The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1906-10-12
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Traffic Manager Ives of the Wabash
IS questioned BY the Interstate com
merce commission concerning grain
elevator allowances.
Question of legality of advertising
contracts in exchange for railway
transportation will probably be an
pealed to the courts for a final do.
cision.
Railway clerks of lines in Chicago
make a demand for shorter hours and
| increased pay.
United States takes bulk of Cuba's
exports, amounting in last fiscal year
to sc per cent. Increase in Cuban i'm.
ports shown by commerce report.
Rumor in Washington that more
troops may not be sent to Cuba. Prep.
arations continue, however.
Bryan will enter Colorado fight and
Will champion the cause of Alva
Adams for governor.
Cuban rebels are menacing interior
towns and troops may be sest to sub.
due them.
Mr.. and Mrs. Howard Gould are
reported living apart, and rumor Of a
divorce suit is heard in New York,
Senator Beveridge, speaking at Lin.
coin, Neb., declares Bryan would have
been greater preacher than Beecher.
Ernest Burnstein was elected mayor
OF Shreveport, La, in the second race,
by 80. against DR.. S. A. Dickson.
Correspondence discloses Palma
regime in Cuba planned to force in.
prevention months ago by resigning
their posts and begging for United
States troops.
John d. Rockefeller in Cleveland
interview, declares French people hate
americans and would crush them If
they could
The steamer China has arrived at
Honolulu, having sighted the steam.
snip Mongolia on her way to San
Francisco.
The fire on the transport Thomas at
has been eXtinguished
inns year is the first time in 16
years that the populists are not rem.
resented on the official ballot in Tex.
Is.
The New York cotton market is less
active, and rules nervous and inset.
led The close was at a decline Of
i to Al points.
boston (NationaD sustained its
o0th defeat Of the season, losing to
Brooklyn 13 to 4.
Inc demand for steel plates con.
lnues strong, orders in some cases
or cars extending up to October.
eos. '0'0''
The United States Steel corpora.
ion plan building three or four new
last furnaces in the Pittsburg dis
riot. |
hartman and Gould enter into a
'ely contest for an all-rail inlet to
On francisco via Dumbarton Point |
interstate commerce commission an. |
ounces that it will pursue a lenient g
ollcy 1or the present In the exercise I
discretionary powers under the a
ew law, ~
senator Plat taken from his hotel 4
the private offices in a state of col. o
pse an hour before his wife was to Il
ave arrived.
pennsylvania farmer carried I'D LOCO p
et' with head downward, by a. bal. a
on, at Reading. t
Senator Beveridge fear, revolt will h
ain rend Cuba and the United States
g must then go to stay, he de- c.
Tres. s.
Mrs. Alice Van Ripper, aged So C
ughter OF Col. j. G. Jones, first 81
'yor OF Evansville, Ind, died at Ia.
ma, Wash. W
son of Senator Stone of Missouri, F
les the beautiful daughter of Judge g.
omas Cockrill for his bride. tC
Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., and several W
MS tellow-students at Harvard, to. b;
her with two police officers, have
N summoned before the Suffolk A
Inty grand jury in connection with M
investigation by that body of an CO
ult upon one of the officers on VI
'ton commons last Thursday even eli
'dWin Gould and Howard Gould and re
ty arrive in st. Louis to attend the tn
thwestern annual meeting. an
he large coal mine north of Their. ag
polls, Wyo., is burning fiercelv. Of