The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1904-03-18
EVENTS OF EVERYWHERE

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An immigration steerage rate Is on +,
between Scandinavian ports and NOW
York of SIS. n
A new mill Is being organized at h
among local capitalists. Tue g
capital stock will be $4,000. q
Representative George w. Croft OF |
Aiken. s. c., died at his home tnere :
Thursday of blood poisoning.
The Northeast Texas Christian con-
vention will hold a three days session
IN Mineola beginning Saturday, March
26th.
Radium has gone up $4,2OO,ooo on
tbe mound during the last fortnisnE
and is now held at $12.60o,OOo per
pound.
In a difficulty Louis Green was shot
and killed at Baslrop. The parties rell
ont over a small piece of land. boUh
are negroes.
The Shreveport Brewery, the second
nlant Of the kind to be located there
within a year, having capacity Vi
Is. 900 barrels year, formally openeu
Thursday.
comnany has been formed at
! Hugo for the purpose OF oWlolhe aiu
operating an ice plant OF twenty-oon
capacity at Hugo. Machinery mas
been ordered.
William Alexander, a we'll digger
while being rescued from wen iuii
Of adamp." near Austin fell back anu
cd HIS skull. from which he d1eo
a few hours later.
President. Roosevelt has fixed the sal
cries of the Isthmian Canal commas
sfoners at $4,000 per year. ana IL
addition thereto Sis day while tney
are on the isthmus.
w IT. Mahan of Corning, Ark, died
q, tho international and Great Nortn
aern station at Tyler while waiting io'
"a belated train. Deceased was thirty
Eve wears of age and was en- rout'
IN his former home after HAVING
sought restoration of health In Sal
Antonio.
G. Walls of NormaE, an ex-men
Der of the Oklahoma Legislature wa
bound over to the Grand Jury In I'll
sum of $1,000 bond on the charge thf
he represented one farm and trace
another in Cleveland County to MI
Emma Harrington for $4,000 worth
jewelry-
n w. wallace, living four mile
north of Venus, lost his barn by fire, t
gether with two mules, three so'
mares, two new buggies, one sure
one binder, one mower, one gram see
err. two Cassidy plows, 200 busheis
corn. some oats, three tons OF hay a
saddles and harness 20 the amount
s125. Origin of fire unknown 10
loss 1000 with no insurance
Burnet correspondent says: i
rasult of the local option election
this county furnishes proof OF
wisdom of the Terrell election law.
was th, ouietest, most decent elect
ever held in the county The pee
here are full Of praise for the
law. The prohibition majority is al
$50.
Al. Shreveport plans have been c.
nleted for furniture factory, @
tal,zed ait $4,000, the incorpora
abeing H L. Perkins OF New orle-
T. A. Stephenson of Shreveport
Rray5on Armstrong of Lake Cha
Work on the factory, which VIII
ploy eighty people, will start as
as a site is secured.
The prohibition election held IN
boxes of Hallsville, Lagrones,
snrings and Nesbits resulted
p-o majority of As. The election
he contested on account of ailege
4imidation.
IN Kemper County, Miss
charge is made Shep Griffin a
was held in peonage. 1t is cha
that the persons who have been
ing the negro have made tn
against him and the officers VINO
him from them.
Doc Christian, negro convict
forgery, now an inmate OF the
SON County jail, has developed
of smallpox Every effort Is
made to prevent its spread
other prisoners.
Blast furnace "C'' at the Min
steel works, Pueblo. has been
blast furn