River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-11-26
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 PerusaI of
the Busy Man.
PERSONAL.

The shah of Persia issued a procla-
nation announcing that he would not
give the people a constitution.
Andrew Carnegie in a magazine
article takes the position that infant
industries" no longer need protection;
that duties on Injuries used by the
rich should be maintained, but that
those on manufactured articles should
be reduced greatly, or abolished.
Working in the streets of Boston as
a captain in the Salvation Army is
Miss Cora Van Norden, the young
daughter Of W. NJ Van Norden, pres
ident of the Van Norden Trust Com
pany of New York city.
James Harvey Edmisten, former
Populist state chairman and state oil
inspector of Nebraska under Gov.
Holcomb, was sentenced to a fine of
1000 and four months in Jail on the
charge of conspiracy to defraud the
government out of large tracts of pub
lie land.
Mrs. Carrie A. Nation sailed for
Scotland to conduct a temperance
crusade.
Elliott Archer, accused in Newark,
N. J., of forgeries aggreating $4,000,
was arrested in Seattle.
President Gompers was fully in
dorsed by the Federation Of Labor con-
vention at Denver, COL his report be-
ing adopted.
Benjamin Lee, a private of the
Twenty-fourth United States infantry,
stationed at Fort Ontario, N. Y, gave
himself up to the civil authorities, al
leging that he had murdered Emma
Leisher.
Mayor Tom l.. Johnson, who for
years has been credited with posses
sion of a very large fortune, an
nounced that he had lost everything
and would be compelled to give up his
beautiful home on Euclid avenue and
move into smaller and less expensive
quarters.
Gov.-elect A. G. Shallenberger of
Nebraska sustained a fractured leg
while being initiated as member of
the Shriners.
Peter Van Vlissingen, the Chicago
real estate man who confessed to
forgeries involving $750,000, was taken
to the Joliet penitentiary and put to
work in the broom factory.
John d. Rockefeller, president of
the Standard Oil Company, for over
two hours before Judge Ferriss in
New York reviewed the history of the
early oil trade and the development
of the first companies that later grew
into the present so-called oil trust.
He was a witness for the defense in
the suit to dissolve the Standard
which is being prosecuted by the
United States government.
Harry S. Reardon, alias Arthur
Spencer convicted at Kansas City of
impersonating a government interpre-
ter, was sentenced to serve Is months
in the federal penitentiary at Leaven-
worth, Kan
Capt. o. M. Carter has been made
manager of the Mexican Brick and
Fire Clay Company at Mexico, Mo.
w. r. Ridgely, president of the Ma
tional Bank of Commerce, Kansas
City, has disposed of his stock in the
bank and will retire
Mrs. Emily Crane Chadbourne,
daughter of R. T. Crane of Chicago,
was sued for $S2,5OO by the United
States government, District Attorney
Sims asking for the forfeiture of prop
erty which she was alleged to have
struggled into this country last Au-
gust.
w. ]. Bryan in an interview at San
Antonio, Tex, practically admitted
that if conditions made it advisable
he would be a candidate for the presi-
dency in 1912.