The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-11-01
EVENTS OF EVERYWHERE

1dIC IloI SCdI.
Kansas will send solid delegation
to the next Republican convention to
vote for the nomination for the Presi'
dency of Secretary Taft.
Samuel Johnston, Magistrate OF
Elmore County, Ala, was shot and
killed late Friday afternoon as he
alghted from a train by man named
Oates, who escaped.
The Olney State Bank is to be con-
verified into the First National Bank,
capital stock $4,000. The applica-
ton has been approved and the stock
holders have elected officers.
]. A. Thomas, representative from
Fannin County, has resigned as
member of the Legislature. Mr.
Thomas has removed to Mineola,
where he is editor Of the Mineola
Monitor.
Tracklaying is being rapidly done
north from Benjamin, and Will be |
completed through the State and con-
nection with Kansas City by the first
of the year, it is declared.
The work of drilling for oil has been
, begun in the Medina oil fields, which
are located eleven miles south OF san
l. Antonio. Those who have examined
n the site say that the indications OF OIL
are very plentiful.
L. A few days since a gang OF ltallah
y section men working on the Louisville
ID and Nashville railway in Kentucky
r. killed and ate buzzard, an hour later
e. the man who cooked it died and three
III others who ate of it may not recover
A final effort will be made to end
the telegrapher's strike by sendlng
committee of nine men to New YORK
ort in an effort to get hearing with the
le- officials of the two telegraph compan'
Id les and the Associated Press.
ay 100 "''N -
he A freakish trick of electricity II
reported by W. F. Means, whose home
len north of Marlin was struck by nghn
the ing, the house and much of the tui
On niture badly damaged. A dog on IN
NV front gallery and one under the nous
were killed, but the family escape
Gin. unhurt
gel, rhrrcdav afternoon a robber e.
tered the bunk house Of Dick Puru
construction foreman on the NIL
ken tank farm, four and one-na
> " miles north of Muskogee, |. T., S
.,on cured Purdy's gun, held him up,
so1d cured 5000 in currency and then ra
Toro but was afterward captured.
MIS- The new Cunarder Mauretania, ne
e'0o tho finest and longest ship afioat IN
soo feet longer than her sister ship
10Th rusitania), has arrived at LiVerpo
ouod having cruised around the coast
Scotland. Her builders and ono
expect she will surpass the Luslta
in speed.
mems
with The MONTGOMERY shops OF the
he Of Iantic Coast Line at Montgomery 4
con- employing 800 men, and with mo-
S vio- 10 navroll of $4,000, were clc
last week. Master Mechanic Pear
l, was announced that few men would
e Dis retained after November l, and
der a oo,,nonv would operate small re
shops.
Many rural districts of Spain
forod severely from earthquake Sh
onglns On the 23d instant.
ne, Oh One man was fatally hurt and
oaCui- others more or less seriously I'M
le sin' nv a gas purifier explosion at Cha
S., and ooga' 1enneS900'
orth of -. .,rirral hunting
origin "n''0 nou,;o uos shot and
gin. lnona'' 49, occidental disc
Of a gun in the hands OF rev.
mt roll Pender, a Well-Ano"A ~.
with who was one of the party
erk ol Postmaster General Meyer is
,sST' has ing the extension Of the parcels
instruc- system, particularly as 10 rural
Mrs. Charles Mayes' whose
ment OF was at BurToW' NUM-
6455 in week committed suicide by sh
xes this herself.
George Parchall, fullback o.
Denton High School footoall 'e"
ln1ent. his collar Done O'oN1
criminal game. He was tacNiou
or Cata- thrown head over nee'S' 'n0 -
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