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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1911-01-19

The wild garlic" which infests por.
tions of Pennsylvania, Ohio and In
diana is a noxious plant first seen in
Pennsylvania. A farmer in southern
Indiana secured some seed wheat
from the Ohio Valley, and noticed
the presence of the onionlike pest in
the resulting crop. He gave 1t no
further thought, as the entire in
tested plot might have been carried
away in his hat" And yet within
three years the wheat from that SEC
tion of the country was refused by all
millers because of the malodorous gar
lie, the seeds of which are about the
same size as large wheat grains. In
Certain localities land values have
been sorely affected by the presence
of this weed
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1911-01-19
BATTLE IS FOUGHT
DISPATCH FROM MEXICAN BOR-
DER TELLS OF RESUMP-
TON OF WARFARE.
MORE THAN 40 ARE SLAIN
lnsurrectos Reported to Have Held
Federal Troops at Bay for Three
Hours When Latter Withdrew and
Went Into Camp.

San Antonio, Tex.-According to
advices received in this city Thurs
days more than forty participants
were killed in a serious battle that
took place between the Mexican fed
eral troops and the revolutionists just
across the border.
The news came from Ed. O'Reilly, a
newspaper correspondent who has
been at the front in Mexico near the
international line, and was received
here in a dispatch dated Comstock.
Tex. 1t reads:
big fight; more than forty killed;
hit myself"
The insurrectos, it is reported, held
the federals at bay for three hours.
after which the latter withdrew two
miles and went into camp.
This telegram indicates reopening
of hostilities after lull of about a
month, or since the insurgents fought
a draw battle with the forces of Cen
eral Navarro at Cerro Prieto and soon
afterward caught the federal COM
mander's men in an ambuscade near
Nal Paso and inflicted on them heavy
losses.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1911-01-19
SAYS TRUST WAR IS "SHAM'
SAMUEL UNTERMYER ATTACKS
GOVERNMENTS COURSE.
Says Little Combines Are Pursued
With Brass Band While Big Ones
Are UnmoIested.

New York.-In an address before
the annual meeting of the National
Civic federation Thursday Samuel
Untermyer alta cked the governments
attitude toward the trusts as mon
strous sham" According to him the
large and vicious" corporations go
unmolested while "the little fellows
are being pursued with a brass band
and the greatest press bureau ever
put in action"
Mr.. Untermyer first blamed the
courts and the government, since the
enactment of the Sherman antitrust
law in 1890, for failing to suppress
the crimes it was passed to prevent
and thus permitting the growth of
vicious" corporations. He then
charged the present administration
with prosecuting only the small COM
binations, such as the window-glass
and bath-tub associations, which he
claimed were innocent of criminal in
tent.
AS solution for the trust problem,
the speaker advocated rigid federal
regulation, asserting that state con-
troll was confusing and inadequate.
He also maintained that the express
sion guilt is personal" was merely
"a political catch-phrase" and really
had no bearing on the question. Fed
eral regulation. he believed, would
perserve all the benefits of combina-
ton, such as the elimination OF de-
structive competition, while avoiding
its evils.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1911-01-19
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Appointments at Capitol.

Chief Clerk F. M. Wylie of the SEN
ate announced the following appoint
ments:
Desk force, SIS a day-John Bessey,
Milwaukee; H. Blackman, Sparta; J.
L. Schnitzler, Depere.
Stenographers, SIS day-A. w. Orr,
Madison; R. T. Runge, Baraboo; R. H.
Hillyer, Madison; A. c. Tretow, Mil
waukee; A. J. Nelson, Madison; F. w.
Spencer, Waupaca; L. G. Vogt, Mil
waukee; March Polk, Kenosha
Index clerk, S. day-C. w. Rhodes,
Madison.
Typewriter clerk, 81 day-Don E.
Mowry, Milwaukee
Proofreaders, SIS a day.. B. VOL
fensen, Madison; e. L. Trickey. Me
nomonie.
Chief Clerk C. E. Schaffer Of the as
sembly announced the following addi-
tfonal appointments Of clerks and as
sistants: General clerk, SIS a day, E.
v. Nevin, Chippewa Falls; enrolling
clerks and proofreaders, SIS day, r.
e. Van Meter, Darlington; Joseph H.
Billed, Madison; typewriters, 81 a day,
L. B. Webster, Madison, Louis Cohen,
Madison; stenographers, SIS day, H.
G.. Pickering Superior; D. ]. Saposs,
Milwaukee: Frank Robotka, Franks
Vile; l.. l.. Lewis, Wauwatosa; A A.
Heinrich, Milwaukee; w. A. Lawton,
Richland Center.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1911-01-19
KELLOGG FLAYS OIL TRUST
Declares Standard Was Born and
Reared In oppression-AssaiIs
John D. Rockefeller's Veraclty.

