The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1908-08-14

pdlnlully IL uOL SeflOucSly injured.
George Pettibone. for many years
prominent in the scouncils Of the
Western Federation Of Miners, died in
Denver, Colo, Monday, after a long ILL
ness.
Wednesdays parade Of $4,000
| Knights Of Pythias and Pythian Sisters
Of the subordinate lodges was one of
the most spectacular pageants ever
seen in Boston.
Leslie Angle. Il Yeas OF age, whose
home is near Birdville, was burned to
death in a rooming house on Main
Street, Fort Worth, Sunday morning
| about 4:30 O'Clock.
The increase in freight rates to
points in Texas and Oklahoma will not
be enjoined by the Interstate Com
merce Commission.
Charles Lokie, a negro boy about
IS years Of age, was lynched in At
lanta, Ca, Sunday morning for max.
ing insulting remarks to a prominent
young lady Of that place.
The Oklahoma game law permits
the killing of plover and dove be-
tween August l and Deceiber 81 and
these birds are said to be more plen.
tltul this season than usual.
Announcement was made Thursday
that the eighty-ffth meeting of the
National Association of Cotton Manu-.
facturers would be held a Saratoga
Springs September 1880 next.
Private Lusha of Battery C, First
Field Artillery, L. S. A, Fort Sill,
Okla, was accidentally shot and killed
SATURDAY night by a comrade who was
preparing to go on guard duty,
The Gloucester fast schooner Mag.
gle and May was run down by the
German schoolship Freya, sixty miles
off Halifax Harbor Sunday night and
at least half Of her crew persisted.
Ptomaine poisoning caught the fam
lily Of Rome Safely, a farmer living at
Cedar Creek near Temple. The en-.
tire family, nine in number, were
made deathly sick by something they
ate.
Father George Vanri and Charles
V. Bohlman, an importer, both Of
Cleveland, Wer killed instantly Sun
day afternoon when a big touring car
plunged down an embankment near
Sylvania five miles from Toledo
While repairing the roof of his
house Friday, DR.. Rishel, prominent
physician of Chicaksha, Okla, fell to
the ground and sustained injuries from
the effects of which he died Sunday
evening without regaining conscious
ness.
Agents for Detroit capitalists have
been in Cleburne within the past few
days looking over the ground with a
view of constructing an interurban
railway from that city to Dallas, by
way Of Mansfield and other small
towns which such route would come
in touch with,
At the closing session Saturday Of
the National Travellers Association at
Milwaukee,, a resolution was adopted |
condemning the parcels post plan,
the secretary being instructed to send
q copy Of the resolution to every Con-
gresham and Senator throughout the !
United tSates.
Wofford, the little 5year-old son Of |
Mr.. and Mrs. Clint Thompson of Nc.
Kinney, was bitten by copperhead |
snakes while at picnic Thursday.
The, child'e life was probably saved |
by the quick action of his mother nj
binding handkerchief tightly above
the wound fgld sucking cut the poison.
Plans are now on foot for the en-.
largement of the Southwestern insane
asylum at San Antonio, in fact the
idea is to double the capacity of that
institution.
AS the result of a rearend collision |
between special excursion trains of
the NJ, X. G T. and the I. &. G. N.
Railways Sunday night at Galveston,
just east of the bridge connecting the
island with the mainland, one man
was killed, zone perhaps fatally in
jured and fifteen or twenty less serl.
ously injured.
Two men met instant death and |
three were injured in an explosion
near Copeland, Tenn, little town
In Sewer county, Saturday after
noon The dead are Walter Mathis
and Will Dorsey.
Dropping from height if nearly