The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1909-11-12
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son of United States District Attorney :
Harry Skinner, were killed in an au-
tomobie wreck near Greenville, S. c.,
Friday.
Commander Robert F. Peary was
Wednesday voted a gold medal by the
National Geographical Society for hav.
ing reached the North Pole. The board
of managers of the society accepted
unanimously the report OF its subCOm-
mittee of scientists, who had examined
the explorers records and found them
70 be corroborative of his claim that
he had reached the pole.
Hon. Charles Nagel, secretary of
commerce and labor in the cabinet of .
President William II. Taft, visited his .
boyhood home Wednesday at Millheim,
Austin county, Texas.
The shippers of the country are
showing a disposition to force the
great railway systems Of the United
States to say definitely whether an
other general increase in freight rates
IS contemplated. The National Indus
trial Traffic League, which has head
quarters in Washington has taken the
matter up by endeavoring to obtain
definite statements from the presidents
OF some of the principal lines.
Horace Dickinson Nugent successor
of Alexander Finn as British consul to
Chicago arrived Thursday to assume
his duties. Mr.. Nugent for seventeen
wears was consul at Galveston, Texas.
Secretary Chas. Nagel of the depart
ment of commerce and labor spent a
busy day in Houston on Thursday.
Early in the morning he attended to
business affairs and found time be-
fore noon to visit the rooms OF the
Business League and met several
prominent citizens. During the after
noon he was taken about over the city
and suburbs and later banqueted.
The National Association for the
Study and Prevention of Pellagra was
formally organized at Columbus, S. Z.
Friday. At the conclusion OF a TWO
DAYS conference on pellagra. ATTENDED
bv more than 800 physicians, the mrs
meeting of national scope held IN thl!
country for the study of this disease
The North Dakota is the fastest pal
tleship of the Dreadnaught type anoa'
as we'll as one of the two most power
ful battleships in the world. ne
screw Standardization tests over IN
Rockland measured mile course
Rockland, Me-, developed maximum
speed of 1925 knots and an aVerag
of 21.833.
A circus ten stories up in the a
on the roof of the Hotel Astor I'D
been arranged for the entertainer
of the millinery jobbers from all
the big cities of the country VINO al
IN New York City for their annual co
vention.
Complete election returns show tn
the Socialist vote throughout Ne
York City was considerably less tns
half of last year, when Eugene De
for president received vote OF zo'V'
The total socialist vote this year
1906.
Mrs. H. A. Arnold who has lar
estate on the Florida coast south
Jacksonville, has contracted to p'
chase an aeroplane for $1,000 !
machine is to be built at once as M
Arnold desires to learn to ny thls y"
Cor while she is at her Florida nome
The State Bank of Chaplin, S2o''
capital, organized Oct. %, has oep
its amounting to $4,000.
The BRENNAN cotton mill has CLOS
down and stockholders will sell
plant if possible.
Count Louis Vetsero Of Austria
ter known as Johan Salvador,
SLAYER wears ago of his sister, COZ
ess Marie Vetsero, and Crown ri,
Rudolph of Austria, died in Denver
Saturday.
The association of ice cream men
iourned at Houston Wednesday.
With the regular fall meeting
the Carnegie Hero Fund Commas
Wednesday came the reWardlng ol
tv persons for acts of bravery ana
Barious conduct. With the eXcep
of one award made to a cltlzeh
Canada, the entire list of persons
membered by the Carnegie com
sion are residents of the uh
States, twenty-five being persons
ing in Ohio.
The legislative committee inVeSI
ing penitentiary affairs has rece
from Supt. ]. A. Herring the VIII
statement of his Recommendations
improvements in the penitentlary
tenn which he some time ago as
to furnish to The committee.
determination by the hangn
rono &c tho recommendation or Il