The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1908-08-14
A RESUME OF THE MOST IMPoR.
TANT NEWS At HOME AND
ABROAD.
NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE
A Carefully Digested and Condensed
Compilation Of Current News
Domestic and Foreign.

hNOWU men Oh inc IOdu DeLmGcu IlAot
! city and North Fort Worth at an early
hour Friday morning.
At Konstanz, Germany, Count Yep
pelin, on Tuesday successfully sailed
his large alrship for a great distance.
He had complete control over the
machine, lowering, raising and turn
ing it at will.
Because she kissed her daughter Es.
telle, who died last night of hydro
| phobia, Mrs. Lemuel Blythe of Ma
tchez, Miss, was taken to the Pasteur
institute Monday and put under the
treatment for tn edsease.
Three laboring men who were walk
ing on the railroad tracks of the New
York, New Haven and Hartford rail-
road and Pratts Crossing were struck
by local train from New Haven Mon
day morning and instantly killed.
At Emboden, Ark, Friday, wreck
on the Frisco railroad Of a passenger
train killed the engineer fireman and
one unknown man. The report says
the train caught on fire and 1t is feare(
many other persons lost their lives.
The Missouri Petite Railroad Thurs.
day issued orders for the reopening OF
Its locomotive shops in st. Louis, Sc
dalia, Fort Scott and Barring Cross.
The reopening will provide employ
ment for more than one thousand men
Much delay has been experienced in
paying to the Wichita, Caddo, Kiowa,
Comanche and Apache Indians of Ok
lahoma their relief fund of $375,0O0 for
the reason that all members must ap-
pear in person to claim their proper,
tionate part, which is $100.
The Pope of Rome The Pope of Ro
The Pope of Rome received the
American pilkrlns, who left New York
last month under the direction of Rt.
Rev. James H. Mclean and J. J. Nc
Crane Of Brooklyn. Mr.. McCrane pre-
sented the Pope with a building in
New York valued at $4,000.
After standing off Sheriff Rufe LIE,
ferS and his lage number of deputies
who were hiding in the grass near the
barracaded home of L. M. Phillips,
near Tinney, Okla, J. NJ. A. Phillips
blew his brains out with rifle rather
than to surrender and stand trial for
the killing of Mrs. June Smith.
Seven members Of the American
Olympic team competed Monday in
the games of the Dublin, Ireland, po
lice at Balls Bridge. The feature of
the contest was the throwing of the
hammer by John Flanagan, who made
l73 feet and 10 inches. Ralph Rose, the
Californian, put the shot 40 feet S
inches, breaking the British record of
As feet inches.
A supposed burglar broke open a
window of the Fort Worth Evening
kilograms press room Monday night
and climbed through the opening. 1t
was dark in the room and he did not
perceive the ink vat which was direct
ly beneath the. window. He fell into
this, and after doing so escaped by
means of the door. leaving trail Of
ink reaching some distance north of
the door along the street.
Henry Haven, an employee of the
brewery at Fort Worth, fell from a
trestle Of the Rock Island railway,
Friday and was almost instantly killed
Suits were filed Saturday in the
Oklahoma state supreme court against
number of lumber companies on the
charge Of violating the Oklahoma anti
trust law, invoking Section 2 OF the
act, asking that they be ousted from
the state, their personal property for
feited and in lieu of the latter the inn
position Of a fine against each of the
defendants.
Stanley White, aged 81 years, is
dead at his home in East Orange, N.
j., following two operations for appen-
dicitis. The young mans mother and
brother were recently operated upon
from appendicitis and a sister will
soon have to 60 under the knife.
Missouri and Kansas have ~ taken
concerted action against yellow
Pine Association, saidato he agE5m biae,
o the lumber dealers dome baaness
bin those and severalsothsE states. and
suits have been brought to Dust Die as,
ISOLATION from their borders. n" %
1t Is not improbable that Secretary
Of War Wright may visit the President
again this week to consider further the
case, of the eight West Point cadets
whose dismissal from the academy has