The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1904-04-22
EVENTS or EVERYWHERE.

ing ordinance to go into effect April
ED
On the 14th inst the Standard Oil
Company reduced the price of all re.
nned oils accent per gallon.
A wind storm at Bynum in Hill
County blew down the store house of
Mr.. Hawking and did considerable
damage.
Emma Mckinley, cousin by mar
rage to late President Mckinley, has
been appointed postmistress at King-
fisher. Okla
An eminent Chicago specialist ar
CUES that whisky drinking renders the
subject liable to typhus attacks, by
covering the digestive powers.
A shooting occurred about six miles
nerth OF St Joe in which e. Tuck lost
his life. Lem Dowd gave himself up
to the officers at Montague
William Weber OF Beaumont hes
received the award to build federal
building at Champaign, H.. at con-
tract price OF $62,6s9, against nine
other bidders.
Friday William Jones, negro, was
hanged at Walnut Ridge, for the MUIR
der of another negro. At Helena Pink
Williams. negro, was hanged for
numbering his wife.
State Health Officer Tabor has mail.
ed to Mayors of Texas towns a letter
urging them to take UP the fight
tiers milftating against health
Three lives were lost and over 500,
900 damage done by a runaway. coal
train on the Erie railroad near Rock
section men anr fireman were
Killed.
A good rain fell at Albany Thursday
night, but Stamford got only sprin-
kle Winds were severe but no Sc
srIoase tiamaeeis reported. AT Wealth
serford a frame store house was dam
aged.
f George Hancock, of Gassaway,
Corsicana and was instantly Killed.
The remains were shipped to his
nome. Deceased was an Odd Fellow
IN good standing. $3.50. =
The Naval Construction Company of
Mexico. with paid I'D capital of
ST 900 900 has been incorporated. The
company is to receive a concession
for a ship yard at Frontera, on the
Gulf Of Mexico.
W. About one hundred Hearst Demo
Gratis bolted the New Jersey Demo
cratic State convention and organized
rump convention and selected
Hearst delegates to the National Dem
'ocratic Convention.
Senator DIETRICH of Nebrash has
& been unanimously declared free of any
Improperly in the appointment of
Jacob Fisher postmaster OF Hastings
and in the leasing of building at
Hastings for Government uses. Three
Republicans and two Democrats were
on the committee.
The japanese legation says Rear
Admiral Uriu's reports show that Jap
anese torpedoes sunk the Petropav-
lovsk and damaged the Pobeido, and
declares that the reports that sub
marine boats did the damage are in
correct, as the Japanese fleet has no
submarine boats.
Bertha Montgomery, the young
Owensville, Ind, school teacher who
went insane about six weeks ago af
ter witnessing the whipping of thirty
one of her pupils, died at the hospital
for the insane at Indianapolis.
Col. G. NJ. Casey, who was until his
business failure last November the
Largest raiser of fine Shorthorn cat
lie in the West, is dead at his home
near Clinton, Mo, aged seventy years
Two rural routes were started out
of Marlin last week
The FIVE men, the pick of the metro
politan police of London, selected fol
the special duty of guarding the
aueen's jubilee exhibit, which will be
shown in the British pavilion at the st
Louis Exposition have have arrived.
A young man by the name of Lee
cot caueht in the belt of the Schlueter