The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1905-05-19
EVENTS OF EVERYWHERE.

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The President arrived in Washing
ton on Friday from the West. He tray
eled 5000 miles and passed through
On this memorable trip,
James Lewis, 104 years old, is dead
al his home in New York, He served
with two sons throughout the Civil
War. Mr.. Lewis was the father OF
twenty-seven children,
The body of Paul Jones is to be
buried at Annapolis. It is considered
probable that the Galveston will be
one of the cruisers sent to bring the
body of the naval hero to America.
Many law books. letters, photo
graphs, bank books and papers were
picked up at Cobb, Ok, having been
blown from Snyder, distance of sixty
miles. The storm did little damage at
Cobb.
Hubert c. Beseer is dead at a hos
pital at Chicago, following an opera
ton. He vas known throughout the
United States and Europe as an organ
list and finished Interpreter Of church
music
According to advices received from
Vera Cruz, the Hamburg-American line
steamship Castillo, which sailed from
Antwerp March 9, has been given up
for lost with all hands, a crew of about
thirty men.
Two persons are known to have
been killed and several are thought to
be buried beneath a mass of debris and
twenty others have been taken to the
hospitals as a result Of an explosion
Of a gas tank in Philadelphia.
A sale of autograph letters, the last
communication written by Gen. Geo.
B. Mcclellan. and sealed and stamped
after his death, brought so. It was
a business note which the general pen
ned only four hours before his death,
&, bot NOpUnOjnn
plorer, who started out June II, 1908,
has discovered the long sought north
east passage and that the problem
which has baffed navigators for the
past four hundred years is solved.
Andrew Carnegie has offered to Rad
clife college $4,000 for library build
ing on condition that an equal sum
shall be raised among alumn&" and
friends of the college for endowment
Of the library.
A dispatch from Los Angeles to the
Chronicle says that E. H. Hartman Of
the Southern Pacific has taken over
the holdings of the Ladura mine in So
nora Mexico The price paid is said
to be in the neighborh0Od of 81 000, 900.
Former President Grover Cleveland
has returned from q cruise in Southern
waters, which began two weeks ago on
E. c. Benedict's steam yatch O'Neil.
Mr. Cleveland left the yatch at once
on arrival at New York for his home
The thirty-sixth general conference
of the Seventh Day Adyentists opened
in Washington Friday and will con
tinue until May 30. President Daniels
said the Adventists' had gained as
much from 1893 to 1903 as it hat
gained during the preceding fifty year!
of its history.
In a wild religious anti-samitic fren
~ two hundred Jews were killed ant
wounded at Zehomiter, Russia.
Levie Wood, a young man employed
in the Sherman Planning Mill, got hi
hand caught in the machinery ant
will lose three fingers.
The pioneers Of Tarrant and tn,
Confederates are arranging for a grea
picnic and reunion at Fort Worth OF
May "a. Judge C. C. Cummings ha
the matter we'll in hand, and says tn
outlook is most promising.
The Reichstag has voted Prince Gus
tai an appanage Of $1,000 in view @
his approaching marriage with Prir
81 cess Margaret of Connaught. Kin
oscar has presented the couple wit
the beautiful chateau Sofario on tn
Sound.
After an illness extending over tw
or three weeks. and in which remar]
able vitality was displayed Judge
B. Scarborough, a prominent attorne
and one of the foremost Baptists