The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1906-08-17
EVENTS OF EVERYWHERE.


bling at Saratoga.
Ten and one-quarter inches OF rain |
fell at Miles Tuesday. Bridges are
wrecked and train service suspended,
The records in the Department OF
State show that there are 233 organ
tied and twelve unorganized counties.
Not all of the organized counties
held primaries, however.
Four prisoners sawed their way out
of the county Jail at MuSkOgee through
the roof and let themselves to the
ground by knOtting their bed clothing
together.
By expanding $1O,OOO,OOO Swift &
Co, packers of Chicago and Boston,
have secured control for the beef
trust. of the entire beef packing and
tanning business of New England
The GraySOn County Ginners Asso-
citation has decided to return to
'stra ght ginning" that is to gin cot
the customer and not to buy seed cot
ton.
John Gray son Of Dr.. L. R. Gray,
pastor of the Cumberland Pre6byter-
ian Church in Austin, Mas drowned &C.
cidentally in Onion Creek. He
fell into the creek while trying to
get a drink for a small dog.
Former United States Senator Jas,
Smith, Jr., of New York, announced
that he has a letter from William ].
Bryan from London accepting an IN
vitation to speak il New York on
September /.
Ed. C. Bowler, an employe Of the
American Tobacco Company, at Rich.
mond, Va, under a religious frenzy,
attempted suicide by jumping into a
furnace. He was dragged out before
he was fatally burned
Secretary Root has accepted an in
Wtation to speak before the Trans
Mississippi Congress that meets al
Kansas City, November 20 to %, on
the subject of American Trade With
Sister Latin Races"
Eugene Boross, special commission
er Of the Royal Hungarian ministr,
Of Agriculture to the United States
has received notification from the new
KOssuth ministry that his service
are no longer needed.
The New York Aquarium's $500
sea cow secured some two weeks be
fore, died last Friday from blood poi.
oning induced by bullet wound IL
flicted at Miami, Fla, from whic
point the great manatee was shipped
The largest individual wool eli
ever grown on the American cont
nent was shipped from Billings, Mont
TO Boston wool firm. The eli
weighed 100000 pounds and A cal
were required to carry it. The owne
refused an offer Of 24c a pound for tn
wool. ,.n-.
An unknown man, aged about twel
ty years, was run over and killed b
Chicago, Rock Island and Pacif
passenger train running at full spec
east of Oklahoma City and Instant
killed, the body being cut and tw
It is thought he was asleep on tt
track.
With the support OF the soverele
lodge law passed in 1895, but whic
rever has been enforced, Wesley
lout, Grand Master of the Graz
Lodge of Odd Fellows of New Jerse
has opened war upon saloon keeper
bartenders and gamblers in an effo
to drive them out Of the lodges.
The Hearst papers have cut loo
from the Democratic machine in CT
cago, and backed up with the refor
forces will create a fatal split in t
local campaign.
The conference of the Information
League of Woman Suffragists has
cided to held the next conference
Holland in 1907, in connection W
which there will be mass meetings
Amsterdam. The Hague and Rott
dam
Sergeant Daniel Manning Of
United States Army, in charge of a
cruiting post at Laurel, Miss, enc
his life by cutting his left wrist W
a rayor No cause for his act y