The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-06-07
EVENTS OF EVERYWHERE

were received at Farmers Union
headquarters for warehouses.
George Stephenson, aged q years,
was drowned Friday afternoon at
Voth while bathing in the overflow
water from Pine Island Bayou.
Three persons were killed by as.
phyxiation and another was over.
come in a Lawton avenue rooming
'nouse in st. Louis Friday.
New York saw its first annual work
horse parade Thursday and liked it.
The affair was a pronounced success.
There were 1900 horses in line, dis
tributed in forty-seyen classes.
Again the Gould family is to be air,
ed through the courts on account of
the divorce suit against George Gould
by his wife, formerly Miss Katherine
Clemmons.
Salary advances averaging ten per
cent all around have been granted by
the Burlington Railway system to en-
ployes over the entire system. The
increase became effective May !.
The Nelson Morris Packing Com.
pany will purchase the Oklahoma City
packing plant and will expend $500.
600 in improvements and will employ
500 men.
While fishing in Love Lake Wed.
nesday near Richland, Jesse Vinson,
aged p, was drowned. The accident
occurred late in the evening and the
body was not recovered until Thurs.
day morning.
The bodies of four persons were
found in the ruins of the house occu
pied by Walter Schiller, secretary OF
the United Cigar Manufacturing Com.
pany at Long Branch, N. j., which
burned Thursday last.
The big ship known as the Ciudad
de Mexico has been destroyed by fire
at Buenos Ayres. A number of ad-
Joining business houses were damaged.
The damages are estimated at ST..
100000.
Two years ago Ernest MARITIME, of
Chicago, shot and killed Frank Mum
day, as he claims in self-defense.
Thursday he was arrested in Chicago
after having roamed afoot all over tie
West,
The famine which prevailed for
many weeks, causing hundreds OF
deaths and great suffering, has been
broken and China now has better
prospects,. The crops are still thin,
but the hot weather of the past month
has been favorable to good yield
H. H. Atkinson, aged SIS years, a
well-to-do citizen of Ardmore, was run
down and instantly killed Thursday
afternoon on the Rock Island tracks
ut that place, He was returning from
fishing trip and was struck by
humber of cars, his body being fear,
fully mangled.
The Circuit Court has unanimously
decided that the Buckeye Oil Com
pany, Standard Oil subsidiary con.
Germ, was organized under the cor
porate laws Of Ohio and as such II
must carry all oil offered it by the in
dependent producers at fair, remun
eratiVe rate.
Mrs Frank Croxton, aged 43 years,
and wife f section foreman on the
traction line, living near Roanoke,
Indiana, gave birth to four children
Thursday night. There were three
girls and one boy. Two of the chill.
dren have since died.
Rear Admiral Joseph B. Coghlan,
having passed the age limit, has been
retired from the service, and the com.
mand of the Brooklyn Navy Yard.
he will be succeeded by Rear Admiral
Caspar F. Goodrich.
The Chicago Chronicle has ceased
publication, owing to the fact that
the paper has been Improbable for
some time.
A shipment of apples from Australia
arrived recently in New York, after
having made the trip via Liverpool.
The interests controlling the thread
Industry have advanced the price of
thread eleven cents per dozen spools
of thread, and dealers throughout the