The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1906-05-18
GENERAL NEWS TEENS.

GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.
Willie Hoppe broke the worlds rec
ord at 1872 balk line billiards in q
game with Jake Schaefer in the Chi,
cago tournament when he made run
of 307. The former record, 255, was
held by Louis Cure.
Assistant General Passenger Agent
Smith of the Northern Pacific Rail
read Co., declares the stories of dam
ase to Yellowstone park by earth
quake to be without foundation. The
park, he says, is not within the zone
of seismic action and conditions there
are absolutely normal.
A dispatch from Appleton, Wis,
says that the General Paper Co. will
reorganize on entirely new lines.
There not being sufficient evidence
forthcoming, the charge of bribery
and corruption made by the state
against James S. Gibson, county at
torney, at Kansas City, Kas., will be
withdrawn.
Sidi Mohammed, hey of Tunis, is
dead. His cousin, Mohammed Ell Nasr,
succeeds him.
San Francisco is, for the present,
absolutely a dry town, and Mayor
Schmitz says it will remain so for a
while longer, as he ascribes the excel.
lent order that has been maintained
in the city since the disaster to the
absence of intoxicants.
There is every indication in the
condition of John A. Dowie that the
end of the FIRST apostle" of the Chris.
tian Catholic church is not far off.
There is probability of a trial for
heresy in the Presbyterian fold, with
Rev. DR.. Samuel S. Carter as the de.
PENDANT. He wants the Westminster
Confession revised, declaring that
there never was, there is not now.
and there never will be such a God as
the God of the Westminster Comics.
sion"
Students of the Missouri state uni.
versity, at Columbia, provoked
quarrel with the attaches of circus
by refusing to pay for remaining to
the after concert, and in the fracas
that followed got decidedly the worst
OF 1t. Stakes, knives, razors and pis.
tolls figured in the melee, and some of
the 'rubes" got theirs.
Rt' Rev. James H. Blenk, bishop of
\ Porto Rico, has been named as arch.
bishop of New Orleans, to fill the va.
cancy created by the death of Arch.
bishop Chapelle.
In the course Of the Standard Oil
Co. nearing before the interstate com.
merce commission in Chicago, testi.
mony was adduced to show that the
iron Mountain Railroad Co. acted as
agent Tor the Standard Oil Co. in small
towns of southern Missouri, local
agents receiving a commission of one
cent gallon on sales.
Wce-President Fairbanks celebrated
MS hfty.fourth birthday anniversary
ny presiding over one of the busiest
days OF the senates present session
he received many congratulations
Gov, J. W. C. Beckham of Kentucky
mas issued proclamation summonipe
ali VINO possess the priceless heritage
or having drop of Kentucky blood in
their veins" to assemble in Louisville
for Homecoming week." June 10 to
II.
Mrs. Jefferson Davis, widow of tbe
president of the Southern Confederacv
is suffering from bad attack Of the
grip at her apartments In New York
Russia has been somewhat startled
by the PRONUNCIATION of the draft of
the fundamental law Of the empire
which was supposed to have persisted
with the Witte regime; and it is feared
that the work of the constitutional
democratic leaders in the cause of
moderation will be brought I'd naught..
The policy holders association of the
Mutual Life Insurance; Co., at a meet
ing in Washington, decided to incorpo-
rate under the laws ;of:tthe District. oeI
Columbia. The membership extends to
every Rtate and territory, to seven Ca
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