The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-10-18


against $4,000 in 1907.
The new city directory, just com.
pleted by R. l.. Polk & Company, di.
rectory company of Chicago, ILL.,,
shows the population of Mineral Wells
to be S27O.
c. B. Cronin, engineer, was killed in
the wreck of the log train on the Ber-
ing tram, east Of Pawnee, La, Fri
day morning. A defective rail is be.
lieVed to have caused the accident.
Dr.. Samuel C. Ellis, one Of the most
prominent physicians of Chattanooga,
Tenn, dropped dead of apopleXy at
y o'clock Thursday night while at the
bedside of one of his patients.
John Mitchell, President Of the
United Mine Workers, announces in
the current issue of the United Mine
Workers Journal he will not be can.
didate for reelection as President.
Announcement is made that John D.
Rockefeller has made known his in.
tention to make another present in
| cash to the University of Chicago.
] This time the amount will be $780,
] 600.
A small boy was found playing with
a stick of dynamite as though it we're
7 a stick of wood, on the streets OF
r Chickasha, I. T. He had found II,
e and did not know of its dangerous ma
U ture.
Four young men, all residents OF
Perth Amboy, were drowned in Rari-
b. tan bay Thursday night. They were
7T members of a party Of seven who lett
nj Perth Amboy surf to visit Keyport in
)" a slIff.
The cholera in Russia shows no
signs of diminishing, but, on the con-
or trary, it is spreading steadily. Every
IN province that suffered from famine last
III year is now in the grasp OF the
Tie
NJ scourge.
News Young, a fifteen-year-old ne
gro, was hanged in the Parish Of st
LOT John, La, Friday. Young was con
'o' victed of the charge of criminally as
10 sauIting an old white woman in tina
~ parish three weeks ago.
A westbound Pennsylvania tral
plowed into a crowd OF people a
the Bourbon station, Bourbon, Ind, Thurs
'1et dav night killing Tom Sloan, wa
'Ht' saw saloonkeeper, and seriously inJu
e inc several other persons.
At Fridays closing session OF III
National Association of Rural Ere
log pelivery Carriers at Atlanta, Ga.'
'ate the present officers and executive COZ
.0s - mittee we're reelected. The next Sc
49,. sion will meet in Omaha.
the Mrs John C. Breckenridge. wido
of General John c. Breckenridge,
one time Vice President OF the Unit
n IS States. and candidate for the Pre-
40 dency against Abraham Lincoln al
son, Wednesday in New York City.
inc After brief deliberations the jury
'0An0 the case of the Atchison, Topeka a
Santa Fe Railway. charged with req
ing in California, rendered a Vero
; Wv Of guilty on all counts enumerated
ny tho indictments. The maximum 4
orev for the offenses is 100000 and
> the minimum is $66 600.
'ne Ex.President Grover Cleveland
-, y - 10 sufficiently recovered from his rec
- ~ ;,,ness to visit New York City, Wn
;o r. he arrived one day last week.
re of Many elephants are USED III W
' YOU THE heavy work Of rebuilding the Z
more. Atlantic City Beach.
miner Nat Moore, who lives three m
great Na' D 1,,-,on, mil, soon he n
- '' 10. ~ four years OF age. He has llVec
, turf his present home for fifty-six ye
Ick to His eesight is remarkably good lot
did in Of his age.
d and avn waking n
moval BARRIERS OF Dall"s 80
o,attons to test the legality OF
,-,o, new law regulating the pracuce
1 still their trade.
;, Go The price of refined export Oh
d see increased from $S.45 to $3.50
ZEN in week.
md to - have p
. day Among the voters who nave 7
work. tered in the East Side Ghetto
OF the York City, is Samuel Harris, who
rs and ,is age as 104 years. The OLD