The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1906-03-09

thdfIeS Coleman, the negro fdpiS
and murderer of Maggie Lear, a II
year-old white girl, was lawfully hang
ed at Shreveport Thursday.
A fox hunt and fdders cOnterS to be
pulled off at Monte Ne, Ark, May .
8, and 5 is attracting attention a.
over the Southwest.
After lingering four days, pX-County
County Commissioner l. C. Hairgroyc
of Smith County, died from the kick
Of a mule. HaiTgroye was pioneer
citizen.
William J. Gray, aged fifty-four years
and for the past eighteen years a resi-
dent of Dallas, died at his home Thurs
day morning from a sudden stroke OF
appopleXy.
Dan Thomas, a negro from CorSi-
cana, Texas, bled to death at police
headquarters at Oklahoma City from
a stab in his right forearm. He re-
fused to say how he was injured.
Harry Tenny, who was knocked out
Wednesday night at San Francisco by
frankie Nell, the bantam champion
pugilist, died at o'clock Thursday
morning.
A dispatch from Rome to the Her.
aid says that it is officially announced
that the Dowager Queen Margaherita
of Italy, has abandoned her proposed
trip othe United States.
John HesSler a railway man whose
home was Texarkana, was removed
from a Cotton Belt train at Fort Worth
and conveyed to the hospital, but be.
tween the depot and the hospital he
died
After twenty rounds of fast and fu.
rious fighting between Fred Landers
Of San Francisco and Clarence Eng
lish of Omaha at Hot Springs, 1t was
declared a draw. Landers was the
cleverer of the pair and appeared
certain winner during the first thirteen
rounds.
The first inmate of the new Jail at
Grants Pass. Cal, a public improve
ment Of which the Grants Passers are
proud, is a pretty nineteen-year-old
girl, who is accused of numbering
her father. She is not confined to her
cell, is provided with every comfort,
including the latest magazines, and
Is allowed to go out shopping when
she so desires.
Beaumont: ]. G. Booth, Sc years of
age, was placed under arrest Friday
on an affidavit charging him with MUIR
der. The charge of murder grows out
o. the finding of the body of Frank
Irsch, a white man, aged 80 years, at
Voth, on Thursday morning. The ar.
rest was made after an inquest had
been held by Coroner Holmes and the
AFFIDAVIT charging murder was made by
Sheriff Landry of this county.
Mason: Judge D. H. Meeks died sud.
denly Thursday about noon from an
overdose of morphine. He was around
as usual on the evening before, but
did not arise at the usual hour in the
morning and when his room was en-.
tered he was found unconscious. All
was done that the attending physi.
clan could think of, but he never raj
lied. He was not addicted to the use
OF drugs and it is supposed that it was
taken to lull pain or induce sleep.
James H. Ward, well known in Tex.
as, and for many years chief operator
OF the Associated Press in the South.
west and for the past three years con-
nected with the Chicago Office. is dead
there Of heart failure.
In North Japan 1t is estimated that
$4,000 people are suffering severely
from cold and famine. Men, women
ana children are dying by hundreds
from cold and starvation.
Articles of incorporation have been
nled for the Canadian Southern Rail. |
way Capital $5O,OOO,OOO 1t is proposed
TO build from Winnipeg to Galveston
headquarters will be at Pierre with !
branch office in New York. E.A Hill
OF Galveston, Tex, is the principal in.
corporator.
The tug Daniel Willard, which left
Gloucester bound for Maine, struck a
rock off Rocfport breakwater Thurs.
fQV and canl- Tbroo 80 ~.