The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1907-04-09
BREvITiES PUNCHED.

Price OF picture post cards In vienna
has been increased per cent
A boarding house and three other
buildings burned at Paris, Tex.
| Edward Poe and John Jones were
killed by train near Quay, Okla.
Owing to several smallpox cases
Cache. Okla, is under quarantine.
At Tulsa, |. r., fine flow of water
impregnated with sulphur has been
struck.
A pack of dogs killed In Dallas coun-
ty eleven fine sheep belong to Ben f.
Cabell
Ignite beds near Palestine. Tex,
are being investigated by Indiana cap
italists.
Much coal is being shipped from In.
dian Territory to the Mexican National
railway.
A burning mack log fell on an aged
negress near Gatesville Okla, roasting
her to death.
| On conviction of rebating the Great
Northern railroad was fined $4,000
at Minneapolis.
| Ralph VorheesA who gave 100000
to Carroll colleges at Waukesha, Wis,
died at Clinton, n. ].
| A fivestory flat burned at New York
entailIng 100000 loss. Many ocou
pants narrowly escaped.
| Annual meeting of the Oklahoma
Press association will be held May
10-11 at South McAlester.
Macon, Americas and Albany Rail
way company is to build a line be
tween Macon and Albany, Ga.
Hungary will build 100000 houses
for farmers. They are to reimburse
the government in installments.
The little son of Police Inspector
Grant of New York was run over and
killed by touring automobile car
BY pushing rock from under a
window fourteen prisoners escaped
from the Clark county, nentucky. Jail.
Refused weekly pittance of Is
cents by the town authorities Mrs. Ev-
elyn Gibbs of West Brooksfield Mass,
suicided.
Texas state board of education on
9th purchased over 100000 worth OF
bonds for the benefit of the permanent
school fund.
Frank Wilson Of Chicago, thirteen
years old, Is accused of selling for
$35 to a secondhand dealer the fam
lily furniture.
A summer theater circuit. composed
OF San Antonio, Little Rock. Hot
Springs, Fort Smith and Dallas. has
been organized.
All the wooden bridkes on the Hous-
ton and Texas Central railway between
Fort Worth and Waxahachie are being
replaced with steel structures.
The steamer Virginia arrived at New
York from Kingston, Jamaica, after a
terrible voyage. Her crew was ex-
hausted, and seven men injured.
At banquet given in his honor by
thes Chicago Commercial club British
Ambassador Bryce advocated munich
pal ownership of public utilities.
Mrs. Eta Dickens of Wildwood, w
Va, is under arrest She is charged
with having married her present hus
band without securing a divorce from
her two previous ones.
Ex-senator w. A. Clark of Montana
while crossing with his wife and
daughter in buggy near Trinidad
Colo, frozen river fell in an Ice
hole He drove five miles incased
in ice.
Germany is to have battleship with
displacement of $500 tons, turbines
of from 10000 to $4,000 horse power
and speed of twenty-five knots ar
nour The vessel will be the largest
of the kind ever built.
At Newkirk, Okla, w. s. Morris. an
aged wealthy farmer, was given life
Imprisonment for killing Finis Cassi
dy. whose father was his tenant. He
was acquitted on the charge Of kill
ing the elder Cassidy.
In a quarrel about $40 at Muskogee
, among negroes d. c. CLANCY was kill
ed, James Ashford resirously wound
ed and John Ashford, his SON Jailed
The elder Ashford acted as peace
maker Four bullets entered Ash
lords body.
w. NJ. Adamson Of Denver and Mrs
Frances Burks. widower and widow
sweethearts in childhood in Kentucky
but who had a quarrel. were united In
marriage at Marshalltown, la. Both
are grandparents, and the children and
grandchildren of the bride were pres
emit at the nupttals.