The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1906-12-28
EVENTS OF EVERYWHERE.

ly came in last Thursday.
John Armory Knox, who, with the
late Col. Sweet, founded the Texas
Siftings, died in New York Tuesday
Eight terrorists were tried by drum
head court martial and shot at Eddie
Russia Poland one day last week.
The postoflice at Berwyn, l. T., was
burglarized Sunday night. The safe
was blown open and $500 in money
and stamps were secured.
Seymour Young. man about thirty
years Of age. ended his life at Tren-
ton BY shooting himself with a pis-
tol.
The Waxahachie Poultry and Pet
Stock Association is sending out cat
alogues and premium lists of the show
to take place January rs.
Seventeen thousand members Of the
United Brotherhood of Carpenters in
New York will demand an increase in
wages from $3.50 to S. a day.
The bank at Asher, Oklahoma was
entered by burglars Thursday night
and the safe totally wrecked. The
loot amounted to about $500.
The infanta Maria Teresa: sister OF
King Alfonso, who was married Jar.
II to Prince Ferdinand of Bavaria,
recently gave birth to a son.
Reports from Canton, o., say the
Pennsylvania Flyer was wrecked near
there. Sunday and several passengers
killed and number injured.
An unusually large amount of grain
has reached Buffalo during the last
few weeks and the total amount
afioat and in store it now 100000
bushels.
Nine sailors belonging to the crew
of the battleship Hindustan, were
drowned at Portsmouth England, ow-
ing to the upsetting of a cutter re-
Gently.
Tom Simpson, who was shot last
Saturday night by Policeman Bouch.
er, died In the federal Jail at Ardmore,
/. T., Monday. He was shot while
trying to resist arrest.
The announcement that twice a
week steamship service between New
Orleans and New York will be estab.
lished by the Southern Pacific Steam.
ship company has been made.
A cable dispatch from Laibach, Aus.
tria says the seismographs at the Aus
tro-Hungary observatory recorded an
earthquake few days since. It is |
believed to have been in ASIA Minor.
While playing detective with his ia.
TIERS revolver, Elmer Gels, thir.
teen year old boy of Chicago, acct.
dentally shot and fatally wounded his
companion, Martin Check, also aged
thirteen.
Mrs. Osler, mother of DR.. Osler, who
gained considerable notoriety some
time since by saying that after a man
reached sixty he was not worth his
keep, will celebrate her hundredth
birthday in few days.
Governor Higgins has committed
TO Imprisonment for life the sentence
OF death under which Albert T. Pat
rick has remained for nearly Ave
years, since his conviction for the
muder of William Marsh Rice, the
aged Texas millionaire, in New York
City.
Pope Plus Sunday received in pri.
vate audience Mrs Daniel Lamont and
her daughters. They were presented
by Mgr. Kennedy, rector of the Amer
lean College. To them the Pope ex.
claimed: my greatest consolation
now comes from America"
The old Police Gazette Building In
New York, where most of the old
time boxing matches were arranged.
and which was for many years the
sporting center of New York, was ,
burned Monday.
The annual meeting of the Ameri. ,
IAN association for the Advancement ;
II Science will open on December 27 F.,
n Columbia University and last un. |
II January 2, inclusive. More than {
i've hundred scientists are expected c
o attend
Charles P. Rogers, an alderman of !
he town of Taylor. was convicted by