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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1912-03-14
French Revolutionary Anniversary.

FTcHCH ncVolutlonary AnnINeTsaTys
Today being the anniversary OF the
massacre OF the Carmelite priests OF
September, 1892, the crypt OF their
church In the Rue de Vanguard was
thrown open to visitors, and those
who liked might gaze on the piled up
bones and skulls that are arrfr 20
neatly in the red draped chapsl be-
meath the great Jet black crown of
thorns. Much of the beautiful garden
of the Carmelite convent still remains.
and the building itself has not been al
tered. It's picturesque facade looks
upon the pleasant orchard where ap.
pies and pears are ripening in the sun
and where white and yellow water
lilies grow freely in the small circular
pool.-Paris correspondence London
Evening Standard.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1912-03-14
Dislikes LadyIike Men.

The New York Evening Post doubts
whether the law that permits and
aims at regulating prize fighting in
New York can ever make pugilists
"ladylike." Well, as between a pu
gilist and ladylike man, give us the
pugilist. Courier-Jourial
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1912-03-14

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Taggart's.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1912-03-14

Wall paper in great variety a
Taggart's.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1912-03-14

Wall paper i'll great variety at
Taggart's.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1912-03-14

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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1912-03-14
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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1912-03-14

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All Kabo Corsets are guaranteed nom
unstable throughout.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-12-17
Refuses to Give Evidence

Washington, December 16.-Refusal to- day of Frederick Iewisohn of the New Ycrk banking firm of Lewishon Bros, to make a statement as 10 the profit made by A syndicate formed to float the stock of the California Petroleum company forced an adjournment until tomorrow to allow MT. Lewisohn to confer with his counsel. Martin Vogel. as to answering the question.
 He conferred with his counsel tonight and hurried conferences were held with his associates in New York by telephone If Mir Lewisohn declines to answer the question when the committee meets to- morrow the committee has the power to take the case to the speaker of the House who may certify the record to the dis triet attorney for the District of Colum- bia. It would be his duty to take the matter before the grand 5ury. and ask for an indictment for contempt of the House which is punishable by imprisonment
 The disputed question was asked af- ter Samuel Untermeyer, counsel for the committee, had led Mir. Lewisohn n through lengthy discussion of the op- erations which preceded the listing Of the California Petroleum stock on the New York stock exchange. Mir Lew isohn said that his firm. William Solo >~~~~-~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-12-17
Refuses to Divulge Profit Made by California Petro-
 leum Sydnicate
KENYON LIQUOR BILL
 IS UP IN THE SENATE
Archbald's Attorneys Begin Defense of Judge-Campaign Fund Probe Will Reopen Today-Hearst
 Will Be First Witness
THE DAY IN CONGRESS.

senate convened at II a. III.
 Senators Bacon and Gallnger desig- hated as presidents pro tempore for two weeks, each to serve alter nately.
 Chairman Clapp of campaign nVes- tigation funds announced W. R. Hearst will be first witness when com nittee resumes hearing today,
 Began consideration of Sheppard Kenyon liquor traffic bill,
 Court of impeachment resumed trial of Judge Archibald at 12:30 o'clock.
 Senator Southerland introduced bill to modify impeachment trials.
 Adjourned at 5:59 D. m. until noon today.
 House convened at noon.
 Considered miscellaneous bills on unanimous consent calendar
 Representative DeForrest introduced joint resolution proposing constitu- tional amendment to make terms of congressman four years
 Representative Berger introduced resolution providing that government condemn and buy the New York New Haven and Hartford railroad proper ties.
 Money trust investigating committee resumed it's hearing.
 House authorized investigation by District of Columbia committee of the district insurance commissioner of- flee and insurance corporations.
 Adjourned at 5:13 D. m. until noon today.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-12-17
COMMITTEE OF
 ELGIN BOARD IS ABOLISHED
 AS RESULT OF RECENT SUIT

Elgin, H.. December 16.-In the most exciting annual meeting in it's history the Elgin board of trade today abolished Inc practice of Y years standing of arbitrarily fixing the price of butter by its quota tion committee and adopted platform to have the board itself determine prices, based on actual sales.
 The action came as result of a suit recently filed by the government aiming at dissolution of the board. In it's bill the government mentioned that quota tion committee as one of the means used by the alleged butter trust to contro. prices.
 Reorganization of the board and amend ment of it's rules was the continuation o bitter fight for control of the organiza tion, waged for many years between tn commission or selling interests, and tn producers. The commission today electe q board of five directors, abolished the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-12-17
SIX WOMEN DIE WHEN TRAIN
 AND STREET CAR COLLIDE;
 SIX ARE BURIED UNDER COAL

