The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1906-05-25
Julius Kahn, president of the Cash

found by the federal grand jury
charging him with having used the
mails to defraud
Marathon, Wis, had a big lumber
fire that destroyed about 100000
feet, and owing to the extreme dry
ness and surrounding forest fires the
town was placed in imminent peril.
Fire destroyed the plant Of the Boone
Qa.) Cereal Co., owned by Fred Fear
& Co., of New York city. The loss IS
placed at $105,000 insurance. $43,250.
Dan Weston. an emplOye, was injured.
Six steel ail-producIng corporations
in the Pittsburg district have booked,
within two weeks, orders for 10000
tons of rails for delivery in 1907.
A, j. Cassatt, president Of the Penn
sylvania Railroad Co., on his arrival in
London, declined to discuss the report
cabled from Philadelphia that he was
considering retiring from his position.
The general assembly Of the South
ern Presbyterian church is in session at
Greenville, S. c., with 2l0 commission
erS, representing every one Of the 81
preShyteries Of the south, in attend
anCe.
George W. Jimine2, the New York
policeman who went to Panama to re-
organize the police department Of that
republic, has given up the job, declar-
ing that political considerations render
the task impossible.
The last imperial garrison in Cana
da, that Of Esquimalt, has been re-
placed by Canadian troops and the Brit
ish troops have started for home.
United States Marshal Darrough is
confident that it is only question of
a short time now until the three Wick
life brothers, the Cherokee outlaws, are
either killed or captured.
Fourteen men were injured, three ia
tally in the National tube works at
BeNwo0d, W. Va, by the collapse of a
scaffold. on which they were at work,
under tie weight Of huge casting.
Miss Harlan Child, granddaughter of
Associate Justice Harlan, of the SUI
creme court of the United States, ard
Erastus Corning. Jr. Of Albany, n. Y,
&sre married in Washington, D. c.
Business was practically suspended in
the interior department for half the
day on the occasion Of the funeral Of
Carl Schurz, former secretary of the in
terror.
Prof. Paul s. Reinsch, of Madison,
Wis. has been appointed one of the
American delegates to the Pan Ameri-
,an conference at Rio Janeiro in place
If James S. Harlan, who has been
obliged to decline, owing to an accident
President Roosevelt, speaking to
delegation of the Merchant Marine
league who called upon him at the
White House, expressed himself as
heartily in favor of the ship subsidy
bill now pending in congress.
President Castro of Venezuela it is
said, Will resume the reinS of govern
ment May %.
Rev. DR.. Hunter Corbett, a distin.
guished missionary to China for many
years, was chosen moderator of the
Presbyterian general assembly at Des
M0ines, Ia. after a spirited contest, or
the third ballot
1t is expected that every necessary
building of the Leland Stanford uni
verSity at Palo Alto, Cal, necessary
for the welfare of the college will be in
perfect condition by September next.
Rev. DR.. ]. J. Tigert, secretary of the
general conference; Rev. DR.. Seth
Ward. Of Texas and Rev. DR.. Joseph
Atkins, Sunday school editor, were
elected bishops by the general confer
ence of the Methodist Episcopal church
south at Birmingham, Ala.
Two men, belonging to a construc-
ton gang, were killed and five others
injured, one fatally, by a premature
explosion of dynamite near Blooming.
ton. Ind, on the line of the Indianap.
oils Southern railroad.
Michael Davitt. the well-known Irish
nationalist, has had to submit to a sec.
ond operation for blood poisoning, and
though in very enfeebled condition
may have to submit to third, to save
his life
The Standard Oil Co. has issued Q
statement to its shareholders in which
1t denies positively the charges that
the company benefited by secret rates
Tor the transportation of it's products
and declaring that whatever of pros
perity it has enjoyed has been due tc
Its elaborate economical and industrial
organization.
The National Society of Daughters OF
Founders and Patriots held its eighth
annual meeting in Washington, D. c
Mrs. Henry V. Boynton was elected
president and Mrs. Lucy M. o. Marsh |
secretary.
The worlds conference of the Young
Women's Christian association held
weeks session in Paris, France. A