The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-10-25
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Heavy frosts occurred at Marshall
friday morning
u.,rossee Democrats have started
r,ovement looking to the nomina-
80 If a Southern man for President.
l, semi,oficially announced that
cantrolIer of the Treasury Ridseley
W. accepted the presidency of the
, 10 National Bank of New
York.
The speeches of President Roose-
III If the United States on water
r.vs have been republished in Paris
&c arguments for the Improvement Of
.bo rivers of France.
Following a quarrel with his sweet
,a.rt Noble Boatman, Paducah, KY,
svain, aged thirty years, swallowed a
nbial of carbolic acid, dying from the
effects of the drug,
1oseph Choate has signed the final
.ct Of The Hague peace conference
Cor American delegation. Congratu-
Iotorv messages to Roosevelt were pre-
sonted at the closing session.
Sam P. Morris, a well known for
mer Dallas lawyer, died suddenly in
Amarillo, where he was on a bust
ness trip. His home at the time Of
him death was McAlester, I. T.
u K. Devereaux broke the worlds
record at Louisville, KY to saddle for
stations, with Kruger, he going the
mile in PIP fiat The time by Guar
ters was O:35, 1907, 1;39, PIP.
A thrashing machine engine eXplod-
Cd on the farm of Charles Martin,
three miles east of Iota, La, injuring
three white men and two negroes. Two
of the men are injured fatally.
". W. Westcott, one of the most
successful gamblers in America, and
a brother to Mrs. Katherine Tingley,
head of the Theosophist organization,
is dead at his home in New York.
With the words Goodbye Eva" Ed
ward Kelly, young workman of Seat
tie, Wash, drew revolver and fired
a bullet through his head on the plat
form of the Apostolic Faith Church.
A speedy and amicable settlement
of the New Orleans dock strikers
trouble was effected Friday night, both
sides agreeing that the 10000 cotton
handlers should go to work at once.
Three killed and tk!rty-seven in
jured, one probably fatally, is the re-
suit of a collision between a South
ern Railway passenger train and a
freight train which was standing on
a siding at Rudd, N. c., Thursday
night.
In positions ranging from teaching
law to tending furnaces, Columbia stu
dents have earned during the veal
1906-O7 a total of Highs. These
interesting figures are given in re
port of the employment for student:
just issued.
While endeavoring to arrest j. +
Strong, an insane man who escaped
from the Bolivar, KY, State asylum
about a month ago, Deputy Sheriff {
NJ. Webb of Atoka was killed and Dep
uty Louis Ogilvie of Covington wa
dangerously wounded.
BY unanimous vote of the City Coun
Gil, a reward of $3.50 has been offere'
for the arrest and conviction of tn
fire fiend that has been operating Il
ChiCkasha for the past month. Fire
are almost of nightly occurrence an
all of them originate about 2 O'Clock
Grayson County cotton pickers hav
gone to Oklahoma in such number
that there is a great scarcity there,
The new town of Rule is enjoyin
a building boom of considerable mas
nitude.
Farmers residing in the vicinity c
Buckhorn Mountain, fifteen miles frol
Williamsport, Pa, have sent an INV
tation to President Roosevelt to hun
bears in Lycoming County, and assis
them in discriminating the pest tina
is destroying corn.
Christie Strang, nephew of Wa
ter Christie, lowered the worlds mil
automobile record for a circular trac
in Birmingham, Ala. Wednesday b
ooror;ro, tho Jiotanca in O.51 3-5 Sc