The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1906-05-04
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.
Mrs. Kate P. Raymond, wife of a
clerk in the interior department at
Washington, who asphyxiated her IA
year-old son at Hollywood, Cal, has
been committed to the asylum for the
insane at Highlands, Cal.
The Greeks were with difficulty en-
abled to control their chagrin at the
successes of the American athletes
in the Olympic games at Athens, and
in some instances successful Amer
leans heard few Kisses.
Sheriff Bell and Treasurer Beney
of Washington county, Colorado, have
been arrested by federal officers
charged with frauds while they were
officials of the United States land of.
fee at Akron, Col.
The Indiana Steel Co., a subsidiary
corporation of the United States Steel
corporation, has begun work on a
model city to house 100000 people
in connection with a $10,5O0,000 steel
plant to be erected in Lake county,
Indiana, east of the mouth of the
Grand Calumet river.
The theatrical benefit held in the
Bernhard tent on the Lake Front
Chicago, for the San Francisco relief
fund, and which continued from noon
until evening, Melted S15,50O. Nearly
every company playing in the city
was represented.
Ex-Judge Abner Smith, president;
Jerome V. Pierce, cashier; G. F. Sor.
row, vice-president, and F. E. Creel,
man, director of the defunct Bank
of America, have been indicted by the
grand jury In Chicago on charges of
fraud and conspiracy.
Erich Muenter, an instructor in
German at Harvard university, is
charged with the murder of his wife
by poison, and a warrant has been
issued for his arrest.
Chicago's $5,O00,oO0 city hall is
partly wrecked and in danger of col.
lapse, due to excavating the site for
the new Cook county building.
The western women have surprised
their eastern sisters in their prof.
cheney at whist, as demonstrated at
the st. Louis congress.
Miss Luebkemann, who went from
Red Bud, ILL.,, to st. Louis to engage
in domestic service, was asphyxiated
by Illuminating gas on her first night.
DR.. Charles A. Nichols, of Urbana,
was fined $3.50 and costs in the fed,
eral court at Springfield, ILL.,, on con.
Vict1on of using the mails to defraud,
Pretty actresses in st. Louis, selling
flowers for the benefit of the San
francisco fund, took in lots of money,
one sold a carnation for a new s100
bill. ''
William H. Hill, of Brookline. Mass
mul'lmiliionaire, aged 81, and Miss
caroline Wright Rogers, who was
graduated from Wellesley in 1900, and
who was the founder of the famous
wellesley college inn, were married
at Dedham, Mass.
The United Confederate Veterans,
reunion at New Orleans wound IN
WIN monster parade, in which
much enthusiasm was manifested
commander Stephen D. Lee was TAX.
en- seriously i'll during the parade,
The area devastated in San Fran
CISCO approximates 10000 acres or
about Is square miles, which contained
ZoO'oOO inhabitants beside 10000 tran
sients and some of the finest BUILDINGS
IN the world, among which were nearly
100 banks. ~' y
The Polish nationalists won q com.
plete victory at the primary elections
and will form an independent party in
parliament.
The Russian naval commission, which
has been investigating the naval battle
OF Tsu Shima straits, in which the
Russian feet was destroyed, recon-
mend the court-martial of all the Off.
GERS who were on board the DESTROYER
Redovi, on which Vice-Admiral Rojest.
Yensky was captured.
Frederick T. Plat, aged 81, a brother
Of Senator Platt, of New York, died at
his home in Oswego, N. Y.
Complete official returns from the
Sixth Alabama district primary give
Capt. Richmond P. Hobson a majority
OF 495 over Congressman Bankhead for
the congressional nomination.