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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1911-02-02
Runs Down Island Outlaws.

Manila, P. General Pershing,
commander of the department of Min
danao, has ended the punitive cam
paign in the Davao district, having
killed or captured all the murderers
and dispersed the lawless Manobo
bands.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1911-02-02
Schenk Jury Disagree.

Wheeling, w. Va.-The jurymen in
the case of Mrs Laura Farnsworth
Schenk, charged with poisoning her
husband, John o. Schenk, reported
Thursday that they were unable to
agree and were discharged. The jury
stood IL to 1 for acquittal.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1911-02-02

A class in cooking school in Prov
idence had all its members poisoned
with their own cooking. This was
retribution swift and sure, but it gave
a great lesson to the community.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1911-02-02

IndIct Fifty-Five for Election Frauds.
Camden, N. J.-Twenty-six indict-
ments for election frauds were hand
ed down Friday by the Camden county
grand jury, making total of So In a
week
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1911-02-02
Man Eaten Alive by hoas.

Windsor, Ont.-James Calder, aged
sixty, farmer residing at Staples, %
miles from here, was literally eaten
alive by hogs Sunday. Calder is sup
posed to have tainted and fallen into
the hog pen.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1911-02-02
Mary Desha Qrons Dead

Washington.-Mis Mary Desha,
one of the three founders of the Ma
tional Daughters of the American
Revolution, dropped dead on the
street here Sunday.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1911-02-02
NOTHING Much.

II don't know whether I ought to
recognize him here in the city or not.
Our acquaintance at the seashore
was very slight"
you promised to marry him, didn't
your"
Eyes. but that was ALL"
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1911-02-02
Rail Leader Dies.

Washington.-Col. Edward Lafay-
cite Russell, vice-president of the
Mobile & Ohio rairload, died at the
Raleigh hotel Saturday night, aged
sixty-five. Pneumonia was the direct
cause of death.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1911-02-02
Save trapped Women at FIre.

Jersey City, N. J.-Spectacular res
cues of women and children trapped
in a burning fiat house on First street
we're made by five policemen and 9
company of firemen Friday.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1911-02-02

A st. Louis man made his wife cut
his hair. Barbering, however, will
never be included in any domestic
science course.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1911-02-02

Twenty Boston high school girls
have formed a walking club. 1t will
not be much of a success if the girls
insist on wearing hobble skirts.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1911-02-02

If the average husband talked
about women as some of the college
professors do family jars would be-
come quite common.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1911-02-02
Sir Charles Dixie Dead.

London.-Sir Charles Wentworth
Dixie died Thursday following break
down due to the strain of the recent
campaign
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1911-02-02

That the Irish should control Brit
ish affairs is one of those revenges
in which time and fate delight.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1911-02-02
California for Woman Suffrage.

California for Woman Suffrage.
Sacramento, Col-The state senate
by vote of SO to Thursday adopted
Senator Bells constitutional amend
ment comforting equal suffrage upon
women.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1911-02-02
Noted Scotch Painter Expires.

London-John MacWhirter, the
painter, died Saturday He was born
near Edinburgh "a years ago.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1911-02-02

One quail on toast is worth a whole
flock of flying wild geese.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1911-12-08
MADERO PREPARED
FOR REvoLUT|oN|S7S
Army Of twenty-five Thousand
to Guard Boundary.

Mexico City, Nov. 22.-"If Reyes or
anyone else tries to start a rebellion
in Mexico he will find the Madero gov
eminent ready and. waiting" said a
prominent official of the administra-
ton when asked what preparations
Madero had made against the revolts
now threatened in various parts OF the
republic.
President Madero's instructions that
the Oaxaca revolt was to be put
down with an iron hand. without
awaiting instructions from the capital,
have created a favorable impression
here, for it is felt that sternness is
the only way to secure peace in Mex.
leo.
Madero has gathered an army of
$4,000 to guard the northern boundary
of the republic, while several addi.
tional regiments have been ordered to
Oaxaca and Morelos, where other i'm.
portant Enforcement movements
are taking place; the state volunteers
have been mustered out, and every.
thing is being made ready for a sys.
tematic campaign against the rebels.
Peace at the price of war; is nov
the Cry of the Maderoists.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1911-12-08
THE DEATH RECORD.

