The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1908-08-15

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Electric lights are being used i,
Germany to destroy caterpillars.
Chairman Mack opened Democrat
national headquarters at Chicago.
Russia was warned not to sen,
penniless or unskilled labor to Can
ada.
The Republicans are bending al
of their efforts to carry Ohio fo
Taft.
Earthquake shocks caused terror
among the people of Constantine, AL
geria.
Cholera and bubonic plague are
spreading in the Volga region in
Russia.
W. ]. Bryan will make speech.
making tour through the Northwest.
ern states.
Wilbur Wright made a successful
ascent with his earplane at Lemans
in France
Cardinal Gibbons who has been Ill
at Rene recovered sufficiently to
visit the Pope.
In New York carpenter who was
out of work hanged himself to a
rilroad bridge.
John W. Kern declares the Dem
ocrats certainly would carry Indiana
in the fall election
The members of the palace CANA
rilla at Constantinople were arrested
and thrown into prison.
Elmer E. Dover has resigned the
position of Secretary of the Repub-
lican National Committee.
Mother" Elizabeth M. Stewart,
90 years old, who fought rum all her
life died at Hicksville, Ohio.
E. w. Chain, Prohibition candi-
date for President, visited w. j. Bry-
an at his home at Lincoln, Neb
Legislation regulating Oriental
immigration will probably be passed
at the next session of Congress.
A factory at Szegden, Hungary,
collapsed during storm and many
people were buried in the ruins.
c. w. Trickett, Assistant Attorney
General of Kansas, was arrested on
the charge of malfeasance in Office.
On the occasion of his priesthood
jubilee the Pope issued an address
to priests, exhorting them to live holy
lives.
After an absence of twenty-four
years the New Bedford whaling bark
Andrew Hicks arrived at her home
port
William Hayward, of Nebraska,
succeeded Elmer E. Dewey as secre-
tary OF the Republican National Com
mittee.
Three persons were killed and four
seriously injured in the wreck of
Frisco passenger train near Imboden,
Arkansas.
A Well-knoWn farmer near Oxford,
Miss, was Jailed for pouring coal
Oil over his wife and attempting to
cremate her.
The Shah of Persia has obtained
a loan of $25O,O00 from the Russian
Bank, having deposited the Crown
jewels as security.
Receivers were appointed for the
Pillsbury-W -Washburn Flour Milling
Company in the Federal Court at
Minneapolis, Mimi.
Gov. Noel caused the arrest Of
refreshment stand keeper at the Col
umbus militia camp on a charge of
int
E. L. Powell has resigned as su-
perintendent of the Cumberland Tel
ephone's New Orleans district and
Ben S. Read succeeds him.
The sum of $24, 900 in cash and Sc
curities were found In box car at
Jerseyville, ILL.,, which Peter Meyer.
hermit had occupied as home.
The triumph of radical Republi-
cans in the primaries in the Western
States will give Senator La Toilette,
of Wisconsin, strong support in the |
Senate.
The Comptroller of the Currency |
has notified the national banks in |
Oklahoma that they must withdraw
from the agreement for the guaranty |
of bank deposits.
Deneen, Republican, and Lewis, |
Democrat, lead their respective tick
cts for governor in the Illinois pri |
mary election Foss leads for United
States senator.
The proposed national convention
of criminals in New York to talk
over the debt society owes the bro
therhood" and other topics will be
prevented by the police. A
The Bureau of Chemistry has
found that the microscope may be
used to excellent advantage In the
examination of food and drug prod
ucts for the discovery of adulterants.
The Russian Orthodox Missionary
Congress, which is in session at
popular step in petitioning the Gov
ernment to again make obligatory in
Poland the use of the Russian calen-
iar.
The special international confer
ence of representatives of the great
shipping companies called to regu-
late the steerage rate war between
the Mediterranean and other parts of |
the world, especially America and
England, was opened in Paris.
The Crop Reporting Board OF the
of Agriculture issued a
bulletin giving the condition of
spring wheat on Aug. l as a1.7, COM
pared with ten year average of |