The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1908-09-18
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wireless stations is being forged in
Alaska by the United States signal
corps.
Frank 2. Sargent, commissioner OF
immigration of the department of COM
merce and labor, died in Washington
last Friday.
Uncle Richard Johnson, aged "A,
one Of the oldest settlers Of Kaufman
county died suddenly at his farm north
of Kaufman Tuesday.
While attempting to cut live wire
from the top of pole in Shreveport,
La, Friday, Alfred Brown received a
shock that caused instant death.
Practically the entire town Of Sum-
ner Miss, was destroyed by fire last
Tuesday and one man lost his life.
The properly loss is estimated at
100000.
AS a result Of a disastrous forest
fire in Nevada, recently, thousands OF
people are homeless, many injured and
the properly loss is estimated at near
ly a million dollars.
The color line was drawn Thursday
at Highland Park College, Des Moines,
Ia, when President o. H. Langwell dis
missed every colored student and an
nounced that no more would be adj
mitted.
Evidence Of a murder was revealed
Friday when the body of Mrs. Anna
Mauro, % years of age, the wife of an
employe of one Of the traction COM
panies, was found in her apartments in
New York.
James Bellows McGregor, of Sunape,
N. H., the oldest Mason in the country
and believed to be the oldest white
man in the United States Saturday
celebrated his one hundred and sew
enth birthday.
On complaint of the SIT. Louis, Okla.
homa and Southern railroad, the Mo-
nett and Southwestern Construction
Company Of Oklahoma was placed in
the hands Of a receiver Wednesday IN
the United tSates court.
Shipping, bound for West Indian
ports, has been warned not to venture
into the Gulf for two or three days
The weather bureau gives warning Of
a hurricane of great violence off Turks
Island off the Cuban coast.
Because his sweetheart wore a rose
similar to the one he had seen in the
lapel of the coat of his rival, Jose
Niver drank carbolic acid in Washing
ton Park, San Antonio, Thursday
where his body was found by police
man.
The postoffice at Breckenridge Mo.
was broken into early Monday morn
ing and ABOUT $1,000 worth of stamps
and a small amount of cash securet
by the robbers. Dynamite was used t.
blow open the safe. The robbers es
, capped.
Local sportsmen are circulating
petition at Brentwood to be present
ed to the senator and representative
from that district, asking that the lay
regulating the killing of doves b
, changed. The petition is being signe
t readily by the farmers, as the dove
! a great destroyer of grain.
: A severe gale Wednesday cause
> many casualties among smaller Graf
along the coast. The schooner PLY
q lis Gray, laden with coal, went agroun
and turned turtle near Croydon, Eng
land. The crew of six men were los
y The Paris creamery, which was star
8 ed about two months ago, has bee
Il doing a successful business, being Ill
able to supply the demand. Farmer
who have been furnishing cream
II state that their COWS have netted the
81 per month each, after paying fl
" the feed and other expenses.
A determined effort is to be made b
.. Texas wholesale druggists to secul
"a the next meeting of the Nations
" Wholesale Druggists Association II
i. Dallas.
o. 1t is not unlikely that the city of d.
t, las will adopt the motor cycle for Il
l.; purpose Of speeding automobiles.
p seems that several cases Of unusual
IT fast racing have come to the notice
D. commissioners, and they realize the
~ parent inability of the police depal
- ment to apprehend the auto spe
n, fiends.