The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1908-12-05
LATE NEWS

nCW lOCAS.
The situation in the Balkans ha
grown more disquieting.
The government internal revenu
receipts show an increase.
The British licensing bill was re
| jected by the House of Lords.
] The death is announced of Jea1
Albert Gaudry, the French scientist
| Suit was filed at Lake Charles, La
to test the Shattuck trading checl
law.
John Gardner Coolidge, Unite.
States Minister to Nicauragua, ha.
resigned.
Congressman Gardiner, of Massa
ehusetts, has started a fight for re
form in the House rules.
The treasury department may ash
congress to increase the internal rev.
enue tax.
The treasury purchased 5000
ounces of silver for delivery at NeN
Orleans.
Fourteen-year-old boys fought a
duel at Rome, Ca, as a result OF
which both may die.
Mayor ]. C. McGeough of Morton,
Miss, shot and seriously wounded
Geo. Davis a farmer.
The Navy Department ordered two
warships to proceed to China to pro-
tect American interests.
Mrs. Richard Sullivan killed Mrs.
Sprangler near Magee, Miss, as the
result of a neighborhood quarrel.
Fire at Laurel, Miss, destroyed
the plant of the De Soto Naval
Stores Company. causing $4,000
loss.
Asiatic cholera has broken out
afresh in st. Petersburg. There
were twenty-seyen new cases in "a
hours.
Wadsworth Murray, 15-year-old
son of Rev. J. T. Murray, was acci-
dentally shot and killed at Senate
bia, Miss.
Iowa capitalists will erect a cot
ton mill at Seminary, Miss, obtain
ing power by harnessing the falls in
Ocatoma river
Leconte, the Haytien General re-
ported dead, was not executed, but
escaped from Jeremie and now is in
Port au Prince.
The American government decided
not to recognize the Haytien govern
mentss blockade of the ports on the
Southern side of the island
1t was officially announced that
Frank Fl. Hitchcock has accepted the
position of Postmaster General in
President-elect Taft S cabinet.
The final parish assessment roll
was received by the Louisiana State
The total State assessment
IS estimated at $523,000,000.
VIM. L. Tilden and Chauncey L.
Graham, officials of the American
Steel Ball Company, were convicted
n Chicago of conspiracy to defraud.
To break the alleged automobile
rust an agent of automobile import
ITS urged on the House Ways and
Means Committee reduction of the
luty on automobiles.
President Roosevelt has signed
creating the Ocaia
National Forest in Marion county,
Ia, and the Dakota National Forest |
n Billings county, North Dakota.
Jes Rietta, a storekeeper at Jack |
on. Miss, while digging in his or
hard unearthed a box containing |
14,700 in gold coins. believed to
ave been buried by Federal troops.
Frank NJ Jones, a Confederate |
eteran OF Monroeviile, Ala, while |
eturning from the Mobile reunion
7as struck by train at Perido,
Ia, and died after being removed
0 Mobile.
ANCiSOh Ayo oht q Cl Vi |
N. Y, attacked Presi-
ent Roosevelt and the Steel Trust
uring the hearing of the metal tar
4 before the House Ways and
leans Committee.
S. H. Cordill, a prominent plan
ers, was assaulted and painfuly
by an unidentified negro
t his home near Ninnsboro, La A
osse shot and wounded the black
/ trying to effect his capture.
J. w. Van Cleave, president of the
ational Manufacturers association
eclined to appear at the tariff re-
sion hearings, declaring the House
,mmittee's plans of gathering in
radically, absurdedly, ia
lily wrong
A serious vace in the river oc-
lrred at Plaquemine, La, at the
,int where the government locks
e being built. 1t is said that the
ork on the locks will not be re-
rded by the accident.
The situation in India has not
own such a menace of an uprising :,
it does now for many years past. ]
ttacks and attempts on the lives of ,
nglishmen, officials and civilians. ,
e of almost daily occurrence.
President Harvie Jordan and other
embers of special committee of
e Southern Cotton Associate In
ssion at Jackson, Miss, created a
reau of information to keep track
every bale from me gin of the
Iler.
Captain ]. F. Merry, General I'M I