Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1908-09-04
BRIEF NEWS SUMMARY.
From All Sources, State,
National and Foreign.

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kers, failed.
Federal Court upheld safety ap-
pliance law.
The population of the Panama Ca
nal one is 50,003.
The Washington market is swamp
/ ed. with stale eggs.
The Tokyo Exposition has been
postponed until 1917.
Robert P. Devine, of Mobile, sui
cided with carbolic acid.
Interstate Commission ordered re-
duction in cattle rates.
There is a 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 were 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 81
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
several soldiers who developed lep-
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 highwayman robbed a stage
coach between Cody and Meeteese,
Wyo., of $1,000.
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 feet
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 well known
French scientist.
The revolutionary movement Is
spreading to Persia and the Shaf
is face to face with 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 beel
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 hav
organized to junta New York an
are preparing to start an insurrectio
in Venezuela.
A movement was placed on foot {
establish a permanent audit CON
mittee for the New York Stock E,
change.
Zia Bey, who is refugee In Lol
don, says all of the Turkish oficia
from the Sutton down are through
corrupt
President d. d. Curran of Nortl
eastern and party are inspeotir
lines between New Orleans and Shre'
port.
Missouri Pacific handled recor
breaking train lesd OF forty-eig
carloads Of eeHss ~ Chicago ana !
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