The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-01-25
Terse Telegrams

l.. V. B. Rucker, newspaper CORE
spondent at Springfield, Mo, is brutal
ly assaulted by two men.
Bill is introduced in st. Louis house
Of delegates to grant franchise to 8
cent,lare street railway system.
British woman educator arrives to
inspect St. Louis schools seeking
knowledge for English institutions
benefit.
United States begins two suits in
San Francisco to force city to give
japanese equal schooi advantages with
Americans.
Arkansas files suit against six pack.
ing companies, asking Judgment aggre.
eating $2f,OOC,OOO.
President Roosevelt will favor deep
waterway to gulf in his annual mes.
sage TO congress at next session.
Locomotive engineers, in session in
st. Louis, adopt resolutions against
passage of the 2-cent fare bill before
the -iiSsouri legislature.
Southeastern lines will adopt an in.
Interchangeable mileage book system.
the Southern railway Withdrawing its
opposition.
TWO men electr0cuted, wires pros.
trated, 100 factories darkened and
street car and train service impaired
as result of storm in st Louis.
Real estate dealer of Brownsville,
Tex, bl-mes army officers for riots,
asserting they knew disturbances
were impending.
ONO river is above food mark and
great devastation is expected to fol-
low continuous rains throughout val
ley.
Custer suit instituted by Atty. Gen,
Hadley, of Missouri, involves conten-
ton that several railroads cannot con
troll express company.
President w. W. Finley says South
ern Railway has invested $4,000 900
in improvements for taking care OF
traffic.
Report of ]. P. Morgan's illness
causes slump in stocks. Amalgamated
shows further weakness.
During the consideration of the Dis.
trict of Columbia bill notable speeches
were made by Representative Foster,
OF Vermont, supporting the president
IN his message on the japanese situa-
ton in California, and by Representa-
tive Sheppard, of Texas, who enthused
the democrats by closely-prepared
address on politics and tie state OF
the nation.
The rainfall at st. Louis for As hours
was 1922 inches.
Folks anti-lobby bill may meet de-
feat in Missouri legislature, while tip
ping measure may win.
Custer suit instituted by Atty. Gen.
Hadley, Of Missouri, involves conten-
tion that several railroads can not con.
troll express company.
Estimates indicate that st. Louis
real and personal property in 1907 will
exceed assessed valuation of half-bil.
lion dollars
Wabash will so steadily on with
the work of doublc-tr tracking between
St Louis and Chicago and Toledo.
At Bardwell, KY. rear.end COLL.
sion between freight trains occurred,
in which four men were killed and sew.
eral injured. Failure to observe
danger block signal is the alleged
cause.
While propped up in bed, Gov. War.
ner of Michigan was sworn in for his
second term as chief executive of the
state.
Atty. Gen. Hadley Of Missouri re.
fuses to bring suit to dissolve the
merger Of the United Railway Co. and
the Suburban Co., traction lines, in
st. Louis, believing that the consoli.
d ion was lawful.
The .sthmian commission opened
bids from private contractors for the
completion of the Panama canal. w,
j. Oliver, of Knoxvillel, Tenn, and An
son M. Bangs, of New York, associat.
ed together, were the lowest bidders,
$C.75 per centum uLon the estimated
cost