Rear Admiral John .Yeatman -Tay-
lor, retired. former medical director
of the United States navy and one of
the most distinguished naval surgeons
in the country, ended his life at Wash
ington by shooting himself in the head
with a navy pistol. Admiral Taylor
was eighty-two years old.
DR.. Eugene Wasdin, a widely known
surgeon In the United States marine
hospital service, who operated on
President Mckinley when Mckinley
was shot st Buffalo, N. T.. died in .
.sanatorium at Giadwynne,,@ Pa. He was
ffty-three years old.
DIR. Alonzo A. Ames, several times
mayor of Minneapolis and one time
Democratic candidate for. governor Of
Minnesota. died suddenly 1T Minneap-
oils Of heart disease. The doctor was
nearly seventy years old.
DIR. Walter Wyman. surgeon gen
eral of the United States public health
and marine hospital service, died at
Providence hospital, Washington, after
On illness of several months. He was
sixty-three years Of age.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1911-12-08
CHINESE REBELLION.

The massacre of foreigners is still
yoing on in Shensi province, accord
ing to information received at Picking.
In the same province than 1000
Manchus have been slaughtered. 1t is
also reported that foreigners are be-
ing murdered in Yunnan. Five thou.
sand corpses strew the battlefield at
Hankow as a result of two days fight
ing. The an%ti-foreign agitation is as
Stunning a most dangerous character.
The Chinese rebels have captured
part Of the city of Marking, following
y desperate battle. The quarter cap.
1ured is in ruins. COrpses are scat
tered everywhere. 1t is estimated g..
900 persons inside the city have been
killed.
WI Ting Fang has notified the con
suls that the bombardment of Nan
King will begin shortly. He warns
Them to withdraw their respective
countrymen from that district.
Taiyuenfu has been sacked by Chi.
nese rebels aud is In ruins, but the
missionaries there are safe.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1911-12-08
NEWS Of NOTED PERSONS

Colonel Theodore R~oosevelt's attack
on President Taft's trust policies is
taken at Washington as marking the
parting Of the ways between the for.
mer president and his chosen sue
cessor. For months 1t has been ap.
parent that Roosevelt vas not in SYM
patty with the Taft administration
and an open declaration had been ex.
pected.
Sarah Bernhard, the famous French
actress, is shortly to be married to
Lou Telegan, a Flemish actor, twenty.
six years old, who played subordinate
parts in Bernhardt's company during
her last American tour. Nine. Bern.
hardt is sixty-seven years Of age.
Complete unofficial returns from all
counties in New Mexico show the plu-
rality of w. c. Mcdonald, Democrat,
for governor. to be 3,258. The same
returns show the Republicans will a
lily control both houses of the legisla.
ture and elect two senators.
Harry Brolaski, a reformed gam
bier, testifying before the civil serv'
ice commission at Chicago, made the
direct charge that Chief of Police Nc
Weeney, Inspector Nicholas Hunt OF
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1911-12-08
UNFORTUNATE EVENTS.


Eighteen men were killed in q coal
dust explosion in tho Bottom Creek,
mine Of the Bottom Creek Coal
and Coke company at Vivian, ". VI.
More than $50 men we're in the mine
at the time, but all escaped excepting
eighteen of twenty-five who were in
the explosion zone. The other four
were rescued.
Two men were killed and five were
injured, one probably fatally, in q
headon collision between a Great
Northern fast mail and a freight train
near Rugby, N. d.
An empty passenger train struck a
Northern Pacific work train at spys
Rock. Mont, killings six mon who
were riding in the caboose of the
freight train. 4s
Three boys yer drowned in the
Little Arkansas river at Wichita. Kan.
when . stsal boat In which they. were
rowing sa1k.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1911-12-08
DOING NO PARTICULAR GOOD
Edison's View Of So Called Dissoiu.
ton Of Trusts.

