The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1904-02-26
EVENTS OF EVERYWHERE.

A fearfully cold wave passed over the
East commencing Monday. At SYRIA
cuse, N. Y, the thermometer register
ed 10 degrees below zero. All trains
are delayed.
Tom Lindley, a farmer OF Wood
County, was shot and instantly killed
in the public road about two miles
southeast Of Winnsboro Monday even
ing near shutdown.
While out hunting Albert Dabney,
young man of Thorp Springs, was ac
cidentally shot by his little brother.
One side of h sihead was blown away,
the brain oozing Que.
A young man named George Shaw
was killed by a Santa Fe freight train
near Valley Mills Tuesday. He was
crossing the track with wagon when
the train caught him.
The Commissioners Court has Or
dered an election to be held March "a
to determine whether or not Sterling
County shall issue bonds in the sum
Of $25 600 to build a new court house.
G. M. Brown, rural route inspector,
was at Italy this week, going over the
two rural routes petitioned for. One
route has already been established and
service will begin March L.
Around Milburn, 1. T., there will be
"A larger acreage put into crops this
year than ever before. There have been
hundreds of acres cleared right around
town.
At Basin in Pawnee County, Ok, oc-
Cured the death of Miss Sylvesta Nit
chell as the result of burns received
by her dress catching fire from an
open stove draft.
Miss Caroline Duboise. who was
member of the staff of the Kansas City
Star, died at the Mercy Hospital at
Laredo Saturday night, and the re-
mains were shipped to Kansas City.
From Nashville, Tenn, it is reported
that several business men in that city
are investigating proposition to
build a railroad to connect Amarillo,
Tex, with Lubbock, Tex, by a rail-
road eighty miles long, which may be
extended further south to connect with
the Texas and Pacific Railway 200
miles from Amarillo.
Another car of immigrants and pros
pectors arrived in Hereford Friday
from the North, under the manage
ment of Mr.. Tallmage of Chicago. He
l,Eiugs in two trains each month and
is settling up this county rapidly with
the Northern farmers from Indiana,
Illinois. Ohio, etc.
st. Louis, Mo-: While many have
seen maps of the Trans-Siberian Rail
road, few have seen the maps of this
railway system showing a line extend
ing south from the main systems to
point far down in China and perilously
: near Pekin. Mape showing this line
are with one exception only to be found
in the secret archives of Russia. Work
has been pushed vigorously on this
railroad for more than two years. To
build this line, which extends under
the Great Wall of China and much
imperial family, every device by which
information could be withheld from the
public was used.
Wheeler County will hold a general
local option election on March 16.
The tanners around Alba are pre-
pairing to diversity on a large scale this
year. They received their first car OF
seed Irish potatoes.
At a meeting of the State Board OF
Education, Matagorda County road
and bridge bonds to the amount of
$25, 900 were purchased for account of
the permanent public school fund.
These bonds bear four per cent inter-
est, run forty years.
A large earthern oil tank at Sour
Lake. covering three acres, of ground,
and in which oil was about four feet
deep. was struck by lightning and
thousands of gallons of oil were de-
stroyed.
Cecil A. Lyon, Chairman of the
State Republican Executive Commit
tee. has called a convention to meet
at Dallas on March %, for the purpose
of eIecting four delegates with alter
mates to the Nnational Convention in