The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1905-07-21
EVENTS OF EVERYWHERE.
LOUISIANA

many navy.
The report that Secretary of Agri-
culture Wilson will retire is without
foundation.
The Ennis Oil Development Co. an
nounced ready to entertain bids for
drilling five wells in the territory east
Of Ennis.
Money has been raised to complete
a system of warterworks for Farmers,
vile. Work will commence within the
next week.
The Associated Press is authority
for the statement that Germany and
Sweden are seriously canvassing the
project of an alliance.
The salaries of the Russian peace
plenipOtentiaries have been fixed
at $500 per day each, besides an allow.
ance of $500 for travelling and other
expenses.
Preliminary arrangements are in
progress to establish a pressed brick
and tile factory at Wichita Falls. W.
E. Allison of Vandalia, ILL.,, has gone
east to purchase the machinery.
A passenger train on the Chicago
and Eastern Illinois railway collided
with suburban train in Stegers, Ill.,,
thirty miles from Chicago. Three per
sons were killed and seven injured.
The iron bridge across Little River
at Faubion's Crossing has fallen in.
Two negroes were on it when it start
ed to falling, and although about mid
way they made their escape before it
fell to the water.
Mrs. George J. Connell, of Brown
wood, who was at Brady assisting her
daughter, Mrs. W. c. Miller, to nurse
her sick husband and child, died very
suddenly Friday morning of heart
trouble.
]. r. Cook engineer of the Carter &
Cooper threasher, was killed about six
miles north of Hillsboro while en-
deavoring to cross the Cotton Belt
Railroad track with his outfit in mov-
ing it from one field to another.
Benjamin Webb Williams, who
generation ago was a pioneer in con-
Quoting lecturing tours in the United
States, died at his home in Dorchester
few days since. He was 81 years Of
age.
A Strassburg inventer has devised
wireless telegraph transmitter that
forwards the waves in one direction
only, and does not send the current
ir all directions, as the usual types of
instruments do.
E. H. Hammond. of Dallas, accord
ing to verified reports has been award
ed the contract for all the piping of
the new WaterworkS tC be constructed
at Vidalia, La, in accordance with
bids opened July 10.
The Miller County (Ark) Confeder-
ate Pension Board met and among the
pensions allowed was one of $50
year to George W. Davis, a negro,
whose proofs as filed with the board,
show that he served in Texas regi-
ment from May, 1863, to May, 1865.
While boarding a train at Oklahoma
for home, c. e. Hunter of Chickasha.
secretary of the single statehood con-
Vention, caught a crook who was in
the act of stealing his diamond stud.
Hunter turned his man over to the DO,
lice.
New orleans received her first bale
of new cotton Friday. It came from
Texas. It was sold for 20c pound.
The bale weighed 537 pounds, and was
cIassed GOOD middling. 1t was grown
by f. ]. Johnson of More, Texas. in
Frio County.
Farmers living on the Trinity River
report their hogs dying from the raw.
ages OF buffalo gnats. Tas Watson is
reported to have lost 500 hogs on ac-
count Of these pests. and others report
heavy losses from the same cause.
The Travis county farmers were
holding cotton for better prices is
shown by the fact that more than ten
thousand bales have been marketed
since the jump of prices began. One
firm purchased one lot Of cotton az.
gregatng 2,400 bales.
Prof. Weber of Washington CITY
is expected to be in Waco within the
next two weeks for the nurnnse of