The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1906-05-04

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companied by her son, Gladstone DoWle.
but the latter did not see his father.
The purpose of the visit has not trans
pired,
1t transpires that on the day of the
earthquake in California II men were
killed at Iona Preta. ten miles from
Santa Cruz, Cal, by the crushing of q
sawmille by a landslide following the
quake. The court house at Santa Cruz
was so badly shaken that it will have
to be RACED.
Mrs. Abbie Adams, national president
of the Woman's Keller corps, has is
sued a circular letter to all departments
in the Unite! States. calling upon them
to adopt measures for the speedy reliet
of San Francisco veterans and theiI
families.
The $4,000 rendered by the empress
dowager of China and $4,000 raised by
charity in Hong Kong for the Sar
Francisco sufferers, has been courteous
ly declined by the state department al
Washington, and may be sent direct tc
the Chinese in San Francisco.
King Peter Of Servia was thrown
from his horse, injuring his ankle.
The battleship Missouri won first
prize for the best all-round shooting il
the recent target practice by the At
lantic fleet.
The British steamer Havana wa.
sunk in Halifax On. S. harbor by the
steamer Strathcona. The captain ant
seven men on the Havana were saved.
The Suez canal authorities are pre-.
pairing pockets wherein the dry dock
Dewey can ley up nights during hel
passage through the canal, SO as not tc
entirely obstruct the passage of other
shipping during the six days necessary
to traverse the canal.
The town of Bellevue, Tex, is re-
ported to have been entirely destroyed
by a tornado, and at last account fire
was consuming the wreckage. Bellevue
was a town of 1900 inhabitants. The
towns of Stoneburg, Hamilton and Hicc
also suffered severely. The loss of life
was quite heavy.
A bill has been introduced in con-
gress to apply 100000 of the Chi
nese indemnity fund to the purchase
Of ground wherein to erect buildings
for our consular offices in China, Korea
and Japan.
The mikado of Japan has donated
100000 for the relief of the San Fran
cisco sufferers, and the leading business
men of Toxic and Osaka have contrib
uted a like sum.
The distribution of food in the city
of San Francisco has been formally
turned over to the United States army
which will do the work along systemat,
ic lines.
Hon. Leslie NJ. Shaw, secretary of the
treasury, paid his promised visit to st
Louis ard received a cordial welcome
He addressed large audience in Music
lall On the tariff question and political
conditions in Missouri
The next annual reunion of the Unit.
ed Confederate veterans will be held in
Richmond, Va.
About $4,000 men who wore the gray
assembled at New Orleans and partici.
pated in the sixteenth annual reunion OF
the United Confederate Veterans.
Lieut.-Gen. Stephen D. Lee, the COM
mander-in-chief, was given a great ova
ton. Gen. ]. B. CAN'T, of Missouri, was
the orator of the day. The adjutant
generals report shows the organization
to be in good condition.
On the afternoon of the 25th inst, an
other earthquake shock, of nearly a
minutes duration, was experienced at
San Francisco Many walls of burned
buildings were thrown down and frail
structures badly shaken up. The actual
damage is slight. One death is known
W nave lCSullcu.
Mayor Schmitz of San Francisco COM
plains that some of the young national
guardsmen on duty there are altogether
too quick on the trigger.
Now that the citizens of San Fran
cisco have thoroughly organized,
President Roosevelt has modified his
previous proclamation, and advises that
relief contribution be forwarded to the
finance committees headed by former
Mayor James D. Phelan, of San Fran
cisco, instead of to the American Red
Cross, The latter organization will CO.
operate with the San Francisco COM
mittee in relief work.
Involuntary proceedings in bank
ruptcy have been started in the fedetal
court, in Chicago against John Alex
ander Dowie, which promise to present
some knotty legal points for untange
ment.
William A. Harris, of Linden, for
governor, and a full state ticket was
nominated by the democrats of Kansas
in convention at Topeka. Harris, who
was q confederate soldier in the civil
war, was formerly United States SEN
a&or.
Twenly-one antitrust suits have been