River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1906-10-18

movement on foot to merge the Con-
gregational, Methodist Protestant Ind
United Brethren churches into one
body by the east Pennsylvania confer
ence of the United Brethren church.
quantity of loaded bombs, rifles,
cartridges and daggers have been
found in two Armenian churches at
Shusha. Several priests were ar
rested.
|. The governor general warned the
factory owners and shopkeepers OF
Lodz not to pay wages to the striking
workmen and clerks under penalty OF
| $780, The Weather residents are
| leaving LODI in fear of an anti-Jewish
| attack.
Revolutionists at Kaluga succeeded
| in obtaining possession of box con-
tanning sections OF machine gun
which was bound for Moscow from
the Tula artillery factory.
| Fresno, Cal, gets the next quad
rennial session of the Danish Brother
hood, to be held in 1910.
Portland, Ore, freight handlers
have been granted an increase
amounting to about ten cents day.
John B. Moran accepted the Demo
| cratic nomination for governor OF
Massachusetts.
The celery crop in Michigan has
been practically destroyed by the
frost. The growers were caught I'M
awares and had failed to bank it.
President Harvie Jordan, of the
Southern Cotton association, esti-
mates that between 10000 and $4,000
bales of cotton were killed in Georgia
alone by the cold snap
Capt. E. L. Taylor, retired capital
list and formerly president of the At
lanta and West Point railroad, died
at Admission, Ala. He suffered stroke
of paralysis.
Charles w. Bennett, lawyer, who
was prominent as candidate Tor
United States senator when Utah was
admitted to statehood, was run down
and killed by street car at Salt
| Lake.
The stockholders of the Norfolk &
| Western railroad at their annual
meeting decided to issue $34,OOO,O 600
of additional stock.
! Advices from important cotton Sec
tions of Oklahoma and Indian Terri
| tory are to the effect that the crop
was materially damaged by the frost.
The crop was practically made, but
much of the cotton has not yet ma
tured, and the plant in that stage will
be killed A conservative estimate
cleaned from the reports places the
yield at one-half bale per acre.
James Thornton and E. Hofsess,
gamblers, engaged in pistol duel In
the offices of brokerage company IN
Denver, and Thornton received a
wound in the abdomen which may
prove fatal. Hofsess was shot in the
right wrist
Charles w Kohlsaat, special com
missioner of the jamestown exposl-
ton, appointed Jerome Zeggio, of
| Florence commissioner in Italy Tor
the exposition.
Mrs. Ira E. Wood, wife of farmer
at Winchenden, Mass, was shot IN
the face and almost instantly killed.
The charge of shot that struck her
was fired through a window of her
home.
The lockwood gate failed without
warning. One hundred and twenty
feet of the gate rose and floated down
the Colorado river. This was por-
ton Of the work of turning the Colo
RADIO.
Hon. Virginius Hendricks, aged rs,
who was member of the confederate
congress from Virginia, died at Frank
fort, KY.
Aunt Jane Mitchell (coloredD, aged
III years, died at Frankfort KY, OF
burns received by her clothing catch
ing fire. She was brought here many
years ago from Maryland by the Hunt
family.
In the presence of 60 pupils in the
South Euclid school, Cleveland, o.,
Harry Smith, Is years old, shot to
death Miss Mary Shepard, teacher
% years old. Cornered behind the
barn in the rear of his home in War.
rensville two hours later, Smith shot
himself through the head, dying in
stantly.
Much legal argument and little
actual progress marked the second
day of the trial of the Standard Oil
company of Ohio, at Findley, O., for
conspiracy against trade.
Fire broke out in the Palace saloon,
at Goldfield, New, destroying that
place and three buildings adjoining.
The loss is estimated at 100000. For
atime it seemed certain that the en-
tire town would go.
The assignment of ]. M. Ceballos &
Co., bankers and merchants of New
York, with liabilities between $4,000,
900 and $4,O00,000, was announced in
a statement which declared that the
failure was due to the defalcation and
absconding of Manuel Silveira, of Sill
veira & Co., Havana agents of the
New York company.
Miss Carrie Anna Wall, of Augusta
Ca, and Alexander Denham Estill, OF
Savannah deaf-mutes, were married
at Augusta by Rev. 0. j. Wildin, OF
Baltimore, also a mute. The brides
maid likewise is mute.
Capt. Perian, of the British bark
Gladys, from Shields for Seattle, put
in at falmouth, Eng. and reported
that during a gale two seamen fell
from the topsail yard, being instantly