The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1908-10-09
A RESUME OF THE MOST IMPOR
TANT NEWS AT HOME AND
ABROAD.
NEWS FROM everywhere
A Carefully Dgested and Condensed
Compilation of Current News
Domestic and Foreign.

Tuesday night and thousands of dol
lars worth of damage done.
1t is reported that all the cotton
gins of Titus county have orders from
might riders to shut down and not gin
any more cotton.
The Canadian Pacific machinists'
strike. which started May 4. was de-
elared off Wednesday night. The
strike involved 10000 men.
Eighteen cents head is the price
the Commercial Travellers Sssocia-
ton, better known as the GideOns, is
willing TO pay for conversions under
their new plan of placing a Bible in
every room Of every hotel in the coun
try.
Owen Moran, champion feather
weight OF Great Britain, secured the
decision over Eddie Hanuon of San
Francisco in the twentieth round
Wednesday, The bout was to 90 TWEEN
ty rounds and Moran was the . to !
faYorite.
The legal department of the Harri-
man lines has decided that officers
and workers in the Salvation Army
are not ministers of religion, and are
not, therefore, entitled to free trans
pOrtatlon or reduced rates on the rail
roads
Ignorant that her two months old
child was asleep under the cover. Mrs.
Mary Storti of New York Tuesday
closed up folding mbed in adarken-
ed room and the little one was
Smothered 10 death before his moth.
er realizel what had happened.
The Russian cholera statistics for
the twenty-four hours ended at noon
Friday show decided improvement
in the situation There were only III
new cases and s. deaths, compared
with 223 new cases and SO deaths
for the preceding twenty-four &ours.
kilograms received from the va
rious capitals of Southwestern Eu-
rope setting forth that the Turkish
Army is moving toward the Bull
garian frontier and that the Bulgarian
army Is engaged in hurried efforts to
secure new equipment, is not taken
seriously.
An important meeting was held at
the Commercial Club of Tyler. Wednes-
day night, at which time the directors
met with representatives of the Peo-
Pies Railroad for the purpose of dis
cussing ways and means to build an
other railroad or interurban line out |
of Tyler.
1t is possible there will be a scar
city Of sugar within short time and
merchants are keeping a close watch
On the situation. About the 18th of |
this month the annual two weeks |
shutdown of the sugar mills in Louis
lana, fowthe purpose of cleaning up
In general, will occur.
Thwarted in their efforts to import
cattle from Honduras to the slaughter
houses in New Orleans and in that
way fight the Western beef trust, the
New Orleans Butchers Protective
Union, through its president S. Cas-
Sagne, announced Friday that it would
guy cattle in Texas In train load lots
and ship them to that place.
Inc sixteenth annual meeting of the
National Irrigation congress was call
ed to order in Albuquerque Tuesday
by President Goudy of Denver, with
every one of the four thousand seats
IN the convention hall occupied.
Accompanied by the friendly sa-
'ates of all manner of river and har-
COR craft the new steamship Brazos
OF the Mallory line came up to her
Jock early this morning direct from
nef builders in New York, equipped
lor the initial trip to Galveston, Sat
arday, Oct. 8.
A severe tropical storm is raging in
Tue neighborhocd of the Bermuda Is
lands. All along the Atlantic coast
from Wilmington, n. c., to East Port
and, Maine, the warning signals are
displayed
Ihe Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe is
preparing to make new rules govern
Ing milling in-transit shipments of
sfain, which will be of great benefit to
Tue flour milling interests Of the coun-
Try and place Dallas on parity with
roft Worth and other North Texas