in Okmulgee,
Okla, barricaded in his house, killed
four persons, including the sheriff,
wounded ten others and, being shot by
a frenzied mob, set fire to the house
and persisted in the flames.
Morris Haas, who shot Francis j.
Heney, shot and killed himself in his
cell in the county jail at San Fran
cisco. Mr.. Heney was stated to be re-
covering rapidly
William Reed, 76 years old, of Vine
land, N. j., was murdered in his home
by robbers who escaped with $4,000
worth of railroad bonds.
In football game at Monmouth, ILL.,,
between Knox college and Monmouth
two of the Monmouth players, Nc
Kiterick and Richards, were badly
hurt
George A. Burnham Of Detroit
Mich, general factory manager for
Morgan & Wright and well known
among automobile men, was accident
ally killed while duck hunting at the
St Clair flats.
While a party composed of Maj
Hon. j. P Veraker, his nephew, Wis
count Gort of England, and William
Prettie and George Gilbert, guides
were hunting moose at Raleigh, 100
miles east of Winnipeg, the accidental
discharge of Viscount Gort's gun
killed Prettie.
Miss Margaret Lee Conway of Chi
cago brought suit to recover $4,000
because her picture was published in
a magazine as a corset model
Clarence Agnew, colored, was given
a life sentence for causing a fatal
wreck on the Southern railway near
Duncan, S. C.
One man was killed and So injured
by an explosion in the Excelsior
Springs Powder factory at Dodson,
Mo.
Judge Taylor of the federal court
at Cleveland, o., appointed Warren
Hicknell and Frank A. Scott as joint
receivers for the Municipal Traction
Company and the Cleveland Railway
Company.
Manila's new water system has been
completed at a cost of $2,000,0 900.
Mrs. A. W. Bonds of Memphis,
Tenn, killed S. p. Craig because he
insulted and annoyed her
c. E. Sweet of Dowagiac, Mich, de-
feated candidate for prosecuting attor-
ney, sued T. ]. Bresnahan, his sue
cessful opponent. for $4,000 damages
for libel and SANDER.
DR.. B. F. Bechtold, aged 63 years,
Kulpsville, Pa, a patient in private
hospital in Philadelphia, was burned
to death.
A bill providing for universal suf-
frage in Hungary was presented to
the chamber of deputies by Count An
Grassy. minister of the interior.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-11-19
Varsity Stock for Show.

With the exhibit of 46 sheep and 20
hogs, the University of Wisconsin
College of Agriculture will be well
represented at the International Live
Stock show at Chicago. The animals
are all entered in the fat classes, and
the entire lot of hogs will be sold, on
account of the danger of bringing
back hog cholera. A large number of
both hogs and sheep will be entered
in the slaughtering contest, as well as
in open and college classes on foot.
The judging of these animals will be
done by impartial expert judges.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-11-19
Must Not Exclude CoIored People.

Albert Jones, a colored man of Mil
waukee, has established the right of
negroes to be admitted to public roll
er skating Kinks in Wisconsin.
The Broadway Roller Rink Company
of Milwaukee refused to allow him to
enjoy the privileges of it's rink be-
cause of his color. He brought suit
and obtained a verdict in the lower
court, but the court taxed the costs
against him. From this order he ap-
pealed.
The supreme court says that the
Wisconsin statute prohibiting public
places of amusement from discriminate
ing against negroes because of their
color is more sweeping in it's provi-
sions than similar statutes of other
states. A public roller skating rink,
the court says, is undoubtedly public
place of amusement, and under the
Wisconsin statute proprietors of such
places cannot legally exclude negroes.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-11-19
SEVERE HEMoRRHolDS
Sores, and Itching Eczema-Doctor
Thought an Operation Necessary
-Cuticura's Efficacy Proven.

81 am now 80 years old, and three
years ago 1 was taken with an at
tack of piles (hemorrhoids), bleeding
and protruding. The doctor said the
only help for me was to go to
hospital and be operated on. l tried
several remedies for months but did
not get much help During this time
sores appeared which changed to
terrible itching eczema Then / began
to use Cuticura Soap, Ointment, ana
Pills, injecting a quantity of Cuticura
Ointment with a Cuticura Suppository
Syringe. 1t took a month of this
treatment to get me in fairly healthy
state and then l treated myself once
a day for three months and, after that
once or twice a week. The treatI' tents
I tried took lot of money, ana it is
fortunate that I used Cuticura. ]. II.
Henderson, Hopkinton, N. Y, Apr
26, 1907"
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-11-19
Cleveland Has $4,000 Fire.

