The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1908-10-03
BRIEF NEWS SUMMARY.
From AL Sources, State,
National and Foreign.

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Cholera conditions in Manila We're
reported materiaI Ily improvi1
me Intnrdat eis m ~!
TubercuIosis was opened "A Pniladel-
phia.
/ A ten-year-old school girl was bad.
ly beaten by 100 negro pupils in Chi
cago.
The Irish League of America pledg
| ed $4,000 to the cause of Irish free
dom.
The International Conference on
/ tuberculosis was opened in Fhiladel-
phia.
! Mr.. Taft spoke at Milwaukee and
was publicly indorsed by Senator La
Toilette.
James G. Woodward was for the
third time nominated for mayor of
Atlanta, Ga.
A fresh outbreak of the bubonic
plague in Caracas, Venezuela, was
reported.
Germany's response to the Franco
Spanish Morocco note was telegraph
ed to Paris.
A typhoon of terrific velocity
! swept through the central portiin of
the PHILIPPINES.
The Standard Oil Company con-
tributed 100000 to Roosevelt's cam
Daign fund in 1904
Wilbur Wright remained in the air
fifty-four minutes with his aero
plane at LIE Mans, France.
While there is a decrease in new
deaths are numerous.
The cannery ship Star of Bengal
was wrecked on Coronation Island
and 10 lives were lost.
Sixty white pupils are on strike in
a Topeka, Kan, school because of
the presence of negro children.
The Washington Life Insurance
Company passed into the control OF
Pittsburg syndicate.
w. K. Heart renewed his Standard
Oil exposures in a speech in New
York and read more letters.
1t was announced that WI Ting
Fang, the Chinese minister, would
be recalled to China by November.
Charges of bribery to vote for the
local option bill were made in con-
nection with the Indiana legislature.
Thos. l.. Hisgen, Independence
party candidate for President, was
Kissed at Fort Worth, Tex, while
making a speech.
It was stated that clearing house
for white slaves existed in Chicago,
and that 200 girls had been sold to
Cinnamon.
Germany's concilatory reply to
the Franco-Spanish note indicates an
early settlement of the Moroccan dis
pute.
Ex-Congressman John Allen, of
Mississippi, who is at Washington,
say he believes Bryan will be cleo
ted.
i The Governor of the Bahama Is
lands reported that number of is
lands were swept by the hurricane
of Sept. 13.
The body of James Tracy of Mon
roe. La, was found under house in
Memphis. His murder is mystery
to the police.
A. Russell Peabody, who was one.
OF the attorneys for the defense at
the first 1haw trial, died suddenly
in Babylon, &. I.
DR.. Carni1o Calleja of Madrid.
physician to the King of Spain, was
hurt in Washington by being thrown
from street car.
Cotton oil millmen of Mississippi
stated they feared the movement of
farmers to hold" included cotton
seed as well as cotton. 2
It was stated that because of chol-
era in Manila the men of the battle
ship fleet arriving there Oct. 1,
might be given no shore leave.
Albert T. Patrick, the lawyer serv-
ing a sentence in Sing Sing for muir
der, charged the prison authorities
were trying to goad him to suicide.
A. O. Brown and L. G. Young,
Stock Exchange members of the sus-
pended firm of A. o. Brown & Co.,
were expelled from the New York
Exchange.
The Interstate Commerce Commis-
sion, in session at Atlanta, Ca, fail
ed to elicit any information regard
ing the Southeastern Freight Asso-
cations scsior 10 rais:ng rates.
Gomper, in the labor contempt
hearing, testified that he and other
labor leaders had been frequently
followed by detectives employed by
VancIeave. He also said an emissa-
ry of Vancleave named Brandenburg
had offered him bribe at meeting
in New York to desert the cause OF
labor and put the Manufacturers AS
sociation in possession Of its secrets.
A mistrial resulted at Vicksburg
in the case of Alcorn Watson, ne
gro, accused of killing Thomas Mil
ler.