Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1909-05-14
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been found guilty.
Ben Kinchen, held in Amite City
In connection with the Breeland muir
der. was admitted to $4,000 bond.
The fourth annual Convention of
/ the Louisiana Fire.nen's Association
opened at Donaidsonville.
Thirty-three vicksburg, Miss, po-
licemen voluntarily asked for a re-
,.duction in salary.
William Hoffman was shot and
khEd by w. H. Cobb at a logging
camp near Alexandra. La.
. The. steamer Shores was sunk in
Lake Superior. and twenty-one lives
were lost.
The strike movement in France is
growing and serious labor disturb
ances are threatened.
a fatal heat prostration occurred
at~Des Moines. Iowa, the tempera-
-ture being "a degrees.
Seven defendants convicted in mu-
nicipal bribery cases at Pittsburg
were fined and sent to prison
James C. Ezell, an Alabama far
mer.- was called to his door at mid
night and assassinated.
The Missouri House passed a bill
1 pEehiA tA;4Y in saloons or
The question of dividing the Do
cese OF. Alabama into two parts will
go over until next year.
The two carmen held at Pensacola,
Fla, in connection with the fatal COL
lision between an automobile and
trolley were exonerated of blame.
, The Calcasieu Trust and Savings
Bank. capitalized at 100000, has
been incorporated at Lake Charles,
La:
The next conference of the Meth
odist Episcopal church, South, will
be held in Nashville, Tenn, next
January.
The Arkansas Legislature has
asked that the battleship Arkansas
be sent up to Helena to receive her
silver service.
Charles Hall, Liberian and Mica
raguan Consul at Boston, and Will
liam w. Risk have been arrested on
charge Of getting money by fraud.
Swedish Consul Lindgren has CIV
en- Northwestern University $4,000
for lectures on peace and SIS, 900 for
a chair of Scandinavian literature.
The Missouri Senate passed state
wide prohibition resolution but with
rider increasing taxes, and the
House may reject it.
Judge Sheppard, at Charleston, re-
fused to sdismiss charges in naval
stores case, and the trial is proceed
ing.
Investigation has disclosed the fact
that Abdul Hamid, former Sultan of
Turkey, has millions of dollars de-
POoitSu III lOiCl6n
A material reduction in the cotton
acreage Of Louisiana and a CORES
ponding increase in corn is shown by
the first quarterly report of the State
Board of Agriculture.
William Eberhardt, Memphis
Mr&ant, and Mrs. B. F. Chiles. his
sister-in-law, and her young daugh-
ter were drowned In the Mississippi |
River -near Pecan Point, Ark.
Four .hhndred thousand square feet !
of cement sidewalks will be con-
structed at Crowley, La. at cost of
property owners bearing
the expense. g..
Chancellor Hicks, at hatcher. re-
fused to dissolve the Injunction re-
straining the Simms Express and
Telegraph Company from doing bust
esSg La :. Miisstssppl.-
:. sT,here is ;cqpsiderable disorder in
2F lcbSHtR sdnESnRding CONSTANT
1oRle. and brigandage is being car
sled on. in the very suburbs of the
Capital.
Pistol ,toting should be made a
rhine, in the opinion of the Mississip-
pi Bar. Association, in session at
Vest Point, which also urged that
he Constitution be changed to allow
eEfs,e hibers of the jury In civil cases
800 3ssa . Yer
Missouri Legislature rejected Gov
rnor Hadley's inheritance tax meas
Ire. A'biil was passed prohibiting CT
'arette SIM kinG by minors. The bill
reating a. public utilities commits
ion was passed by the House.
Charles Woods Cannon, an Amer
can, who Tsys he is a native OF Sac
Cal .. was found guilty of
winding the French public through
he selling Of shares in California :
dining companies, and was condemn
dske tho yeats In prison.
gbe.State completed its case against
lrs. James Boyle. charged with aid
,g and abetting the kidnapping Of
SpfS Whitla at Mercer, Pa. After
conference Mrs Boyle and her coun-
Ell determined not to offer any tcsti-
lony nj -nef behalf" and announced
nat rne defAse rested.
j. Robert Jones, a prominent in
france man, was killed and A. ID.