Cleveland, o., Nov. 16.-The five
story building occupied by the F. M.
Kirby Company, five and ten cent
store, and the M. Phillipsborn Com
pany, suits and cloaks, located in the
shopping district on Euclid avenue,
was completely Quilted by fire Sunday.
The store occupied by ]. Wageman
Sons, clothiers, was flooded by water
and the costly decorations in the ~
story bank building of the Guardian
Trust Company, were damaged by
smoke. The total loss will aggregate
100000.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-11-19
WARNED OF THE CYCLONE.
Telephone Just Few Seconds Ahead
of High Wind.

Once upon a time Kansas zephyr
broke loose and meandered about the
country, picking up various things.
Bill Baumgartner's telephone, 20 miles
away, rang:
us that you, Bill?" yelled an excited
voice.
Eyes. What's the matter?"
"This is Frank We've got cyclone
down here, and it's headed your way.
Look out! L" Franks voice broke
off suddenly. Bill heard crash and
a sputtering, then all was silence. He
gathered up his family and rushed
them to a deep ravine. They were just
in time to dodge funnel-shaped cloud
that wrecked the house, picked up his
barn, two cows, ana couple OF miles
of fence-Hampton's Broadway Maya
zine
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-11-19
ingalls, Doomed as Speaker.

Wallace Ingalls, of Racine an
nounced that he was a candidate for
the Office of speaker of the Wisconsin
lower house in the legislature. This
will be the first term of ingalls, in the
state legislature but Notwithstanding
this fact he has already taken up the
matter of his candidacy with some Of
the newly-elected assemolymen and
he claims that he is greatly encour-
aged.
Il have decided to seek the speaker
ship, said Mr.. ingalls,. while | am
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-11-19
MAZLALE MNGAZL|
SSA ~

serving for the first time in the legis
lature the fact remains that some of
the best speakers the assembly has
ever had have been one-term men,"
Mr.. ingalls, has sent out a signed
statement in regard to his standing
toward an investigation of the pri-
mary election for United States sena-
tor in which he declares that if he is
convinced that there was fraud in the
election he will demand an investiga-
ton in the lower house and if this
reveals the fact that corrupt methods
were used he will decline to be bound
by the primary.
Mr.. Ingalls, is widely known as al
orator and has been on the stump in
every national and state campaign tn
the last 20 years.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-11-19
Railroads Will Ignore Order.

Little Rock, Ark, Nov. 16.-At 1901
o'clock Sunday night the order issued
by the Arkansas railroad commission
prohibiting the trunk lines of the
state from enforcing the three-cent
passenger rate went into effect The
railroads will not comply with the or
der. hearing will probably be held
at which they will be asked to show
cause why the commission should not
the order.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-11-19
Daniel Mccoy Drops Dead.

Daniel Mccoy, state treasurer from
1900 to 1904 and leading banker and
capitalist of Grand Rapids, died at
his home of heart trouble at the age
of 63 years. He was prominent in the
lumber industry of Michigan for years.
He was president of the State Bank OF
Michigan until three weeks ago, when
it merged with the Kent bank and he
took the presidency of the joint insti-
tuition, now known as the Kent State
bank
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-11-19
NOTED DIVINE INJURED ! TALLY
Rev. Morgan Struck by Auto in New
Haven Comm Street.

New Haven, Conn, Nov. 16.-Rev.
DR.. G. Brinley Morgan, one of the most
noted Episcopal clergymen in Connec-
ticut, and rector of Christ's church.
was struck by an automobile Saturday
afternoon and fatally hurt
He was Immediately taken to a pri-
vate hospital.
1t was understood his skull was
fractured
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-11-19
DECISIVE LIBERAL VICTORY.
Gen. Gomez Elected President of Cuba
by Heavy Majority.

Havana, Nov. ALPHABETICALLY com
plete returns of the election show
that the liberal victory was even more
decisive than was supposed Saturday
night. Official returns from 1850 Of a
total Of 1 ,498 polling places show that
Gen. Jose Miguel Gomez received
1888 votes, against 1899 for Gen.
Mario Menocal, the conservative can
didate
The liberals carried every province
in the island. Havana province went
liberal by $4,000 and the city by
10000 The liberal majorities in the
ether provinces were approximately
as follows: Oriente, 13,500 Santa
Clara, 1000; Camaguey, 1900; Pinar
del Rio, 1900; Matanzas, 5000.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-11-19
Uncle Ben Liked Her.

