The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-01-04
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TERSE TELEGRAMS
Observation-Disclosures


Panama revolution plot Fifteen an.
archists jailed before isthmus visit.
Leavenworth soldiers give evidence
to army officers regarding riot on
street car, claiming they were not to
blame. A number have been placed
under arrest.
Standard Oil Co.'S counsel chal.
lenged right Of government to sub.
poena officials and requests court to
quash action.
Lumber trust to be probed by de-
partment of commerce and labor in
st. Louis, Kansas City and Chicago
simultaneously.
Mexican revolution plot engulfs
prominent members of liberal party.
Wholesale arrests.
Henry F.. Frick is elected director
Of the Pennsylvania, and Pittsburg has
rumor that he may succeed Presi.
dent CaSsatt.
Senator Sulberson, OF Texas, backs
up Roosevelt and declares the presi-
dent was justified in Diminishing negro
troops.
Root declares state department
lacks expert assistance in coping with
foreign trade menace. System lack.
ing and methods antiquated.
Bureau of American republics plans
railroad system from Alaska to Cape
Horn.
Oklahoma Delegate Mcclure asks
president to hold up iudgeship ap.
pointment in new state, pending ascer-
tainment of best interests.
Midnight mass is held clandestinely
in Paris and Christmas eve passed
without demonstration.
Seekers of patronage in consular
service are jolted by Secretary Root,
who applies civil service rules to all
possible positions.
Order OF railway conductors adopt
resolutions protesting against the pro-
posed 16-hour law.
Chairman Knapp, of the interstate
commerce commission, says car short
age is acute in southwest, but rail.
roads increase Of wages will largely
solve problem.
F. M. Gardner, assistant cashier of
the Observation-Disclosures National
bank, st. Louis, dies suddenly after
breakfast at family reunion.
Ten are killed in train wreck on the
Minneapolis, st. Paul & Sault Ste.
Marie railroad.
American horsemen are lucky in
their campaigns in France.
Commonwealth Trust Co. of st.
Louis takes steps to foreclose mort.
gage on terminals of Toledo, o.
Bishop Charles II. Fowler, one OF
the foremost Methodists in America,
is lying at deaths door in New York
Panama canal commission reports
! that there is not a case Of yellow fever
on the isthmus and Americans stand
climate well.
France is preparing to use airships
government being confident aerial 10
comotion will be practical shortly.
Merger CT the Mexican lines nav
change attitude of the government on
concessions for extension of the Yoab
um system beyond the Rio Grande.
JetJ on trial at Lexington. Ky. con
lesses to assassination of Cockrill
Pennsylvania railroad orders in two
years 10000 box cars and is yet short
of freight equipment.
Kansas merchant goes hungry and
bedless in St Louis because he car
not get $lO0 check caShed.
Southern Pacific officials claim tina,
the tiremen's strike Is broken. The
men, however, say that they are prom
ised support of other brotherhoods.
Cotton men of Louisiana and Mis-
sissippi accuse New York exchange
of cheating them of 100000 900 BY
rigging the market.
Missouri bankers, at meeting In st
Louis, decide to ask legislature to es
tablish state bank commissioners de
partment.
Gov. Magoon denies he reported thai
there is no hope of permanent peace
unless American troops remain IL
Cuba.
Jeffries denies that he has agreed t.
meet Squires, but Rhyollte Athleti,
club manager claims champion accept
ed offer of $4,000 purse.
Postal commission to ask congress-
to investigate post Office system, over
hauling books and methods.