Washington. That the
greatest warsnips will be operated
throughout and propelled by electricity
is the prediction Of Thomas A. Edison,
following a visit to the navy yard here.
The wizard said he was not able
to talk politics, but expressed the fol-
lowing opinions:
II fail to see wherein these dissc.
buttons OF the trusts are doing any
particular good.
The Shcrman law does not ssem
to fit as it should. But dissolution is
not in reality destroying the trusts.
II simply permits them to dissolv.
after a fashion and then reorganize
In various states and continue as
separate companies, doing what they
have been forbidden by law to do by
the courts rs one big company. There
is sometE!nG wrong in that condition
that should be remedied. for if the
CONDITION is an evil the other Ger
tainly is. too"
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1911-12-08
MISCELLANEOUS NEWS.

Coincident with the issuance OF
orders by Governor o. B. Colquitt OF
Texas to Adjutant General Hutchins
that all Mexican revolutionists near
Laredo must leave Texas within forty.
eight hours and the announcement
that President Taft had instructed
Secretary of War Stimson to co-ope.
rate with Governor Colquitt an order
was issued by the war department df-
recting Troop I, Third United States
cavalry, to hurry to Laredo.
The government will not appeal
from the decision of the United States
circuit court at New York which ap-
proved the plan of dissolution pro-
posed by the American Tobacco com
pany. While the government may ask
the supreme court to review the de-
cision at any time within a year it is
learned that Attorney General Wick.
ersham was not planning to do so at
this time and probably will not.
Exploration of the bottom of the
battleship Maine about $50 feet
aft of the bow revealed a plate, iden-
titled as forming a portion OF the outer
hull of the ship on the port side nea
the keel and under the magazines, as
having been blown inward, the upper
part being folded inward. This ap-
parently could result only from ex-
ternal pressure.
Quoting Theodore R%oosevelt's dec
laration for a square deal" for both the
corporations and the public the Inter-
national Harvester company filed in
the supreme court of Missouri Il mo-
ton for a rehearing in the recent case
in which ii was condltionally ousted
from the state and fined $4,000 Oh
charges OF violating the state anti.
trust law.
Saturdays football cores: Mime
sofa 6. Wisconsin 6; Chicago s, Cor
nell 0; Michigan II. Pennsylvania g.:
Illinois %, Northwestern 13; Nebrask;
90. Kansas 0; Princeton 6, Yale 3;
Harvard ;, Dartmouth 3; Army l..
Colgate 6; Navy 0, Pennsylvania o.;
Syracuse 70, Ca3lisle II.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1911-12-08
FOREIGN NEWS.

Eight million people. scattered
through twenty Russian provinces. are
in immediate danger of starvation un.
less relief is quickly provided, accord.
ing to an announcement made in the
duma by Premier Kokovsoff. The
premier explained that crops had
failed utterly in twelve provinces and
partial failures had been reported in
eight others.
The twenty-four-year-old daughter
and the two sons, aged twenty-ohe and
seventeen, OF former Minister of Jus
tice Baron Holzhnecht, We're assassi-
mated at Vienna by Ritter Matkoyic,
an official of the ministry of Justice.
who then killed himself. Matkovic had
urged the young baroness to marry
him, but she had refused.
AS no reply has been received from
the Persian government to the Rus
sian ultimatum Of Nov. IL it is Off
cially announced that the government
has ordered the immediate dispatch
of troops to Persia. The troops will
be concentrated for the present at
Kasbin, ninety miles northwest of Te-
.heran.
The Austrian steamer Kassa, having
on board 200 Arab emigrants from
Tripoli. has arrived at Trieste. From
that port they will take passage on.
another steamer sailing for New York,
where they intend to search for work.
Ramon Caceres, president of Santo
Domingo, was assassinated by politi.
cal malcontents in San Domingo City,
according to reports to the state de-
partment at Washington. No uprising
has followed as yet.
Fifteen of a crew Of eighteen men
lost their lives when the Norwegian
bark Antigua was driven ashore at
Martin River. below Quebec.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1911-12-08
NEWS Of WORLD
important Events Of the Week
in Condensed Form.
CHINESE REBELLION.