Ashtabula, O., December l6.-slx per sons are known to have been killed and it is believed that six others are buried in the wreckage piled up 0 feet high when a coal train on the Lake Shore & Mich igan Southern hit a loaded stree. car at grade crossing here tonight.
 It Is said gates guarding the crossing were not closed, and that the conductor of the street car got out to look up and down the track just as the crash came. but he and the motorman, A. r. Me cutcheon, were not hurt seriously.
 The engineer and fireman of the coal train are said to have jumped when
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-12-17
TODAY'S AGE-HERALD

1-Public will reap benefit from courts
 decision.
 Preliminaries of peace conference
 completed
 Roads responsible for many wrecks.
 says commission.
 Power of railroad commissions may be
 limited.
 Banker declines to make statement
 in money trust probe. Wilson returns and takes up numerous
 tasks.
 Fight for control of next Senate talk
 ing form. 2-Dynamite trial nearing end. s-Seaboard may build into Gadsden. Resolutions passed by church. EEditorial comment. 5-New traffic rules in effect today Playwright here to see his wife. Serve free sweet potatoes to advertise
 south.
 Rohn appeals to supreme court. Fined heavily for "totingN pistol. Parcels post becomes effective on New
 Years day 6-Society.
 Dolly Dalrymple.
 Helping Hand Hints 7-Sports 9--To formally open American Trust. l0-Town terrorized by mad merchant 11--"After the ball Is over" 12-Three hundred and sixty convicts
 given freedom. l3-Reids body to be brought home by
 battieship.  lG-Bitter contest on sugar tariff.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-12-17

they saw collision could not he ayerted, and it is believed their bodies are in the debris.
 The dead are: Miss Laura Leophart, Mrs. W. II. Cook. Mrs. George Ktzon Mrs Frank Barttel Mrs. Emma Es- pay Mrs. David Stowe.
 Five of those believed to be buried in the wreckage were: David Stowe. Mrs. Eva Pancoast and i2-year-old daughter. D. E. o'connor. engineer; o. E. Hrsh- bergen fireman.
 Workers started at once to dis away the coal which is piled nearly 50 feet high over the debris of the street ear.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-12-17

quotation committee and made a num- Der of important changes.
 Among changes in the rules adopted is one lowering the quality standard of but ter to score 92 points in summer and 90 points in winter. The present require ment is 93 points in the test throughout the year. Another change requires that all butter must be sold the same week in which it is made.
 Several department of justice agents at. tended the meeting and took notes of the proceedings.
 James P. Younger of Chicago said:
 T think this action meets the objec- tions made by the government in it's suit for the dissolution of the board and will result in lowering the cost of butter to he consumer"
 Joseph Newman. producer, said:
 The change in the rules will not bene- t the public in any way. so far as can ee It deals a blow to the producer of utter and gives the fixing of prices to he commission men,"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-12-17
WILSON RETURNS AND TAXES UP HIS NUMEROUS TASKS May Remain Governor of New Jersey Until
 March 1
FORGED TO DECLINE
 TAFT'S INVITATION
On Account of Meeting of New Jersey Legislature He Will Be Unable to Visit the White House.
 Has Narrow Escape

Princeton. N J., December 16.-After months leisure and recreation in the Bermuda islands Woodrow Wilson re- turned home tonight and took up in earnest the many tasks that confront him in his dual role as governor of New Jersey and President-elect of the United States.
 Thousands of letters awaited Mr. Will sons arrival and though most of them concerned his national administrative, the President-elect made 1t clear he still was governor and intended to de- vote his energies now to state business. Mir Wilson said he would defer office filling and announcements concerning his administration until after he had cleared away the accumulated detail of his New Jersey office.
 Mr Wilson may remain governor of the state until about March l, only few days before he must go to Wash ington. This is because he wishes to finish his programme of legislation pend- ing in the state legislature which con venes January A.
 With respect to his cabinet, MT. Wilson said today he had not made any tinal selections At no time In his conversa- tions with the correspondents who have been travelling with him constantly has he mentioned the name of a single indi- yidual as a possibility for his cabinet
 Must Decide on Type Desired
 Mr Wilson said he realized that before deciding upon the personnel of his cabi- net he would have to determine just what type of cabinet he would form. He recognizes two types from a review of the manner in which his predecessors have met this question. One type is the political cabinet constructed from party material that must in sense be re- warded in order 10 preserve party har- mony. The other is characterized by MT Wilson as the personal cabinet made up of men whose business fitness IS known to him personally, and on whose judgment he would like to lean.
 Carefully steering the correspondents away from all questions of personnel, MT Wilson also declined to say which type
 
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-12-17
Report That Supreme Court Will Take Such Action
 Excites Capital
HENDERSON THINKS
 REPORT Is FALSE
Says to Deny Jurisdiction Over Rail- roads Would Complicate Business of Commission = Louisville
 and Nashville Hearing
By HUGH w. RonERTs.

