The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1908-11-06

hugh Kelly, banker, sugar manufac
surer and philanthropist, died at his
residence in New York Saturday,
= The British steamer Hollingsworth
arrived at Pensacola, Fla, Monday
from Dakar, Africa, with her captaip
and most of the crew i'll with malaria)
fever.
Inc Terrell peanut factory is run.
ming thrasher through the territory
adjacent to Terrell for the convenience
OF peanut growers and the crop Is
said to be good
After a trial 20 at Torreon, Mexico
Lugo and Nobledo, leaders of the Mex.
lean reyolutionists, who raided the
town of Viescas in Mexico last June
have been sentenced be shot.
Oscar Kondert, formerly of the First
National Bank of Baton Rouge, charg.
ed with the embezzlement of about
$4,000 of the banks funds, was Wed.
nesday sentenced to five years in pris.
on.
AdVices have been received in Dial.
las to the effect that the Interstate
Commerce Commission has postponed
the date Of the cattle rates between
Texas and Northern points are to take
effect.
The Frank McCue murder case,
transferred from Dallas to Fort Worth,
on a change of venue, has been set
for trial December Z. The clerk is is.
suing ,subpoenas for about $50 wit
nesses:
The United States Marshals office
was notified Wednesday that the post
Office at Gibsland, La, was broken IN.
to Tuesday night, the safe blown open
and all the money in the cash box
taken.
H. B. Norton, who was found club
bed into insensibility in Fort Worth
Tuesday morning died at the Medical
College hosAtal. It was learned his
home was in Quanah, where he was
wealthy cattleman.
Charles A. Bridge formerly night
editor of the World and also employed
at different times On several Boston
and New York papers as an editor
died Friday of Bright's disease in q
hospital in Brooklyn.
James McGinnis of Hamilton Texas
was killed by a train in Hico Tuesday
He was leaving for Hamilton in an au
tomobile, which was struck by the
train, and in jumping out McGinniE
was run over by box car.
Charles B. King. cashier of the only
, negro bank in Arkansas, the Capita
City Savings, which went into the
hands of a receiver last June, wa
Friday arrested upon two Grand Jur.
indictments charging him with receiv
ing deposits when the institution wa
insolvent.
A telephone message was received
at Lovelady Sunday afternoon from B
. S. Shaw, residing near Weldon
Walker County, to the effect that h
had shot Dan Wright, negro. SHAY
came in later and surrendered t
, Constable Perry.
The movement of turkeys to Ne7
Orleans and thence to the eastern nal
t kets has begun and Thanksgiving
e nearly a month away. The expires
r companies are preparing for the al
nual movement which this year is e1
\ pected to be larger than usual.
! Orville Wright walked for the frs
t time Friday since the accident
h Fort Myer on September II. 1t wa
e a very little walk, only across HI
8 room at the Post Hospital, wit
5 crutches, with a sturdy man nurse
t. hand for help and without Mr.. Wrigl
putting his left foot on the floor
# Mrs. B. G.. Burk, aged sixty-tW
$ years, was found dead in well
l. Elmo Tuesday. She had been mis-
ing since Friday. The body was
?. bad state of decomposition.
:. In order to make directors OF n
\. tional banks pay closer attention
a. their institutions, Controller Of tt
W Currency Murray Friday issued or
# ers recurring bank examiners upon e
=. tering banks to Immediately put a II
o. Of twenty-five formal questions
.. each director and require answers
same.
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