The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1905-01-20
EVENTS OF EVERYWHERE.

udFe uOne great damage to irrigation
works.
The widow Of the late Caesar Young
murdered while in cab with Nan Pat
terSon, an actress, in New York, vii
move to San Francisco.
Harriet Charge Demund Baldwin. a
great granddaughter of Miles Standish
IS dead at her home in Brooklyn. She
was eighty-One years old.
The President has appointed Yes,
plan Warner to be Commissioner Of
Pensions. Mr.. Warner is now q mem.
Der Of Congress from Illinois,
The receipts of the Waxahachie
poStoftice for the year ending Dec. q
1904, was $13,G34.57 as against s12.-
460'24 for the year 1903, an increase of
$116S.38.
thursday night fire originating in
the opera house at Whitney DESTROYED
three general stocks. one grocery store
and several other smaller businesses.
at loss of about $4,000.
James Dean was hanged at Lexing.
ton, Miss, Friday, for the murder of
Wash and Corr Honey on Dec. Is. 1903.
Dean maintained his innocence to the
last The execution was private.
Inc authorities have decided that
the great Brooklyn Bridge will have
10 be practically rebuilt, which will
require two years time and the ex.
penditure of about $5,OOOOOO.
Work will be commenced on the 80.
OOO girls dormitory at the Polytechnic
College at Fort Worth as soon as the
weather will permit was the statement
made by President H. A. Boaz
reports are that in the vicinity of
frisco rabbits by the hundreds were
eating the wheat down to the roots.
ana that large hunting parties were
being formed to kill the destroyers
The Supreme Court Of Appeals re,
FUSED writ of error in the case of OK.
Mayor McCue Of Charlottesville Va.
convicted OF wife murder and sentenc.
"a TO hang on the Goth of this month.
witnesses for the defense in the
'moot case testified that polygamy is
lying out in Utah so rapidly that there '
8 no need of prosecutions It was {
leclared that the younger Mormons I
re all opposed to polygamy, t
Joseph L. Bristow, Fourth Assistant ;
postmaster General has rendered his =
eSlgnatlon as an official of the postal
erVlce, to take effect on the goth inst +,
y an executive order President Roos. VI
welt designated Mr.. Bristow as a spe- n
Ial commissioner to make an investi. q,
alton into the present trade condi. 9
ons across the 1sthmus of Panama, n,
Sissy, the 5-year-old daughter of Mr. u
I'D Mrs. Martin E. Sawyer, living in
le Irish Ridge community near Ter. al
III was burned OF death. The child's r
othing caught fire while the family IN
ere not with it. nj
Inc last official act of retiring Gov 60
lnneld T. Durbin, of Indiana was f.
e unconditional parole of William F. Oh
lnShaw, minister, convicted Of tho 40
uroer OF his wife, Thurza Hinshaw Pa
Belllvllle, Ind, ten years ago. Re
harvey Grosvenor Forbes Curtis, q va
character comedian, who OF
o years ago married Louisa Cutler 10
sncls' niece of the late Ward Nc mS
eSUer' IS dead at St. Lukes hospital, ne
w York, from heart trouble. leo
Inc Colorado Senate by q party vote
'Ied James B. Dick in place of Sena.
Robert NJ, Born. Dick was unseat.
by the Democratic majority DUR Gay
the contest over the election of MT
l'ea States Senator two years ago. l0-
n a wreck on the Rock Island mas bell
lger train, at Ell Paso, when the en-. me,
{ turned over and caught fire Ig. &
e PaderewSki, the worlds lannon's hay
MIST had a close call, as the engine Tho
led over within a few feet Of his inc,
Vate car. &C.
ne Japanese armored cruiser To-
a captured in the Sea of japan on
uary II the British steamer Rose. W
captain Robertson, from Barry 10 =,
'emoer II, for Shanghai, loaded dow
coal consigned to vladivostok, s s
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