The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-06-28
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Weatherford is ARRANGING for an IN.
usually bif Fourth Of July blowout.
A seyenW-oncpoUnd catfish was
pulled out Of the Trinity near Dallas
few days since.
Levert Vernon, the 5-year-old son OF
George D. Vernon Of San Antonio. died
as a result OF rattlesnake bite.
f. S. Swift, Of Swift & Co., the
packers, has bought $4,000 acres Of
land in Leon County, paying $4,000
therefor.
Recent reports of the serious i'll.
ness of President Cabrera of Gaute.
mala are said to have been practical.
" unfounded.
The Paris Chautauqua opened Fri
day night with lecture by William
Jennings Bryan, enfield, The Old
world ana us ways.
Governor Conner has appointed for.
mer Congressman Bankhead TO the
vacancy in the United States Senate
from Alabama, caused by the death
William McClelland, a negro, was
hanged in the county Jail yard at No
bile, Ala, Friday morning for the muir
der of Michael McGovern, an aged
white man.
On the trial runs of the new turbine
steamship Creole of the Southern
Pacific Steamship Company, she de-
veloped 1851 knots, which is 81 bet
ter than the contract requirements.
A series of cloudbursts around Waco
during Thursday and Friday raised the
Brazos higher than it has been for
many years. The inundatiOn has done
much damage to crops in the bottoms.
Five men were killed in an explO-
sion in the gelatine department Of the
Sinnemahoning Powder Manufacture
ing Company, at Sinnemahoning, Pa,
Tuesday.
It has been noted that the waters
Of the Atlantic Ocean are unusually
cold this season, registering, on the
route from Liverpool to New York,
"a degrees.
A triple drowning occurred Sunday
in the Rio Grande River at the In
dian Puebla Isleta, twelve miles south
of Albuquerque as result Of the cap
sizing of ferry boat.
Six Transatlantic steamers sailed
Friday from New York City, each TAX
ing out its full quota of passengers.
In all, nearly 1000 passengers de-
parted.
Three women were burned to death
and two men seriously injured in a
fire that destroyed four houses in the
White Water settlement, near Harri.
son, Ohio, early Friday.
Several bystanfers sustained severe
| bruises when a gasoline tank exploded
at the gristmill of j. R. Carson, at At
las, Lamar County, including George
! McNeal and the 6-year-Old son of Mr..
Carson, but no one was seriously hurt.
The first bale of cotton for this
season, grown near Mercedes, in Hidal.
go County, was sold Friday on the
floor of the Houston Cotton Exchange,
bringing 1925, The bale was bid in
by w. D. Cleveland and Sons. 1t
classed as good middling and weighed
$40 pounds.
At meeting of the Epilipt;c Colony
| Board, it was decided to build three
more cottages at once. These cot
tages will accommodate fifty patients
each, or a total of $50. This will
make a total of seven cottages, with a
capacity of $50 patients.
The twentieth annual convention of
the Train Dispatchers' Association OF
America, which has been in session
in Boston, Mass, for three days, came
to a close Friday. They will meet in
Fort Worth next year.
Considerable damage was done at
GlencoVe by a small cyclone Thurs
day.
From an explosion of gasoline, Mrs.
A. D. Ware, Dallas, was seriously
burned, and two-year-old son was
fatally burned Saturday.
A land owner named ChristOpherson,
said to be religious fanatic, SAYS a