D~enouncing Yuan Sha Kai as q
traitor to the cause of freedom, lead
ers of the Chinese revolution are push
ing their plans for establishing a per-
manent republican government as
quickly as possible. They say they
believe the constitutional monarchial
regime, of which Yuan accepted the
premiership, will fall to pieces Itself.
If not they intend to overthrow it by
force of arms.
Chinese officials confirm the report
that a massacre of foreigners, as well
as Manchus, has occurred at Sianfu
There were forty foreigners In Sianfu
! and many missionaries in the smaller
Shensi towns. Only Chinese reports
have been received regarding the mas
sacre. There has been no t~elegraphic
or postal communication with Slant
for more than three weeks.
The United States legation at Pc
king has ordered all Americans to
leave the Chinese interior for the
treaty ports. The outlook for an anti
foreign outbreak is considered very
threatening.
According to consular reports 10000
imperial troops at Hangchow have
| Joined the rebels and defeated loyal
| troops from Marking and Chingkiang
at Chingking.
The republican tricolor now waves
| over the city of Annoy. There was no
! disorder, the shops remaining open
| and a general feeling of relief exists.
Practically the entire southern half
| of Fokien province has gone over to
| the revol ltionists and there are dis
| orders in the interior.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1911-12-08
CRIMINAL NEWS.

Three mnrderers were put to death
by electricity in Sing Sing prison a
few minutes apart. They were Pietro
Faletto Of Port Chester, Frank Schey-
merhorn of Millbrook and Bert l..
Brown of Rye. They went to the chair
in that order. The execution began
at 5:2S aud lasted only twenty-three
minutes.
Henry Clay Beattie, Jr., will die in
the electric chair on Nov. "a for the
murder of his young wife, Louise Owen
Beattie. The next to the last chapter
in the Sensational murder case was
enacted when Governor Mann refused
to interfere.
Pleas of guilty were announced in
the circuit court ut Lincoln Center,
Kan. by three of the most prominent
men accused in connection with the
tarring of Miss Mary Chamberlain.
the Shady Bend schoolteacher.
Express Messenger Irving G. Bar
ger was killed and the safe in his car
on the Delaware, Lackawanna and
Western road looted near Scrantons
Pa, Of a sum said to be $1,000 or
1900.
The Adams Express cOmpany's de-
pot office ct Grand Rapids, Mich, was
robbed Of everything in the safe. A
lone bandit held up the agent ard
madssa successful getaway.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1911-12-08
FINANCIAL AND INDUSTRIAL

The supreme court of the state OF
Missouri has issued a writ of custer
against The International Harvester
company and assessed a fine of $780,
900 for violation of the antitrust law.
The International Harvester company
in September, 1910, was found guilty
of violating the Missouri antitrust
laws by a commissioner appointed by
the state supreme court. The case
was submitted to the supreme court
for affirmation last April. The effect
of the decision is to prevent all the
companies which make up the Inter-
national company from conducting fur
Their business in the state.
The government won another move
in its fight to bring to trial nine in
dicted Chicago meat packers when
Judge Kohlsaat, in the United States
circuit court at Chicago, quashed J
writ of habeas corpus issued several
days previous. Judge Kohlsaat held
that the circuit court had no power
to issue a writ except in extraordinary
circumstances and that in the present
case it was without the right.
The Standard Oil company of New
Jersey declared a dividend for the
last quarter of the year of 81 a share.
This is the last dividend to be de-
clared before the company dfssolves
under the mandate of the United
States supreme court. Since the
Standard Oil vac given corporate
form in 1852 it has distributed about
1851, OOO, 900 in dividends. "a
The financial statement of the Un-
ion Pacific for the fiscal year shows
that the net revenues of the road have
fallen on: 81, SOC, 900 from 1910.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1911-12-08
WASHINGTON NEWS.

