The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1908-08-15
BRIEF NEWS SUMMARY.
From All Sources, State,
National and Foreign.

r has resigned on account of i'll health
/ Month by month the total excava
: ton on the Isthmian Canal is increas
Ing.
w. ). Bryan issued an appeal 70
contributions to the Democratic cam
paign fund.
, Forty-three political prisoner
were released by President Cabrera
of Guatemala.
United States Senator w. B. ALI
son died suddenly at his home at Du
buque, Iowa.
Twelve thousand men emp Dyed b,
the Canadian Pacific Railroad wen
out on strike.
Plans for national Democrat,
club were formed by Mr.. Bryan ane
senator Taylor.
President Castro, of Venezuela, has
demanded an apology and an indem
nifty from Holland.
The police jury of Lafayette par,
ish La, voted against the calling o1
prohibition election.
Mylus Ericsen, the Danish explorer
and two companions, perished in q
snowstorm in Greenland.
The Panama Canal excavation fos
July was 3,16S,640 cubic yards
against 3,056,976 in June.
| Count zeppelin the German aeron
Rut, made successful trip of several
hundred miles in his airship.
1t was reported that $40 were kill
ed in the fighting at Tabriz, Persia.
during the last several weeke.
| Count Zeppelin, it was said, would
| lie given sum by the German gov
| ernment to rebuild his airship.
st. Louis politicians expressed dis
| satisfaction with the working of the
| Missouri primary election law.
The young Turks have completely
triumphed, establishing new Cab
met on constitutional basis.
The suspension of Eastman & Co.,
brokers, was announced on the Con-
solidated Exchange New York.
Count Ze.,pelin's airship, after gy-
ing over Germany nearly twenty
four hours, exploded and burned.
The Sultan of Turkey was stabbed
by would-be assassin, but a coat
of mail prevented serious injury.
New York had ten deaths from the
heat and Chicago two. There were
scores of prostrations in both cities.
Will Milians, negro charged with
completely in dynamiting house,
was lynched near Birmingham, Ala.
Mayor George B. Mcclellan of New
York annonn ,ed the names o. the
Grover Cleveland Memorial Commit
ten
Raisuli, the bandit, with fifty
horsemen, rode up to the the British
legation at Tangier and delivered an
ultimatum.
Charged with attempted criminal
assault, a negro was taken from an
officer near Bethany, La, and riddled
with bullets.
AS a result of the unsuccessful
conspiracy against President Regas.
many prominent Colombians have
been arrested.
Dangerous adulterations were dis
covered in many food samples anal
yzed by the experts of the Depart
ment of Agriculture.
DR.. Bryan of Chicago told the pure
food convention that of 121 soft
drink samples he collected in Chicago
e2 contained poisons.
It is rumored at Washington that
Wade H. Ellis, of Ohio, will succeed
Bonaparte as Attorney General after
the November election.
One person was killed and another
wounded in battle between negro
picnickers and street railway en-
ployes at Pensacola, Fla.
As a result of the strike o. electri-
clans, the Canadian Pacific shops
were in darkness Strike-breakers
were hurried to Winnipeg.
Numerous disorders occurred in
the mining strike district in Ala
bama Governor Conner will order
more troops to the scene.
Considerable trouble was reported
from the Alabama strike zone, in
Guiding the lynching of negro and
the dynamiting of several houses.
Judge Pardee, of the Federal Court,
dissolved the Injunction issued by
Judge Speer and granted the rail-
roads an appeal in the Georgia rate
case.
Citizens of Pointe Coupee parish
whipped two negroes for sending m
sulting letters to white men and
warned them rot to enter the parish
again.
Confederate veterans at Mobile are
incensed because a Citronelle peace
Justice committed Mrs. M. L. Powell,
1O3 years old, and her daughter, Mrs.
Mary Ward, "a, on the charge OF
William J. Bryan will make sew
sral campaign tours, which will en-
brace nearly all parts of the country,
speaking in most of the principal
cities between the Atlantic and Pa
,iflc coasts.
President Roosevelt in a state
nent made it clear that the entire
was his for the issu-
lnce of the original order discharg- |
ng the battalion of negro soldiers
or alleged participation in the
Texas, rioting and the
to permit suspension of that
,rder,
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