The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1906-07-20
EVENTS OF EVERYWHERE.

O0lS' 4ue numDer or places visited
averages one every night.
James Fortune, en- route from his
home at Port Arthur to Marlin. for his
neaIth' was found dead in bed in a no
tel in Houston.
The Palestine oil company which
lost test well some time since by the
breaking of drill, will commence o
new we'll in a few days.
The total scholastic population Of
Dallas and Dallas County is %, 663. of
which 3,345 are negroes and 1898 are
white.
More than 100000 consigned to the
Alaskan Pacific Express company here
has been stolen from aboard the steam
er Ida May, and no clew has been dis.
covered as to who the robbers are.
Should Colonel Lyon be nominated
Tor Governor at FL Paso a second Re.
publican ticket will be put in the field.
This has virtually been decided on at
private conferences.
One hundred and eight solid cars Of
alberta peaches moved from the East
Texas orchards Tuesday night. The
Cotton Bet alone handled sixty cars
In four special fruit trains.
The canning plant, valued at $4,000,
which has been in use at HaIlville.
but was idle last season, will be
moved to Marshall and will be operat
ed by a stock company.
The Texas Central began LAYING
steel out of Stamford the early part
OF last week. They expect to connect
Stamford with the Orient by Aug. 1
al the latest
VIII A. Meyers was killed in Okla.
hOma City by coming in contact with
a live electric light wire. Meyers was
WeIl-known having been engaged in
the cattle industry in the early days.
Near Noble, Ok, Otto Amerius and
NJ D. Kent, farmers and brothers.in.
law, fought a duel with revolvers.
ATerius was killed andsKent was NOR.
tally wounded.
A fire destroyed the town of Lyn.
Vile, Ind, of one thousand popula.
ton, causing a loss of 5000 900. TWEEN
ty'tWo buildings were burned and the
town has practically gone out of ex.
istence.
owing to the brakes failing to act.
the motor of an omnibus running from
London to Brighton, dashed down a
steep till near Crawley and overturn.
ed. Six passengers were killed and \
score badly hurt.
A trolley pole on a New York car
new OFF the wire and bursted an am. ,
nonia pipe that it was passing under. [
Those aboard the car narrowly escap. |
ed serious injury or death from the t
fumes. /
The celebrated farm of Mont St.
can where Wellington awaited
5iucher's arrival at the battle Of Wa
ero2, notwithstanding the successive .
of NapOleon's troops, has =
cen sold for 10000 francs. The Dur. !,
haser is Alfred Madoux. b
Since the publication of the state u
nent that the Southern Pacific was =
urVeying line from Beeville to Lar
dc it has been suggested that tn.
Cmpany long ago contemplated build o
ng cutoff from Beeville to connect u
nth the main transcontinental lina u
t Del Rio or Eagle Pass. - -
Cement workers in Chicago threat e
n to tie up sidewalk building cru.
ade by strike v
Recently 100000 railway ties have >.
cen bought in Japan for use on a Mex O.
can Railway, and are being delivered Ii
t the uniform price of Sc cents. G
There has been organized what is g,
be known as the Orient Ginning fl
the object of which is to
onstruct line of gins and cotton
in Oklahoma along the la
QUITE of the Orient road. CT CT
Committees representing the coal SC
perators and miners have agreed up- W
scale for the hard coal districts he
Arkansas and all miners have been bl
lstructed to resume work without de.
~. The scale of 1903 was adopted
ithout any changes. =,
a thousand necktie makers in New ad
K City are on a strike because . an
sNleSs boss and an obstreprous girl =,
al row in which the boss slammed 40 ~"