The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1908-10-17
RDAY. OCTOBER II. 1908.
WIRE FLASHES

President Castro of Venezuela is
reported seriously i'll.
The American. battieships sailed
!. from Manila for Japan.
Mr.. Bryan attacked his opponents
in vigorous speeches in Iowa.
st. Petersburg reported a decrease
in the number of cases of cholera.
There were los new cases of chol-
eras and. AZ deaths in st. Petersburg.
A fleet OF British warship was dis
patched from Malta to the Aegean
Sea. -is..#
Fire at Grenada; Afiss. destroyed
approximately $50,00o worth Of prop
erty.
The report that the British Cabi-
net had resigned was declared un-
founded.
Ending his Western campaign. trip
Mr.. Taft made several speeches in
st. Louis.
Mr.. Bryan spoke on Justice" to q
large audience at Knox College,
Galesburg, Ill.
A posse of Illinois farmers search
ed for a tramp who assaulted fif-
teen year old girl.
The Russian Foreign Minister ar
rived in London to confer with the
British Foreign Minister
Andrew Carnegie gave $4,000 and
Mrs. Russell Sage $1,000 to the Re-
publican campaign fund.
Delegates from forty-five stations
of the American Seamen's Friend So
ciety met in New York.
DR.. J. H. billiard of New Orleans
read a paper before the International
Tax Association at. Toronto.
Many cotton mills of the South,
closed for months, were reported to
: have resumed full time operation.
The National Association of Clerks
and Draughtsmen of the Navy De-
partment was organized In New York.
1t was announced that the trus-
tees of the Peabody education fund
would meet in New York this week.
The General. Federation of Trades
Unions of London declared there are
10000 unemployed In Great Brit
ain.
1t was reported that John w.
Gates has gone into the New York
stock market as buyer of securi-
ties.
Many Louisianians arrived at Chi
cago for the opening Of the Lakes-to-
the-Gulf Deep Waterways: Association
Convention.
The Army Retiring Board found
Col. VIM. F. Stewart. Coast Artillery
physically unfit for active service
in the army.
Chairman Mack of the Democratic
National Committee issued state
ment predicting that New York
would go Democratic.
It was reported that France. Rus
sia and England would jointly call
conference of the powers to consider
the Balkan situation.
The GERMAN ambassador at Con-
stantinople denied that Germany had
taken any part in the action Of Bull
garia and Austria-Hungary.
Turpentine men OF Mississippi,
Florida, Georgia and other states met
at Hattiesburg, Miss, to form a pool
to oppose the naval stores trust.
Stock broke 2 to- 8 points on the
New York Stock Exchange. due to
war rumors, but the losses were re-
covered before the market closed.
1T was announced that Kuhn, Loeb
& Co., would care for the $7,.25, 900
in notes OF the St. Louis. and San
Francisco railroad which fall due
Dec. /.
The Lake-to-the-Gulf Deep Water
ways Convention adopted resolutions
to be presented to Congress and ad-
journed to meet next year in New
Orleans.
Gov. Hoke Smith of Georgia said
that the Usage Nation grant he ap-
proved while Secretary Of the Interi-
or was not the Foster Oil lease, as
reported.
The United Synod Of the Evangel-
ica1 Lutheran church of the South
voted to remove the Theological Sem
mary from Mount Pleasant, near
Charleston, s. G.
Cardinal Gibbons, In an inter-
view on arriving at New York, said
that the idle rich society women of
America were the most unhappy per-
sons in the world.
The Chicago Cubs of the National
League defeated the Dertoit. Tigers
of the American League Saturday in
the first game of the series for the
worlds championship.
The German steamers Pretoria and
Nipponia have teen in collision in the
fog off scheveningen. Thirteen OF
the Nipponia's crew were drowned.
The Pretoria was not damaged.
Judge Taft spent the day in Gin
cinnati making plans for his future
work in the campaign. He decided to
spend Oct. Is in Washington, In con-
sultation with President Roosevelt.
The City Council at Jackson, Miss,
awarded contracts totaling 314.4e6.-
so for water and sewer extensions.
Great enthusiasm marked the ban
quet in the Coliseum given by thu
Chicago Association Of Commerce *
the delegates to the LAke-to-the
Gulf Waterways Association.
TheDepartment of Agriculture re
ported the corn crop copdition o
Oct. at 77.S and tina qsality o
spring wheat at 8s.1. Ras total pro