The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1908-08-22
BRIEF NEWS SUMMARY.
From All Sources, State,
National and Foreign.

Holland may blockade Venezuelan
ports.
Dr.. Ke>h, the famous German ply
ne is dead.
Forest fires have broken out a;:sin
n British Columbia.
Japan is preparing to welcome the
American battleship fleet.
The State OF Alabama will fight the
Increase in railroad rates.
The Hartman roads have entered
Ehe market for 6000 steel cars.
apacity u the Sugar Rsffnsry
It Bnnlie. La. will be dohbled.
Tie American Monetary Conu, is
sion is holding sessions in London.
Bears made a. sensational raid on
October cotton contracts in New York
Two new cases of fever were re-
ported at Vera Cruz, and one at Meri-
la.
An alleged Japanese spy was killed
while resisting arrest at Pekin, Chi
IA.
The Dutch Government has ordered
number of warships to Venezuelan
waters.
Mr.. Taft declined to comment for
publication on Mr.. Bryan's speech Of
acceptance.
The Methodist EL::------>", Church
aas started crusade against Speak
sr Camp
Tokyo newspapers are making
startling charges of corruption in the
Japanese army.
Chinese soldiers at Wuchow. Chi
aa, murdered their commander and
stole s100, 900.
Captain Baldwin made another
successful flight with his -airship
near Washington.
The Canadian Pacific Railioad
strike seems to have settled down to
test OF endurance.
Judge Taft has been warned by Iowa
Republican leaders not to interfere
In their factional fight.
Young Turks of New York threaten
to kill Mehmid All Bey, the disered-
tied Turkish minister.
Ambassador Reid gave dinner in
nonor of the American Monetary
Commission in London.
Wilbur Wright, the American aero
naat, made successful flights, with
MS aeroplane IN France.
Celebrations in honor of the Amer
lean battleship fleet continued at
Auckland, New Zealand.
First bales of new cotton are re-
ported from number of points In
Louisiana and Mississippi.
King Edward was met at Cronterg
by Emperor William, and naval pro-
gramraes, we're discussed.
Dennis Kane, one hundred years
old, of New Orleans, was injured by
a train at Batesville, Ind.
The Netherlands has dispatched
battleship to Venezuela and prepared
for trouble. at Willemstad.
Successful experiments were male
in the Isthmian Cana! Zone with
truck and landscape gardens.
It was reported that B. D. Chandler
of Boston was killed in al automobile
accident near Boulogne-Sur-Mer.
Officers of the American fleet en-
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battleship Louisiana at Auckland.
Admiral Sperry and 200 officers of
the fleet went from auckland to the
geyser districts of New Zealand.
King Edward, of Great Britain,
and Emp eror William, of Germany,
held long conference at Cronbsrg.
Sir Thomas Upton said he would
issue another challenge for the yacht
cup, if universal rules were adopted.
The liquidation of the Panama Ca
nal Company, which has been going
on in Paris since 1889 is completed.
Congressional candidates through
,ut the various Louisiana districts ad-
dressed a number of Democratic: raj
lies.
The arrest Of two Russians at Te-
heran has caused friction between
the Russian and Persian Govern
ments.
The Henduran minister at Wash
lngton received assurance that peace
had been fully restored in Central
America.
A serious revolutionary movement
in Portugal was disclosed by the
smuggling into the country of arms
and bombs.
Rear Admiral Robley D. Evans,
lately in command of the Atlantic
battleship fleet, was placed on the
retired list Aug. IL.
DIR. C. w. Vogel, of the United
States Marine Hospital Service. re-
ports that bubonic plague is spread
ing rapidly In Venezuela.
The disputes between the Federal
government and the Catholic cbutch
in Porto klco over church lands was
settled by Assistant Secretary of state
Bacon.
Mr.. Bryan received Invitations to
speak from various sections OF the
country, and several hundred farmers
presented him with a "Big Stick"
gourd
The Georgia Legislature adjourn
ed until the special session, which
will be called about the oath of Au-
guest to consider the convict lease
system.
secret Service Agent LOBBY stated
that en unusually large quantity of
money was in circulation
In Texas. Louisiana, Mississippi and
Alabama