The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1905-08-18
EVENTS OF EVERYWHERE.


trail Texas towns at q rapid rate, and
cotton prospects are Frightening.
The telegraphers on the Great
Northern and the Northern Pacific
are out on strike Both the strikers
and the railways claim to be gaining
the fight.
Mrs. Mary B. Carlisle, wife Of the
former Secretary of the Treasury
John G. Carlisle, died at her country
home in West Islip, n. Y, after an
illness Of three weeks.
The corn crop in Mills County is
now secure and is the heaviest ever
grown in the county. The yield Will
be heavy and the acreage Is in excess
of any previous year.
NJ. V. kellogg, attorney and treasurer
of Dr.. Price Cereal Food Company,
Headquarters at Chicago. fell from
chair dead at AlamogOrdo, n. NJ, at
hotel from heart disease.
A telegram has been received an
nouncing the death at Chicago OF H.
B. Kinney, an old and highly esteem
ed citizen of Austin. He was eighty
years of age at Gh:tme Of his death.
Lewis and Clark officials announce
attendance of 27,42G with which the
million mark was passed "Wednesday.
Total attendance from June l to Aug.
3, including passes, being 1,013,531.
Charged with swindling merchants
In twenty-one cities out Of thousands
of dollars. Norman E. Roberts, ALLEGED
money order raiser and forger, was ar.
rested at a sub-postal station in Chi
cago.
A. ]. Alden of Decatur, Wis, young
man about Is years of age, was found
in the back yard of the place where
he rOomed, at Dallas, with his throat
cut. His windpipe had been severed.
He will probably recover.
The ruling has been sustained by the
attorney general, that ali private
banks must comply with the new bank.
ing law which requires them to put
the word "unincorporated" after the
name of the bank on all signs and sta
tionery.
Senator J. w. Bailey will deliver an
address at Alvarado on Friday, Aug.
II, before the pioneer association OF
Johnson County that meets there on
that date. The senator will make a
number of speeches in e1'xas this
month and next.
Plans are afoot to float a Russian
loan in America and conferences with
thi sobject in view already have been
held, and representatives Of one OF
two of Wall streets most prominent
banking firms.
simultaneously in the town d
Alamogordo, N. NJ, last Thursday, M
B. Kellogg and Mrs. Ben Irving drop
Alamogordo. N. NJ, last Thursday NJ
ped dead Of heart failure Mrs. Irving
had lust arrived with her HUSBAND
and children yesterday from the noun
tains.
w. f. Samuelson of Provo, Utah
broke the worlds bicycle record TO
two miles at the local Saucer track Il
Ogden. Riding from scratch in two
mile lap handicap professional race, h
did the distance in 3:48 is.
The trial trip just made by moto
boat built from the plans of Charlie
F. Herreshoff of Bridgeport, Conn,
said to have demonstrated the craft tn
fastest ever built. The figures are NJ
given, but are said to exceed thirt!
five miles an hour.
William Dixon, young lumberma
Of Gushing. Ok, was drowned in tn
Arkansas River near that place wifi
rafting logs down the river. 1t
supposed he lost his balance and fe
between the logs.
The city council of Waxahachie at
special meeting instructed City Alto
ney Love to draft an ordinance Il
holding an election to vote on the
suance of bonds for the purchase
the Chautauqua Park property by Il
city.
The last election to be held befo
the dissolution Of the tribal cover
ment was held in the Choctaw Natic
last week. The only officers voted f
xyaro National Traocurnr opd D,op,bo