A Kansas City girl recently married
q man who lives in one of the smaller
nearby towns, and went there with
him to live The bridegroom was
naturally eager that his relatives
should like his bride and as one, an
old farmer, voiced no complimentary
opinion in his hearing he at last
asked:
Uncle Ben, what do you think OF
my wife,"
oval. for fact, George" responded
the old fellow, "you shore outmarried
yourself."--Kansas City Times.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-11-19
Fishermen Go to Court.

The constitutionality of the law
which fixes license on pond nets OF
fishermen is to be tested by the Fish.
ermens Protective association of Wis
consin.
Papers have been fled in a suit in
stituted by that organization and the
matter will be tried before Judge S.
H. Hastings at Green Bay. John Pei
tier, president of the Ffshermen's as
sociation is named as the plaintiff in
the action and State Fish and Game
Warden j. M. Stone and Deputy H. A.
Ansorge as the defendants.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-11-19
OBITUARY..

Tsze Hsi An. dowager empress of
China, died a few hours after the de-
mise of the emperor and Prince Pu-Yi,
three years old, was placed on the
throne.
Grand Duke Alexis of Russia. an
uncle of Emperor Nicholas, died in
Paris of pneumonia, aged 5S years.
He had lived in Paris almost continu-
ously since 1905, the year of his re-
tirement from the position of supreme
director of the navy, which position
he had held for "a years.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-11-19
Roberts Resigns as Veterinarian.


DR.. David Roberts has resigned as
state veterinarian and will hereafter
devote his entire time to the promo
ton of the business of a livestock pat
ent medicine company with which he
is connected. He was appointed to
the office about three years ago and
succeeded his brother, who died from
the effects of a surgical operation in
a Chicago hospital. Two years ago
when Dr. David Roberts came up for
appointment for the regular term of
two years, the Wisconsin State Vet
erinarian society strongly opposed
him because of his connection with
the medicine company. The fight was
even carried before the legislature
and finally a compromise was reached
whereby Dr. Roberts was to be reap
pointed on condition that he sever hif
connection with the company.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-11-19
DAUGHTERS Are Lenient.

Atlanta, Ca, Nov. 16.-After an ex-
citing discussion proposition to ex-
clude from future membership in the
United Daughters of the Confederacy
the northern women who are now adj
mitted by virtue of marriage to de-
scendants of confederate veterans was
voted down Saturday in the annual
convention of the Daughters here.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-11-19
Reach for South American Trade.

The continued and growing PROF.
perity of the Argentine Republic and
her neighbors is inducing several
European countries to expand their
trade in that direction Sweden, Den
mark, Holland, Austria and Russia are
all planning new steamship lines to
South America.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-11-19
Explorer Meets Empress,

Tokyo, Nov. 16.-The imperial gar.
den party Saturday was attended by
1,500 people, including many foreign
ers and all the members of the diplo-
matte corps. Sven Hedin, the Swedish
explorer, was presented to the en-.
PRESS.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-11-19
Legacy Taxes Meager.

"a more careful enforcement of the
law presumably would largely increase
the inheritance tax receipts through
out the state and be promoted by a
more liberal allowance to the various
counties. At the same time the coun-
ties would be more justly treated than
they are under the present law"
The foregoing is the substance of a
statement given out by Secretary of
State Frear. In sustaining this con-
clusion Mr.. Frear cited several facts
in reference to the matter.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-11-19
Denounce Mayors School Tax Stand.

Denounce Mayors School Tax Stand.
The Wisconsin State Federation of
Labor has added it's pl Otest to Mayor
David S. Roses recent avowed stand
regarding city or state aid for paro-
chial schools. At the dedication of the
school section of st. Johns Cathedral
institute a few weeks ago, Mayor
Rose came out with the declaration
that the state or city is now laying
double burden of taxes on Catholic
parents who must support public
schools when at the same time they
desire to send their children to the
schools conducted by the church. The
mayor said he thought Milwaukee or
the state ought either contribute to the
support of the parochial schools, or
else relieve parents whose children at
tend them from the double taxation
by not requiring them to pay taxes
for public schools.