The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1904-04-01
EVENTS OF EVERYWHERE.

time Is abating.
A man in quarantine at LeWiSVlilt
with the smallpox broke the quaran
tine Friday night and left the county
Sam Saba has gone into the ppshih4
ton cclumne having given decisive
pro majority at the election Thursday
Buck weeds, poisonous plant that
I is immune from other insects, have
! been found full of young and lively
boil weeyils in Smith County.
A movement to appoint another
committee to Investigate alleged pos,
tai irregularities was voted down in
/ the House last week.
Porch climbers at Chicago relieved
the residence of T. Jeffrey, president
4 of Denver and Rio Grande Railway, OF
$1,000 worth of diamonds.
The organization of concessionaires
position officials to reduce the price OF
admission one half after 6 o'clock dur
ing the Exposition period.
Four costly fires have occurred re-
Gently in saw mills and planning mills
around Lake Charles, La, the losses
aggregating S215,O00. Labor troubles
are said to be the cause Il
A number of Filipinos en- route to
the st. Louis Worlds Fair were much
troubled to their guide, as they in
sisted on discarding clothing, and dash
ing out of the coaches. entirely nude.
The Elks of Waco have set for the
formal opening and dedication of their
new and elegant home April II. AT
this time there will be a grand ball
and-other forms of entertainment,
Brainard Howell, a well known rail-
road man. formerly general Eastern
is dead at Tenalfy, N. ]. He was
deputy surveyor Of the port of New
York under General Grants admins.
tration. 4-s ttsr. ry..
Gen Nicholas Aras, an insurgent
leader, who gave the firing order
which resulted in the death of Mach
fnist ]. C. johnson on the American
gunboat Yankee February /, at Santa
Domingo, has been recaptured. After
drumhead courtmartlaI he was. sen
fenced TO death and Immediately shot.
Several hundred beef luggers and
pork butchers at the Union Stock
Yards, Chicago. have gone on strike.
The luggers demand that one of their
discharged comrades be reinstated and
the pork butchers demand overtime
pay, which they claim.
Mrs. S. A. Irwin, great-grand-daugh
ter of Alexander James Dallas, is dead
at her home in Philadelphia. She wa
born on November Ia, 1915.
The beautiful snow is in many re-
spects white sepu1chre.
Representative Burleson introduced
concurrent resolution for the ac-
ceptance of the statutes of Sam Hous-
were made by Elizabeth Ney and are
expected to arrive in Washington
about the first of May. -
Two negroes engaged in a duel with
double-barreled shotguns in the dark
at Texarkana One of them, named
Toler Thornton, received several buck
shot in the face and is very painfully
but not dangerously wounded. The
other negro escaped.
Col. Vincent Marmaduke of st.
Louis died at Marshall, Mo-, Friday,
aged 70 years. He was a Confederate
and was a member OF the Knights of
the Golden Circle during the Civil
War
J. H. Roper, Itasca, Texas: GA few
farmers are complaining about the
yreen bugs in their winter oats, but
seems to be In spots in the east end
of the county. No complaint regard
ing wheat"
Fire caused by lightning in Jones
Bros mammoth retail dry goods store
at Kansas City caused loss estimated
at $3.50, 900, fully insured. OF the loss
$50. 900 was on stock and $4,000 on
building.
The Hood situation at Grand Rapids,
Mich. had reached on Saturday three
inches above the high water mark of
three years ago. At least forty Of