New Iberia enterprise and independent observer. (New Iberia, La.) 1902-1944, 1905-05-20
EVENTS OF EVERYWHERE.

for the next annual meeting of the Red
Men.
Annie Lyle died suddenly at Dallas
Friday morning from acute heart fail
ure.
The President arrived in Washing
ton on Friday from the West. He trav-
eled 5000 miles and passed through
On this memorable trip.
James Lewis, 1O4 years old, is dead
at 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. 1t 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. Beseler is dead at hos
pital at Chicago, following an opera
ton. He was 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 mass of debris and
twenty others have been taken to the
hospitals as 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 $40. 1t was
a business note which the general pen
ned only four hours before his death.
1t is rumored that a Norwegian ex-
plorer, who started out June II, 1908,
1. @lo h
east passage and that the problem
which has baffied navigators for the
past four hundred years is solved.
Andrew Carnegie has offered to Rad.
cliffe college 5000 for library build
ing on condition that an equal sum
shall be raised among alumnae 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 neighborhood of 81 ,000, 900. |
Former President Grover Cleveland .
has returned from a 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 Adventists opened
in Washington Friday and will con.
tinue until May 80. President Daniels
said the Adventists' had gained as
much from 1893 to 1903 as it had
gained during the preceding fifty years
of its history.
In wild religious anti-semitic fren-
zy two hundred Jews were killed and
at Zehomiter, Russia.
Levie Wood, young man employed
in the Sherman Planning Mill, got his
hand caught in the machinery and
will lose three fingers.
The pioneers of Tarrant and the
Confederates are arranging for great
picnic and reunion at Fort Worth on
May "a. Judge C. c. Cummings has
the matter well in hand, and says the
1utlook is most promising
The Reichstag has voted Prince Gus
,af an appanage of $4,000 in view Of
his approaching marriage with Prin-
less Margaret of Connaught. King
Oscar has presented the couple with
he beautiful chateau Sofario on the
Sound.
After an Illness extending over two
,r three weeks, and in which remark
lble vitality was displayed Judge J.
B. Scarborough, prominent attorney
Ind one Of the foremost Baptists Of
Waco and Texas died Sunday.
Every State and Territory except
hree, in the United States, has been
'isited by Mr.. Roosevelt since he be-
anne a candidate for Vice President,
md 1t is his intention to accept the
of these States before his
ERIN is finished.
Aunt Nancy Fulbright. an aged col
red woman, who lived alone in a
abin on Short Street, Paris, dropped
ead while she was cooking out in the