The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-07-19
EVENTS OF EVERYWHERE

Frank Hoffman, a plasterer, aged As
years, dropped dead at his breakfast
table in Dallas Friday morning.
The Texas and Pacific Railway has
purchased additional Land at Marshall
and will greatly enlarge the car shops
at that place.
Inc WoodIord, |. r., Asphalt Cora
pany will spend considerable money
IN installing new machinery and de,
veloping the plant and mines,
Denlson has voted on a PROPOSITION
to issue $125,000 in bonds for the pur.
pose OF acquiring, by purchase or 9th
erwise, a municipal waterworks plant
Ffty-four ticket brokers were TEN.
porarily enjoined from traffic in rail
road tickets by Judge Kohlsatt of the
United States Circuit Court in Chi
CagO.
Elias Leblanc, whose life was twice
prolonged by postponement of SEN
tence after the death watch had been
set, was hanged at Martinsville. La,
last week He was convicted of wife
murder on circumstantial evidence.
K. F. Hoover, a baggage handler,
was electrocuted in Kansas City, Kan,
by coming into contace. with a guy
wire that had fallen from a trolley
pole and become crossed with a live
trolley wire.
John Y. Gray Sr., prominent
farmer and tobacco dealer, was struck
by lightning in Christian County, KY,
last week and instantly killed. One
OF his wOrkmen was 50 badly shocked
that he will die.
The Commissioners Court of Hill
County has made an increase of so
per cent on farm lands and adopted
SIS per acre as an average maximum
valuation, most Of the renditions be-
Ing placed at that figure.
John Owens, aged 30 years, a switch
man in the employ of the Galveston
Wharf Company's terminals, was run
down by a string of cars at Seven
teenth Street and Avenue A last week
and horribly mangled.
Plans for an interurban electric line
between Oklahoma City and Norman
have been been completed by George
SilSby, of Saginaw, Mich, who has
gone East, where, it is said, he has
made arrangements to finance the
deal.
Lightning struck three oil tanks at
Bridgeport, Ind, few days since. The
tanks contained 1880 gallons of oil
each, two belonging to Jennings Bros,
and the third to the Standard Oil
Company. The loss amounts to $780,
600.
A Spiritualist named Banninger liV-
ing in Budapest, eloped with his moth.
er-in-law, the wife of a land owner
named Deutsch. Banninger was dis
satisfied with his wife because she
was not interested in his seances. He
found his mother-in-law devoted to
spiritualism.
Another car of cabbage was loaded
at Denison Friday for shipment to the
North. This is the third car this sea-
son. This is the first effort to grow
cabbage in that section on an extern
siYe scale, but the results have been
entirely satisfactory.
AS the result of quarrel, Choate
Ainsworth, who lived near Milford,
was shot Thursday morning and died
in the afternoon. Lem Leary, with
whom Ainsworth had been living for
a long time was arrested.
Judge Martin J. Severance, one OF
the best known jurists in the State of
Minnesota, died recently as the re-
suit of an operation. Judge Severance
was 81 years old and was prominently
identified with the early history OF
Minnesota.
More than 5000 people heard the
Joint debate Thursday in Bostick
Grove between Governor ]. K. Varda-
man and Congressman John Sharp
Williams, candidates for the United
States Senate.
N. w. Reynolds was shot and killed
eight miles north of Big Springs last
week.