The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1906-03-23

An incipent fire at the Confederate
home damaged the kitchen to the
amount of about $500.
About fifty bales of cotton were sold
in Hillsboro from wagons one day last
week at an average price of 1055c.
Garth Thompson, negro convict
cd Of the murder of Vim. Brame, was
hanged at Madisonville, Ky, Friday.
The plague has reappeared at sgd
ney, n. S. W. Two cases were report
ted Thursday and three more were
discovered il the same block of houses
Owing to the results of inyeStiga-
tons, four third and three fourth
classmen have resigned from Anna
polls.
The Chicago fire department has
increased in strength by the addition
of 1879 men, and the wages Of firemen
and policemen were raised by the
council finance committee recently.
From past experience, the shippers
of fruits and vegetables realize that
the old way of shipping in two and
four basket crates is not as profitable
as shipping in bushel baskets.
In a collision At South Omaha be-
tween North and Southbound street
cars, one man was killed and seven
others injured, six of whom were Sc.
Nerely injured.
The Democrats of Tacoma re-nom.
mated George P. Wright for mayor.
The platform favors municipal own
ership, restriction of the social evil
and the suppression Of gambling.
James Peters, the railroad man who
was shot accidentally by Buck Gar
rett, Chief of Police of Ardmore, l.
T., died, and the body was shipped to
Newton, Kan, for burial.
Henry Brown, Of Tulsa, I. T., SO.
years of age, Friday afternoon cut his
throat with a razor from ear to ear
and will die. He was found soon al.
ter, sweltering in blood. The old man
was possessed of considerable wealth.
He leaves an aged widow.
Rev. William D. Shea, one of the
oldest End best known ministers of
the Methodist Church in the South,
died at his home at Atlanta, Ga, II
years Of age. Mr.. Shea, who in early
life was a resident of Roswell, Ga,
was an attendant at the wedding OF
President Roosevelt's mother.
Announcement is made of the sale
to the Long-Bell Lumber Company Of
Kansas City of all the holdings Of
the Bradley Ramsey Lumber Company,
including two mills, a planer and a
chemical plant, line of tugs and bar.
ges, $4,000 acres of pine untouched
and $4,000 acres of pine partly cut
over.
Waco: The executive board of the
Texas Federation of Women's Clubs
met here Friday and transacted a
great deal of business. Arrangements
were made for the coming year and
plans were formed for the excursion
of club women of Texas to the biennial
meeting OF the general liberation, to
take place next May at ST. Paul, MINI.
The executive board completed its
work at night and adjourned.
An official inspection car with cleo.
trict power has been received for use
on the Trinity and Brazos Valley road.
John D. Rockefeller, ST., has re-
signed from the board of trustees of
the Fifth Avenue Baptist Church. New
York City.
The House Committee on Interstate
Commerce has agreed to vote Friday
on the sc hour cattle-in-transit bill.
Fhe bill will doubtless be reported
Iavorably, but there is apt to be q
minority report against it.
st. Vincent's Academy, Shreveport,
established thirty years ago, and one
OF the most widely known Catholic in.
situations in the South, was DESTROYED
by fire Friday afternoon. Loss 500.
900; insurance $12.5OO.
That the Katy management fears
the elimination of the coal miners'
strike is shown by the fart +bot Tho