The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1908-07-17
THE WEEKS EP|TOME
A RESUME OF THE MOST lMPoh
TANT NEWS AT HOME AMI
ABROAD.
NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE
A Carefully Digested and Condensed
Compilation Of Current News
Domestic and Foreign.

Domestic and Foreign.
In the race at Chicago recently for
aerial honors, Capt. F. J. Fielding OF
San Antonio, with his airship, won first
prize.
NJ D. Preston, who is serving a
twenty-five year sentence in the Neva-
ia prison for murder, is the socialist
oominee for President Of the United
States.
Taking the lead at the first range
and never being headed, the Ameri-
can team won the International rifle
match which closed at Bisley, Eng
land, Saturday.
Arrangements for a wireless service
connecting prominent hotels from the
Atlantic to the Pacific coast with lin
ers far out on the sea, have been prac-
tically completed.
Major John J. Reeve of Henderson,
KY, staff officer of the Confederate
Generals, Hood and Johnston, and AS
sistant Adjutant General of the Army
of Tennessee died Saturday.
Reports from New Berlin, ten miles
south Of Seguin, tell OF the death Of
three sons of Wesley Clark, a negro,
from the same stroke of lightning. All
victims were under 20 years of age,
AS the result of a serious riot late
Tuesday night at Riverview, resort
on the Maryland side of the Potomac
about fourteen miles below Washing
ton, twenty-five privates of the United
States army are under arrest at Fort
Washington, Nd.
A lake of oil covering an area of
more than one square mile and of I'M
known depth in the State of Vera
Cruz, Mexico, is on fire. 1t has been
burning for five days and has created
the widest terror among the natives
of that section. The blaze is seen for
more than 200 miles.
A new way to settle the race track
question has been discovered by Mrs.
Russell Sage. She has bought the old
forty-twO race track and athletic field
about mile from the center of the vii
lage of Sag Harbor, L. l. and has pre-
sented it to the village as a play
ground and athletic field for school
children.
The work of Strengthening out the
once flooded portion of West Dallas is
progressing well. Many houses have
been set again in the locations from
which the floods washed them, and
something like a dozen new ones are
going up. Some of the farmers have
begun replanting, and fence-bulding is
the rule.
According to local news agency, an
Air Navy League is being formed in
Germany. The articles of the asso-
citation declared the object of the
league is to be the promotion of a
big imperial dirigible navy, and the
construction of numerous airships for
excursion and commercial enter
prises.
Premiums to the amount of $500
in addition to the ten silver trophy
cups and twenty-five gold medals are
offered for the annual show of the
Texas Kennel Club. The regular meet
ing of the association was held at Dali
las for the purpose of adopting the
constitution and bylaws and complet
ing the organization.
In a recent election at Stamford, and
county. the returns show that the
court house bond failed to carry by
majority of g.
Pursuant to an order of the court
the Texas Southern Railway was Of
fered for sale, at Marshall, by P. NJ.
Young, special commissioner, at the
northeast door of the county court
house at 2 p. m, Tuesday. There
were no bids and the road will re.
main in the hands of the court until
future orders are made.
Charles Taylor, Missouri Pacific
telegrapher at Lamonte, who was on
duty on the night when two Missouri
Pacific passenger trains collided head.
on near Knobnoster last week, was ar
rested at Dresden Thursday on
charge of manslaughter.
At Mountain View, Okla, Nelson
Brown, a young farmer was probably
fatally hurt Saturday while attending
a picnic. 1t seems that while working
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