The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1906-05-11
CONGRESSIONAL NOTES.

preparation for free seed distribution.
The house passed the military acad-
envy appropriation bill, carrying $685.
lis.
The house adopted a resolution OF
thanks, on behalf of the people OF the
United States to Gen. Horace Porter, late
ambassador to France, for his untlrlng
efforts to discover and disinter the BODY
OF Admiral Paul Jones; also that his
speech, delivered at Annapolis on the
occasion of the refinement of the body
be printed in the Congressional Record.
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.
Superior Judge Murasky, at San
Francisco has passed on the sanity OF
upwards of eighty persons whose
minds have been more or less de.
ranged by fright consequent upon the
great disaster.
The savings banks of San Francis.
co have reopened for business and
all the commercial banks report bust.
ally discontinued.
Mrs. Serena Lang, of st. Joseph.
Mo, aged &C, died as the result of in
juries received by being thrown down
stairs by Ruth Mayes, a woman she
had befriended.
A large number Of Washington
newspaper correspondents and repre-
SentatiVeS of leading daily newSpa-
pers met the president at the execu-
tive Offices and listened to his views
on railroad rate legislation.
AS the result of a collision with a
cow and calf Texas Pacific paSsen.
ger train was wrecked at Sodus, La.
The engineer and fremen were killed
two passengers seriously and several
others slightly hurt.
Former President Cleveland was
the guest of honor at dinner given in
connection with the annual jaunt OF
of the Periodical Publishers AsSoci
alton of America at Atlantic City, N
J. There was distinguished com
pany of authors, artists and publish
ers present.
A report that a revolutionary out
break had occurred in eastern Cuba.
under the leadership of Leal, former
agitator is denied from Havana.
A big charity fete in aid of the San
Francisco sufferers was held at
Friendship" the beautiful country
home of John R. Mclean near Wash
ington, d. C.
Owen Harris, the negro who was
arrested in St. Louis on suspicion OF
being the murderer of Mrs. Elizabeth
Mize, in Chicago established a cleal
alibi.
Upwards of $4,000 was realized
from an all-day benefit performance
in the Metropolitan opera house in
New York in aid of the San Francisco
sufferers.
AS the result of a shooting ARRAY
at Birmingham, Ala, Thomas G. Hew
lit is dead, John T. Shupart was ex
pected to die AM Frank Lee and Leon
ard Potts, bystanders slightly
wounded.
France, Italy and Russia are siding
with Great Gritain in the Tabah dis
quite with Turkey.
Ten persons were reported killed
as the result of a head-on collision.
near Williamsburg, Pa, on the Penn
sylvania railroad.
The official canvass of the result of
the Cuban presidential election has
been made AMI Tomas Estrada Palma
and Mendez Capote declared elected
president and vice-president respec
lively.
1t is announced that Mr. and Mrs.
Nicholas Longworth will be among the
guests at the coronation of King Haa-
kon and Queen Maud of Norway.
The federal grand jury in New York
mas returned seven indictments against
railroad companies and sugar refining
concerns for violation of the Elktns
antitrust law, in the alleged sugar re-
batting case.
During the disturbed period in Rus
STA fugitives are said to have deposited
$4,000 in German banks.
Sir Mortimer Durand, the British
ambassador in Washington, has gone
home for months visit.
In an unfortunate collision between
state constabLlary and a mob made up
mostly of foreigners, at Mount Carmel,
Pa, several men were wounded, three
probably fatally, by the constabulary,
who fired into the mob after submitting
to being pelted with rocks until for
bearance ceased to be virtue.
After conference at the White
House, President Roosevelt ordered
that the cavalry escort sent by Brig
Gen. Duvall, commanding the depart
ment Of the Gulf, with Father Tom
Sherman on bis trip over the route OF
his fathers famous march, be recalled
after reaching Resaca, Ga