New Iberia enterprise and independent observer. (New Iberia, La.) 1902-1944, 1906-01-27

to possible utilization in connection
with any move which may be made
against China.
Henry A. Smith. a government agent
Is in Dallas for the purpose of engag-
ing Workmcl for the Panama Canal
work. The engagement is for 30 days
Or longer, wages 80 cents an hour and
board and lodging $27 per month.
Marie Brady threw car6olic acid into
the faces Of Irma Burger and Lula
White, the latter a negress. from which
they were both badly burned. All were
Of Dallas
The Twentyfourth Infantry, now at
san francisco, waiting to take ship
for Manila, Jan. %, is the first negro
regiment that has been ordered on
foreign service for nearly five years.
One person was killed and a dozen
injured when a car on the elevated
road in Brooklyn fell to the street
Friday. The car was crowded with
passengers. The accident occurred
on curve at Fulton and Chestnut
streets.
John McDougal, a recognized au-
thority on Texas land lawns, died in
New Orleans recently, aged ninety
years. He went to New Orleans in
the forties and was a merchant. but
acquiring considerable land in Texas.
took up the study of the Texas land
laws.
A dispatch from Canyon City, Colo,
says that Governor Peabody and his
wife and daughter were poisoned by
food eaten at breakfast Thursday
and the daughter is in a dangerous
condition as T result.
Sentiment 'avoring the erection of
O great library instead of chapel as
memorial to President VIM. Rainey
Harper has grown among the Uni
Versity Of Chicago professors, students
ard alumni in the last few days.
Crazed from over-study, l4-year
old Herbert Carson of New York City, |
after driving his mother and father
from the house, threatening to cut
them with carving knife. dived from |
the third story CT his home and was |
killed
Shoe polish manufacturers of the |
United States met in New York last |
Friday and formed the National Shoe
Polish Manufacturers Association. |
The purpose of the association is to |
promote the welfare of the trade.
Mrs. Mary Aiken, charged with
burying her S-months-old boy alive on
the night of Jan. Z, has been given
preliminary hearing az Carlsbad and
was held to the action OF the grand
jury on the charge of murder.
Ack, the first Japanese ambassa-
dor to Washington, will probably
bring with him to this country his
wife, who is German He was edu-
Gated in Germany and was sent to
that country several times as minis
ter.
The producing power of the banana
is forty-four times as great as that
of the potato. The dried fruit is read
lily converted into nutritious flour;
it may also be manufactured into sau-
sages; beer can be made from it:
while the skin can be turned into
cloth; and the juice made to do SER
wise either as ink or vinegar
Commodore William P. McMann. L.
s. NJ, retired, is dead at his home in
New Rochelle, N. Y. He was native
of kentucky and served on the gulf
squadron during the Civil
War
The French goverumenmt has deci-
ded TO adopt most energetic measures
to obtain satisfaction from Venezuela.
1t is understood a naval demonstration
is under preparation.
A plan Is on foot to combine all the
breweries OF New York City.
J, c. Napier, the negro lawyer aad
banker of Nashville. who was recently
offered the position of United States
Consul at Bahia, Brazil. called on the
President and thanked him for the
proposed appointment, but declined il.
The funeral services and burial OF
Marshall Field occurred in Chicago
Friday. The proceedings were mark,
I'd by extreme simplicity.
New strawberries opened up on The
Dallas market last Friday at 81 box
about two-thirds of a quart.
r. j. Langdon, an employee of the
federal Government, will examine all
ne herds in the United States and
GEMS to have been prompted in this
y President Roosevelt. A heroic effort
viii be made TO preserve all hufTaloes.
William Van DalZen, white man,
lged %. was hanged in Louisville,
". Friday for the murder last fall