Montgomery, December 16.-(Special)- That the supreme court will decide the Minnesota rate cases in the immediate future. and that the feature of she de- cisiori will be the limiting of the jiiris- diction of each state railroad commits sion to those railroads which operate exclusively in the respective state is the remarkable report which is exciting Mont gomery at the present moment That the report is not to be credited is the opinion of Charles Henderson, president of the railroad commission of Alabama, who holds that if the report has a ba- sis for truth, there would not have oc- cured the leak. That such an action on the part of the supreme court is not improbable, however. is admitted to be true
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-12-17
"Pr0gressives" Want to Es- tablish New System of
 Naming Committees
CONTEST WILL GO TO
 PRESIDENT WILSON
Small Body of Democrats Lay Basis for What They Term Progressive Control
 of the Senate
COLONEL GEORGE W. GoETHALS

Washington, December 16-rhe fight of the Senate under the next adminis- tration has taken definite form within certed action by a small body of demo- crats toward laying the basis for what they term progressive contfol in the next Congress.
 A series of conferences, eliminating in a dinner yesterday at which nearly dozen democrats were present have resulted In a general understanding for n reorganization movement designed 70 insure the control of legislation and poll cies after March by senators in full sympathy with the views of President elect Wilson. No detailed programme has been outlined, but the campaign is un- derstood to involve the entire subject of Senate control, the direction of affairs by senators approved by the present re- organizers and establishment of a new system of committee assignments that will distribute important committee places alike to men new and old in the service of the Senate
 Participants in Conference
 Those who have participated Tn the conference thus far are: Senators Lea of Tennessee, Smith of Georgia, Smith of South Carolina, Myers of Montana. New lands of Nevada, Ashurst of Arizona. Gore and owens of Oklahoma. Stone of Missouri. OiGorman of New York, Mar tine of New Jersey. and Representative Morris Sheppard of Texas. prospective successor to Senator Bailey.
 It is understood all of the senators named do not agree to the more radical features of the insurgent programme. although they have endorsed the ,seenral purpose of demanding recognition for all members of the party in the re- organization, and for the establishment of what they term progressive legisla-
 
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-12-17
Would Complicate Business

"If the railroad commission of Ala bama, said MT. Henderson were denied jurisdiction over any railroads save those which operate entirely within the bord- CTS of this state. the business of the com mission would become deeply complicated. It would mean that we would be com pelled to carry every local complaint to the interstate commerce commission the business of which would become so ex- tensive that ever to gain decision in any matter would require an indefinite pe- riod of time''
 Tt would mean, also that Alabama would be compelled to maintain com merce attorney, whose business it would be 10 represent the state before the in terstate commerce commission whenever the state had cause to make complaint concerning any railroad rate or trafnc matter of whatever nature" While MT Henderson's view beholds the commis- sion more important body following the naturalization of the reported decision than at the present. time, there are oth- CTS who believe that were the supreme court to limit the Jurisdiction of the com mission of this state to that railroad which operates entirely within the state. the usefulness of the commission would be at an end
 The L.. & N. Hearing
 At the present time the commission is engaged in the hearing the Louisville X Nashville rate case. c. w. Lamb, as- sistant comptroller of the road is still on the stand On direct examination, he held forth four days. His indirect exami- nation has endured already two days and will continues to endure for the remain der of the week
 From the viewpoint Of the business man stated Mir. Henderson, i've are getting along slowly. from the lawyer $ viewpoint. however we are doing finely cannot predict the date to the end, be- cause l do not know how many more witnesses the railroad will use. be- lieye that the states testimony can be
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-12-17
Participants in Conference

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-12-17
Must Decide on Type Desired

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-12-17

Takes Up Temple Iron Company
 The justice then took up the Temple Iron company feature. He detailed how
 Independent operators in Pennsylvania about 1898 pledged their tonnage to a new road to tidewater and how the New York, Wyoming and Western Railway company was projected in good faith on the strength of these pledges The eight collieries ofsthe simpson and Wat kins firm were described as powerful factors in this projeok He described show, through the aid of J. P. Morgan & Go. the Temple Iron company was iH3ought, converted into q holding coni- pany, its obligationH guaranteed by the rix roads in proportion to their annual coal tonnage carried and finally how the -~~~->~>>>>~>>>>>>>~~~~~ (Continued on Page Sevenl
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-12-17

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Omaha daily bee., 1912-06-09
TEN YEARS AGO THIS MONTH
as clipped from the newspapers
of that date.

Announcement was made at the
Union Pacific headquarters
that the double tracking of the
line from Omaha to Valley was
to be completed in the near
future.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1912-10-18
TURKEY HAS
STARTED WAR
Blames Bulgaria and Servia
for Eorder Fighting Will
Battle to the End.
GREECE NOT INCLUDED
Hostiiities There Are Likely
to be Started There With
in a Short Time.

