The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1909-11-13

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President Taft rode fifty miles a
hour in an automobile at Savanna
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'Irs. Mary Gels, at Chicago, kille
her daughter and suicided by asphy,
iation.
Zelay claims to have won a vii
tory over the insurgents In Nicarar
qua.
Geographers are making arrange
ments for an official map of th
world.
The Interstate Commerce Commll
sion resumed sittings at Washing
ton this week.
Mayor-elect w. J. Gaynor, of Ne1
York, Is being doomed for the Demo
cratic nomination for president.
The report that Col. Roosevelt ha,
been killed in Africa was charac
terized as a fake.
The Federation of Labor leader
are planning to appeal the Gomper
contempt case to the Supreme Court
State Senator ]. L. Fleming ant
harry Skinner, Jr., were killed il
an automobile wreck near Greenville
N. C.
More than $25,OOO,O0O is left tt
charitable institutions in the will o.
John Kennedy, filed in New York
The entire estate is worth more thar
$6O,O00,0OO.
A boiler tube on the North Dako.
ia blew out in the battleship's four.
hour endurance test, off the New
England coast, injuring four men
The North Dakota, nevertheless, ful-
filled her contract of 21 knots an
hour for four hours.
After relentless examination By
the judge, in which he savagely at
tackled her veracity, Nine Steiheil,
charged with the murder of her hus-
band and step-mother, was carried
fainting from the courtroom in Par
Is.
Lord Lansdowne, leader Of the op-
position in the House of Lords,
would decline, it was said, to accept
the finance bill until it had first re-
ceived the sanction Of the electors.
Greek senior naval officers de-
manded that the extreme penalty
be meted out to Tibaldos and his
band of mEtineers.
William Torey Harris, former
United States Commissioner of Edu-
cation, died in Providence, r. l.
The reward Of $4,000 offered by
the State Of Pennsylvania in the
Whitla kidnapping case was allotted.
The annual report Of the Postor-
flee Department tended to show that
foreingers would deposit vast sums in
postal savings banks here should
they be established.
Rudolph Spreckles announced
plans for national organization to
make war on municipal graft.
1t was rumored that Mrs. Russell
Sage would give $1.000,000 to aid
in fighting tuberculosis and that An
drew Carnegie would denote a like
amount with which to war on palla-
yra.
Honduran and Guatemalan diplo-
mats assured Secretary Knox that
heir countries were neutral as far
Is the affairs of Nicaragua were con-
,erted.
The negro highwayman who
wounded W. T. Willis near Pensa-
ola, Fla, was reported to have es-
,aped.
1t was admitted that the pres
ence of soldiers at Jackson, KY,
Turing the recent election prevented
much bloodshed.
Dogs believed to be affected with |
abies bit several children at Coving-
on, La.
Public dance halls were fayed by
he grand jury Of Acadia parish at
'rowley, La.
Forest fires have destroyed miles
t valuable timber in the great
forth Mountains of Virginia.
The San Francisco District Attor-
ley's oflce, taking the result of
election as mandate from
he people, decided not to push the
raft prosecutions.
It was rumored that the Jackson.
Iiss.. Electrical Company had been
urchased by a New York concern.
The dying state of "Buzzy" Bree-
md was introduced at the trial OF
en Kinchen, at Amite City, La.
The Mississippi State Fair at Jack
On closed after most successful run
! its history.
In thes will of John Steward Ken
edy. one of New York's little known
ch men, bequests Of more than $685.
10000 were made to religious.
haritable and educational institu-
ons. He died Of whooping cough.
The Eastern trunk lines decided to
,duce the rate on sugar from New
ork to St. Louis and Mississippi
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I was said at the Pellagra Con-
renee at Columbia S. c.. that the
sease was contracted by persons
no ate grits.
Details OF the issuance of the new
100000 of stock we're announced
, the Pennsylvania Railroad Com {
my.
The Tensas Levee Board, at its {
Getting at Rayville, La, ordered {
it Instituted to annul the alleged
audulent land sale. {
An armed clash between the Fed |
al and State courts was predicted
Thomas E. Watson of Atlanta, Ga. q
Mrs. H. Breet, an aged woman,
As killed in a runaway accident at f