The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1905-05-12
EVENTS OF EVERYWHERE.
LOUISIANA.

Leading scientists are at work seq
regating the pneumonia germ, and
have made considerable progress along
that line
WaXahachie has let the contract for
a steel bridge across WaXahachle
Creek to have d sixty foot span and to
cost $1.4OO
Hold carriers of Brooklyn are strik
ing for an eight-hour day and $500
for brick masOns carriers and $3.50
for plasterers' carriers.
Col. E. H. r. Green is down on the
coast at Galveston trying out" his new
automobiles and is splitting the wind
in sc seconds to the mile and less.
About seventy arrests were made in
Denison Saturday by the sheriff's
force, for violation of the local option
laws. All club houses are affected.
Sam Hamilton, aged twenty, was
arrested at Tyler and will be taken to
Corsicana on a charge Of swearing
falsely in procuring marriage
license.
c. B. Wharton, IS years OF age.
mounted mail carrier, dropped dead OF
heart disease. He was an old resident
of Shawnee and a widower with five
children.
]. V. Fowler. late of California. will
OF June l have completed furniture
factory in Sherman with a minimum
employing capacity of sixteen skilled
mechanics.
The Proprietary Association OF
America. composed Of the patent med
icine manufactures of America held
a two days annual session in New York
last week.
The Fitzhugh Lee Monument Asso-
citation was formerly organized at
Richmond Friday. Its object is to
erect monument to Gen. Lee in Rich
mOnd.
In a few minutes after securing a
divorce from j. S. Shelton. Jennie
Shelton was married to c. A. Baum
garten and was on her way to her new
home at DenisOn.
Major Ralph DunniGg, who entered
the engineering department of the
United States army when Andrew
Jackson was president, is dead at the
age of ninety-fOur.
Trinity University, at Waxahachie
has been the recipient of numerous
gifts lately. The commencement ser.
mon will be preached May A. by Rev.
j. W. Caldwell, of Fort Worth.
Mckinney will have an applicant for
the position Of bank examiner under
the new law in the person of Fred
Emerson, assistant cashier of the First
National Bank of Mckinney
The First National Bank of Valley
View has been organized with $4,000
capital stock, electing the following
officers: H. P. Head, president; J. B.
Wells, vice president; Richard Head,
cashier.
George Packenschimdt, known as the
Russian Lion, won from Tom Jenkins
in their wrestling match for the
worlds catch-as-catch-can champion
'ship at Madison Square Garden, New
York, in two straight falls.
Official reports from twenty Of the
principal cities for April show that
permits were taken out for construc-
ton Of 91G0 buildings, involving $40,
S93,399, against S577 buildings involv-
ing an aggregate cost of s32,443,O 6S
Tor the corresponding month a year
ago.
The jury in the case Of John Collier,
The negro charged with the murder of
Miss Belle Bloodworth at Decatur.
Ara, returned verdict of guilty of
murder in the first degree and fixed
his punishment at death.
1t is learned that among those in.
dlcted by the federal grand jury for
Whltecapping in Mississippi are D. P.
Butler, member of the legislature for
FRANKLIN county. He is the second
member of the legislature to be in.
! dlcted for this offense.
y Ex-Governor Alvin Hawkins of Ten.
nessee died last Thursday morning At
the ripe age Of SO years, He was 70