The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1908-11-07
WIRE FLASHES

Sugar manufacturer and philanthrop-
ist, died in New York.
A saw mill boiler explosion at Bog
gy, Fla. wrecked the plant and in-4
jured the engineer.
President Roosevelt issued a proc
lamation fixing Thursday. Nov. Is.
as Thanksgiving Day.
William j. Bryan closed his cam
paign at great Democratic demon
stration at Chicago.
Joseph Michel was arrested at
Chicago as being the chiefmerchant
in the white slave traffic. S..
$. Mrs.@-William Astor. so years old.
for: thirty years. the Acknowledged
leader Of New York's 400, died.
Charles Mann. who escaped two
years ago from the prison at Dolive,
Ala, surrendered in New York.
The monument to Captain Henry
Wirz will be erected at Richmond,
Va. near that of Jefferson Davis.
Peking newspapers made no men,
ton of the American fleets arrival at
Annoy, and the visit is hardly known
there.
George Cook, accused of the mur-
der of John King. was shot to death
by a mob in his cell at Kingston,
Tenn.
Nj. Iswolsky, the Russian Minister
of Foreign Affairs, is vigorously can
vassing the members of the Douma
to support his policies.
Honduras has asked more time in
which to prepare its case for the
Cartago court of justice against Qua
temala and Salvador.
The Duke of Abruzzi has placed an
order for the painting of large por.
trait of Miss Katherin Elkins, to
whom he is engaged to be married.
President Roosevelt reiterated his
charge that the interview with Johl
D. Rockefeller announcing that the
a campaign trick.
Manchester cotton spinning strik.
ers asked the employers for a meet
ing, with a view to the settlement OF
the existing dispute.
Mr.. Bryan made twenty-fouI
speeches in Indiana. Because of the
lateness of his train he was unable
to reach Chicago in time to fill his
last engagements in that city.
Rockfeller's brother-in-law, w. G.
Rudd, of Cleveland, said the OIL
King always has been Republican
in national politics, and has been foi
tha- latta tapse~seanl
Three damage suits, greeatfna
1900. 600, were brought against VII.
liam r. Hearst by Jacob ] Kern, e
candidate for congress, for cartoons
editorials and articles In Hearstf
newspapers.
William r. Hearst read letters
from John d. Archibold of the Stand.
ard Oil Company, subscribing for one
year to the Baltimore Manufacturers
Record at $4,000. and one year te
the Southern Farm Magazine Al
$1,000
Net earnings for September of the
Union Pacific and Southern Pacific
railroads were larger than for any
month in their history.
Les DeForest stated that within
year wireless telephone communica-
ton between New York and Paris
would be established.
The New Orleans Baptist Associa-
ton, in session at Slidell, selected
New Orleans as the next meeting
place.
Henry Farman, the French areo-
naut, travelled from Mourmelon to
Rheims, France a distance Of TWEEN
ty miles, in twenty minutes, in his
aeroplane.
The supreme court of the District
of Columbia refused to give an lm-
mediate decision in the contempt
case of Samuel Gompers and otner
labor leaders.
AS a result of the strict enforce
ment of the Foreign Office of the
control of emigrants, the emigration
companies of Japan are in great diff
ficulties.
Speaker Cannon denied that he
had prevented the passage In the
House of the Littlefield bill for
bidding interstate shipments of liq-
uor into prohibition territory.
LIQUOR dealers have been doing a
thriving mail order business since
the spread of the prohibition wave
Some of the dealers are alleged to be
violating the Federal pure food law.
Experts reported that $18. $1,000
subscribed for the building of the
Chicago and Milwaukee Electric
Railway only $s,454.0OO had gone
into construction of the line.
Orders have been given that the
British squadron, under the COM
mand of Rear Admiral Sir Percy
Scott, proceed to South America on
the completion of its South African
programme.
The latest sensation to be reported
concerning the Duke of Abruzzi and
Miss Katherine ElkiDs is that the
couple will marry privately and I'M
known to the public in order to es-
cape the curiosity of the crowd.
Orders were given for Sir Percy
Scott's British cruiser squadron to
proceed from South Africa to South
America. The Foreign office declar-
ed the orders have no bearing on Ven
ezualan matters.
President Roosevelt, Mr.. Bryan
and Chairman Mack and Hitchcock