The southern sentinel. (Winnfield, La.) 1883-1910, 1905-03-23
WINNFIELD, LA, THURSDAY, MARCH 49, 1905

The Union county (Ky.) grand jury
has returned Isl indictments against
the Standard Oil Co. for selling oil in
retail lots without license.
Manager Conreid's grand opera COM
pany opened his Cincinnati "Parsifap
season, on the night of the 18th inst.s
with every seat for every performance
sold, amounting to about $4,000.
The sea continues to encroach upon
Coronado Beach. San Diego. CAL, and
much alarm is felt. The great hotel
is threatened. the boulevard has been
eaten away, and those who can are
having their houses removed.
Further heavy rains have fallen in
southern California, causing addi-
tional damage to the sorely-tried rail.
road systems, and delaying repairs
caused by the former storms.
A st. Petersburg dispatch says
bomb vas exploded on the tramway
line close to the residence Of NJ. Po-
biedonostoff. procurator general of the
holy synod. No one was injured.
Gen. w. H. Whiteman, until a
month ago adjutant-general of the
territory Of New Mexico, which Office
he held for seven years, has been in
dicted by the grand jury at Santa
Fe on charge Of obtaining public
funds under false pretenses.
The transport Thomas has arrived
at San Francisco from Manila, bring
ing the ninth, seventeenth and
eighteenth batteries of field artillery,
destined for Vancouver barracks,
Wash.
Secretary Taft in letter to John
c. Blair, of New York, says the matter
of self-government for the Philip
pine islands is question that will
have to be settled by another genera
tion than the present.
BY vote Of SIS to Al. in the joint
session of the Colorado legislature,
Gov. Peabody was declared elected
governor This action was the result
of compromise, the resignation Of
Peabody. as condition precedent. in
favor OF Lieut.-Gov Mcdonald, having
been placed in the hands of a com
mittee. Gov. Adams quietly surren-
dered the ofI.ee.
Gov-Gen Wright of the Philip
pines is negotiating with w. r. George,
manager of the George Junior Repub-
lie at Freeville, N. Y, for the estab-
lishment of reform school for boys
along similar lines at Camp Gregg,
I.uzon island.
The terrorists in Russia have given
fresh cause for alarm by the issue OF
anonymous letters announcing their
intention to blow up public buildings.
particularly the great army supply
depots.
The gale which swept over the Brit
ish isles, on the 18th inst, attained
velocity of from 70 to 100 miles an
hour, and property inland as well as at
sea suffered to an enormous extent.
Seventeen thousand pounds of mail
matter, including 1000 registered let
ters and parcels and $250,000 in un-
signed national bank notes and much
gold and silver bullion are said to
have been in the mail car that was
burned at Hyndman. Md, on March 1.
Funeral services over the remains
of Mrs. Jane l.. Stanford were held,
on the 18th inst, in the Congrega-
tional Central Union church in Homo
lulu, after which the casket was es-
corted on board the steamer Alameda
to be conveyed to San Francisco.
Frank Burett, 60-year-old hermit,
was found dead in an old shack on his
farm near North Topeka, Kas. Rats
had eaten away his hands, feet and
face
Lieut.. Francis Boone, under sentence
of Imprisonment as the result OF .
court-martial at Vancouver Barracks
Wash, was shot twice by sentry and
seriously wounded while attempting to
escape.
The subscribers to the guarantee
fund for the Inauguration festivities
in Washington will have their sub
scriptions returned, and the financs
committee will still have some money
left
Police Superintendent Melvin H
Campbell. OF Allegheny City. Pa, was
found guilty of accepting money under
color of his Office to aid and abet II
the maintenance of an immoral 70
sort.
Speaking before the Congress o.
Mothers in Washington, Senator Du
bois, of Idaho, severely arraigned thu
Mormon hierarchy and said it was thu
| duty of the United States senate SO Il
| act on the case of Senator Smoot a.
| to serve notice on the head Of the Nor
| mon church that they must live within
| the law. and that the nation is su
preme
The law departments Of the Southern
Pacific and Santa Fe railroad compa
nies have agreed to ignore the deci
sion Of the interstate commerce com
mission as to the east-bound orang
rates. and let the shippers find relic
through the courts.
Minister Bowen, at Caracas. cable
the state department at Washingto
that suit has been begun by the Vene
uelan government 10 annul tn
French Cable Co. 5 con :ession and seiz
its property.
Nineteen persons were burned I
death and upwards OF 40 injured in
| FIRE which destroyed five-story tene
ment building on Allen street, Ne
York city.
The recent severe storm that rage
along the Pacific coast did q va
amount of damage. that to the street
of Los Angeles alone being estimate
at 100000.
i An arrangement is being made D.
tween the governments of Panan