The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1909-01-01
DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN NEWS.

DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN NEWS.
There is a we'll defined movement
on foot having for its purpose the Gre
j alton of an additional civil court for
Dallas county and the next legislature
i will be asked to create one.
3 Young DOnahue of Boston knocked
out Tommy Mowatt of Chicago in
three rounds in a feature fight before
the Royal Athletic Club in New Or
leans Friday night before a crowd Of
$1,000.
Because he did not have money to
provide the usual Christmas toys for
bis children, c. A. casters, a farmer
living near Quitman, Ga, deliberately
planned his own death Friday morning
and died at he had planned.
y Dwight C. Morgan, an expert en-.
ployed by the state to make a yalua-
ton of the property of the railroad
in Minnesota, estimated the value of
the Northern Pacific railway property
il round figures at $39,000,90O less
than the figures represented by the
company's officers.
The dark side of the English Christ
mas OF 1908 is the great number OF
unemployed and the distressing prev
alance of destiution and suffering
This is seen principally in London and
Het Glasgow and along the Tyne and
fother shipbuilding centers, where
many establishments have been closed
and thousands of men are out of work
In order to give them an opportunity
70 study irrigation, truck, fruit and
general farming in that section, E. J.
hyie, professor of horticulture of the
A L NJ. College of Texas, will take a
number of students from the agricul.
tafai department of the college to
brownsville during January at the
plnt executive meeting of the Texas
state Horticultural Society and the
Texas Nurserymen's Association and
Inc Texas Nut Growers Association
y is expected there will be a large at
sendance at this meeting.
The Panama Canal will be opened
January l, 1915, according to an Of
ncial communication received Tues
cay by the California reception com
mlttee from Joseph Buckner Bishop
secretary OF the commission.
The faculty of the A. & M. College
u iexas Is now arranging for the sum
mer school that is to be held at Col
iege Station from June Is to 30. 1909
courses are to be arranged for farm
efs, Tor teachers and for students, and
u Is believed that 1t will be such an
3 attractVe proposition that many Of
each class will take advantage of it
Jean A. David, switchman recent
y from the North, was killed in the
iexas and Pacific yards at Baird Wed
hesday morning while on duty.
Sam Langford, the negro middle
weight, making his first appearance
70 a local ring in San Francisco Mon
aay made good with a vengeance am
Incidentally made short shirt of jim
flyn of Pueblo, Colo.
" Francis Philip Fleming, governor O
i0rlda from 1883 to 1893, died at hi!
residence in Jacksonville. Ex-Governo
tieming was native of Florida ant
served in the Confederate army durin.
me Civil War with distinction.
Each of the grand domains of tn,
Knights OF Pythias in the Unitet
states and there are about fourteen O
saem in all, is to consider at the CRANE
pdge meetings early in the year tn,
natter OF he founding OF a rythial
nome for the care of those member
q the order afflicted with tubercula
trouble.
Joseph Pulitzer, publisher of tn
view York World. accompanied by
party of friends and several staff writ
sfs on Mr. Pulitzer's yacht, the Lib
sfty, Is on his way to Panama to in
sestgate the conditions prevailing il
ne canal zone.