The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1904-07-08
EVENTS OF EVERYWHERE,

dul morton was sworn in as SpCrp
tary of the Navy Friday, and Mr.
Moody, retiring secretary. took the
oath as Attorney General Friday
The international strike Of the eIp
Vator constructors against the Otis Eln
Vator Company called on June II, has
been abandoned by the executive com
mittee of the union.
Judge Robert Synfngfon Gold pro,
lessor of law at the University Of Tex.
as, died at his residence in Austin.
aged seventy-eight years, Wednesday.
The Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe
and the Texas Central have completed
their union passenger depot at Morgan
aRd last week the interI0ckng device
was installed.
Several bOriug5 have been made by
fanchmen, and they claim to have
demonstrated that a vein ten feet
thick underIies thousands of acres of
land in FL Paso County.
After trip which circled the earth
John Alexander Dowie arrived in Chi
cago few days since. He remained
in his private car until switched ia
a train for Zion City
The Sac and Fox. Iowa, Pawnpe
Usage and members Of various Other
Indian tribes are gathering on the Otoe
reservation to celebrate July with
Che OtOes and Poncas.
A special from Dawson says the
gold output to June 80 has been over
Sl50,OOO more than during the same
period last year. The seasons out
put is estimated at over $4,000, 900.
Seven thousand five hundred union
miners in the employ of various fur.
naces in Birmingham, Ala, suspended
work pending the adoption of a new
wage scale, the other contract having
expired June so.
There was WindStOrm Friday eve |
hing in Bowie County between Malta
and New BOSTON. which blew down
about three hundred trees in a 4O-acre
Enclosure and Frustrated the telegraph /
and telephone wires.
A negro named Bud Bennett, to.
gether with mule team, was drown.
ed in Bots dare creek, twenty-five
miles northwest of Paris. Bennett was
accompanied by another negro who
escaped by swimming.
The first car Of peaches to be ship,
ped from the Longview market went
out last week 10 Northern buyers. The
car was handled through the local
agency Of the Gregg County Fruit
and Truck Growers Association,
Other cars will follow later.
The canning factory at SeagoviIle
made its trial run Friday. One hun.
dred and thirty-six cans of tomatoes
were canned in thirty minutes. The
stockholders are we'll pleased with the
little plant. The manager expects to
run steady after July 4.
About $4,000 new life preservers
nave been put in service on Neg York 3.
excursion boats since the Slocum dis. :
aster. All the manufacturers are =
working overtime. and the preservers
are being added to the boat equipment
at the rate of 1000 to 1850 a day. :,
A Cuban negro has confessed that v
he was the perpetrator of the bomb #
recently on the Cuba East. Il
cru Railroad at Guantanamo, and T
James Stuart, a Jamaican, who had r,
been arrested on suspicion of having a
caused the explosion, has been ro.
leased
Besides England and France al. .,
ready established in Mexican trade p,
Germany, Austria,Hungary and Den. 81
marx have recently established .,
steamship lines to that country with Ct
! view to getting a share of the ran. 81
IDLY growing trade of that country. 20 20
While walking in his sleep the son tn
81 s A. Wilson farmer living sly W
mites north Of Waxahachie, fell ont
u second story window. He was
considerably stunned and sustained
several painful bruises. tn
Under the Ktnkade law, which per. IA.
n'ts homesteaders to file on GAO acres r,
Il land, nine million acres of land has r.
zen thrown open to homesteaders in no
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