The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1908-10-17
BRIEF NEWS SUMMARY.
From All Sources, State,
National and Foreign.

A New York policeman lost his
life in fire in an attempt to save
others
Labor leaders decided to send
speakers into Mr.. Cannon's Illinois
!. district.
Former Gov. Robert Lowry was
felecfed Commander of the Mississip-
epi Confederate Veterans.
It was reported that for political
|Eeffeet employees Of the navy yards
4 would be paid weekly
Ii was announced that Mr. Bryan
would speak in Madison Square Gar
! den, New York, Oct. rs.
Turkey, unwilling to resort to the
sword, appealed to the powers TO
uphold the Berlin treaty.
Taking of evidence in the Federal
suits against the coal trust and the
powder trust was resumed.
The taking of evidence in the
/ lcourt-martial Of Lieut.. Evans Of the
navy at Manila was concluded.
Thirteen persons lost their lives
l through the explosion of large
4 grain elevator at Richmond, Va.
It was reported that the Washing
! ton administration would favor the
railroads increasing freight rates.
Judge Taft was the principal spea-
ker at the opening of the Deep
Waterways Convention in Chicago.
Mr.. Bryan addressed the conven-
ton of the Lakes-to-the-Gulf Deep
/ Waterways Association at Chicago.
MIR. Bryan stated there was no
State in the West where the chances
did not favor the Democratic party.
Physician praised the exhibit Of
/ the International Typographical Un-
/ ION at the tuberculosis Congress in
| Washington.
It was stated that Great Britain.
i. France and Russia would agree on a
| conference to settle the Balkan COM
plication.
The Comptroller OF the Currency
announced plan for the formation
of eleven districts of national banks
examiners.
The Rev. Charlie e. Stowe resign
ed his Congregational pastorate at
lBrfdgewater, Mass. to enter the Ep-
lscopal ministry. 81. s.
was reported that the proclama-
ton OF the union of Crete with Greece
might not be accepted by Turkey
without retaliation.
The Chicago Baseball Club won
the championship of the National
League by defeating New York, at
New York, to 2.
| Messrs Taft and Bryan were guests
at the banquet of the Chicago Asso-
citation of Commerce and made nom
partisan speeches.
In a duel with knives at Wakefield
Miss, Manning Jamslon was killed
and Edwin Jamison his brother, was
badly wounded.
A decrease of gross incomes OF
s2,6S2.00O from that of 1907 was
shown by the annual report OF the
Illinois Central Railroad.
The Servian government issued
a proclamation protesting against
the annexation by ria-Hungary
of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
A decree announcing the union OF
Crete with Greece was published in
Cananea, following mass meeting
of 100000 persons.
enHry Watterson, al Democratic
rally in Louisville, spoke on the
menace of the Republican party re-
naming in power.
The government of Belgrade for
malIy protested against Austria-Hun.
gary's annexation of the provinces
of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The speculative dullness on the
New York Cotton Exchange was as
cribed to the uncertainty regarding
the proposed contract changes.
w. M. Robertson. a negro. was con-
victed of posting cotton gins in IssaQ-
uena county, Miss, and sentenced
TO i've years In the Penitentiary,
Hudson Maxim. the famous inven-
tor, told of q new battleship-dss-
troying torpedo, and predicted the
future war should be IN the skies.
Justice Mills refused to send Harry
K. Thaw- to New York city for. his in
sanity trial, whereupon District At
torney Jerome retired from the case.
A balcony in the Coliseum at jack
SON. Miss, fell during the Booker
T. Washington meeting and Bishop
Galloway and others we're painfully
hurt.
The President ordered statement
prepared to show unfounded the
charges that special privileges were
granted the Standard Oil Company
in Oklahoma
Henry e. FELTON,, general trafic
manager of the Standard Oil Com
pany, was again In the witness chair
in Chicago in the Governments suit
to dissolve the OIL trust.
President Charles Goodyear of the
Goodyear Lumber Syndicate, togeta-
er with other officials of the New Or
leans and Great Northern railroad
Company. held an important confer
ence at Jackson, Miss.
In the New York inquiry into the
charges of discrimination on the part
of the Panama Canal Commission.
William A. Brothers, the complain
ant, charged one of the witnesses
with psjury. COL Gosthals denied