London. Oct. 1S.-Turkey has form
Bulgaria and in an Interview the min
lister of foreign affairs said that
Greece. not included in the original
declaration. would be notified at once
that Turkey intends to fight her old
enemy.
When the declaration of war against
the two Balkan states was made public
there was much comment I've the fact
that Greece had been left out. but the
minister of foreign affairs said that
Greece had not attacked the Ottomans
as had the little states and tina. there
fore she was o included. As soon.
however. as the porte learned that
the Cretans were admitted to the
Greek chamber Of deputies 1t chose to
regard that act az a casus belli.
servia has notified her envoy at Con
stantinople hat she on her side has
declared war against Turkey and King
Peter has gone to the front to order his
troops to advance.
Turkey. IN her declaration. blames
Bulgaria and Servia for the border
fighting Of the last few weeks and ac-
cuses the little states Of attempting
to interfere With the internal affairs
Of Turkey. The Turkish war depart
ment has made a list Of the recent
skirmishes on the Bulgarian frontier.
accusing the Bulgarians of being the
aggressors In every instance.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1912-10-18
HEPBURN DIES:
HEART DISEASE
Another Vacancy In Upper
Branch of Congress From
Idaho Prominent Figure.
BORN III PENNSYLVANIA
Makes Thirty-Four Vacancies
in the Senate to be Filled
at Coming Election.

Washington. Oct. l8.-Weldon Brin-
ton Heyburn. United States senator
from Idaho. died at his apartment in
the Wyoming here last night. The
senator had been suffering for several
months from heart trouble and grave
concern had been expressed over bis
condition for a week or more.
MIR. Hepburn had the reputation OF
being one Of the hardest working md
also on occasion one of the most
stubborn men in congress. He was
born In Della ware county. Pa. May
20. 1852. His parents were Quakers.
He was admitted to the bar In 1879.
From the day Of his entering congress
he earned the reputation Of being a
virlle and able speaker.
Senator Heyburn's term would not
have expired until March 8. 1915. and
his death throws another senatorshlp
open to the Democrats in the coming
election. This makes q total Of thirty
four seats In the senate that will be
at stake in the November election
Perth Amboy evening news., 1912-10-18
JURY HAS FATE
OF M'FARLAND
Case All In and Justice Gum
mere Delivers Charge
Defendant 5 Story.
ARRANGING FOR DIVORCE
Admits Intimacy With Flor
ence Bromley Explains
Passages in Letters

Newark, n j., Oct iS--The case OF
here for the second tirus for the muir
der OF his wife on oct. ~. 1911. went
to the Jury today
MacFarIand was on the witness stand
In his own defense for six hours yes
terday. He told OF his life from the
time Of his birth In Thomaston. Me.
thirty-tive years ago, ny to the time of
the death OF his wife. His narrative
included his relations with Florence
Bromley. the young Philadelphia wo-
man who wrote the bunny" letters
He also told of his troubles with his
wife and END two letters from her
written from her fathers home in
Maine, In which she begged That he
send for her and the two children.
And he told Of the talks he had had
with his wife about q divorce.
MscFarland at the resumption of the
trial took up again the reading of the
Bunny" letters In one Of them Bun.
ny" wrote, referring to an outing in
the spring OF 1911. you said some
thing at that time that paralyzed me
with fear when you spoke Of somebody
dying" Mcfarland explained that
this referred to n threat made by Bun
ny" to kill herrelf. In her next letter
MisG Bromley said that she had chang
Cd her mind about dying and that she
would never give mcfarland up In
another letter she wrote: "Oh, Christ
mast | am looking forward to this
coming Christmas as | have to no
other. for ! know | nm going to have
you for a Christmas present" This,
MacFarland explained. was In response
to a letter from him in which be had
told Bunny" he practically had every
thing arranged for II divorce.
In one OF Mrs. Netherlands letters.
written from Maine. she says. per
haps Mrs Bromley wants to make trou-
BILE SO that you can be free to marry
Florence. but as long MS l live 1t shall
never be-"
Under cross examination MacFar-
land admitted intimacy with Miss
| Bromley and said he had offered to
give his wife statutory evidence ou
which to base a suit for divorce. He
admitted that here was no silyerwarS
In his home on which to use cyanide
Of potassium for cleaning purposes. but
said he had some In pa wn In Philadel
phia and had intended to bring Ii home
For more than two years prior to Mrs
Netherlands death. he said. there
had been no marital relations betwee,
him and his wife.
Florence Bromley came here from
Philadelphia to testify. She Was no,
/ put on the stand. however.
Both sides summed up last night
Chief Justice Gummere charged the
Jury this morning.