The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1905-04-07
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Former Senator Stewart Of Nevada
after many years spent in public lif
has left Washington to make his HON,
in Tonapah, Nevada.
In lot Of eleven cars of cattle anC
hogs shipped from GAINESVILLE was one
hog weighing 625 pounds, it being the
largest ever shipped from that place
The anniversary OF the battle Pue
bla was celebrated Sunday by a mill
tary review, the troops passing before
President Diaz and staff and number
OF high officials.
AS the result of an explosion in the
United Verde mine at Jerome, Ark,
owned by Senator Clark, five men are
dead and five others seriously but not
fatally injured.
A Russian, who has been in this
country only short time has devel-
oped a case of leprosy, and has been
isolated on BlackweIl's Island, near
New York City.
The local station Of the Deforest
telegraph at Galveston communicated
with the Mallory steamship Denver,
while she was It's miles from the port
en- route to New York.
Hogs are dying in considerable num-
bers around Temple and the cause is
assigned to eating cookie burs, al.
though veterinarian has pronounced
the disease Charlton.
Rumors of revolution have been
again circulating, cables a Montevideo,
Uruguay, correspondent. Some impress
sion has been created on the Bourse
and decline in stocks has resulted.
Hans Christian Anderson's centena.
ry is being celebrated throughout Den
mark under royal patronage. Several
foreign countries have sent delegates
to Odenee, the birthplace of Anderson.
Many Eastern economists see in no
distant day the practical merging Of,
all the railways in this country, and
their control-n0t ownership pass
ing into the hands of the government.
F. E. Creelman a Chicago hardwood
lumber man has perfected the consoli- |
dalton Of six hardwood lumber COM
panies with a capital of $20,OOO,OO0. |
The consolidated concern will operate !,
over thirty saw mills in the South.
An investigation Of the alleged mo-
nopoly in New York City in the supply
OF light and of charges of exaction Of
extortionate prices by a combination
OF lighting companies was begun by a
committee of the Legislature.
Ed Brown, an employe in the Wag.
goner Oil Mill at Vernon was filing
one of the presses with meal and had
his hand caught in the machine that
presses the meal into shape before en-
tering the press proper, almost sever
ing the hand at the wrist.
Mrs. Margaret Dye Ellis, superin-
tendent of the Women's Christian
Temperance Union, declares that Nor
monism is rapidly spreading, and she
enumerates several churches of that
faith which, she said, either have been
or are being erected in the Middle
West and in New York.
Hugh McGroarty, one of the first
miners in the anthracite region, is
dead at Pittsburg, Pa, at the age of
1902 years. He retained his faculties
until the last and died of general weak
ness.
Rear Admiral Robley D. Evans, who
has resumed command of the North
Atlantic fleet, has reached Pensacola
Fla, and went on board the battleship
Maine. which he has chosen as his
flagship, instead of the Kearsage.
DR.. VIM. R. Harper, president of the
university of Chicago, who has been
recuperating at Lakewood, N. J., from |
the effects of an operation, has sur. I
pfiSed mis- physicians by so far recov.
ering that he will be able to start for /
chicago in few days. 9
mere were eight deaths Thursday
IN Manhattan from cerebro spinal min.
nights, with six on Wednesday From
iioon last Saturday. There were 1O7 r
deaths from this disease in the entire tt
city up to Thursday night, a
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