The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1906-09-07
EVENTS OF everywhere.

elected president of the American Bar
association for the next year at the
recent meeting of that body at st.
Paul
Four Greek laborers were killed and
another injured by being struck by
the Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern
train at Symmes, three miles from
Loveland, Ohio.
Edward Rosewater, founder and ed
itor of the Omaha Bee, was found
dead in a room in the Bee building
where he had gone to rest the night
previously.
Thirty-five insurance companies out
Of 120 involved in the San Francisco
disaster have paid in the aggregate
s55, 1O3,S G3.22, according to their Of
flee record, to date.
Galveston was visited Sunday by
1000 eXcurSionists, who came from
nearly every section OF Texas and
Western Louisiana. Every railroad
entering the city had on low rates.
Frank NJ. Conser of Ohio, supervisor
of Indian schools, has been appoint.
ed clerk Of the Indian bureau, an Of
flee created by Congress at its last
session.
Judge NJ. NJ. Johnson, justice OF the
peace of precinct No. 3 of Travis
county, said recently that he will be
a candidate for superintendent of the
Confederate Home.
John Mark killed himself at his
home on a farm near MonSerrate,
Lavacca County. He used gun, the
charge entering his body near the
heart, killing him instantly.
AS Leslie Beauchamp of Ennis was
going to his meat market about 4
o'clock Sunday morning he was held
up by a highwayman and robbed Of
S72 and his watch.
L. S. Watts, constable at Belcher,
La, was fatal shot by lumberman
at Sewolle, La, in hotel. The men
had quarreled. T. j. Dugan and a
woman are under arrest.
The Vining and Coleman Railway,
projected several years ago to run
from Coleman to Waldrip, McCul-
Tough County, passing some valuable
coal mines, has been recently talked
of, and it is likely to be built.
The Mansfield, a government snaG
boat, has started working up the
Trinity River and will continue clear.
ing out the channel until it meets the
Wolf, another snagboat. working down
from Dallas.
At a meeting of the council Of the
British Cotton Growers Association,
Sir Daniel Morris, the imperial COM
missioner of agriculture for the West
Indies, asid that the cotton growers
of those islands were greatly encour.
aged and that the cultivation would
be doubled next year.
Commencing about Sept. l, the
Gould lines will inaugurate a through
sleeper service between Chicago and
San Antonio. The southbound car
will leave Chicago attached to the
Wabash limited at AS p. m. and ar
rive at its destination the second
day at $50 p. m.
Col. E. H. R. Green, who was State
Chairman of the Republican party in
Texas when that party cast 100000
| FOIcS- dDOuI INISS do many do IL Las
ever cast-has accepted the nomina.
ton for Governor and, it is stated will
make a vigorous campaign.
From reliable source it is learned
, that the Southern Pacific is figuring
on changing many of its oilburning
locomotives back to coal burners, the
, move being necessitated by the high
price of oil.
The Kansas City Southern, "Port
! Arthur Route" is seeking an en-
: trance into New ORLEANS.
!, J.. NJ. Chancellor's drug store a
!. Grand Saline was burned at loss O
:. $500. The building was of brick and
t was considerably damaged.
g The First.Class Postsmasters asso
citation of Texas will hold its annua
meeting in Dallas on October 16, L
and Is. The meetings will be hell
in the auditorium of the Dallas Com
- mercial Club.