The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1904-12-09
EVENTS OF EVERYWHERE.

start, left Chicago for Panama Sat
urday.
Lawton, Ok, claims that the Frisco
will build large shops there at an ear.
~ date.
Friday morning the 16-month-old
daughter of Mrs. Alma Porter, OF
Howe, visiting at Van Anstyne, drank
an ounce OF carbollc acid and died an
hour later.
Upon President Diaz's recommends
ton to stableise the value of the
Mexican dollar that coin has risen
from As cents to 50 cents in exchange
value.
General John NJ. Wilson, chairman
of the inaugural committee, has ap
pointed Lieut. Gen. Adna Chaffee, CHIEF
Of staff, to be grand marshal of the in
augural parade.
An eight-foot vein Of coal was acct.
dentally discovered near Arapaho, O.
T., at depth of $50 feet by we'll drill
ers. Immediately a company was
formed to develop the find.
Chairman COrtelyou of the National
Republican Committee has announced
the appointment of Gen. John NJ. Viii.
son, United States Army, retired, as
chairman Of the inaugural committee,
The Waterman at the State capital
says that 1888 persons climed to the
dome Of that building during Novem.
Der, eighty-fye were from foreign
countries and other states.
The Dawes Commission is now rush.
ing the work to completion in Indian
Territory, and it is thought that it viii.
finish by July 1, 1905, the time allotted
by Congress for it's expiration.
The body of Albert Cavitt, a ne
gro was found badly mangled on the
international and Great Northern
track near Hearne, Friday morning.
On the body was found twenty-five
dollars.
The Chicago, Weatherford and Bra
EOS Valley Railway Company, a local
corporation organized for the purpose
OF building railroad from Weather
ford to Bridgeport, in Wise County,
Is taking steps to build.
The Postmaster General has ap.
pointed former Congressman James
Ranking Young, Of Philadelphia. su.
perintendent Of the dead letter office,
to fill the vacancy caused by the death
of D. P. Leithart, last September.
Impressed by the need for an insti-
tuition where money may be obtained
at any hour, prominent New York fl.
nanciers and commercial men have
1t Is announced by the Herald, organic.
ed the First Night and Day Bank and
Safe Deposit Company.
Eight of twelve laborers employed
in digging trench for laying water
mains in southwest st. Louis were
buried Monday by cavein and it is
believed all perished. The men were
working close together when tons OF
clay fell on top of them.
There are now in the State Pasteul
Institute several patients for treat
ment. One was discharged last Mon
day. In all ten patients have been
treated and discharged, and so far as
has been heard the treatment was en-
tirely successful.
Mrs. George Henry Gilbert, the old
est actress on the American stage
died at her rooms at the Sherman
House at Chicago, Friday, shortly at
ter she had suffered a stroke of ap
poplexy.
Fred Wittrock, who fifteen year.
ago served a term in the penitentiar,
for taking part in a train robbery. Il
dead at the home Of his mother a
Leavenworth, Kan, Of la grippe, age
H. A. Whittrock had been in business
here for several years.
The city authorities of st. Peters
burg have decided to grant $4,000 t,
the defenders Of Port Arthur and thei
families and appeal to the whole Rus
sian Empire to raise funds for tn,
same purpose.
The University Of Chicago is to b,
equipped with set of chimes, place,
on Mandel Hall tower. The first ste,
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