The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-08-09
EVENTS OF Everywhere

A siX-story paper warehouse in CHI
cago collapsed, but, fortunately no one
was in the building at the time.
Z. II. Hartman has reported the
completion of his commission from
President Roosevelt to stop the flow
of the Colorado river into Sa!t0n Lake.
Night riders, as Kentucky white
cappers are called, are teTrorizing In
dependent tobacco growers in the vi
cinity of HOpkinsViIie
One hundred and fifty American
employees of the Arizona Copper Com
pany smeIter at Clifton, Ariz., are ON
strike for an increase of soc a day.
OIL men Of the MidcontiBent terri
tory are planning an annual reunion
and picnic, which in al probability
will be held somewhere in the Indian
Territory in September.
\ gasoline launch Capsized in q
storm at sunnyside, a Western suburb
OF Toronto Thursday night and of the
ten men who were in her only two are
known to be safe.
During a heavy thunderstorm \
gasoline launch with ten men on
board capsized in the Hudson River
at Toronto, Ont, and only one sue
ceeded in reaching the nearby shore
A tornado swept Urbana, o.. early
Friday, destroying the plant OF the
United States Papar and Box com
pany. The loss is estimated at $780,
GOO. Fortunately the men were OF
duty at the time of the disaster.
a long drouth which has continued
practically unbroken for month ON
Long Island, is causing the farmers
much alarm. Prayer meetings for
the purpose of invoking the aid of
God, are TO be held in churches.
James B. Duke, president Of the
American Tobacco Company, was mar
ried Wednesday to Mrs. NanileAe Hob
tinman at the home of Mrs. William
Schuyler Stackpole in Brooklyn in the
presence of few friends.
The French Government has mott
fed Ambassador White that American
meats may be brought into France
upon the American certificates and
that microscopic examination will not
be insisted upon.
A bride and groom stood admiring
an elephant in a New York park,
when suddenly the beast grabbed the
groOms pocket book which he had
taken from his pocket, and chewed il
and S275 which it contained into pulp.
Grief over the fate of Lieut.. Chester
r. Goodrich, who met his death in the
explosion on the battleship Georgia q
week ago, caused a rich musician,
Miss Laura D. Ronaldsono, to end her
life in her bachelor girl apartments in
New York.
Manager Jim May of Reno, New,
representing the Miners, has secured
the fight between Joe Cans and Bat
ting Nelson for Labor Day. The Reno
Athletic Club, of which May is presi
dent, has hung up a $4,000 purse for
the battle.
Four tank builders in the Morris oil
fields, Muskogee, on Friday were re-
ported Frustrated by heat. The day
was the hottest of the year here, regis
tering 102 degrees at the Government
register. A year ago the maximum
temperature was IS degrees.
John B. Latham, brother of Thomas
B. Latham, United States district at.
torney for the central district of Ia
dian Territory, died at his home in
Fort Smith as a result Of heat pros
tration. g
Sheriff Belser fooled many citizens
who sought admission to the hanging
of Calvin Coleman, a negro, at Mont
gomery, Ala, by pulling off the execu;
ton shortly after O'Clock, before
more than fifty of the specially iRVit-
ed came down town.
A bill to appropriate $4,000 for re-
sisting the fight made by the railroads
on the rate regulation laws of Ala
bama has been passed by the house
and now secs to the governor. AS It
is one Of mis- bills he will sign at once