The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1908-12-18


and it is IIobable the work will begin !
soon.
Stella Lewis, a 16-year-old co!ored
girl, while engaged in washing clothes
in Mckinney was fatally burned Tues
day
The Asiatic cholera, which last
week averaged twenty-five cases
day in St Petersburg, again shows an
increse.
Chas. EckstrCmer Swed sh Vice
Consul in st. Louis, killed himself by
drinking prusic acid at his home
Tuesday.
Conductor Nelson who was injured
in the Santa Fe wreck Sunday morn
rg near Amarillo, died Tuesday even
lag as result.
The annual poultry show under the
auspices Of the Lamar County Poultry
and Live Stock Association opened
! n Paris Friday.
Secretary of War Wright says that
| the next military tournament of the
| Department of Texas will be held in
| Dallas next summer.
John Reese, a young man re iding
in Orange, was ri0usly if not fatally
| injured Saturday night by being
thrown from hose.
The Weatherford interurban sub.
scrip,io is now $50 900, and it is
claimed the amount will, in a few
days, reach $500.
The Collin County Poultry Show
opened Wednesday with 700 entries,
and it is said to be the biggest show
ever held in the country.
! The Ben-Hur, the old steamer which
carried passengers up the Colorado at
Austin before the dam broke, was
destroyed BY fire Tuesday.
The opening of Congress this week
was notable as marking the beginning
of the last session under President
ROoseyelt's administration.
The ranch three miles east of Kauf-
man known as the Cartwright ranch
containing 5000 acres, will be cut into
smaller tracts and put in cultivation.
The Chesapeake & Ohio Railway
has been fined $1,000 on the first and
10000 or each Of three other counts
charging Relating, in Richmond, Va.
Dick Scalf, Confederate and an
old settler, having lived in that coun-
try died at his home, few miles
southeast of Mckinney, Wednesday.
Robert Bruce Kelly, a paper hanging
and painting contractor, was struck by
South Belt car and almost instantly
killed Tuesday night about 10 o'clock
in dallas
Two more names have been added
to the list of dead AS result of Tues
days battle between religious faratcs
and police in Kansas City, making the
, number of dead four.
W. NJ Church was found on the pub
lie highway a short distance from
5 ,Jacksboro Friday where he had evi
5 IDENTIFY been thrown from his buggy
: He died in few hours.
5 Southern Pacific depot at Sour Lake
D was destroyed by fire Tuesday night
. entailing loss of between $4,000 and
;. $4,000. A lamp is supposed to have
|, exploded and started the fire.
n Perhaps the largest plan ever con
q ceived for the exploration of the
' South's resources has come of the
4 Southern Commercial Congress which
ended its session in WaShin ton Thurs
q day.
j Remaining at his post, though dan
# ger threatened, A. A. Reppard, wa
Y slowly scaded to death when his en-
g CINE turned over and pinned him un
: der the wreckage, one mile from
a Aaron, Ga, on the Savannah, August
and Northern railway early Sunday.
d S. n Kirkham, Santa Fe engin
d foreman in the yards at Gainesville
had his left foot cut off Friday by
e box car.
s The complete revised count of tn
d population of Mckinney and suburb
e as carefully made for the new cit
g directory, soon to be issued, is 10,45t
/ A total of thirty-three indictment
{ were returned Friday by the specla
t grand jury empaneled to investigat
+ the recent night rider raids in tn
! Realfoot Lake region of Tennessee.
The seven-year-, old son of c. Chest
nut, of Mckinney, was Wednesda
bitten by mad dog, a maidstone whic
. was applied adherins six hours.
r. L. Cowrat, promin mt citizen o