Washington. - The governments
side of the story of the Standard Oil
corporation, with all the charges OF
sins laid at its doors, was placed in
part before the Supreme court of the
United States by Frank B. Kellogg,
special assistant to the attorney gen
oral, who, in an address OF three and
a half hours duration. on Friday en-
deavored to show that the combine
should be dissolved in accordance
with the decree entered by the fed
eral court in Missouri.
1.-THE Standard" he said, was born
and reared in oppression and hangs
today over the country like threat
ening cloud"
Mr.. Kellogg said John D. Rookie
Teller either did not tell the truth
in an affidavit he made in a. suit in
1880 about the alleged connection OF
certain refineries with the trust or
when he was ON the stand in the pres.
ent suit.
Didn't he offer any explanation Of
the affidavit when he was on the stand
in this caSe? inquired Justice Lur'
ton.
mo; he couldn't" responded Mr.
Kellogg.
Mr.. Kellogg showed that the profits
of the Standard OIL were so vast az
scarcely to be conceivable. He in.
stanced the Standard OH company OF
Indiana. On a capitalization OF
$1,000, 900 this corporation shows In
Is years $4,000, o0O in earnings, $780,
100000 of which it had naid In livi
dends, tho remainder held in sur
plus. He produced figures to prove
that some of the Standard Oils pipe
line had paid as high as 1880 pei
cent. on the capital, others paying
from 100 to $50 per cent.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1911-01-19

In the matter of dress we have
fallen upon a decline since the days
when the Duke of Wellington was re-
fused admission to Almack's because
he was wearing trousers instead of
breaches and silk stockings, says the
London Chronicle. Even Almacks,
however, had to admit trousers with
in its closely guarded portals the fol-
lowing year. When Gladstone was
up" at Oxford the reign of the dan.
dies was in full swing. When late in
life he revisited the university to lec-
ture to the undergraduates on Homer
he was asked by G. w E. Russell
whether he noticed any difference be-
tween his audience and the men of
his own time. YES" he replied, 'in
their dress an enormous change. l
am told that i had among my audi
ence some of the most highly con-
nected and richest men in the uni
versity, and there wasA't one whom
couldn't have dressed from top to toe
for e5"
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1911-01-19
MOB STORMS A JAIL.
RATTERs DOWN DOORS OF SHELL
BYvlLLE (KY.) JAIL, LYNCH
THREE NEGROES.
TWO ARE SHOT TO DEATH
Rope Breaks, Prisoners Run, Are Pur-
sued and RiddIed With Bullets
Murderer and Two lnsulters OF
Women Are Victims.

Shelbyville, Ky.-TWenty masked
men early Sunday stormed the jail
here, seized three negroes and strung
them up to a railroad bridge. The
rope broke with two of the victims
and they were shot to death.
The dead negroes are: Eugene Mar
shall, who had been convicted of the
charge of numbering an aged negro
woman, and had been sentenced to the
penitentiary for life; Wade Patterson,
charged with OBTAINING Miss Elizabeth
Rubel, white nine-teen-year-old Shell
byville girl, and James West, negro
charged with OBTAINING Miss Mary
Coley, white girl of this place.
Feeling had been high since the ar
rest of the two negroes several weeks
ago and they were taken to Louis
vile, where they were held for safe
keeping until Thursday, when the
local authorities brought them here to
stand trial. However, the news OF
their arrival spread and as there was
no demonstration, the authorities be-
lieved that the citizens would allow
the law to take it's course.
The mob rifed a local blacksmith
shop and secured a sledge hammer
and various other tools for breaking
doors and cutting bolts. They then
proceeded to the county jail.
On their arrival they drew their re-
volvers and demanded that Jailer Ed
ward Thompson surrender the keys OF
the prison to them. Seeing that he
would only cause trouble by denying
them, as he was without aid, he COM
Piled In their hurry to get into the
Jail the mob broke down the doors.
They then proceeded to cut off the
bolts holding the door into the place
in which the negroes were sleeping.
However, they took tirae to be sure
that the negroes were the ones want
the Jail.
The negroes were awakened by the
blows on the doors and knew that the
mob had arrived Pleading for their
lives they were dragged out of the
jail and hurried across town, where
they could De HanSSu OuISluc VI IAO
city. Ropes were quickly adjusted
and it is said that no time was given
over to a confessional.
AS Patterson and West, who were
hung on the same rope, were swung
over the end of railroad tie, their
bodies dangling several feet below, the
rope snapped. The two negroes then
made a break for cover. The body of
Patterson was found riddled with bull
let's near the creek Vests body has
not been recovered, but 1t Is stated
that he was shot. Marshall's body
was found swinging from the bridge.
There will be an investigation OF
the hanging, but it is believed that
there will be no arrests.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1911-01-19
BOYS AND THE FARM.

