New Iberia enterprise and independent observer. (New Iberia, La.) 1902-1944, 1905-11-04


guel Gomez is buying 10000 rifles il
New York to be shipped to Cuba fol
use in a rebellion. The report receives
no credence in official circles.
The first heavy gale of the season
swept over Norfolk last Thursday
night. There was little damage done
because official warnings were care.
fully needed.
Reports have ii that John d. Rookie
Teller has become interested in the an,
tomobie as a means of sport and is
learning to run and care for the ma
chine.
Graders are at work between Ros-
well, l. t. and Atoka on the proposed
Oklahoma Central Railroad. which is
10 be built from Atoka to Paris, Tex,
via Boswell.
The New York Central railroad has
placed orders with several manufac.
turing companies for total of 2J000
freight cars calling for the expendi.
ture OF about s., 500. 900
II The Transportation and Shipping
Workers Alliance of Chicago. was
organized at a meeting of freight
handlers and teamsters last week.
The alliance will have membership
of more than 10000.
One year ago Friday the New York
subway was opened to the public A
hundred and six million passengers
have since paid a nickel apiece to
ride in it. 1t has realized the wishes
of those who for years had waited for
railroad that would send them TO
Harlem in fifteen minutes.
The Rev. Father Joseph Ricard, the
Santa Clara college astronomer, an
nounces that the group Of sun spots
under observation for the past few
weeks have disappeared.
According to a New York morning |
paper Terry McGovern and Battlin,
Nelson have been matched to fight six |
rounds. probably before a Philadel.
phia club about the middle of Decem-
Der.
The Government has discovered q
new animal in Guatemala, called the
Kelep, which is very destructive of
boil weevils The Guatemalan ant
proved to be mere farce.
The negroes of Waco have organic
ed a Business Mems Club, and are
seeking an enlargement of business
Texas State Association of Station
airy Engineers of the National Assoc
citation will hold its third annual con-
vention at Dallas on Friday and Sat
urday, Nov. 10 and II.
Secretary Taft left Saturday for
Panama, where he expects to remain
some ten days. inspecting conditions
there. He intends reaching Washing
ton, on his return trip. about Novenl-
Der 18th.
1t is expected that Congress at the
coming session will carefully go over
The insurance situation, and may pass
some laws regulating insurance com.
panies.
Friday was the 47th anniversary of
he birthday Of President Theodore
Roosevelt. Owing to his absence
rom Washington there was no obser-
-ance of the occasion here +,
William Travers Jerome has been
nominated for District Attorney Of
few York by the Republican county
A disastrous prairie fire swept over
! portion OF Canadian County, Okla,
outh of El Reno and destroyed So
100 worth of property belonging to
zee II. Patterson, a farmer.
The election for $4,000 of per cent
hirty-year waterworks bonds at Da-
is, l. T., carried with but one dissent
ng vote After the polls closed the
me man asked to have his vote
hanged in order to make it unani-
nous.
The emperor of Japan invited 1000 ,
naval officers to luncheon at Shiba ,
Palace and an equal number We're en- s
ertained by him the next day at the !
same place. This action upon the
part of the emperor is unprecedented.
Ex-President Grover Cleveland. ac
by Mrs. Cleveland, went to
City. Neb. where Mr.. Cleve-
and delivered an address on the occa-
ion of the unwilling of a monument
0 the late j. Sterling Morton, Secre-
airy OF Agriculture, in Mr.. Cleveland's 6
econd Cabinet.
At Roswell n. NJ. Lonnie Reynolds
lad his throat cut on Main street with
knife. The cash was seven inches
ong, but the man is still alive. John
(
Harrison, a sheepman, is under ar
est.
The announcement that King Ed
rard had charged Prince Arthur Of
TO proceed early In 1906 | 4