The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1904-05-06
EVENTS OF EVERYWHERE.

Lost, paying $4,000 for it.
A test case has been made to try
the validity of an anti-peddliRg ordi-
nance of the city of Waxahachie.
element appears to be reaching a
dangerous point and the critical con-
dition of affairs is further intensified
by the near approach of Labor Day.
A woman and a mouse created a
panic in a Philadelphia theatre Fri
day night, but fortunately there were
no casualties.
According to present indications the
coffee crop in the State OF Very Cruz
and also in the State of Michoacan
will be abundant this year.
One of the legacies left the country
by the Fifty-eighth Congress is a de-
felt which will reach more than sew
enty millions for the fiscal year OF
1905.
Ernest Moore of Hennessy, Ok was
dragged to death near Minco; he fell
from mule, which he was riding
from the field and caught his foot in
the harness.
Fire destroyed nine business houses
at Joaquin "wednesday, on the Hous-
ton East and West Texas Railroad.
The loss is estimated at $4,000 with
partial insurance.
Disbursements by Industrial, corpor
ations for dividends in May will be
the smallest for that month in a series
of years. according to estimates COM
piied by the Journal oof Commerce.
Prof. r.. B. McSwan, instructor liz
Biblical literature in the Southwestern
University for the past five years, has
been chosen president of the Epworth
University at Oklahoma City, o. T.
A Chicago Swedish Society have ap.
pointed committee to prepare a his
tory Of the monitor type of vessels,
placing the honor of the invention
where it belongs-as they believe on
Ericsson.
Jane Goodwin of Hoxbar. l. T., the
oldest negro in the territory is aged
112 Aunt Jane is hearty, well and
grandchildren and about 100 great
grand children, all fullblood negroes.
Because nobody wants to be post
master, the office aat Kilingworth,
Conn, maay have to be abolished. Con-
gresham Sperry says he can get no
one to accept the office. One citizen
agreed to act, but before his appoint
ment reached him he declined.
several carloads of soldiers bound for
the Preside, San Francisco, was
wrecked at Harbour station, the first
station west of Needles, CAL on the
Santa Fe railroad One soldier, Jas.
M Bowers, was killed and about
dozen injured.
Daniel j. Sally said the other day:
81 never intend to buy another bale
OF cotton in the speculative market
shall shortly organize large com
pany whose business will be the care
and scientific handling of cotton FROM
the time it leaves the field till 1t
reaches the consumer"
AT a reception rendered him by the
municipality, M. Pelletan, French min
lister of marine, has declared that
France no longer dreams of conquests
and her resources hereafter will be
employed to fortify her present posses.
sions.
Charles A. dig, artist and historian,
is dead from Bright's disease. Mr..
dig was iftyrnine years old and born
in Nierstein, Germany. He was in
the civil war as a member of the IA
nous Iron Brigade.
A shotgun was placed behind the
barn door of George Patterson's farm
near Weatherford, Okla, and so ar
ranged that it would discharge when
the door was opened. Not knowing
this, Louis Patterson, a son, opened
the door and was killed.
Papers have been signed dissolving
the theatrical partnership between
Joseph Weber and Lewis Fields. This
brings to an end the stage associa-
ton of the cofedians which began
twenty-five years ago.
4 w. ]. Stevens of Norfolk, Va. an
aeronaut known to the professional
world as Prof Charles Raymond, died