The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1904-02-12
EVENTS OF EVERYWHERE.


the United States. s
me three thousand schoolteachers S
IN the city of Chicago have had SAL t
airy raise of 500 per year.
work has been commenced on
gas plant at Cleburne. The plant VIII
Sc modern in, every feature
w N Mcleod and B. F. Bonner have
qualified as receivers of the Kirby
tumber Company, giving $5o'ooo ponu'
Over nine hundred book and job
4rrinters in Boston and vicinity went on
strike Monday demanding increased
pay.
Miss n. E. Sumner, cashier in Chi
cago woman's restaurant, resisted
hold-up until help came and saved $2oo
by her bravery.
Charles Spivey, who lived ten miles
from Checotah, l.. t., was murdered,
robbed of $4,000 in money and his body
bsarned ipsdhis house
It is reported that the Mexican Gov
eminent will increase the garrison at
New Laredo to 800 men and station
with them military band.
a brick building, three stories high,
ITO cost $4,000 is to be built at Texar-
kama to be used by ]. B. Amens Co.
for an ice cream factory.
Nellie. the 6-year-old daughter OF
Mr and Mrs. Oh aries Hayzle of Sher-
man. died from blood poison, the re-
suit of a nail wound in the foot
The contract has been let for the
erection OF the new Cumberland Pres
byterian Church at Mineral Wells and
ss5ork ON the same has already been
commenced.
It is announced that beginning the
f,rst of March five rural free delivery
routes will be put on out of Cleburne
and ali ARRANGEMENTS are now being
perfected for that purpose.
Aeeuncil Bluffs the residence OF
S-~peter christensen was burned early
Tuesday morning and his five children
nerished in the building and his wife
was 20 badly burned that she will die.
william Burgess, who brought the
Marschal Ncii roseeto this country, is
dead from pneumonia His greenhouses
IN Iang island were among the largest
- in the United States.
Mrs. Melinda Adamscn, aged eighty
two years. a resident cs Collin county
for over fifty years, died at her home
~ near Charlottesville, after an illness
several months duration.
Two freight trains ON the hansa
S1vsffy Southern collided near Mlnder
Ia. smashing both engines and crush
ing Engineer Craig and scalding Fire
man Macklin, both of Shreveport
ranada's railroad commission. whic
began its oficial life Friday is con
t,osed of three judges, or commission
era. chief commissioners and two al
6sssi AZ. and will possess function
Jan xercise- powers of far-reacnir
ezNaster.
Se last vestage of the America
p, apation of Cuba disappeared Thur
3y when the flag was lowered 1ro
She barracks and the last battalion
W American soldiers marched to II
v.risea.,ffHs pier and boarded u
United states ARMY transport SUI
ner.
In a fight at Wilton, Kentuc
whining town, Deputy Matthew l. M
TON shot and killed David Thorn
Fletcher and fatally wounded m
named Brock. The trouble was o.
serving a writ. Melton fed.
The three-year-old child OF John b
her of Norman, Ok. and the thr
vearoid child of Edward Reuter- OF
gals. ok. were burned to death.
~ former was playing with matches
the latter was with children abou
bonfire.
Home Christian, a negro. was
and killed two miles south OF Ca
5eII shotgun being the weapon u
sam vindas, colored, surrendered.
The government will issue the col
Ginning report. February 9.
wilson Frederick. of Duneilen' n
II IS said. has been paid $4,000
comprolnise to a damage suit Tor
inries in a railway accident His
WAS saved only by ska grating
seeded body, in which process