Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1908-10-23
WIRE FLASHES

Cabinet held a three-hour session
and talked politics.
The strike in the paper mills has
threatened to become general.
Seat rates in parlor cars were re-
duced by the Pullman Company.
Gov. Haskell instructed his attor-
neys to sue w. r. Hearst for libel.
Consul at Rio sent interesting re-
port on operations of sugar trust in
Brazil.
Albert Grayson, a socialist mem
Der, was suspended by the British
House of Commons.
The 19O8-9 term of the Supreme
Court began with many important
cases on the docket.
In Chicago fire at 103rd street and
the Calumet river caused a loss of
about s1,000,000.
Joseph Leicester Lyme, Father Ig-
natius, monk and superior at Liam
thony, Abbey, England, died.
A hearing in the Georgia freight
rate case was set for New Orleans In
November before the Federal court.
A ten pound note of the English
colony of New York of 1711, worth
$4,000 was presented for payment.
Owners of a large saw mill near
Plaucheville, La, were warned by
night riders not to employ negro la
Dor.
Charles F. Murphy announced that
Tammany Hall would contribute
$4,000 to the Democratic National
Committee.
kid" Mccoy, after an absence
of :our years from the ring. defeated
Jim" Stewart in six-round bout at
New York.
Twelve million dollars worth of
bonds of an electric railway in Kan
sas were sold to English and CONT
mental financiers.
Congressman w. S. Bennett of
New York was selected as chairman
of the Republican speakers bureau
to succeed Mr.. Dupont.
Judge William H. Taft delivered
eleven speeches throughout the state
of Tennessee, urging Democrats to
vote the Republican ticket.
Mr.. Vandiver, of Montgomery, af-
ter survey of situation in New FORK,
declared that If Tammany is true to
Bryan he will carry state.
Miss Fayetta Morgan. of Asheville,
eloped with d. l.. Craig, boyhood
friend, from Florence, Italy. Father
is trying to head them off.
The New York Evening Post stat
ed that after losing SIS, 100000 Bra
-zil had abandoned the valorization
plan to keep the price of coffee up.
H M. Sanger, of Chicago, discuss
ed exchanges and bucket shops at
the convention in St. Louis, of the
Grain Dealers National Association.
Health department physicians of
New York said the increased number
of deaths from heart disease was
due to the acute baseball situation.
Rev. Larenas Veres, S. j., of the
Province of Mexico, was consecrated
a bishop in Trinity Church, Washing
ton, the papal delegate being the con
secrator
1t was stated that President
Roosevelt, in 1910 would lecture al
Oxford University and receive the de-
gree of D. c. L., already conferred
on the Emperor of Germany.
Miss Kate Gordon told the conven-
ton of Woman Suffragists of fruit
less attempts made to get recogni-
ton from the platform makers of the
two principal political parties.
The Car of Bulgaria and his cab
inent decided to notify the powers
that Bulgaria would pay no indemn-
ity to Turkey as condition to recog-
nizing Bulgaria's independence.
Duke of Abruzzi has sailed for
I y hitCu oldlCo Ucdl iuS COotiy 6illS vi
jewels. Reported that king asked
him to get consent of entire royal
family to match and he baked.
Foreman Albertus Davis, aged 20
years, of the j. j. Newman Lumber
company's mill at Sumrall, Miss, was
struck in the head by a small frag-
ment of an emery wheel, which
burst. He died three hours later.
Gov. Haskell of Oklahoma, in a
statement addressed to the President
charged that the Executive donated
to the Standard Oil Company proper
ty of the Usage Indians, more than
enough to pay the s29,0OO,000 fine
A nineteen-year-old boy, who fig
ured as a borrower of hundreds of
thousands of dollars from the Ma
tional Bank of North America, ap-
peared as the principal witness in the
trial of Charles W. Morse IN New
York.
Indictments charging Capt. Peter
c. Hams, Jr., and T. Jenkins Hams,
with murder in the first degree were
handed up by the Queens county
grand jury at Flushing, L. l. The
indictments are based upon the kill
ing of VIM. E. Annis at the Bayside
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