The dennaEd for the abolition of the
commerce court, which has been smol-
dering for months and which burst
into fame with that tribunals deci-
sion of the intermountain rate cases,
has assumed serious proportions. The
Democratic house is eager for the
chance to repeal the provision of the
law creating the court and develop.
ments indicate that a SUFFICIENT mum.
Der Of votes in the Republican senate
are available for the passage Of the
repeal through that body.
The state department practically
has decided to send a regiment of
troops from Manila to Chinwingtao, a
seaport in China about $50 miles from
Picking, on the Gulf of Pechili. The
purpose is to perform an international
duty under the Boxer treaty in keeping
open the line of communication be.
tween Peking and the sea.
The arrest of General Bernardo
Reyes by United States authorities at
San Antonio, Tex, on a charge of
violation of the neutrality laws is ex-
actly in line with the policy of this
government to stamp out revolution.
airy activities against Mexico in United
States territory, according to secre.
tary of State Knox.
President Taft is planning to take
up the high cost of living in a special
message to congress when he trans.
mits the report Of the tariff boards in.
vestigation of the wool and cotton
schedules. It is also said the presi.
dent will vigorously renew his recon.
mendation for a parcels post.
Richard v. Lindabury, counsel for
the United States Steel corporation,
made objection before the Stanley
steel trust investigating committee at
Washington to a continuation of the
hearing, in view of the governments
suit against the steel corporation.
The government will appeal to the
United States supreme court from the
decision Of the commerce court grant.
ing temporary injunctions of the or.
ders of the interstate commerce COM
mission in the transcontinental freight
rate case.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1911-12-08
POLITICAL NEWS.

President Taft 10 willing to agree
"a the holding Of a presidential pri-
nary in Ohio. To that extent he 10
ready to accept the challenge of the
Ia Toilette Republicans to settle the
Republican nomination for the presi
Aency by a popular primary vote.
Colonel Theodore Roosevelt has 10.
sued a. statement seeking to discour.
age the efforts being made by some
sf his admirers to boom him for the
presidential nomination.
w. J. Bryan, in his Commoner, urges
Champ Clark to take from Underwood
the leadership Of the house and thus
qualify for the presidency.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1911-12-08
EARNS CASH FOR
THE REQUIREMENT
Understands Report on De-
partment Of Justice.
MORE FUNDS ARE NEEDED

Says Department Turned Four Million
Dollars Into the Federal Treasury
During the Fiscal Year 1911 and
Recommends That the Bureau Be
Given a Larger Appropriation in Or.
der to Extend Its Activities.
W%ashlnslun, The trust
busting" crusade of the federal gov.
eminent has demonstrated, in the
Judgment of Attorney General Wick.
ersham, that the powers of the bureau
OF corporations should be enlarged and
the bureau brought into. closer rela-
tionship with the department of jus.
tice. The attorney general will treat
this subject in his annual report, rec.
ommending that the bureau be given
the means and the legal authority to
acquire facts regarding the operations
Of all corporate business.
TO carry out the attorney generals
views congress would have to give the
bureau a much larger appropriation.
The attorney general will show in
his annual report that the department
OF justice was run at a big profit dur.
ing the fiscal year of 1911. From fines,
lumber trespass, the recovery of Gus.
toms duties, etc, the legal depart.
ment turned $4,000. 900 into the fed
cral treasury.