The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1904-09-09
EVENTS OF Everywhere.


pointment of Earl Grey as Governor OF
Canada in succession to Earl Of Mimic.
NJ. L. Robbins, general passenger
scent of the Houston and Texas Cen
trail, fell from a street car, ct Houston
breaking his right arm and spraining
his left les.
James Morris, living near Numa, in
Kay County, Ok, was found dead on
the highway, with his team near by
No cause is assigned at this time for
his death
The Rock Island shops at Chickasha
which have been closed for several
weeks, have reopened All the old
employees here were given places ard
the force will be increased.
The Westinghouse Machine company
has recently developed a new system Of
electric train lighting which consists
of a steam engine, electric generator
and a storage battery equipment.
According to the local weather bur
eau, the temperature at Chicago has
established a new record for the sum-
mcr months of IA degrees less than
the normal Of 80 years preceding.
Fire swept the entire business por,
ton Of Gem, Idaho, and a large part
Of the residence district, entailing a
loss of $4,000 and destroying nearly
one hundred houses and rendering
scores Of people homeless,
The railroad Commission has been
petitioned by the citizens of Lorena
to issue an order requiring the Mis-.
souri,, Kansas and Texas Railroad
Company to provide more adequate
depot facilities for that place.
At Yellow Creek, o., six persons
. lost their lives in an oil explosion. A
house was fired by a street lamp and
the heat the house fred a derrick and
exploded an oil tank, resulting in the
disastrous loss of life.
The Texas & Pacific has arranged
to put on a special cotton train on
September Is. 1t will start from Fl.
Worth at 10:40 at night and make 613
miles in less than fifty hours. This
done to expedite cotton movements
from the west and northwest Texas.
The deficit in the A. and NJ. Col.
lege funds, of $4,000 and the dis
parity Of $4,000 between the college
bOks and those of the bank is causing
some spry hustling in the quarters Of
the State service responsible for the
shortage.
Rosh Hashona, the Jewish New
Year, will begin with the setting Of
the sun on Friday, September 8. This
marks the opening Of the year $3.50,
which represents the Hebraic compu.
tation of the time which has elapsed
since the beginning of the world.
Judge Parker will leave Esopus
Saturday, Sept. "a, to visit the Loui.
siana Purchase Exposition at st. Louis
and will be in st. Louis four days. He
declares that he will make no speech.
es either going or returning.
The secretary of the interior has
made advertisement for bids for the
construction Of court houses. jails and
school houses in the counties of Com.
anche, Caddo and Kiowa, formed from
the Kiowa-Comanche country, opened
10 settlement en- Aug 6, 1901.
Charles Hoskins, an American and
a man of temperate habits and mild
disposition, has been killed in lum.
Der camp near Tenoosique, in the
State Of Tabasco. The local authori.
ties are investigating the matter.
Philip Caldwell. an elevator con.
ductor, was killed and eight persons
were injured by the falling of pass
enger elevator in the store of Sears,
Roebuck & Co., Chicago, Friday. The
car fell from the fifth floor to the
basement. .....
Former Gov. George w. Peck of Mil.
waukee was chosen as the standard
bearer Of the Democrats Of Wiscon.
sin, having received the nomination
for governor by reclamation amid
great enthusiasm.
While Constable o. L, Mcdonald Of
the Tigertown Precinct was attempt.
ing to arrest party Friday on a
charge Of ARRAY at a sawmill near Di.
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