The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1908-08-29
NEWS OF A WEEK.

| White miners at Springfield, Ill.
refused to work with negroes.
Russian revolutionists butchered
a Jewish family at Yurievka, Rus.
.ia. (.
/ The Dutch Government has sent r.
endorsements to Willemstad, Gu.
Iracao.
/ A monument to Jose Marti. the Gu.
ban patriot, has been completed a,
Rome.
| W. ]. Bryan delivered an addres.
before large crowd at Des Moines
Iowa.
One person was killed and four
injured in an automobile accident al
Los Angeles.
Judge w H. Taft spoke at a rally
Of Virginia Republicans at Hot
springs, Va.
Railroad officials, it was said, ex-
pect a banner year for New Orleans
in grain exports.
Wilbur Wright, the American aero
Pianist, made another successful
fight at Lemans.
The Anti-Asiatic League demands
The EXCLUSION of all Asiatics from
the United States.
The new Federal building at BIZ
ioxi, Miss, was dedicated with i'm
pressive ceremonies.
Trouble between white and negro
miners near Jelico, Tenn, was re-
ported very serious.
Merchants Of Willemstad, 1t was
stated, declined to further purchase
supplies from Venezuela.
Congressman James E. Sherman,
stated that Gov. Hughes would be
renominated> in New York.
The Turkish navy, it is stated.
would be reorganized under the di-
rection of British od-iser,
The Mississippi Postoffice Clerks
Association will meet Aug. 26 in
State convention at Jackson.
A new oil corporation was organiz-
ed at Breaux Bridge, La, to pros
pect In tn Anse-la-Butte field.
Over 500 Boston prisoners were
given their liberty on account of the
crowded condition Of tie Jai's.
While France sypathizes with
Holland in the quarrel with Venezue-
la. she will keep out Of the row.
The growth of cotton mills, re-
mote from the cotton belt, Is made
the subject of extended comment.
Much interest IS felt in the suits
of Cincinnati rectifiers to prevent
whiskey being labeled Imitation"
The race trouble between the
whites and negroes Is spreading to
the small towns around Springfield.
Ill.
Interstate Commission promised
Louisiana Commission early cons.d-
Grafton of freight rate advance COM
plant.
Colonel e. NJ. Durham, at Vicks-
burg, denied that there is a combi'
nation of oil mill interests in con-
temptation.
The Federal Government flied q
petition for rehearing in the Stand
ard OIL case in the Court of Appeals,
at Chicago.
The Alabama Coal Operators As
sociation issued an official statement
refusing the demand of the miners to
consider them as union.
A negro arrested in small Flori-
da town was believed to be the black
who criminally assaulted a Pensaco-
la white woman last week.
Prof. Gustav Mann, scientist OF
wide renown, arrived from England
to occupy the chair of physiology and
histology at Tulane University.
it was announced that John F.
Archibald had declined to pay the un-
dertaker's bill rendered for the burial
OF child his automobile killed.
The grand jnrr at Eddyville. KY,
failed to return any indictments
against alleged night riders. though
1870 warrants had been presented
The Interstate Commerce Commits
sion may be called upon to value
several railroads as result OF the
operation of the new currency law.
Anthony Davis negro non-unton
miner, whose house was dynamited
at Pratt City, Ala, was lynched by
mob of union miners near Pratt City.
The Dutch Government has adopt
ed retaliatory measures against VEN
enzuela. The Royal Mail Steamship
Line has abandoned Venezuelan
ports.
After first beating her escort into
insensibiIity number of soldiers as
saulted a young woman in Wyoming.
Twenty-six were arrested and are In
chains.
Charles E. Magoon, Provisional
Governor Of Cuba, arrived In Wash
,"r =. s}e called on the Secretary
of War and had an extended confer
ence with him.
The New Orleans Home Manufac-
turers' Exhibition committee decided
to ask the merchants of the city to
decorate their stores in honor OF the
opening of the fair.
George Richberger, on being re-
leased from the Mississippi Peniten-
tiary, expressed willingness to be-
come a witness in the coming trial
of President Sadler.
Alex Connoi. negro. vas con-
victed at Tupelo, Miss, of murder
and senteced to the gallows on the
same day that his victim, Will Nc
Kissack, was buried.
The New Orleans French societies
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