Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1909-03-12
WIRE FLASHES


Ten persons persisted in tenement
house fire in New York.
Railway traffic in Germany has
been paralyzed by a blizzard.
The winn Parish Police Jury pro-
vided $1,000 to fight smallpox.
Convicts in Calcasieu Parish will
be worked on the public roads.
twenty-five arrests were made at
Lake Charles, La, for gambling.
Albert Daspit was denied bail at
his preliminary examination at st.
Martinville.
Two attempts were made to wreck
Louisville and Nashville trains near
Montgomery.
Three young lady school teachers
were injured in a runaway accident
at West Point.
Dan Maybe was indicted at Jack
son, Miss, on the charge OF murder
ing Sam Reber.
Attorneys for w. A. Sorsby, at
Jackson, Miss, will not ask for
change of venue.
The Dawes interests brought in a
gas well at Vivian. La, with $4,000
600 feet daily capacity.
The Guatemalan Government has
ordered the teaching of English in
the schools of that country.
Mrs. Hattie Pope is under arrest
at Montevallo, Ala, charged with
the murder Of her aged mother.
The plant of the Ten Mile Lumber
Company. Ten Miles. Miss, was de-
stroyed by fire. Loss $4,000.
.Ex-President Roosevelt announced
for the first time that he would eail
from New York for Africa on March
% at noon.
The grand jury at Memphis re-
fused to indict c. N. Wisner, former
President of the Lancashire Com
press Company.
Police Captain w. H. Mathews, OF
the Fifth Precinct, at Washington,
D. c.. was shot and killed by Pa
trolman Collier.
Fannie Rice was married at Colo
RADIO Springs to p. w. Ryder, a Bos-
ton travelling man, and will retire
from the stage.
The Servian Government has mod
flied its demands on Austria, and an
early settlement Of the Balkans dis
pute seems probable.
Mrs. ]. H. Reynolds, Matron at
the Escambia County (Fla.) Poor
Farm, died from excitement over fire
at the institution.
The village of Masran, Isiatic
Turkey, has been destroyed by an
earthquake. One hundred and fifty
people were buried in the ruins.
1t Is learned that leases were Sc
cured a year ago on land in West
Baton Rouge and Pointe Coupee Par
ishes to operate an oil and gas pipe
line
The death of Hon. s. N. Sample
creates a second vacancy in Missis-
sippi senatorial ranks, Hon. Sam
Whitman having been elevated to a
chancellorship.
Every lawyer, physician and dem
fist in Louisiana will have to pay
a privilege license this year, and
the returns will more than Offset the
expenses of the State Auditing De-
partment.
Mrs. Baker Sively, Jr., of Jackson,
Miss, who recently secured a verdict
for $4,000 against her mother-in-
law at Newton for alleged alienation
Of her husbands affections, eloped
with her husband.
Joseph B. Healing, United States
District Attorney at Indianapolis,
Ind, refused to prosecute Delevan
Smith and Charles r. Williams, who
were indicted in connection with the
Panama libel case, and resigned
from his office.
The peonage cases involving off,
GERS and employees of the Jackson
Lumber Company, Lockhart, Ala,
will be appealed to the United States
Supreme Court, providing a rehear-
ing is not granted by the United
States Court of Appeals.
On motion of Senator Aldrich the
Bailey resolution regarding presi.
Dental interference with executive
to Congress was re-
ferred to the Committee on judiciary
by a vote of 81 to IS. The vote was
on strict party lines.
The following negroes were exc
cuted in Louisiana: Wallace and
Benjamin Jones, brothers, at Port |
Allen, for the murder of Conductor
Hall; Charles Davis, at Port Allen,
for numbering Penitentiary Guard |
w. HI. Boatner; Charles Madison, at |
Lake Charles, for criminally assault
Ing Sidonia Kelly, . negro girl; An
drew Washington, at Tallulah, for
the murder of his wife, and Jack
Ratler, at Franklin, for numbering
his wife.
p. U. Benjamin, former Alderman
It hatcher, was fined $500 on plead
ng guilty to a charge of Illicit re-
ailing.
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