The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1908-07-24

urday by Alfred Dixo1, his uncle.
August Duerr of Dallas employed by
the Flater Tobacco Company killed
himself Tuesday by taking strychnine
Mrs. H. W. Brand, treasurer of the
National Woman's Christian Temper.
ance Union, died Friday at Evanston
ILL.,
Assistant Health Officer VIM Of
St Louis claims to have discovered a
plan by which he proposes TO rid the
city of rats.
IN attempting to cross the swollen
San Saba river, Friday, Paul Wright,
editor of the Brady Star, was drowned
near that place.
The Idaho State board of pardons
has committed the sentence G Harry
Orchard, who was sentenced to hang
to life in prison.
At Palestine, Friday, in a wreck on
the |. & G. N, caused by two trains
colliding, Engineer NJ. P. Johnson Of
Dodge was killed.
Jack Alden, % years of age was
crushed to death in a gravel pit in
Oak Cliff, Dallas, Wednesday after.
noon about o'clock.
At San Antonio Monday Walter
Duke shot and killed Walter Evers,
as result Of a quarrel. Duke used
double-barrel shotgun.
B. 0. DeJennett of Greenville was
STUCK Monday at Dallas by a street
car which jumped the track snd re
celyed q fractured thigh.
George Goodsell, aged six years, is
patient at Bellevue hospital, New
York, as a result of his mother brand.
ing him with a hot iron.
John j. Taylor, for many years a
resident of Dallas, died Wednesday at
the home of his parents in Providence,
R. l. He was only &c years of age.
Indictments to the number of twenty.
two were returned by the grand jury
in Brooklyn Friday against persons
charged with betting at the race track.
Honolulu has completed all arrange
ments for the entertainment of the Az,
lantic battleship fleet and awaits the
coming of the ships with the Creates
interest.
I Messrs E. NJ. and John Hopkins, OF
Detroit, Mich, were in Bonham Tues
day to meet with citizens in the in
terest Of the proposed interurban from
Bonnam to Fort Worth.
Harry Thaw left Poughkeepsie Mon
day for White Plains to appear before
Justice Mills at a hearing to deter
mine his right to a jury trial to de
termiue the question of his sanity.
A dynamite bomb exploding witt
terrific force Wednesday in the Area
way, a fashionable apartment house
of New York, hurled scores of occu
pants from their beds, shattered man,
windows and threw the tenats into ;
panic.
Leslie Golf, a rubber stamp dealer
Of LaWton, Okla, Wednesday, re
ceived notification from Michigan tina
the $4,000 estate which had been lef
to the Spiritualist Church by the vii
of his father had been awarded t
him.
J. T. Jones, Jr, a visiting Elk from
Jackson, Tenn, died suddenly Thurs
dav night at the home of his uncle
E. E. Flippen of Dallas, with whom h
was staying during the convention. II
arrived in Dallas Friday and to all az
) pearances was in good health.
The promoters of the Gainesville
Whitesboro and Sherman inteurba
railway stated Thursday that trai
, load of rails for the road was expec'
ed at Gainesville in a day or SO an
the laying of track would begin
, soon as the rails can be distribute
along the right of way.
, AS Mrs. John Rouloff of Chicago wa
, On her way to the hospital accompal
led by nurse, she gave birth to II
, mound girl on the street car, phys
, clan being called there to wait upo
3 her.
As pistol shot sung at the city ha
q Thursday little athlete, in runnln
|. tights, carrying a silver tube, contain
/. ing q message from Mayor McClella
t of New York to Mayor Busse OF On
e cago. started away up Broadway o
a tho fret relay of thousand-mlle jou