The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1908-09-05
BRIEF NEWS SUMMARY.
From Ali Sources, State,
National and Foreign.

National and Foreign.
A. o. Brown & Co., New York bro
kers, failed.
i Federal Court upheld safety ap-
pliance law.
The population of the Panama Ca
nal one is 50,003.
The Washington market is swamp
cd with stale eggs.
The Tokyo Exposition has been
postponed until 1917
Robert ri Deyine. OF Mobile. sui
cided with carbolic acid.
Interstate Commission ordered re-
duction in cattle rates.
There is run on the Frederichs
berger Bank in Berlin.
Typhoid fever is spreading rapidly
in the District of Columbia.
Two prominent merchants of Tab
riz, Persia were assassinated.
| w. ]. Bryan delivered an address
at his old home at Salem, Ill.
President Alfaro, of Ecuador, is
seriously i'll with heart disease.
Thirty miners we're suffocated in a
burning mine at McAlester, Okla.
/ All grades of refined sugar were
reduced 10 cents hundred pounds.
TONY Pastor, the theatrical man
ager. died at Elmhurst, L. l., aged II
years.
Revolving cannibalism is being
practiced by tribes in Northern ST.
ebria.
The damage to cotton by recent
rains was estimated at 100000
bales.
Activity in the pig iron market in
all the iron centers of the country
was evidenced.
Hampton Reynolds resigned posi-
tion as Engineer of New Orleans
Public Belt.
The War Department is caring for
rosy
The corrup practice of selling gov
ernorships has been resumed In
| Persia.
Mrs. Kate Howard, one of the lead
ers in the riots at Springfield, Ill,
committed suicide.
w. H. Ouigg was presented with
loving cup By Office associates be-
fore leaving for new post.
A lone highWayHnan robbed q stage
coach between Cody and Meeteese,
Wyo., of $500.
The Portuguese Parliament approx
ed an extradition treaty with the
United States.
More than thirty miners perished
in a coal mine disaster at Haley
vile, Okla.
The American battleship fleet
sailed from Sydney, N. S. W., for Mel
bourne, Australia.
David E. Thompson American Am
basador to Mexico, was run down by
bicyclist and Injured.
The death is announced of Antonio
Henro Becquer, the we'll known
French scientist.
The revolutionary movement is
spreading to Persia and the Shah
is face to face with a crisis.
Vance Williams, negro, suspected
of the murder of R. G. Brown, was
lynched near Louisville, Ga.
The case of Beech Hargis, charged
with the murder of his father, Judge
Hargis, was called at Jackson, Ky.
Colonel w. F. Stewart, the Drey-
fus of the American Army, has been
ordered to take the horseback test.
Wade H. Ellis, of Ohio, has &C
cepted the position of Assistant At
torney General of the United States.
The Venezuelan revolutionists have
organized to junta New York and
are preparing to start an insurrection
in Venezuela.
A movement was placed on foot to
establish permanent audit COM
mittee for the New York Stock Ex-
change.
Zia Bey, who is refugee in Lon.
don, says all of the Turkish officials
from the Sutton down are throughly
corrupt.
President D. d. Curran of North.
eastern and party are inspecting
lines between New Orleans and Shreye
port.
Missouri Pacific handled record.
breaking train load of forty-eight
carloads of coffee to Chicago and St
Louis.
Louis Coxey, II years old, admit
ted wreckinig a. passenger train near
Buford, Ca, by which two men were
killed.
Trustees of Mississippi Agricul-
tural and Mechanical College de-
manded the resignation of two mem
bers of the institutions S faculty.
An unidentified negro at Mobile
attacked and severely injured Miss
Lena Horta, in her home. An armed
posse is searching for him.
Plans were put under way by the
Associated Advertising Clubs OF
America to wage war on unscrupu-
lous advertising men.
II was announced that the Republi-
can campaign committee would Sc
cure the name of every voter in the
United States at cost of 100000.
Louisiana, it was stated, would be
represented at the International Fish
cries Congress by set of oyster ex.
hibits showing methods of cultiya.
ton.
Two men, supposed to be negroes