The Rice belt journal., 1904-12-23
EVENTS OF EVERYWHERE.

NdHdSS was uOHe.
The city council Of Lawton, Okla,
has let the contract to build at $lS,25O
city hall, on which work will COM
mence inabout 80 days.
Nominated by the President to be
Chief Justice of the Court Of Appeals,
District of Columbia: Seth Shepard of
Texas, now associate justice Of that
body.
The Attorney General of Montana
has filed a suit against the beef trust
with the object of preventing it from
doing buinsess in Montana.
A private telegram from Washing
ton states that President Roosevelt
has accepted an invitation to visit
Waco during his visit to Texas.
After suffering intense agony for
several hours with hydrophObia, Leo
Bales, the nine-year-old son of T. J.
Bales of Waxahachie, died Tuesday
morning.
Robert Burns family Bible, contain
ing interesting family entries, was sold
at austion at London one day last
week for $3.50. The purchaser was
q London dealer.
Foreign Minister Of France Del
Case announced at the cabinet meet
ing that he had signed the Franco
Swiss arbitration treaty similar to
the Franco-British agreement.
1t is currently stated that Dora NJ.
Brock, the child-wife Of the unfortu-
nate Col Casstus NJ. Clay, has taken
as her third husband Samuel Thomas,
of Valley View, Kentucky.
Federal Judge Burns has entered an
order In the case of Charles Dodge,
wanted in New York on a charge Of
perjury, orderering the United States
marshal to take Dodge back to New
York.
1t is reported that the imperial man
ifesto which will be issued from St.
Petersburg on Dec. 10 among other
things will increase the rights Of the
Zemstvos, and suspend the state Of
seige in cities.
the new postofflce building, now being
erected in Gainesville took place Mon
day afternoon at 4 o'clock. Addresses
were made by Mayor J. T. Leonard
and Hon. c. l.. Potter. A male guar
tet sang America"
The board named by Gov. Ferguson
to investigate conditions at the Ok
lahoma Insane Asylum reported 428
inmates, of whom 2S0 are males; ne
gro inmates 81, number of deaths dur.
ing the last year As.
The hunters around Waco say that
the duck season has been one of the
poorest ever known, and there are
no ducks in this region except few
stragglers and these are very wild,
having been shot at so much.
Thousands Of acres are being set
out In fruit orchards around Den,son,
which are more profitable than corn or
cotton. The Denison Wholesale Fruit
Company, conducted by Italians, has
ordered 100000 peach trees, rs per
cent Elbertas.
King Edward has, according to a
Herald dispatch from Milan, just pre-
sented the monks Of the Great ST.
Bernard monastery a magnificent new
piano, to replace one given them by
Queen Victoria half @ century ago.
Prof. H. A. Morgan, State Entomo
logist and secretary Of the Louisiana
crop pest commission, has been offer
ed and accepted the dictatorship of thu
Tennessee experiment stations, ten
dered by the University of Tennessee
Sam Little, who arrived at Denisor
Thursday from Doaksville, Choctav
Nation, reports that a hunter named
oliver was accidentally shot and kill
ed. Oliver lived in Red River County
A girl Is good,looking every time sh
takes peep at herself in the mirror,
President Woodrow Wilson O
Princeton University is at the Presby
terian Hospital, New York, where h
is to undergo an operation, the natur
Oh which is not stated, The attendin}
physician states, however, that
DR.. V. o. King Of Auburn, N. Y, ha
given the Texas State Historical T,