Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1908-08-28

Ceneral.

General.
The United States scholarship Ithi
ca has arrived at Corunna, Spain. This
Is the first vessel of the American
government to call at Corunna since
the Spanish-American war.
By the premature explosion of twen-
ty pounds of dynamite in an oil well
near Santa Rosa. N. NJ, William
Lane was instantly killed and Mike
Doyle and William Wickstrom and
Thomas Donnolly severely injured.
Officers of the National Association
Of Life Underwriters were elected at
Los Angeles. Charles Jerome Ed
wards of New York was reelected
president and William A. White of
Detroit, secretary. Louisville, KY,
was selected as the place for holding
the next convention. Charles E. Bent
Of Los Angeles won the first prize cup
and Ilf G. Newell of Georgia the sec.
and ALI G. Newell Of Georgia the Sec
ance essay.
The Evansville cotton mills at
Evansville, Ind, have closed down
owing to the inability to secure raw
material. Several hundred employees
are idle.
John A. Hiney, the Captain Dreyfus
Of the Knights Of Pythias," after suf'
fering for seven years expulsion from
his lodge and charge of embezzline
half a million dollars, has been exon
grated and reinstated.
Seing a light on the second floor
20 .kf To- h "
home on South Kings Highway boule
ward, st. Louis, Mo-, and believing
that the place had caught fire, Mrs
Sophia Dunlop, As years OF age, hur
ried to the upper story to find herself
confronted by two burglars. They
knocked her down, stabbed her in the
right temple and escaped. Her injuries
are serious.
Miss Lucia Dobbs, the divorced
wife of the bogus Lord Reginald
Douglas, the most accomplished biga
mist in the United States, who mad'
her way back to Virginia from Mexico
practically on foot, after her deser
tion, baby being born to her In Tez
as while en- route, has been led to tn
altar by Hubert Holloway. OF Raleigh
N. C.
Five million barrels of oil, wort
81 a barrel, have been lost In tn
great oil fire in the San Geronimo dis
trict, which has been raging unintel
ruptedly since July 4.
In township No. 13. North Carolins
Logan Jones, In a rage declared b
would kill his entire family, and upo
attempting to make good his threa
was shot down by his 15-year-old sol
He was also attacked with an axe b
another child. He died instantly frol
the gunshot.
A license has been Used at Ellico'
CITY. Md, for the marriage OF tn
Rev. George s. Fitzhugh, aged 81,
Lulu v. Frazier, a girl, aged i
An explanation for the peculiar cas-
is said to be that the Rev. Mr.. Fit
hugh desires to make Lulu his heires
and that his object can not be attaii
ed to his satisfaction by the adoptio
of the child.
While H. w. Schultz and W. v
Fox of Colfax, Wash, were away ha
yesting. their wives went to a theau
cal performance. Fire originating
a manner unknown, destroyed the
house and four of the Schultz childre
and two of the Fox children we
burned to death.
Surgeons amputated the leg OF
G. Blair of Omaha, near the hi
while Blair smoked cigarette al
"joshed" them about their pioo'
work. His leg was injured In a "a
road accident near there. Surgeo
prepared to administer an enaestf
tic. but Blair would not permit the
to do it. He insisted that II tn
would give him a cigarette he cou
90 through the operation without
ing put to sleep and he did.
John ]. Forester, Coney lsia
life saver, was the winner OF sw
of thirteen miles from under
brooklyn Bridge to Coney Island, ht
NV members of the United States V
unteer Liyesaving corps. His tin
four hours and forty-six minutes,
considered remarkable. having OF
once been surpassed. Thirty-two CO
netitors started and eight f1nishe
among them two girls, MISS cara
Hurst. of Staten Island, ana MISS
gusta Gallup, oi NC" ioih Oy'
Electricity, particularly for hgntl
purposes, Is being extensively used
the isthmian canal zone, the syst'
in vogue supplying light to practica
everv settlement between Colon
panama excepting a few hamlets
/. the territory north Of Gorgana ana
villages of Mirafores and Gatun.
temnorarv plant is being installed
Gatun. Twenty-four thousand ngl
are in use. and power is furnish
for various purposes.
An English youth has cnaiiene
any one in the world to Q series
feats of memory. II Is SAID that
;s regular walking encycloped
and among other things has mem
ized 10000 dates of the worlds I
tory.