The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-05-24
EVENTS OF everywhere


a local option election Oh the 18th
instant.
At a late hour Saturday night, about
| thirty bales of cotton on the Missouri,
| Kansas and Texas wharf, near the oil
mill, San Marcos, were badly damaged
by fire.
r. c. Webster of HORSESHOE Bend
Idaho. was taken from a train in Kan
sas City in an unconscious condition
April ., and has remained in that state
ever since.
The county commissioners OF Ma
yarro County have ordered a prohibi-
ton election to be held in that coun-
ty June 10.
Having partaken of meal in
restaurant, E. T. Curtis Of Whining
ton, Ohio. started for his residence
in Oklahoma and, fell dead on the
street.
Heavy rams have fallen in Havana
Province, breaking a drOuth Of many
months duration in Cuba. Rain has
been reported in other sections of the
island during the past few days.
In a storm, near Martin, Tenn,
limb fell from a tree and struck the
roof of Pat Gardeners house, frighten'
ing his wife, who. was sick with
measles, to death.
The public school board of Waco
will proceed at once to the erection
of a number OF additions to the school
buildings of the city, expanding $780,,
600 in that way.
For months past the railroads have
had ali they could do to handle the
traffic offered, and many of them were
literally overwhelmed. Now they rae
out digging up business.
The government experiments show
that a lime-sulphur wash, so effective
with the San Jose scale and peach leaf
curl, is worthless for the terrapin
scale.
State Health officer Brumby has is
sued an open letter to the mayors OF
cities which are likely to be affected
with mosquitoes, urging upon these
,ity officers the necessity for rigid
enforcement Of the mosquito Ordi
nance.
The Adriatic, the newest ship OF
the White Star Line, is the largest
and most complete ocean traveller
afloat. Her length over all is 725 feet
and 8 inches, her breadth is - feet
and inches. depth 80 feet, gross ton
mage $4,000, displacement 10000 tons
A feud broke out at Village Mills
Hardin County, Sunday night, and
John Waters stabbed Will Ruther
ford to death, and Monday night, Lev
Rutherford, brother of the man who
was killed Sunday, was shot from am.
bush and fatally wounded
Edwin Conger, former minister tC
China and recently resigned ambas-
sador to Mexico, is critically ill at
his home in Pasadena, Cal. Former
Minister Conger first came into prom
lnence as minister to Brazil in 1897.
From every State east of the Mis-.
sissippi and from Missouri, Arkansas,
Louisiana, Texas and the province of
Ontario, Canada, the terrapin scale,
the enemy of peach and other trees,
have been reported to the department
of agriculture.
Intimation has been given by the
Pennsylvania road that material re-
duction of its local train service in
Ohio is to be expected because of the
losses inflicted by the enactment of
the two-cent fare law.
Quanah has under construction the
erection of two blocks of two-story
brick buildings, a $4,000 oil mill and
$4,000 court house. Pavement of
two business streets and cement side.
walks in front of every business house
is also proceeding.
District Attorney Jerome is prepar-
ing to prosecute gamblers and pool
room proprietors in New York under
a section of the penal code which up
to now has practically been dead
letter.