River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1909-03-18

countries meeting in a battle early
In the week. 1t is reported that a Sec
ond engagement followed.
William F. Names, president of the
Rhode Island Retail Liquor Dealers
association says John d. Rockefeller
is putting up the money for the fight
being waged against saloons.
Prof. G. A. Culver of Beloit college
expects to have a wireless telephone
in operation on the college campus
soon.
The United States has severed dip
lomatic relations with Nicaragua be-
cause OF President Zelaya's failure to
bring about settlement of the Emery
claim
James Christensen, former state
treasurer of Utah was arrested on
charge of being $4,000 short in his
accounts.
Veterans in gray and veterans In
blue marched side by side in parade
at the fourth national encampment OF
veterans of the opposing side in Fitz-
gerald, Ga.
Maj. John Z. Porter, for many years
assistant to the Judge advocate gen.
eral of the army, has been relieved
from duty in Washington and ordered
to the Philippines as judge advocate
of the Philippine division. Lieut.. Col.
George NJ. Dunn, now Judge advocate
of the Philippines, has been ordered to
Washington.
Announcement has been made that
December to 18 has been definitely
decided upon as the time for this
years national corn exposition, which
is to be held in Omaha.
The interstate commerce commits
sion has ordered all railway carriers
to report to the commission by May
1 the number of freight cars owned,
number equipped with air-brakes, and
average percentage of air-braked
cars used in trains during the six
months before March 1.
In the conference between miners
officials and anthracite operators at
Philadelphia, the operators refused to
grant the demands of the men.
The court of appeals of the District
of Columbia modified and affirmed the
decision of Justice Gould against Sam
uel Gompers and others in the Buck
Stove & Range Company case
The body of an unidentified woman
was found In the river at Dayton, O.,
and it is believed she was another vic
tim of the slayer who has killed four
girls in that city recently.
Railroad men will meet in Chicago
next week and it is believed will raise
the passenger rate to three cents
mile.
Clifford Pinchot, chief of the United
States forest service says the removal
of the tariff from lumber will neither
make the price cheaper, nor tend to
preserve the nations forests.
Feeling is bitter between counsel for
the state and defense in the Cooper
murder trial at Nashville, Tenn, and
it is feared physical encounter may
result.
The State bank Of Baldwin, Wis,
was closed by the banking commits
sioner. Unfortunate speculation is
said to have impaired it's capital and
surplus.
The Arkansas house killed the
Bouic-Whittington racing bill which
provided for racing at OF Springs
under the direction of commission.
The vote was 81 to IA.
Fifty-two indictments against pistol
carrying were returned by the grand
jury of the circuit court at Paramount,
w. Va, the result of crusade to
break up such lawlessness in the
mining region.
In a collision in Nantucket sound,
the steamer Horatio Hall was sunk
and the steamer H. F. Dimmock, so
badly damaged that she ran ashore to
save her passengers and crew. There
was no loss of life.
BY vote OF 125 to 20 the Georgia
division of the United Daughters of
the Confederac..- decided on Anderson
vile as the location for the monu-
ment to Capt. WirZ.
A marriage license was issued in
New York city to Peter Augustus Jay
of Newport, secretary of the American
|AApoooy at AOhyO, anu susan 1AAOAdh-
der McCook, daughter of Col. John
McCook.
Madrid, Spain, has been visited by
an epidemic of typhoid fever. More
than 800 cases already have been re-
moved to one hospital, and there have
been many deaths.
Judge A. r. Anderson of Indianap.
oils, sitting in the United States dis
| trict court at Chicago, ordered the jury
in the $29,24O,0G0 Standard Oil cases
| to return a verdict of not guilty.
The New York assembly ways and
means committee gave little encour-
agement to the representatives Of eth
ical societies, charity organizations.
| trade unions and New York city
churches, who appeared in favor of the
Bales bill providing for an investiga-
ton into the condition of the unem-
ployed.
Rev. Father Erasmus Ansion of ST
Stanislaus church, Newark, N. j., was
assassinated in his study by three
men, each of whom fired a bullet into
the priests body.
President Zelaya of Nicaragua, it is
reported, has called another confer
ence between his own country, Hon
duras, Guatemala, Salvador and Costa
RIGA, with the view of arranging per
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