The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1908-08-21

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Jay morning, which will require sever.
al days and possibly a week, to re-.
pair. ~
one hundred and TWENTY-FIVE em.
oIoTees of the local Southwestern
,nops at FL Paso were laid off Friday
1or an indefinite period because q,
business depression.
According to telephone adv1ces q
| negro of Palestine named Sbodor,o,,
on Wednesday night shot his wife in.
nlctIng probably a fatal wound and
then committed suicide.
Fifty-three cities will ba renrevor4oa
IN the tour to be made by the Bpsi.
ness Mems League OF St. Louis IN .
special train through Oklahoma Tow
as, Missouri and Kansas in Octohor
The Grayson County Old Settlers,
Association started on its thirty-frst
annual reunion and picnic, Tuesday +he
event to last four days. It is reported
mat great crowds have been attend
! ing.
The Texas Land Company has re.
Gently closed deal for the sale Of
600 acres in Tom Green county. near
0ah angelo, Texas, to Rev. Father
Leonardo of the Roumanian Church OF
Chicago.
Or. }. M. Strayhorn, a prominent
physician of Waco was called TO
Granger Tuesday afternoon by the
death of his father, Sam NJ. Stray.
norm, an old and honored citizen OF
Williamson county.
Sarah Navarro, years old. was
poisoned Monday by strychnine. The
family had just moved into tue house
at Eagle Pass, the child finding the
poison in some rubbish left by the pre-
'iOuS occupants. she died
AS the result of injuries received
when struck by a street car Monday
afternoon at Galveston, C. C. Gehring,
aged Is years, died at a local hospital
Wednesday morning. The remains
were cOnvC. ed to houston.
Thirty-one prisoners arrested in con-
nectlon with firing into the train Sun
day at BloctOn, Ala, in which three
men were killed and eleven wounded.
have been lodged in Jail and will be
kept under a heavy guard.
Count Zeppelin has received from
the German government S125,00O and
twice that amount will be contributed
by public subscription for the purpose
of enabling him to rebuild his airship
which was recently destroyed.
Ignatz Wandrack, Al years old, a
deaf mute of Cincinnati, was struck
and instantly killed by an automobile
owned and driven by John l.. Ryan,
the we'll known turfman, at st. Mary's
Cemetery, in Lewisburg, on the out
skirts of Covington KY, Sunday night.
Pursued all night by the sherifT's
posse with bloodhounds, the negro who
assaulted Mrs. Ed Moclair late Thurs
day afternoon at her home four miles
from Pensacola was captured by the
sheriff in an adjoining county Friday.
He is now in Jail at Milton, Fla.
Joseph Meyer, aged SO years, who
started to walk from San Antonio to
Indianapolis, Ind, last winter, arrive
at Mexico, Mo-. Friday, having walked
the entire distance. Meyer was met bv
T. T. Turley, a former comrade in the
Union army, who secured for him
ticket to St. Louis.
A general understanding has been
reached by the Governor, Superin-
tendent of Education Cousins, and the
Attorney General to the effect that
the exchange price on school books
means the amount that a child shall
pay for a new book in addition to re-
urning an old one of the same text.
A tremendous amount Of Texas
wool has been sold on the Boston
market this week, nearly 100000
pounds, both eight months and twelve
months stock.
A passenger train on the Northern
Pacific railway ran onto bridge |
Wednesday, near Glendive, Mont, a
portion of which had been burned
away, resulting in fearful wreck.
The fireman and an unknown tramp
were killed and a score or more per-
sons seriously hurt.
Mayor E. N. Kirby drove the 1lrst
spike in the Abilene street, railway