The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1908-07-31
THE WEEKS EP|7ORE
A RESUME OF THE MOST lMPOR
TANT NEWS AT HOME AND
ABROAD.
NEWS FROM everywhere
A Carefully Digested and Condensed
Compilation Of Current News
Domestic and Foreign.

The Texas and Pacific railroad vii,
begin replacing the Lake Eyerman
dam THAI was washed away about ten |
days ago at Big Sandy.
Jessie Cadell, the 14-year-old son OF |
Mr.. Cadell of Sparks, died Thursday
from the effect OF gunsh0t wounds in
ficted yesterday evening.
Carl, the 7-year-old son of George
Hamlin of Palmer fell from barn
loft and fractured his skull. He is
in a precarious condition.
Near Birmingham, Ala, Wednesday,
clash occurred between negro miners
and officers, in which one negro was
killed and two deputies were wound
Drinking, even out Of ones own
| flask on railroad passenger trains IN
Louisianan constitutes a misdemeanor
punishable by fine or Imprisonment or
both.
AS q result of an automobile being
struck by a passenger train, at Col
umbia City, Ind, Monday, six persons,
riding in the auto, were instantly
killed.
J. w. Wade of Paris, Texas, was Sc
riously injured Wednesday and an au'
tomobile belonging to E. F. Judklns,
president of the Judkins Company in
Chicago.
The action of the Rock Island lines
in declaring in favor of merchants
. rates in the North below the &c basis
has aroused interest among passenger
,, men everywhere.
= 81 ,a,,ls.u' lead of cattle grazing
il Greenwood. Chase, NJ rita and But
lie" counties, hava been Guarantine(
BY Felera' Inspector x Il Grimes o
En:poria, ,nD
Jacques de Vile, an aged French
man, residing near Buffalo Gap, Sun
day poured kerosene oil over himsel
and set the oil on fire, which re
suited in his death.
Ancient cannon, used in the defens
of the Alamo have been unearthed a
San Antonio and will probably be pr
sented to the state to be mounted /
their original position.
Near Paris, Saturday, a Frisco r.
senger train ran over COW and as
result Engineer Clark has a broke
leg and many other cuts and brulse
about the face and body.
Miss Elizabeth Spingler Van Beure
great-granddaughter of Henry Spin
Ter in his time one of the wealthie
men of New York, died Friday in tt
old Spingler homestead.
Commander Re bert E.. Perry,
"a New York, with his steamer Roos
8. welt, hopes, on his trip north in t
ey near future, to place the stars a.
stripes on the north pole.
~ Farmers residing in the Piedmo
no neighborhood, midway between
of Reno and Guthrie, Okla, report ca
OF. quake vibrations Tuesday mornll
hit. continuing several seconds.
vi, Judge Peter S. Grosscup Of Chlca
one of the three judges who revers
the action of Judge Yandis in tindl
the Standard Oil Company $29,4OO,O
n.y. Friday declared at the Waldorf
mo toria that the decision Of the Giro
d Court of Appeals was practically fir
At
NV At Chicago, Tuesday, in a head
cir collision between two Aurora Ell
and Chicago electric cars, forty I
son sons were injured, some so seriou
'ut. that they had to be taken to the
MS pital. The coaches were going a
ian rapid speed when the accident
va Cured.
uts Following the dynamiting OF an |
tits ian's home at Matalbany, La, Frld
ing and other disorders, Sheriff Saal
ust the parish fTangipahoa, shortly
ma fore noon sent message to Cover
n.y. Sanders asking for troops.
The Oklahoma militia boys will S
ned be re-equipped with the latest me
axe of Springfield rifles The old Kr
but are being packed up and will
avs shipped to the arsenal at Rock lslt
'eh' Ill.
the II
,au According to the statement OF E
Simmons, chairman OF the Matte
Prosperity Association, between
900 and 10000 men made idle
Tall October have been put back to "
n.y. In various manufacturing plants
and around st. Louis since JAM
!, OF L.