The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1905-02-17


GreenVlIle Friday night from the e
tect OF a fall on the ice Monday morn
ing.
Edward Bruce, a former deputy Grim
mai district clerk of Galveston anC
Harris counties, was appointed crimi
MAJ clerk to succeed the late R. A
Burney.
August Black, aged about 50, and
nVlng near Jones Prairie, Milan coun.
~, died suddenly while carrying in a
turn OF wood, it is supposed from the
rupture of blood vessel
Inc application Of L. S. Darling
W. NJ. Cardwell and others to orgon.
1e the First National Bank of seago.
'llle, with $4,000 sapital has been
approved by the Controller of the Cur.
rency.
The prize court has adiudicated the
austrian steamer Siam (seized by the
japanese off Hokkaido on January 81
while bound from Cardiff for VIadivoc.
tok with coaD and her cargo to he
legal capture.
Two. saloons in Silver City, in Free.
stone County, two miles from Maxia
closed Thursday night at - o'clocl,
Inat being the time for local option
to go into effect in that precinct.
Powhattan Varnell, one of the first
settlers Of Hill County, is dead at his
nome four miles east of HiIlsboro He
settled there fifty years ago and ac-
CURED large possessions of land and
stock.
Fire Thursday morning DESTROYED
the store and postoffice building of
Mohgan Bros, at Sparta The building
and its contents were a complete loss \
estimated at $4,000 with only ahouf
PIVUo insurance.
l. Z. Phillips, president of the First
National Bank of Bowie, Tex bought
tne private bank of Sunset from Som
+ ufman' Mr. Phillips will run the bank :,
and Mr., Furman will go south on az. -
count of his health.
is
Commencing March 18th tho Roc1, fe
'Sland trains, Dallas to Fort Worth Ii
Will handle mails. This service will II
nure to the great benefit of the Pan O
handle and the Territories and to Da1. 81
as business men.
A man giving his name as Charles Sf
aailnae, Russian, speaking no Eng. 81
ISL riding on the rods of a train from VI
ne north, fell at Palestin and was ca We
rushed as to lose his left foot and Sic. re-
ain other injuries. II,
in
"a "en uenned movement is being otl
5ltated at Austin for the construction wo
trolley or interurban railroad hp.
'een Austin and Fredericksburg via Pa
ripping Springs, a distance Of about mo
twenty-five miles,
roland Jarrett, the young man who fro
shot himself Saturday {
EEK while out hunting. died 1ost hur
lurSaay morning at the home of his ped
-ner' w. A. Jarrett, about ten miles Il
nth of Waxahachie. the
coleman is preparing for hie oor ie"'
al anu street fair beginning Feb, tbot
anu iastlng one week. The carniva, a.N,
unoer the management of the Board ~
1raue' Low rates have been nrom. W.
d on the railroads, l0po
iesioent Roosevelt has been choy. Ark;
an honorable member Of the leagnp low
~ "er German University students Te
lolor accorded to only one otber dem,
D"Ne BADEN, uncle of thu
ser and rector in chief of the I'm,
Slty OF Heidelberg. lie
bou, of II
narles Jean Jacques Maezau tbo last
lngulshed French statesman ann dent
rst,o. "O, ne served as minister Midi;
Justice in 1886 and was appointed vides
president of the court of Casa. ditior
shops
JUS A. Bacon, aged 26, died At f1re,
o of appendicitis. The deceased at neces
a member of the association of chase
'ers who served in the 1rritoa the T
20 ,,o army In the war with Spain secur'
'0H distinction in the campaign in Mldla
'SVy rains have started all tho A,o Shire
rivers on rampage and +ho at the
s., stage is reported at all points from
ior river is now ffty-fve feet ree arl,,
expected to reach sixty peon,o narant