The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1906-07-27
EVENTS OF EVERYWHERE,

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threaten to strike for an eight hour
day.
Robert Prater, the 7.yoar-old son Of
r. S. Prater, was drowned in pond
Of water at the Hobart Fair Grounds
while learning 10 swim with some
companions.
Tags for male dogs in Waco cost a
dollar, and for bitches $3.50, but the
canine found there without a tag COOS
into the dog wagon.
Col. Tom Campbell has been al-
yised that he cannot safely re-enter
the campaign, and he will therefore
rely upon the press and his friends
to do his campaigning.
Thomas Carberry of Artesia. y. NJ,
was found dead in his bed. Mr.. Car
berry retired about II o'clock as we'll
as usual, but when called in the morn.
ing failed to respond
Buried alive eight feet deep und az
tonsOf gravel in a sewer trench, Jose
Lopez. a Mexican laborer, met his
death at San Antonio, while his twelve
fellow laborers worked frantcally to
rescue him from his living tomb.
The total appropriation on the
Trinity river from the government
has been $4,000; from the citizens
of Dallas $4,000; from the sale Of
condemned property. S31.27, making
a total of $559,O31.27.
The attorney general has approved
an issue of $685. 900 Galveston grade
raising bonds. The issue is in lieu
of bonds heretofore approved, but
being necessary on account of the
death of eX-MayOr Austin
Bids were opened at the Treasury
Department a few days since for the
$30,000,000 in Panama Canal bonds.
and, it is evident that the entire issue
has been subscribed for at an average
of fros 1884 to 1896.
At a meeting of the Christian
church founded by John Alexander
Dowie on his visit to Berlin, Germa-
ny, it was decided to throw off all al
legiance to the prophet and to form
distinct mission, with the title of
the Free Evangelical church of Re-
lieving Christians.
AS a result of an explosion in the
Dixon mine at Huger, in the east end
of the Tug River field, West Virginia
Wallace Mitchell and -four miners, Err.
nest Jones, Palmer Harris and Robert
Harris, brothers, and John Gilmer are
dead and Bill Grouse and Langaor
Whiteside will die from burns.
John P. Hopkins of Chicago called
on William j. Bryan at his hotel in
London. The two men propose to
bury the Ratchet. Cold Democrats
like myself" said Mr.. Hopkins, ARE
prepared to support Mr.. Bryan for the
Presidency since silver is a dead Is.
sue.
A woman headed a gang of bur-
glars and, provided with an immense
truck, carried away the most valua-
BILE part of a Broadway, New York,
stock, in the presence of hundreds of
people who thought the store was
simply moving. 1t all took place I'M
der the glare of the electric lights and
the store was brilliantly lighted up
by the burglars.
A great union revival is in progress
at Athens.
A negro, known as Jack the Bear,
convicted of having murdered Carl
Matthews, an aged German planter,
at Barield, Ark, in 1904, was hanged
at Blytheville, Ark last Friday.
L. M. Perry, of Horatio Ark, after
looking over Francis, |. IT,, purchased
a tract of land near town and some
building lots on the new freight house
tracks being put in and will erect
broom factory.
The Marshall Canning Company
is a newly incorporated institution,
capitalized at $4,000.
The Farmers Union of Grayson
county held a two days picnic at Tom
Bean last week and had a record
breaking attendance.
Vice-President Charles w. Fair
banks, Speaker Joseph Cannon and
United States Senator VIM, Warner