River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1909-02-11


The harvester combine has agreed
not to fight the case against it at To
! peka for violation of the antitrust
laws and will pay the state 100000
for which it was sued.
A report of the target practice OF
| the American battleship fleet in Ma,
Mia bay, shows great Improvement in
craftsmanship. The Vermont won
| the pennant.
Gov Haskell left Guthrie for Musko-
gee to give a $4,000 bond to answer
the indictment charging him with
| fraud.
The referee appointed to investigate
the affairs of the Fidelity Funding
Company found it has assets of $22,-
| 1851, 317.28. He advises that it be
| dissolved.
Reports show 1854, 900 was col
! lected for the relief of the earthquake
sufferers in Italy by the Red Cross.
Despite resolution intended to pre-
vent them the delegates in the United
Mine Workers convention continued
to air their personal differences.
| The American Paper and Pulp asso-
citation discussed the tariff on this
product and elected officers at meet
| ing in New York.
William j. Bryan in speech at
| Tampa, Fla, declared the Democrats
have chance for victory in 1912.
The contest over the will of the late
xydi hos hno in
Peoria, ILL., Undue influence ON the
part of oliver ]. Bailey, w. w. Ham
mond, Albion w. Small and the late
William Rainey Harper, president of
the University of Chicago, is given as
the main cause for the breaking of the
will.
Six were killed and others injured
when a New York Central train
dashed into a group of track walkers
IN Gotham.
In Memphis, Tenn, negro robber
ran through the streets firing a pistol
at pedestrians and policemen, but bad
craftsmanship prevented any fatal
tiles.
The bodies of John Minck and Dan
iel Murphy were found in the ruins of
the Mahoning county infirmary at
Garfield, O., which was destroyed by
fire about ten days ago. This makes
four lives lost in the fire.
Charles E. Holmes, charged with
having killed his wife, Pauline, was
acquitted in Chicago. Tears came to
Holmes eyes when he thanked the
inv, fA he
ciliation between father and son fol-
lowed.
Gov. Charles N. Haskell and six
Oklahomans were indicted on charges
of conspiracy to defraud the govern
ment in connection with deals in Mus
kogee town lots.
The United Mine Workers of Ameri-
ca in convention at Indianapolis, re-
elected Thomas l.. Lewis as president.
The California assembly. rejected
the Drew bill which was intended to
prevent aliens owning lands in the
state and was aimed chiefly at the
Japanese.
The Tennessee senate passed the
prohibition bill over the veto of Gov.
Patterson.
DR.. George t. Vaughan of Washing
ton successfully grated the knee of a
dead man onto the leg of George A.
4-elly, a patient in the Georgetown
hospital
Secretary of Agriculture Wilson re-
fused to lift the quarantine against
Maryland cattle on account of the
foot and mouth disease.
The bodies of 5000 Chinese which
have been dug from graves in all parts
of the United States will be shipped
to the Flowery Kingdom for burial.
The house of representatives of
Iowa voted down resolution offered
by Representative Scheeper, proposing
medals for each Iowa born member of
the naval fleet just completing the
tour around the world.
Fred Walton, former grand master
of the Odd Fellows for the state of
Idaho, was shot twice by John H. Ora
dlebaugh in Denver, Col, and died
shortly after being removed to a hos
pital. Both men are from Wallace,
Idaho. Cradlebaugh also is a promi-
nent Odd Fellow Walton was dying
when the hospital was reached, but
gasped: THAT man thought l stole his
wife"
Clarence M. Jones, president of the
Commonwealth Feed Company of st.
Louis, and brother of Police Commits
sioner Jones, was murdered. Herman
A. Kretschmar, discharged official of
the company, has been arrested.
C. A. Severance, instead of F. B.
Kellogg, will represent the government
in the suit against E. H Hartman and
others.
Walter Weaver, son of S. M. Wea-
yer, member of the supreme court of
Iowa, was held to the grand jury in
the district court at Iowa Falls on
charge of having issued forged papers.
George Busse, brother of Mayor
Busse of Chicago, who accidentally
shot and killed Mrs. Lucius Tucker
man, was exonerated by the coroner's
Jury which investigated the tragedy.
The widow of Father John of Kron-
stadt, the well-known Russian priest
who died about month ago in st.
Petersburg, has been given a yearly
pension of $4,000.
The deadlock in the negotiations be-
tween w. l. Buchanan, Americas spe-
cial commissioner, and the Venezuelan
government, remains unbroken through