The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1908-12-04
THE WEEKS EP|T0ME
A RESUME OF THE MOST iMPOR'
TANT NEWS AT HOME AND
ABROAD.
news FROM EVERYWHERE
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Compilation Of Current News
Domestic and Foreign.


Compilation of Current News
Domestic and Foreign.
The report that Gen. Leconte, the
Haitian minister of the interior, had
been killed at Jeremie was confirmed
Wednesday.
The fate OF Ray Lamphere, charged
with the murder of Mrs. Belle Gun
ness and her three children at La
Porte, Ind, is in the hands CT the
jury.
Halbert Finney of Taylor, brake
man on the |, & G.. n Ry., was
crushed between two cars Monday and
died in the company hospital in Pales-
tine Monday evening.
Ten wagon loads of peanuts from
one farm were marketed in Gaines
vile Monday, and the entire lot, which
had been thrashed and sacked, was
sold for 15c a bushel.
According to a report from the con,
trOller's office az Austin, the taxable
values of the state will this year
amount to 200,OOO,0OO, an increase
over last year of 5000, 100000.
The three-year-old daughter Of Thos.
Newcomb. living in the Mount Hope
neighborhood near Clinton, Ok, was
burned to death Tuesday night, her
clothing igniting from the kitchen
stove.
Stanley Ketchell of Grand Rapids
Mich, regained the middle weight
championship OF the world Thursday
and reversed his defeat of last Sep,
TENDER when he sent Billy Papke, the
Illinois "Thunderbolt" crashing to the
floor.
Formal pleas of not guilty were en-,
tered Wednesday in Nashville, Tenn,
by Col. Duncan B. Cooper, his son,
Robin ]. Cooper. and John D. Sharp
when arraigned in the circuit court
charged with the murder of former
United States Senator Edward w. Car.
mack.
The Southern Pacific company has
been convicted in the United States
Circuit Court in San Francisco on ten
charges of violating the law providing
for the care and feeding of cattle dur,
ing shipment. Convictions subject the
company to fines of 500 to $500 for
each offense.
The little town of Tiptonville, Dor
dering on Reelfoot Lake, Tenn, which
has been the scene of many stirring
incidents of the past month, witnessed
the lynching late Tuesday afternoon of
three negroes who were arrested for
numbering Special Deputy Sheriff Rich.
ard Burrows.
That both oil and gas are certainty
in the country eight miles southwest
Of Denton is the opinion of Paul ].
Mahamey, an oil and gas expert from
Pittsburg, Pa, who, after several
months of careful investigation, has
taken 1900 acres of land under lease
for both oil and gas.
In effect, Assistant Attorney General
James D. Walthall rules in an opinion
handed down Tuesday that in Texas,
no matter how badly State Senator
or Representative may want to resign
his Office and no matter if he has ten
dered such resignation and it has been
duly accepted, he must still continue
in office.
Oscar LATHE of the Texas Ranger
force has been in Brady for the last
three or four days. Some more rang
ers are expected in shortly. They
will investigate some alleged cattle
stealing cases in that county.
The orange crop of Cuba this year
will be much larger and will reach
100000 boxes, according to a report
made to the bureau of manufactures
by Consul Holiday at Santiago Cuba.
The business of orange culture in the
island, he says, is almost entirely in
the hands of Americans.
Sheriff Rich Sunday delivered to
the State agent 10 be carried to Rusk
prison eleven people, convicted and
sentenced for felony, in the Fifteenth
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