Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1908-07-10
LATE news NOTES.
General.


In q fight at VanBuren, Ark be
tween striking shopmen employed by
the st. Louis and Iron Mountain Rail-
way company and Italian strike
breakers two of the latter were shot
and seriously wounded. Over two
hundred shots were fired ut the ltal-
ans by the strikers.
1t Is understood in Wall street that
John d. Rockefeller, Jr., has come to
the aid of Charles w. Morse, the
inancier, who lost so heavily in the
smash Of the ice trust. On the ad-
vance Mr.. Rockefeller has planned for
American ice, Mr.. Morse is expected
to liquidate his holdings and re-estab-
lish himself in Wall street with an
abundance Of cash.
Twsnty-nine women suffragettss
were arrested In London when they at
tempted to start a riotous demonstra-
ton in behalf Of their cause at a ses-
sion of the house of commons in Lon
don.
The receivers of the Seaboard Air
Line railroad company have placed
an order for $4,000 tons of steel rails
with the Maryland Steel company OF
Baltimore for delivery within the
next six months.
The Equitable Life Assurance So
ciety has filed plans for a new build
ing to be erected in New York. The
building will have sixty-two stories
and the top of its tower will be nine
hundred and nine feet above the curb.
The estimated cost is s10,000.000.
The Journal des Debats Of Paris
says that the Wright brothers OF Day
ton, Ohio, have signed a contract with
Lazare WELLER, who is acting for a
syndicate, which offers the Wrights
100000 for their patents providing.
first, that the aeroplane with two per.
sons on board flies thirty-one miles IN
an inclosed circuit, and, second, that
1t repeats this performance within
eight days in the presence Of O COM
mittee.
Ferdinand Dudenhefer, formerly q
state collector in New Orleans, was
found guilty in the criminal district
court at that city of embezzling
about $4,000 of state funds. Sem
tence was deferred.
Four persons were killed and many
injured by a dynamite explosion
which destroyed a grocery store and
the fats on the uppor floor adjoin-
ing a saloon building at San Francis
CO. 1t is said to be the work OF
thugs who have been engaged in 9TH
er work of a similar character, 1t is
alleged, on behalf of defendants in
the graft cases.
Fire swept the heart of Jersey
City's business section, destroying
three department stores and damag-
Dg a fourth. Two firemen were seri-
susly, it not fatally hurt, by falling
wall, trolley traffic was tied up for
more than three hours and thousands
Vt people had to walk to the Manhat.
| tan ferries.
Five known dead, and a score miss
ing and supposed to have been swept
/ away in the rush of water; fifty head
i of railroad grade horses, houses
swept from their foundation and float.
| ing around In the water, entailing
enormous damage, crops and machin'
cry ruined, several miles Of track
washed away, are the result of com
bined cloudburst and water spout at
Wellington, Kans.
Harvie Jordan, president Of the
Southern Cotton association, and
President w. b. Thompson of the
New Orleans Cotton exchange, are
discussing the erection of warehouses
along the river front at New Orleans
capable of storing 100000 bales OF
cotton.
For the second time in week In
cendiaries attempted to fire st. Stan
isiaus college, a Catholic institution
at Chicago. Twelve members of the
faculty fed from the building wearing
night clothes. Within two years st
Stanislaus parochial school and
church have been burned.