The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1905-08-04
EVENTS OF EVERYWHERE.

IRE while ri2ing on an electric car.
4 farm hand named Sam King drop
ned dead the other day in his wagon
while driving to his home in Panoia
county, Chickasha nation.
The work of paving the principal
streets of Muskogee is progressing
rapidly. The citizens are spending
about 100000 in these improvements
General Linevitch confirms the re-
port that japanese desroyers landed
a battalion of infantry at Castries Bay
July "a. occupied the light house and
hoisted their flag.
John Kanary, an old resident OF
Wvnnewood, l. T., attempted an out
rage on a l0-yearold girl, and on being
JAILED attempted suicide by cutting MS
threat with q razor.
A New Orleans man broke through
the quarantine and managed to reach
Houston, was arrested and placed IN
a detention camp. The state Quaran'
tine is being made more rigorous.
County Attorney Merritt of Collin
county, has notified dealers in "froS-
~" a so-called temperance drink, that
those dealing in that beverage would
he prosecuted for selling tntoXicantS'
Martin Mayo died at Galveston Fri
dav night from the effects OF gun
shot wound sustained at II a. m. Eu'
gene Hull, a negro, is held on a charge
of murder.
At a mass meeting Of the citizens
nF Baird a commercial club was organ
lied with L. E. Powell as president
w F, GiililanG secretary and FRED
Lane treasurer.
The list of the Bennington dead up
to Friday numbered siXty-tWo, there
having been two more deathes Thurs
days. Tacate, japanese mess at
tendant, and H. A. Metius, pay clerk
Thirteen Cinnamon hidden in a
box car, safely got across the border at
Ell Paso, only to be discovered trying
to get away from the train. The en-
tire lot were surrounded by immlgra'
ton officers and arrested.
Patricio TigeriRa, a Mexican baker,
employed at Lockhart WAS shot and
seriously wounded in an attray having
both arms broken above the elbow
It is thought that amputation of both
arms will be necessary.
Missouri, Kansas and Texas trains
will be running from Austin to San
Marcos over the international anC
Great Northern tracks as soon as the
new Colorado River bridge is complet
ed for the latter road at this point.
w. N. Inoway and X. Wuku, Japan
csc Of the coast colony, passed through
Dallas 4 few days since enroute 4
Japan. They expect to return in tn
winter and will bring number O
Japanese with them. They think tn
war about over and that Russia ha
gotten her fill.
Elder Herbert Crippen of Alamo
gordo, N. NJ, Friday completed tn
twenty-eighth day Of fasting in orde
to rid his system of impurities. H
goes about his daily tasks and chop
woods fer exercise. Elder HerbeI
says that he will continupe his perio
of self-denial.
A plot against the life Of the sulta
of Turkey has been discovered by tn
authorities at Kustenji. A search {
houses occupied by Turks disclose
large quantities of revolvers, rifle
cartridges and compromising doc
ments.
A petition is being circulated
Hillsboro, the purpose of which is
ask the city council to extend the CO
poration of the city about half mi
in all directions for school purpose
only.
Word has been received by cab
of the death in Seoul, Korea, Wedne
day, oftArthur S. Dixey, private Sc
rotary to United States Minister Nc
gan. He was graduated from Harval
with the class of 1902 and was a n
tive of Boston.
Lou Dillon trotted her two taste
miles of the season at Chenille trat