The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1906-11-16
EVENTS OF EVERYWHERE.

500; no insurance reported.
The proposition of creating the office
Of County Superintendent for Red
River County was defeated by large
majority.
In a pistol duel in Lefiere County,
Miss. J. B. Money. nephew OF Senator
Money, shot and killed |. J. Hendric'
son. a prominent planter. Money was
slightly injured.
The general convention of the Holt
ness Church for Texas, Oklahoma and
Indian Territory began its sessions
at Abilene Tuesday and closed Satur-
day.
Mary Maland, 81 years Of age. wife
of Thomas Maland, died in Galveston
Thursday night from the effects OF
inhaIing chIoroform, administered by
herself.
DIR. H. o. Milton,aged seventyfour
years, vice president of the Knoxville
Sentinel company, died Wednesday
night as a result of stroke OF paraly-
sis suffered last Monday.
Mrs. Robert E. Peary, wife OF the
Arctic explorer, is sure that her hus-
band will make another try to find the
pole, according 10 a dispatch from
Portland, Maine.
The City Council of Duncan, |. T.,
voted a natural gas franchise to d.
l.. Blackman for a period Of fifty
years. The gas wells are about nine
miles east of the city.
A message received from Clairmont,
Cal, announces the death there Of
LaSalle Maynard, associate editor of
Leslie's Weekly and prominent fig.
ure at Lake Mohonk peace conference.
Charlie Dixon, a young negro, was
shot and killed at his home at Red
Water, sixteen miles south of TeXar'
kama on the Cotton Belt, Wednesday
night TIE weapon used was a rifle.
Lord Curzon, former viCeroy Of In.
dia, is mentioned in diplomatic circles
as the possible successor to Sir Henry
Mortimer Durand, British ambassador
to the United States, who is to give up
the post,
The little matched cottage at East
Hampton, N. Y, in which John How
ard Payne spent his early days, and
which inspired him to write Home
Sweet Home" is being torn down to
make room for a church.
A private bank was opened at
Avery, a small station in the eastern
portion of Red River county. The in
sttution is operated by the DeKalb
Exchange Bank and will be known as
the Avery Exchange Bank.
Secretary of the Interior Hitchcock
will retire from President Roosevelt's
cabinet March next, and James r.
Garfield of Ohio, at present commfs-
sioner OF corporations, will succeed
him.
M. Waragari, who is purchasing cot
ton throughout Oklahoma, Indian Ter
ritory and Texas, for shipment to
Japan, says that he would purchase
over 100000 bales this year for ex'
port
The New York Herald says it has
become known that practically all OF
the great railroad and industrial cor
porations in the country, the affairs
of which are directed from that city,
have decided to increase the prevail
ing rate of wages to their employees.
Cancer is far from incurable accord
ing to Doctor Nicholas Sem in lee
ture on the problem Of cancer at the
University of Chicago, provided the
disease is treated during it's early
stages.
Upward of $4,000 has been sub
scribed by the business men OF Taylor
for the establishment of sanitarium
In Taylor. This amount will be in
creased to $4,000, when company
will be incorporated and a charter ap.
piled for.
George w. Wagner, aged IS years,
enc of the best known travelling sales
men in the Shreveport territory, rep.
resenting New Orleans piano firm,
dropped dead of heart failure in the