The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1904-05-20
EVENTS or EVERYWHERE.

Car load shipments of potatoes from
Mineola are beginning to go out.
j. w. Clements, of Sherman, was
critically stricken with paralysis Sun
day
Valley Mills has voted special
school tax for an independent school
district.
\ Capt Peary, of Arctic fame, is ar
ranging for a four years trip into the
heart of the frozen zone.
About 200 members of the Oklahoma
Press Association left Saturday for
st Louis to visit the Worlds Fair
for $780, 900 for the purpose OF con
structing a system OF water works.
Burglars have been so active in Chi
cago during the past year that bur
pIary insurance rates are to be raised.
drainage tunnel, 6o00 feet long
and costing $S5, 900 has just been con-
pleted to clear Cripple Creek mines to
depth of $50 feet.
Part of the new Russian loan issued
in Paris has been taken by the New
YORK banks, the National City being
samong those participating.
one hundred women members of
s. Texas .women,s Press Association left
Texas Tuesday for st. Louis. where
they will spend ten days seeing the
fair
Extensions of the Arkansas Pass Rail-
way are rumored from Lockhart to
austin and from the terminus at Kerr
Vile. to some point in New Mexico,
passing through San Angelo s,
The Democratic convention or che
District of Columbia resulted IN a
split. The eighteen Hearst delegates
boIted and threatened to send a sep
arate delegation to the National Con
vention.
Governor Ianham has appointed
Judge John j. Wood of Palestine te
the vacancy on the bench in the Thire
judicial district court, to succeed Judge
John Y Gooch, deceased.
Secretary Hay is in St. Louis, wher'
he is to represent the president AM
deliver an address of welcome to tn
International Press Congress, on tn
18th instant.
For the year 1904 Dallas County pal
occupation taxes to the amount 9
S74675, the largest amount OF occt
patton taxes ever paid by any count
in Texas for one year. For the sam
time Harris County paid $59,S71 an
rarrant $4o,314
The German residents near M
Gregor, are getting ready for a gre'
May feast. on May 10 at Quebe's Grow
three miles east OF McGregor: The'
will be all kinds of races, games, pu
lie speaking, dancing, prize shootin
etc.
Three negro tramps attempted
wreck an express train twelve mile
from Wilburton, I. T., by the use
nitro glycerine. A hand car set Il
explosive off, ard three men on Il
car were seriously injured. The Il
nroes are in the hands of. the Unit
States authorities.
The Overland Cotton Mills, iocat
at Denver, which are said to have &C
$780, will be disposed of under
forced sale on the 23d inst 1t
stated that Texas parties are figuri
on purchasing the property and
moving the machinery to the st;
and erecting mill.
During swimming contests in c.
nection with the opening OF pull
bathing pavilion in Jersey City. G.
Daniels Of the New York Athletic G
has established new worlds rec'
ITO for 11o yards. The course
cluded four turns
John A. Revier died at HILLSIDE
Thursday night He was eighty-t
years old. He was a veteran OF
Mexican and Civil wars. He was b
in Richmond, Va, and moved theI
to Texas.
The jefferson league, through
president and fifty other Democr
roe cont an urgent letter TO w