The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1905-06-23
EVENTS OF EVERYWHERE.

Cal LulneTan CnurCn convened a.
Pittsburg, Pa, Friday.
The first killing to take place in
Sherman County was on Wednesday
when Will Byers was shot and instant
lily killed, it is said, by l.. L. Barnett.
According to the report the death
rate Of Waco is only 1873 to the thou
sand inhabitants, which can hardly be
excelled in the United States.
The board Of lady managers of the
Worlds Fair has called in an expert
accountant (male) to straighten out
its accounts and make up a report foI
congress.
An election has been ordered for
July II to vote on Harris County's
Issuing 100000 court house bonds for
the purpose of building a new court
house at Houston.
Two men have been instantly kill
cd by the premature explosion of
heavy blast in a stone query near
Montclair, n. J. Three others were
badly injured.
lit is the belief of we'll informed
Japanese that within the next decade
Chinese characters, which are now
used in Japan, will be replaced by the
less complicated Roman letters.
Work is now in progress on Pitts.
burg's system of waterworks. The
system will cost in the neighborhood
Of $4,000 and Is owned by the city
Only part Of the town will be GOV.
cred for the present.
At C0manche in the case of Oscar
Roberts, charged with murder, the jury
brought in a verdict Of guilty, with
life sentence in the penitentiary. 1t
was charged that Roberts killed Henry
Carter on May "a.
Charles Hickman, aged %, was
found in the barn near his residence
at 4inadarko, Ok, with bullet wound
In his temple. His mother heard the
shot, and running out, discovered him
In a dying condition.
The present attorney general I'D.
holds the ruling Of his predecessor,
that women can hold office in Texas,
and 1t is likely Fayette county will,
have female pedagogue for County
Superintendent.
Shawnee will have the biggest
Fourth of July celebration in the his
tory of the Territory. The event is
being extensively advertised and spec
ial railroad rates will be given from
ali points in Oklahoma.
The Hitchcock Cement Works, at
Hitchcock, Ok, were destroyed by fire
entailing loss of $4,000 with only
$4,000 insurance All the buildings
and working property together with a
car of hair was total loss.
In the special election held at Nc
Kinney on the proposition to levy a
tax of rs cents on the $1O0 worth of
property for the purpose of providing
better public school facilities the tax
carried by ZIG for and AZ against the
tax.
An automobile occupied by Mr.. and
Mrs Richard S. Sayer of Englewood,
N, j., and their two sons, was struck
by an Erie train near Goshen. Mr.. and
Mrs Sayer were instantly killed and
their son hurled several feet.
Superintendent of the Penitentiary
Bakers report was as follows: Con-
victs on hand May l 1881, new re-
ceived 1874, returned by sheriffs 3, dis.
charged So, pardoned 8, escaped 8, died
J, delivered to sheriffs 2, mailing on
hand June l 1880.
Corporal punishment, abolished some
time ago, by the Board of Education,
has been re-established in the New
York public schools by the decision
of Judge olmsted in the Children's
Court.
The social Democratic party at
Stockholm has organized demonstra.
lions of factory hands and other work.
ers in favor of peaceable settlement
OF the differences between Sweden and
Norway, and the unconditional accep.
lance Of accomplished facts in NORWAY
Thousands of circulars have been
sent out broadcast containing informa.
ton that the Associated Building
Trades of Chicago and Cook County
have, withdrawn their moral and fiuan,