The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1905-02-03

South of San Antonio, was burned {
few nights since.
1t is said that the pool rooms OF
Dentson, which have been closed for
several weeks, have reOpened.
The North Texas Missionary Con
ventiOn of the Christian Church will
meet nj Paris, February q to 90.
The contract for the construction
Of the sewerage system for Amarillo
has been awarded, and work will begin
soon
1t is anticipated that General Nelson
A. Miles will attend the Good Roads
Convention at Waco, which opens Feb
ruary g.
Local physicians estimate that over
seven hundred people of Taylor are
tussling in the relentless hands of Ia.
grippe.
The remains Of Tom Rogers, a young
railroad man. who was accidentally
killed at Chickasha, I. T, were inferred
at Ennis
DR.. E. P. Cook, City Health Officer,
OF Ennis, has released A. C. Stegall
from quarantine and says the city is
now clear of smallpox.
Dallas has organized a 100000 club,
the aVowed purpose of which is to
bring the population of that city to
over 100000 by the next census.
The Japanese seized the Austrian
steamer Burma off Hokkaido Island.
She had cargo of 1000 tons of Car
diff coal on board and was bound for
Vladivostock.
No serious damage has been done
by the recent earthquakes and the
eruptions of the volcano Momotembo.
cables correspondent from Managua,
Nicaragua.
l ma collision early Friday morning
near TullahOma, Tenn, two engineers,
a fireman and negro porter were
killed and several passengers only
Slightly injured.
BY the collapse of the old Southern
Pacific bridge across the Rio Grande
at Ell Paso, three men were injured,
one of whom may die. The old bridge
was being torn down.
D. T. Wall left Waco last SUNDAY {
for California. A telegram was receiv. 7
ed during the week stating that he {
had died at Los Angeles, where he had c
stopped a couple of days. t
Inc thermometer registered twenty
degrees below zero at Saranac Lake Il
early Tuesday and twenty-four below o
al Upper Chautauqua Lake. Lake /
Champlain was completely frozen over L
the ice being from five to twenty L
inches thick.
The t1use committee on naval af.
fairs has decided upon the naval in. d
crease program to be incorporated in d
the naval appropriation bill proyid- d
Ing Tor but two battleships. They are IT
70 be $4,000 tons each, of the largest
type, and carrying the heaviest arma.
ment and armor.
PRESIDENT Diaz is making careful j
Inspection of the Tehuantepec railway pI
md port works, 1t is fully expected h;
nat When the port works are complet- n;
ID and the railway entirely recon. he
the Tehuantepec route will a
compete with the Panama Canal for ri
trade. ar
Ign noon officially declared elected
Jnited States Senator from Texas at
JOINT session of the legislature Sen. ic,
Tor Culberson delivered most bril-. n
liant speech in the acceptance of the HI
rust.
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Inc owners Of the Waxahachie ice nc
liant are planning to make some i'm. is
rovements which will Increase the ca. We
Scity OF the plant from twenty-five eff
tnlrty tons daily. A carload of ma. in
nlnery for that purpose has been or.
cred. ~v-s.. .n.,~. ~
A sensational story comes from of
tumble in connection with the find. ris
Ds OF the mangled remains of an IN. Co
Ho"n man on a railway there II ret
'as reported that he was rohhed ord aw
ound to the track. on,
0ie A. Ihorp a member of the chi. il i