The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-08-16
EVENTS OF EVERYWHERE

0T BTuUUF entlA@I0S TIC uumDeT
of cases of dengue at Brownsville to
he at least 500.
The Railroad Commission has issued
on order denying the application of
tbe Farmers Union for a special rate
On cotton in round bales.
George Williams, negro from Min.
oral Wells, Tex, was shot and fatally
wounded at Shreveport by an officer,
while trying to escape arrest.
The grading on the Wichita Falls
and Southern Railway is about com.
Melted to Archer City, and some of the
track has been laid near Wichita Falls
Mexico exported to the United
States during the fiscal year ending
June 80, 1907, goods amounting to
57233,4 16, as against $50,965,177 dur
ing the preceding fiscal year.
Three women were killed and two
persons were injured when a subur.
han trolley car struck an automobile
at Jackson, Mich, Friday night. The
dead and injured all lived in Jackson.
White and Woodall, of Hillsboro,
have purchased from the stockholders
of the Hubbard City Cotton Oil COM
pany the oil mill at the latter place,
the consideration being $4,000.
Attorneys for the Standard Oil com,
pany of Indiana, which was recently
fined $2924O,OO0 in the United States
district court, Thursday presented to
Judge Lands motion seeking an ap.
peal in the case.
Three.fourths of the Golden Cycle
Mining company's reduction plant, To-
Gated at the foothills south of Colo
RADIO City, was destroyed by fire Thurs
day. The loss is estimated at $780,.
900. Insurance $350,000.
News has reached this country that
the DeBeers Diamond company of
South Africa has bought the control of
the Premier Mine, which gives the
company practically the diamond
monopoly of the world.
A hack ordinance in Dallas provid-
ing that one refusing to pay hack fare
might be arrested, has been declared
unconstitutional, as Imprisonment for
debt is not contemplated under the
constitution.
Several Chinese women students
have sailed for the United States on
board the steamer Minnesota. They
are graduates of schools in China and
are going to America to enter Vassar
college
An unknown man was found dead in
box car at Pecos Tuesday morning.
No signs of identity can be found.
There was bottle of morphine lying
near which is supposed to be the
cause Of his death.
Rev. Robert White, a pioneer settler
Of Ellis County, died recently at his
home near OVilla. Mr.. White was
about 80 years old. The interment
took place at Shiloh Cemetery, the
oldest burying ground in Ellis County
Charles Roach, who appears to be
past 50 years of age, is dead at Sher.
man. His death is due to spasms, evil
IDENTIFY 'superinduced from an old
wound in the head He had at one
time been a section man in the EN-.
ploy Of the Frisco and worked last at
Carrollton.
Dallas is in the throes of a clean
ing up crusade. Waco is undergoing
the same thing.
Richard Semmins, a negro school
teacher, was shot and killed at Cor
acana recently. Dick Adams, also
negro, Is under arrest.
representatives of Jimmy Britt aTNl
Joe Cans Thursday night signed ar.
acies for the appearance of the two
lghtWeights before Gleason's Occi.
dental Club in San Francisco on Sep.
TENDER 9.
Al San Francisco Thomas Chapman,
aged ffty-fve years, an expert ac-
eountant from Detroit, Mich, shot
ana mortally wounded Barbara Hay
ward, and then blew off the top of
nus head Both are conscious at a
hospital, though neither can recover.
Governor Patterson has issued call
lot conference of textile manufac,
turerS and labor representatives to be