The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1908-04-03
A $1,000 fire at conroe destroyed q
bakery and jewellery shop Saturday

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'e'isAation as pastor Of the Baptist
church at Omaha on account O, Il,
health. '
IN a Jail delivery at Helena, Mont
the Great Northern train robbers NJ.
donald and sauser, made good their
escape.
-FOUR men were killed and from flf.
Teen 10 twenty wounded at Linton, Ind
TUESDAY morning in an explosion at
the United States Powder Mills.
Grover c. Blake and Orsel Rev.
holds OF Anderson, Ind. were arrested
sunday on the charge Of killing
Blake's mother Saturday at Anderson,
W. ]. Johnson, aged 65 years, form,
eFIy IN the butcher business, is dead
at his home in Austin. He was found
dead in bed. Death came from natural
causes.
". H. Collins, of Greenville who
was injured several days ago by his
stormhouse caying in on him while he
was repairing it, died of his injuries
at his home.
The large lumber yard Of the ROB.
inson Lumbar Company, on N nth
Main street, Tulsa Ok, was totally de.
stroyed by fire, entailing a loss of $40,.
600, covered fully by insurance.
The comptroller has announced the
appointment Of W. J. J. Terrell to the
position of chief tax clerk, made va,
cant by the promotion of B. F. league
to chief clerk of the department.
Paul E. Williams, the proprietor Of
the peanut factory in Paris, the pio-
neer plant of the kind to be estab-
liShed in Texas, has shipped car
load Of seed peanuts to Bonham.
Tens of thousands of Chinese have
started boycott on Japanese goods.
Placards which were posted through,
out HongkOng stating that boycott
had been ordered were destroyed by
the police.
Captain KENO OF the Japanese navy,
arrived in San Francisco Saturday on
the Nippon Maru en- route to London
where it is understood he will super
wise the construction of several war
ships for his country.
A wholesale exodus Of Polanders
to Europe will follow the 10 per ce;t
reduction in wages in the Chicopee
and Holyoke cotton mills. Seventy
five per cent Of the $500 operatives al.
fected are Polish.
Burglars entered the office Of the
Houston and Texas Central Railroad
Company at Llano at late hour We'd
nesday night, blew the safe with nj
tro-glycerin, and secured $3.50 but
overlooked $195. No clew.
Advices from Washington indicate
that the application of the Denison
Board Of Trade for soil survey OF
Grayson County has been Endorsed by
a number of Government officials, and
the prospects are favorable.
Abraham S. Hummell, the lawyer
who was released from the peniten-
tiary last Thursday after serving ten
months for conspiracy in connection
with the Dodge-Mann divorce case,
sailed for Europe Saturday on the
steamer Lustiania.
Ell Mundo says that it learns on
good authority that the wound Prince
Manuel-now king Of Portugal-re-
ceived in the arm on February l when
King Carlos and the Crown Prince
were assassinated, has not healed and
has recently become very much worse,
and that amputation is imperative.
On Friday Gen. Stoessel was sent
TO room in the fortress OF St Peter
and st. Paul adjoining that OF Rear
Admiral Nebogatoff, who is also ser7'
ing a ten-vear sentence for the surreh'
der to the Japanese at the Sea OF
Japan.
John D. Rockefeller left Augusta, Ga,
Monday for Richmond, Va, where ne
will remain for a week or ten days.
From Richmond he will go TO HOT
Strings Ark. for a month @" SIX
weeks and from that city Will pfoceeo
to New York.
lack Ragland, great saddle stallion
that won the championship at Fort
Worth, Texas, show last week. died
m the return trip to his quarters at
Paris Mo. Suit for $4,000 damages Will
be instituted against the Missouri
Kansas and Texas railway.
Dr ], Conner Chisholm of Dallas
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