The department of agriculture Ia
proving its value constantly In many
ways, but in none more definitely and
clearly than In the encouragement Of
American youth to adopt the cultiya-
ton of the soil as a career. 1t Is
vitality essential that the children OF
farmers should themselves till the
land their fathers and their grand
fathers have titled, says the Washing.
ton Star. They are potentially the
best farmers. IL they move to the
professions or to drift ineficiently
through life, somebody must take
their places to grow the crops essen
tial to the feeding of the people. A
dangerous tendency exists toward the
elimination OF the small farmer and
the substitution OF the syndicate, OF
the large Individual holder Of land
This destroys competition at the
source of the necessities of life. II
tends Enthusiastically to higher prices
and to the increase in the number OF
non-producing individuals. Only by
making the farm attractive and profit
able can any Roadway be made
against this city-drifting disposition,
with it's inevitable consequence OF
dangerous concentration. The tele
phone. the electric car. the rural free
delivery and to some extent the good
roads movement have all contributed
to lessen the disadvantages of rural
existence. Now comes science, lead
ing to an increase in the profits and
in the dignity OF farming. 1t is Inn
portant that the competition among
the boys in the south which has just
been brought to so successful a con.
clusion should be extended into all
parts of the country.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1911-01-19

Where is the psychologist who can
give an explanation of the different
ways in which the weather affects
sports? There are baseball and foot.
ball, for instance. Both are strenuous
games, yet one flourishes like a green
bay tree in the good old summer time,
ne matter how hot, and the other
thrives only in a frosty atmosphere.
Players and spectators seem to be in
the same boat. When the sun shines
the hottest the heroes of the diamond
are warmed up to their limberest and
their best, while the lookers-on occu-
plying the bleachers just roast and are
happy. But let a cold blast blow
across the field and baseball shrinks
like q delicate flower touched by
frost. On the other hand footballers
want it cold and raw and really pre-
fer a near-zero temperature and a
furry of snow, If they can be had.
Such conditions appear to put gin
ger" into every brawny member of
the eleven. And the crowds on the
grandstand forget all about the wealth
er while watching the wonderful do
fngs of their favorite players.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1911-01-19
GARMENT STRIKE Is ENDED
Agreement Is Reached With Big Chi
cago Firm-GrleVances Are to
BE Arbtrated.

Chicago.-The garment workers
strike is practically ended
An agreement was reached late
Saturday between the Hart, Schaff-
ner & Marx Clothing company and
the joint conference and strike COM
mjttee, which ends the long struggle
for 10000 of the strikers, returning
them to their positions with the
firm.
The agreement, in all probability,
will bring an early settlement of the
entire strike. BY the terms of the
agreement all former employees of the
concern will be taken back, and there
will be no discrimination against
members of the United Garment
Workers. The compromise provides
for a committee Of three to arbitrate
all grievances of the strike.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1911-01-19
State Supreme Court.

State supreme Court.
In the supreme court the following
matters were heard and considered:
1873. Ketchum, appellant, VS.. Chica-
go. St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha
railway: Upon motion Of appellant ap-
peal dismissed with costs.
169. City of Manitowoc, appellant,
VS.. Manitowoc Traction company:
Argued by N. L. Haugen for appellant
and by E. G. Nash for respondent.
ITO. Golfrelson Bros. Co., appellant,
VS.. Dusing ct al, respondents: Argued
by v. |. Minahan for appellant and by
E. G. Nash for respondents.
III. Bartlett ct al, VS.. Smith: Sub
mitted on case and brief.
172. Nelson VS.. Kress: Submitted
on case and brief.
17S. Phillips ct al, respondents, VS..
Eggert ct al, appellants: Argued by
A. L. Haugen for appellants and by M.
E. Davis for respondents.
TIA. Schmidt, executrix, respondent,
VS.. ]. G. Johnson Co.. appellant: Ar
gued by A. L. Nash for appellant and
by A. J. Schmitz for respondent.
176. Wolf VS.. Cantons ct al: Appeal
dismissed with costs for want of prose
cution.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1911-01-19
Pedigreed Grain Exhibits.

