River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-02-06
president Roosevelt transmitted to


employers liability law, dealt with
the abuse of the injunction in labor
/ cases, asked for laws to secure better
! federal control of corporations en-
gagged in interstate commerce, scored
the high officials of the Santa Fe and
the Standard Oil company in connec-
ton with rebating, fayed the great
law-breaking corporations that have
been attacking the administration and
vigorously repealed the charges that
the policies of the president have been
the cause of business depression.
Republicans and Democrats alike in
the house of representatives wildly
cheered President Roosevelt's message.
w. J. Bryan in an interview praised it
highly, and Chancellor Day of SYRIA
cuse university denounced it as rant,
SANDER and vituperation.
Mrs. Annie Ackerly of Brooklyn, N.
Y, was sentenced to IA years i'm
prisonment for arson.
Gov. Joseph K Toole Of Montana
quit office April 1.
DR.. Samuel r. Millard, the oldest
physician in Chicago, died, aged go
years.
The American battleship fleet en-
tered the Strait of Magellan and an
chored for the night in Possession bay.
Six persons were killed outright by
cyclone which laid waste strip of
farming country three-quarters of a
mile wide and several miles long just
north of Wesson, Miss.
Intense cold and heavy snowfall
were reported from many points in the
northwest.
]. S. Kiehle, a student from Mime
apolis, lost his life in fire that de-
stroyed the Alpha Tau Omega fra
ternity house at Cornell university,
Ithaca, N. Y.
The Hamilton Tourist hotel at
White Springs, Fla, was burned, with
capped with their lives. The loss is
100000
James and Charles Lipsy, brothers,
of Raymond, ILL.,, committed suicide
with the same revolver.
A credit of $5,0OO,OOO was received
from New York by the Hungarian Dis
count and Exchange bank at Buda
Pest, for the account of the Count
and Countess Laszlo Szechenyi.
Speaker John N. Cole of the Massa-
chusetts house of representatives was
indicted by the Essex county grand
oh Of al
lie statutes in requesting reduced
rate of fare on the Boston & Maine
railroad for large number of stu
dents.
While walking on the thin ice which
had formed in the Hudson off Nyack,
N. Y, Evans Steele, aged Fl; Hans
Kraft, II, and Harold Dixon, II, broke
through and were drowned.
Dr. Andrew w. Riley, professor of
practice of medicine of Creighton
Medical college, Omaha, Neb., died of
blood poisoning caused by infection re
ceived from an erysipelas patient.
The Rock Island railroad station at
Topeka, Kan, was destroyed by fire.
Fire in Bluefeld, w. Va, destroyed
eight business houses, the railroad
Y M. c. A. building and three resi-
dences.
At Beaver Falls, Pa, Vella Mylie.
aged IT, daughter of Rev. and Mrs.
r. G. Mylie of Williamsburg, Pa, and
Robert Patterson, aged %, of New
Alexandria, Pa, students at Geneva
college, were drowned while skating.
Gov. Charles E. Hughes, whose
nomination for the presidency by the
Republican national convention in
Chicago next June is being urged by
the New York county committee and
other Republican county committees
in New York state, made open declara-
ton of his views of national issues and
principles.
1t was announced that steamboat
passenger rates on the upper lakes
will be advanced this year.
The Oriental bank of New York,
capitalized for $75O,000, closed it's
doors after run.
Five men were injured, three of
them seriously, by an explosion in the
shrapnel department at the United
States arsenal in Philadelphia.
Edward Cromwell, for many years
prominent in business and philan-
thropy, died in Denver, aged 81 years.
One man was killed and five injured
in Los Angeles, Cal, when train
struck a street car.
Rescued from their vessel after she
had become disabled in midocean,
carried to Genoa and thence to Lon
don, Capt. Kelly and the five members
of the crew of the brigantine Aquila
arrived at Halifax, N. S., on the Allan
line steamer Sandman.
That no necessity exists for re-
duction in the prices of iron and steel
and that none will be made was the
general understanding arrived at by
representative manufacturers of pig
iron, iron and steel at meeting held
in New York.
The flag of the American man-of-
war Chesapeake and the "Balaclava
bug'e,'' two of the most valuable war
relics of a collection of antiquities
that belonged to the late t. G. Middle
brook, were secured at the auction
sale of the collection in London for
American buyers.
1t is estimated that the steel plant
to be built at Hankow, China, by Chi
nese capitalists will cost $6,000,000