The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1908-09-26
Late News

| Great Northern changed domicile
from New Orleans to Bogalusa.
The missing British steamer Aeon
has been found at Christmas Island
The Democrats made great gains
/ in the legislative elections in Indi-
ana.
The American battleship fleet sail
ed from Albany. Australia. for Ma
| nila
Forces of the Shah st Persia were
reported on the point of bombardine
! Tabriz.
Centenary College opened al
Shreveport in its new $4,000 struc-
ture.
Preparation to survey line of Mon.
roe, Farmerville and Northwestern
begun.
E. III. Hartman denied that he
had become a factor in the Frisco
System.
The Federal Government will prob
ably buy the patent for the Wright
aeroplane.
The New York Subtreasury trans.
ferred 100000 in currency to New
Orleans.
The Count and Countess Szechenyi
were slightly injured In an autombile
accident in Hungary.
It was stated that B. C. LIE Blanc
had challenged Judge Schwing to
fight duel at Plaquemine.
At Parma, Mich, the Farmers and
Merchants State Bank was closed by
the state banking commissioner.
In his speeches in New York Mr..
Bryan continued to assail the record
of the Republican party.
w. J. Bryan delivered speeches at
Philadelphia, Pa, and at Camden,
Burlington and Trenton, N. J..
The National Conservation Com
mission Is trying to devise plan to
utilize the waste of saw mills.
The Postofica Department will
taeh the methods of operating the
postal service in the public schools.
John Miles q negro who shot and
attempted to rob a merchant, was
lynched by mob at Bachelor, La.
Railroad Employees and Investors
Association FORMED at chicago for
mutual benefit Of capital and labor.
The Indiana legislature met in
special session to consider a county
local option law and other meas
ures.
Senor Corea, Nicaraguan Minister
to the United States, resigned and
was succeeded by DR.. Rodolfo Es-
pineza.
The annual report of the Vicks-
burg National Military Park Com
mission was filed with the War De-
partment.
A Virginia woman has filed a dam.
age suit against the Pullman Palace
Car Company for injuries sustained
at Washington.
The steamer Arkadia, of the New
Orleans and orto Rican Line, ran
into the West Indian hurricane and
was seriously damaged.
Orville Wright, injured In the aero
plane accident at Fort Myer, Va, is
doing nicely and showing gratifying
improvement.
Senator Foraker admitted that
while a Senator in Congress he had
been employed as attorney by the
Standard Oil Company.
Several storms at sea. heavy fogs
and a smoky haze at New York pre-
vented Atlantic liners reaching their
piers at New York.
w. r. Hearst again attacked Sen
ator J.. B. Foraker, of Ohio, and Gov
ernor C. N. Haskell, Of Oklahoma, in
a speech at st. Louis.
Mrs. Charles Walter, of New Or
leans, was burned to death at Gov
ington as the result OF kerosene
explosion In a kitchen stove.
The home of Mark Twain at Red
ding, Conn, was robbed Of its sill
verware, and Id the future the hui
morist will use only plated stuff.
The Parish newspapers praise the
Frahco-Sranish note, the moderation
and disinterestedness of which they
hold cannot fail to be apparent to all
parties.
The steamship Colon, New York,
for Colon, was. buffeted by the West
Indies hurricane. Three members of
the crew were killed by gases in the
hold.
Prince Roberts De Broglie, whose
tribulations in 1906 and
1907 we're ventilated In France and
the United States, has abandoned his
wife and children.
The Louisiana Board Of Equaliza-
ton fixed the timber assessment for
1908 at SIT, $12 and SIS an acre
and required the assessors to accept
the classification of 1906.
The taking of testimony in the
-Mitchell-Morrison alleged
contempt case in connection with the
Bucks Stove and Range Company an
tiboycott proceedings against these
officials of the American Federation
Of Labor is progressing.
Surprise was caused in Paris by
the announcement that Germany in
tended to take hand in the settler
ment Of costs Of the Moroccan op-
erations.