The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1906-01-26

General Frederick Funston Is sool
10 be relieved from the command O
the department of California and or
dered to the Philippines, with a view
to possible utilization in connection
with any move which may be made
against China.
Henry A. Smith, government agent
Is IN Dallas for the purpose of engag.
ing Workmen for the Panama Canal
work. The engagement is for 80 DAYS
or longer, wages 80 cents an hour and
board and lodging 81 per month.
Marie Brady threw CarbOliC acid into
The faces OF Irma Burger and Lula
White, the latter a negress. from which
they were both badly burned. All were
Of Dallas.
The Twenty-fourth Infantry, now at
San Francisco, waiting TO take ship
for Manila, Jan. %, is the first negro
regiment that has been ordered on
foreign service for nearly five years.
One person was killed and dozen |
injured when a car on the elevated |
road in Brooklyn fell to the street
Friday. The car was crowded with
passengers. The accident occurred
On curve ut Fulton and Chestnut
streets.
John McDougal, a recognized all.
thOrity on Texas land lawns, died in
New Orleans recently, aged ninety
years He went to New Orleans in
the forties and was a merchant, but
acquiring considerable land in Texas.
took up the study of the Texas land
laws.
A dispatch from Canyon City, Colo.
says that Governor Peabody and his t
wife and daughter were poisoned bv c
food eaten at breakfast Thursday c
and the daughter is in a dangerous P
condition as a result v
Sentiment favoring the erection Of
great library instead of chapel as ;,
memorial to President VIM. Rainey =
harper has grown among the Uni. ~
'erSlty OF Chicago professors, students -,
and alumni in the last few days.
Crazed from overstudy, 14-year Ell
old Herbert Carson of New York Civ in
after driving his mother and father
from the house, threatening to cut rs
'hem with carving knife, dived from RI
the third story Of his home AMI was ~
killed. =
Shoe polish manufacturers Of ths 70
United States met in New York last cic
Friday and formed the National Shoe foI
rollsh Manufacturers Association vi
lne purpose of the association is to sci
promote the welfare of the trade, or
Mrs Mary Aiken, charged with
ourylng her S-months-old bow alive on the
the night Of Jan. 7, has been given be-
preliminary hearing at Carlsbad and d.
was neld TO the action OF the grand
jury on the charge of murder, pu
Ackl, the first Japanese ambassa.
dor to Washington, will probably 80 ..
bring with him to this country bis at
wife. who is German He was adm. iIs
Gated in Germany and was sent r. Du'
'hat country several times as minis. pi"
ter. '''''t''' Gus
Inc producing power of the banana !
IS forty-four times as great &c +h,t clio
oi the potato. The dried fruit is read. Bri
ny converted into nutricious aour. bee
It may also be manufactured info cor, of t
'ages; beer can be made from Il in p:
"nlle the skin can be turned into ed
'lo'h' and the juice made to do Cor are
wise either as ink Or vinegar. Par
Commodore William P. McMann y
> N, retired, is dead at his homo in /
view Rochelle, N. Y. He was native oesI
II kentucky and served on the gu,t JAN
,lockading squadron during the Civil Il is
Var. 'Ao Ni'l' excl
Tho ~ err g
Inc French governmental has deci shin
led to adopt most energetic measures 0'''D
o OBTAIN satisfaction from yepezuoIa At
| IS understood naval demopstration cow
under preparation. ers
A plan is on foot to combine Al tno
re%eries of New York City,
Jel
D. C. Napier, the negro LAWYER md inc
inker OF Nashville, who was reconntI;. co,or
1ered the position of United stato. Chor
onsui at Bahia, Brazil, called on 49,, 49,
'eSldent and thanLed h; AN