The tenth annual meeting OF the
Wisconsin Experiment association, a
society of agriculturists, having more
than $4,000 members throughout the
state, began at the college of agricul-
ture. One of the finest exhibits OF
pedigreed and select grain got to-
gether in this country is being shown.
There are 600 entries, some of the en-
tries containing as many as hundred
grades and varieties. The election OF
officers resulted:
President-C. P. Norgord, Madison.
Vice-President-E. w. Lee, Granton,
to succeed A. G.. Austin, GAINESVILLE.
Secretary-Prof. r. A. Moore, ag-
ronomy department of university.
Treasurer-H. N. Longley. Dous-
man.
More than 500 members Of the asso-
citation were here when the first SEES
sion opened. Prof. A. l.. Stone OF the
Wisconsin agronomy department, and
Prof. C. P Bull of Minnesota univer-
sity, are judging the grain. All sam
pies receiving awards above fifth place
will be entered in the National Grain
show in Columbus, o., January 20 to-
February II. Samples on exhibition,
will be auctioned off to the highest
bidder, delivery to be made following
the show at Columbus.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1911-01-19
Pass Pharmacy Exam.

Twenty-Six Pass Pharmacy Exam.
The Wisconsin state board of phar
macy concluded its examination. Out
of "a applicants present, 26 were sue
cessful. Sixteen were granted regis
tered pharmacist certificates, and ter
were granted assistant pharmacist Ger
tif1cates.
Registered pharmacists certificates
granted as follows:
Alfred w. Deicken, La Crosse; Lee
Kozlowski, Milwaukee; Elmer F
Schmulzler, Milwaukee,; Robert H
Baarth, Milwaukee; James Hanson
Sturgeon Bay; Carl A. Erickson, Sol
diers Grove; G. G. Robertshaw, Elk
hart Lake; Frank J. Pawlok, Milwau
kee; Edward N. Farber, Milwaukee;
William Weimar, Dale; William G. Co
tanche, Oshkosh; Frederic La Piana
Milwaukee; Frank M. Sheele, Wauwa
tosa; George c. Jeske, Milwaukee;
Max Tetzloff, WATERFOWL; Fred A
Omilling, Menomonie.
Assistant pharmacists certificates
were granted to the following:
Arthur Merke, Milwaukee; Edwin B.
Arnold, Lake Geneva; William j.
Brennan, Woodstock, ILL.,; William S,
Hammersley, Lake Geneva; Edward
G. Bach, Green Bay; Roy D. Johnson,
Stanley; Ben P. Roska, Port Washing
ton; Frank G. Pomeroy, Kenosha; A.
B. Averbook, Superior; Clarence Da-
wilson, Milwaukee.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1911-01-19
CHERRY RELIEF REPORT MADE
Miners Widows and Children Paid
$54 1888 Still
Left.

Springfield, ILL., Widows and
children Of miners who were killed
in the Cherry mine disaster of Novem-
Der IS, 1909, have received $54, 594.52
from the Cherry relief fund. according
to the report of Secretary Duncan Nc
Donald of the Cherry relief fund COM
mission, following meeting of the
body at Chicago
The report in detail shows that six
children of the miners who were killed
have since died, and IL benedciaries
have gone to Europe. Six of the 142
widows who lived at Cherry just after
the accident have remarked, and only
102 reside in the village at the present
time. The sum of $214,593.53 remains
in the hands of the commission to be
paid to the widows and children of the
dead miners.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1911-01-19
FIVE DIE IN A WRECK
Passengers In Sleeping Car Crushed
Under Locomotive at Ba-
taVia, N. Y.

Batavia, N. Y.-Five men are dead,
two were probably fatally injured and
eight others seriously hurt in the
wreck of the Western Express and
the Boston and Buffalo special, both
westbound, at the station here of the
New York Central railroad Friday.
The victims were all in the rear sleep
er of the special.
The engine of train 90, the west
ern express from New York to Chi
cago, struck the rear of 40, the Bos-
ton and Buffalo express, with such
force that the last car Of No. 40,
sleeper, was crushed.
The engine was reduced to wreck
age, beneath which four bodies
were found The mutilation was SO
great and steam played such havoc
that early Identification was impos-
sible.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1911-01-19
FIVE DEAD IN GAS BLAST
}neIIsVilIe,, Pa.-Twelve Per-
sons Injured.

