The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-03-01
EVENTS OF EVERYWHERE

ChalOupka Jr.
On Sunday night there were Dor,
to Mr.. and Mrs. Petty of Greenyille
three baby boys. All are healthy AM
are doing well
A Frisco bridge over Little River
near SaSakwa. |. T., was so badly
damaged by fire Thursday night thai
it could not be used.
J. r. DOnnel has leased a buildina
at Bolton for a period Of three years
to be used as a creamery, and has
now gone after the plant, which will
be shipped very shortly.
4 coffee loan Of $25,O0O,000 It IS IN.
derStood at RIO Janeiyo, has been ne.
gotiated by the government Of Bra.
iii through the Schroeder banking
house Of London.
Mr.. Phelps Of Sheffield has sold 1000
steers to Garland & Taylor at $25 per
head. The cattle are to be delivered
at San Angelo for shipment to Okla.
hOma.
Up to Saturday, one hundred bodies
had been taken from the coal mine OF
the Mexican Coal & Coke Company,
in which an explosion of gas occurred
four days before.
Unless the strictest economy Is prac,
tiCed timber famine will result in
the United States within the next few
years in the opinion of R. S. Kellogg
United States Forest Inspector.
Mrs. Jennie Ward, wife of President
]. L. Ward of Decatur Baptist College,
forty years Of age, died at the girls
dormitory, at midnight Wednesday
night.
The contractors on the Roscoe.
Snyder and Pacific Railroad expect to
have the grade completed from Ros.
c0e to Snyder within the next sixty
days.
Dead bodies are still being recovered
from the ruins of Kingston, and while
the actual number of killed will never
be known, the total cannot fall far
short Of 100.
Announcement will soon be made of
the important combination of all the
principal silk dyeing concerns in the
country. The merger is said to rep
resent millions of capital.
Harry Corbett, the well known
sporting man and brother of James
]. Corbett, exclamation heavyweight
pugilist, was found dead In San Fran
cisco Saturday morning.
Governor Hughes has sent the New
YORK Senate special message recon-
mending the immediate removal from
office of State Superintendent of In.
surance Otto Kelsey.
An unknown three-masted vessel
probably Norwegian, and presumably
bound from Norway to Bremen, went
ashore off Fjaltring on the west coast
OF JudIand Friday, and IS sailors Were
drowned.
General Kuroptakin, the Vossiche
Zletung says, has four duels on his
hands because of the attacks made
in his recently published book on the
Russo-Japanese war. Generals Klau.
bars, Grippenberg, Rennenkamp and
Bildering, it is said, have each chal.
lenged Kuropatkin.
Severe storms continue to sween
over western Germany. The waters Of
INC thine are higher at Cologne than
they have been for fifteen years.
The Sealey mattress factory, which
for the last six years has been located
at Ringgold, has moved to Dallas.
The committee of the West Virginia
House having agreed to the Senate
2-cent rate bill with a limitation ex.
empting lines of fifty miles or less #
is considered certain that the Senate
measure will become a law.
D. W. Barnett, a Denton carpenter,
fell Friday and broke both his arms
The Frisco has begun work 1Ipon ao
eiaoorate system Of shops to be in.
stalled at Hugo, |. T., and Master Me
chanic Johnson is upon the ground
supervising the work.
VIII BeSser, lad 10 years old, was
shot and killed with at sh0trun Of
Sanders, l. T., at little ton near Stig,nr
saturday night. l., J. Mason, a mer
chant, gave himself up to the authori