The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1905-10-20
EVENTS FROM EVERYWHERE.


cry won the Vanderbilt cup on Mine
ola course.
Secretary Root was officially mott
fed of the signing of the peace treaty
by the two emperors.
New Orleans reported nineteen new
yellow fever cases Saturday, five
deaths and seven new foci.
Charles G. Dawes of Chicago is said
to be the probable successor to Sec
rotary Shaw.
America proposes retaliation against
Cuba if she enters into a commercial
treaty with England.
An earthquake shock was felt at
Santiago, Cuba, Sunday, stronger than
that OF Friday or the shock of Satur-
day.
The compositors of St. Petersburg
decided TO engage in a three days
strike in sympathy with the Moscow
strikers.
Notifications of treaty Of Ports
mouth have been officially exchanged,
thus formally ending the war in the
Far East.
Five steerage passengers swept
overheard the Campania last week by
a big wave The Philadelphia, near
by, escaped the disaster.
An unwarranted run was made Sat
urday on the Germania Savings Bank
OF New Orleans. It's cash resources
were ample.
Dr. H. w. Furniss, negro of Indian
apolis, has been named as the success.
or of w. F. Powell, resigned, as min.
lister to Hayti.
The Petit Corporal of Paris publish
es a rumor that Prince Louis Napoleon
governor general of the Caucasus, has
been assassinated at Iiflis.
The approaching visit of William
Jennings Bryan to Japan is welcomed
by Japanese at Toxic, who are con-
SpicuOusly recountng his career.
After yicissitudes of a few years,
BOer colOnists of the state of Chihua-
hua, Mexico, are disbanding through
inability to secure clear title to land.
Four negroes who had been drinking
heavily started across the Alabama
river in a skiff The skiff sank in
midstream and all were drowned
The strike of the electrical workers
in Berlin is ended, the companies
agreeing to per cent increase in
wages. The result is a victory for the
employers.
midas refusal to deal in English
goods is considered to be severe
blow to British prestige. Took lesson
from Chinese action against American
products.
The Anglo-Japanese treaty is regard
ed in Washington as menace to Chi.
ma. Japan is determined to rule the
Mongolian empire, in the opinion of
diplomats.
A professor of Notre Dame Univer-
sity was indicted the other day charg,
ed with sending scurrilous and defam.
atory matter through the United
States mails. He pleaded not guilty.
When the gates of the Lewis and
Clark Exostion closed at l o'clock
Sunday morning a total attendance of
$1,000 for the day had been registered,
making the grand total for the entire
fair period 2,545,509.
A French warShip is lowering al
most within striking distance of the
Venezuelan coast, and others are pre-
pared to start for the West Indies on
short notice. French patience is ex.
hausted.
Over thousand farm laborers made
desperate by the existing famine in.
Vaded the market place at Eciian, As
miles from Seville, Spain, seized the
entire stock of food and money, de.
stroyed the market and threw the
town into panic.
The Observer of London SAYS it IN.
derstands that Great Britain has
agreed to maintain the treaty of 1855
which guarantees the integrity of
Scandinavia so far as Norway is con.
cerned, on condition that a monarchy
be established.
semi-official article appeared in
the North German Gazette of Berlin
fully generating the French govern.
ment of any connection with ~