Connellsville, Pa.-Five persons
were killed and twelve injured in
gas explosion that wrecked a we'll
filed five and ten-cent store here
Thursday. The fire that followed
completely destroyed the building
Clerks and customers were buried
in the collapse of the walls. One
young woman went mad in anticipa
ton of her horrible fate, fought off a
rescuer and burned to death. The
heat and smoke was SO intense that
all attempts at rescue were futile.
Only three of the victims, all girl
clerks, have been identified.
The failure of workmen to cap
the supply pipe after removing a nat
ural gas meter caused the blaze.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1911-01-19
STRIKE IN ALL PORTUGAL
Rail- Employees Walk Out; Business
Houses ldle-Spanish Minister
Says Paralysis Is General.

Lsbon.-A majority Of the railroad
employees in Portugal have gone on
a strike. The government had long
been warned of the movement and
took active measures to maintain the
service, with partial success.
Following the example of the rail-
way men the employees of the CONNER
cial houses quit work on the ground
that the government had failed to is
sue decree fixing the limit of days
work at IL hours and providing one
day of rest in seven.
AS a consequence Of this action
many business places in this city are
closed. The strikers are making an
attempt to extend the movement to
the provinces.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1911-01-19
COL. ROOSEVELT IN DENIAL
Declares Statement Concerning Him.
self and Senator Lodge by Con-
gresham Ames to Be False.

Decentralization Roosevelt took
leap into the Massachusetts, sena-
torial contest Saturday when in a
telegram addressed to Joseph Walker,
speaker of the Massachusetts, house of
representatives, he vigorously cham
pioned the cause of Senator Henry
Cabot Lodge and charged Congress
man Butler Ames with deliberately
misrepresenting facts.
The telegram, which was sent from
Oyster Bay, was called forth by the
publication of an alleged statement
by Congressman Ames, who is active
in opposition to the candidacy of
Senator Lodge for reelection.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1911-01-19
EDDY WILL DECLARED VOID
Gift of $1,000 900 to "Mether" Church
Is Said to Be
Illegal.

Concord, N. H.-Mrs. Mary Baker
G. Eddy's 100000 bequest to the
First Church of Christ, Scientist.
of Boston, known as the Mother
church." is null and void under the
New Hampshire law, according to GER
tain legal lights, and it is possible
that her sons may get the estate.
The residuary clause in the will,
leaving the 100000 to the Mother"
church, is not legal, in the opinion OF
Ex-United States Senator William K.
Chandler, Hannis Taylor, the profess
sor of constitutional law at George
Washington university, end others.
Their opinion was given out for pub
LEGATION here
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1911-01-19
Troops XIII Eleven In Riot.

Bombay.-Troops called out to
quell the riot fred several volleys into
the crowds, killing II and wounding
IA persons.
Each year riots mark the celebra-
ton of the muharram, the first month
of the Mohammedan year. when
trouble arises between the Sunnites,
or orthodox section, and the Shiahs,
the second great division of Moham-
medans. A procession was prohibit
ted
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1911-01-19
Babcock Tes

Babcock Test Value Steadily Increases.
"The Fat Testing of Butter by the
Babcock Method" is the last subject
treated in the biennial report Of the
state dairy and food commissioner, J..
@. Emery, for 1909-10, just issued. The
article is written by DR.. Richard
Fischer, for a goodly number Of years
state chemist and now professor of
chemistry in the University of Wis
consin.
"The establishment of legal mini
mum standards of milk fat in butter"
he says, has called special attention.
to the desirability Of having a simple,
rapid and yet sufficiently accurate
method of making determinations of
the fat content of this important dairy
product The chemical method
of other extraction of the dried butter,
while accurate, cannot be carried out
without special equipment, and then
only by trained manipulation. OF the
four main constituents of butter viz,
salt, curd, water and fat, the latter is
by far the most valuable and it would
seem that the establishment of a
standard for this constituent would be
much more desirable than standards
for any of the other ingredients, pro-
vided simple, rapid method could be
found which would give sufficiently &C.
curate results in the hands of butter
makers using reasonable care"