The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1906-09-28
EVENTS CT EVERYWHERE.

The 14-yearoid son Of Rev. J. NJ
Harder, who lives five miles west Of
Gainesville, was kicked in the breast
by mule and received fatal injuries.
s. T. VenabIe has been elected man
ager Of the warehouse for cotton which
is to be established in Hcuison by the
Farmers Union.
Woodmcu OF The World viii have
dedication ceremonies in their new
hall in Dallas on Oct. A. 1t is planned
to have an appropriate program OF mu'
sic, address, songs and readings.
The skeleton found in Milford Cem-
etery a few days since is thought TO
be that Of tramp who was hurt in
a freight wreck near that town some
time since.
Night Captain Rutillo Martinez. Of
the juarez geudarmes. met instant
death in a fire in the Juarez Office
of the Federal Telegraph Company,
by coming in contact with live wire.
Jim Smith, a negro section foreman,
and Frank McGlothIin, Federal OIL
GER are dead as the :csIIt of a duel
! at Wckiwa. |. T., small town seven
miles east of Tulsa
In wreck of an automobile at st.
Martin De Croix, France, j G. Scnmid
lapp, president of the Union Savings
and Trust company, of Cincinnati, was
! injured and his daughter, Charlotte,
killed.
Recent dry weather has had ten
dency to rapidly advance the spread
Of the boil weevil. 1t will soon have
overSpread Louisiana and Arkansas,
and will soon invade Mississippi ana
the Territories.
A New York syndicate has in con-
temptation the building of a railroad
from Oklahoma City TO Ration, y. NJ,
to form the eastern end If the Santa
Fe, Ration and Des MONIES Railroad,
now being built.
1t is announced that Senator Brack-
EFT will bring a contest of the will OF
Russell Sage. The opinion was ex-
pressed among lawyers that the case
would develop into a long drawn out
legal battle.
The contract for the erection Of the
steel work on the big bridge that will
span the Atchafalaya River 10 Louisi-
ana for the Colorado Southern, New
Orleans and Pacific, has Decn let TO
the Griffin Construction Company Of
Kansas City.
Senator Joseph Weldon Bailey has
just closed a deal whereby he becomes
the owner of another tWo-stOry brick
business house in Gainesville. This
makes the fifth business house Senator
Bailey has purchased in tb epast few
months, aggregating $4,000 or $780,
600.
The corner stone of Chicagos new
. county building, which, when complet-
, ed. will be the largest court house in
the world, was laid Friday with elab-
, crate ceremonies. Vice President
Fairbanks was the orator of the day
and addresses were also made by Gov
ernor Deneen, Mayor Dunno and Pres
ident Brundage. ..,., ,,tN
At Danbury, Conn, young man
t shot snake in order TO keep from be-
1 ing bitten by it last Sunday. and tho
} it was clear to the Judge that the act
| was necessary, an old law compelled
I him to fine the young man SO for
3 carrying a gun into the open air on
, Sunday.
The Savannah Ca, Theater, a few
nights since, was destroyed by fire.
4 The building was built in 1918, and IS
l said to have been the Oldest theater in
: the United States. The loss is es-
timated at $4,000 with insurance.
A dynamite explosion occurred on
I the right of way of the Grand Trunk
r Pacific Railway near Finmark, New
+ Ontario, in which five persons were
I killed and six others injured, one ia.
!. tally.
Rev. Frank Cornelius, Baptist min
lister, near Dupont, Ga, was shot
through the head while resting On his
front porch Friday. 1t was thought
:, he was assassnated, but some believe
that he committed suicide.