The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1904-11-04
EVENTS OF EVERYWHERE.

pounds.
w. A. Myers Of Kaufman Count
has been awarded a bronze medal fC
bis exhibit of fine tomatoes at tn
Worlds Fair
Dick Weber dropped dead fro1
heart failure at Lexington. Ok
Thursday. Mr.. Weber was a SEWN
machine agent and resided at Lind
say, |. r.
A crowd of $50 homc5eekers vii
start from Chicago Nov. Is and vii
arrive in Texas few days later. Thi.
party will be shown over the state anC
aided in selecting homes.
A thief snatChed a watch from {
strangers pocket on Main street, Dal
las, Wednesday night, and running
across to Pacific avenue made his es
cape in the darkness.
Tracey" probably the oldest dog
in Texas, died Monday at the home OF
Mr.. J. D. Milan at Denson. Tracey
was q years Old. He vas mixed
Irish setter and pointer.
The submarine torpedo beat Simon
Lake No. 10 was launched at Newport
News Thursday. This is the third Of
the five boats believed to be destined
Tor Russia or Japan now completed.
Before the Broadway Athletic club
at Philadelphia; Peter Maher has been
knocked out by Fred Cooley Of Chica.
go. Maher took the count after re-
ceiVing body blow in the first round.
japanese section hands on the
Northern Pacific railroad have recciy-
ed word from all members of the first
reserve of the Japanese army TO re-
Turn at once to Japan for military pur-
poses.
st. Louis is canTassing the project
of establishing a meseum, taking ad.
vantage of all available material now
or exhibit at the Worlds Fair. A com.
mittee has been appointed to canvass
the matter.
Friday morning at Kiowa, I. T..
cotton gin and corn mill belonging to
Pitts & Jackson We're intirely destroy
ed by fire. Eighty bales of cotton in |
the gin was also consumed. Loss
about $4,000, with $4,000 insurance.
Major W. r. Jordan is in receipt Of
letter from Adjutant General John
A. Hulen to the effect that the regu-
lyar inspection Of the companies Of the
National Guard in Texas will take
place between November 10 and 20.
The American Manufac- uring Com.
pany OF West Virginia was sued by
Galveston for $4,000 on the seawall
bond subscription. Henry G. Davis,
Democratic candidate for vice presi.
dent, is vice president of the company.
Several planters near Stamford have
gone south and brought in large crowds
OF MexiCans to pick cotton, as the
labor here could not gather it. There
Is yet room for hundreds more to get
work, as the cotton crop is large.
Martin W. Littleton, who nominated
Judge Parker at ST. Louis. will make
speeches for the ticket in Chicago
Peoria, 81. Louis and indianapolis. At
st. Louis the speech will be delivered
in the convention hall where Judge
Parker was nominated.
The census bureau Tuesday issued a
cotton bulletin showing the quantity
OF cotton ginned up to October Is tC
be 426,SS3 running bales, against 292,
669 running bales for the came period
in 1903.
One Of the Boys from the sticks"
having perfected novel churn, which
he describes as Lulu" has applied
to the Land Office for patent" on
bis invention. AS patents are issued
on lands only at Austin he was refer.
red to Washington.
A dispatch from Buenos Ayres, Ar.
gentina, that the British government ,
mas purchased at Valparaiso, Chile,
eight thousand mules destined for the
indian army. The animals are to he
delivered in Calcutta next February,
AS far as the present Grand Jury
OF Bulloch County, Alabama, is con.
Germ the lynchers of the negroes Cato
and Reed will go free. The Jury ad. 8