The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1908-08-28
The WEEKS EP|ToNE
A RESUME OF THE MOST lMPOR-
TANT NEWS AT HOME AND
ABROAD.
NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE
A Carefully Digested and Condensed
Compilation of Current News
Domestic and Foreign.

BY the capsizing OF a pleasure
launch on the Wisconsin river three
people were drowned Thursday. They .
were from Chicago.
County Auditor J. Harvey Anderson
died at his home in Greenyille at 1919 .
o'clock Friday night, after a lingering
illness with Brights disease.
Bloodhounds have been sent from
Baton Rouge, La, to Burton, where a
posse is in pursuit of negro who at
tempted to criminally assault an Is
year-old white girl.
While Miss Anna Dodge Of Brook
Ign was out in the wooks in the VI
cinity of Caldwell, n J., Wednesday
she found a diamond ring, valued at
$3.50, in a birds nest.
Captain Peter c. Haines Of the
United States army, shot and killed
VIM. E. Annis, rich New York pub
Usher, Saturday. 1t is stated family
trouble caused the shooting.
/. D. Smart of Weatherford has
sold 500 bushels OF pears from his
orchard to Fort Worth people at Coo
per bushel. The pears are Of the La
Come and Keifer varieties and are be-
ing shipped to Fort Worth.
A flash Of lightning at Oakdale, La,
Wednesday killed Thurston Raspberry,
butcher, and seriously injured his
mother, Clarence, who lives in Grow
ley and had just arrived in Oakdale
to visit.
Gold craze is at its height at Ma
| berry, Ark, and, if the indications o.
gold prove to be true, Sol A. Maberry
owner Of the land upon which the sup
posed mine is located, will soon be
ricih man.
Monday Uncle Sam became the pos
SCISSOR of his first derigible balloon
having purchased the one belonging
to Captain Thos. S. Baldwin, after h
had fulfilled all the requirements o
the government.
Pitro Barilla, we'll to do hotel keeT
er of Brooklyn was murdered in a lone
ly spot in the city Thursday. He wa
attacked by number Of men VIII
stabbed him several times and inslic
ed two bullet wounds.
One east-Dound freight on the SAINT
Fe between Thackeryille. Okla, an
Red river, ran into another freigl
Monday afternoon. Eighteen cars an
the caboose were ditched. The cal
were loaded with grain.
The Brighton Beach, N. Y, Racir
! Association plant has been sold to
t land developing company, and with
:, a week laborers will be at work CT
e ting the famous race course in
streets and building lots.
e Cerryvale mine No. II owned by Il
e Central Coal and Coke Company
h McAlester is reported closed by Il
II State Mine Inspector by reason
the company failing to comply wi
e the law relative to escpement shat
o Ten persons are reported killed a
4 many others injured Thursday VIII
l. an overloaded passenger train On t
~ Pennsboro and Harrisville Railrot
H %, bearing excrsionists from the Ritcl
- County Fair, one mile from PEN
N boro, w. ", broke down.
Driven insane by religious mania
I'd ]. Duffy of Los Angeles, Friday Kill
his son and daughter and then cut
ia own throat with razor.
~ In written opinion addressed
re Postmaster Breathit of Hopkinsvi
KY, Acting Assistant Attorney Gen
al R, N. Webster declares that pho
graphic postcards showing the pict'
to of the bodies of the four negroes v
Up. were lynched at Russellville still ha
In ing to a tree should be excluded fr
"o the mail
W ". Nancy Brothers will place a 10
~ of men in the field Monday to sur
ON route from Britton, Okla, to
ed Reno, for an inteurban line, work
he start on the roadbed within 81
OF days. The Ell Reno line will conn
me with the Oklahoma City line now
'iu operation to Guthrie.
~ A special from Brandon, Miss,
-. nounces the death at that place OF
as William Walker, editorial writer
ais the New Orleans Picayune for
ist- past thirty years. He was about
ing years of age and a native of Alaba