The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1908-10-30
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TANT NEWS AT HOME AND
ABROAD.
NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE
carefully Ogested and Condensed
Compilation OF Current News
domestic and Foreign.

r,, ninth annual convention Of the
ro,as Association of Builders Elk l
.sanges will be held in Houston Nov.
IS and Il. ,
+ C. House, front brakeman on a
..,,oht train. sustained painful injury
while switching in the Gonna yards
rnesdav. getting three of his ribs
broken on the left side.
information from Mertens, Hill
county, says night riders have warn,
!, dinners of that pace not to oper-
=. their gins further under the pen
atty of having them burned.
while embarrassing his team from
40 nIow John Farris. farmer four
..,os west of Center Point was struck .
hv lightning and Instantly killed about
noon Thursday. Four mules were also /
killed
IN the two fires which have occurred
sacently, one at the A. & NJ. College
and the other at the Insane Asylum
At Terrell. the State of Texas has sus-
t.;npd losses 10 the amount OF about
$4,000.
The Battleship Maine, the first OF
tbe Atlantic fleet to return to the
1rnitod States after tour around the
world was sighted off the entrance OF
Tho barbor at Portsmouth, "a I o'clock
Monday morning.
The American battleship fleet ex-
Derienced the effects of a tremendous
storm recently off the northern coast
of I,uzon. Philippine group. One man
Inst his life and considerable damage
was otherwise done.
The Ell Paso and Melissa Valley In
teruban Company, capital 100000 has
been organized at Ell Paso, and pro-
noses in the near future to have a
new line in operation through the
richest section of that country,
AS the result of wreck on the De
troit and MaCkinaw railroad Friday
near Alpena, Mich, fifteen persons los
their lives. The train was carrying
the inhabitants from the forest fire
district to places of safety.
", !. Jackson, a negro. of Hernodo
Miss. who was discovered attemptin!
10 steal bale of cotton belonging tt
another negro, from gin, was takel
out Thursday night by members o
his own race and hanged.
In the Supreme court of New YorF
Thursday. the decision was reverse
upon the application of katherln
Clemmons Gould, wife of Howar
Gould, to have her allowance of alimt
nv increased from $4,000 to $4,000
a year.
In a game between the Shrevepo
Athletic Club and State Industrial i
stitute football teams at huston RI
day neither side scored. Asslstal
United States District Attorney E.
Mills, captain of the Shreveport teal
was badly hurt in the game.
Indicted in New Orleans two yea
ago on the charge of forging go
eminent warrant for $2S7 While
was a private soldier stationed
Jackson Barracks, Henry Lands l
enlisted in the United States army
Fort Worth TUESDAY and is now una
arrest.
The grand jury of Coal Coun
Okla, Wednesday refused to tnd
dictments against certain managi
officers of the defunct Information
Rank of Coalgate for alleged VIC
lions of the State banking laws.
At a meeting of ex-students of VI
derbilt University, composing the l
as Vanderbilt Association, held at L
las last spring, it was determined u
meeting should be held each year
Dallas dnring the Fair, mainly TOT
purpose of good fellowship and rem
ais of old ties of college life.
That President DiaZ has Getermn
not 10 be candidate to succeed n
self as President of Mexico at the c.
ing election in 1910 was stated In
article published by Ell Diarlo Del
gar in its issue Tuesday.
One hundred passengers on the
cage and Erie train were In peru
their lives near Wilders, Ind, ="
the train while speeding toward
cago narrowly escaped dropping
the Kankakee river because OF
burning of the bridge that spans