Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1909-09-10
WIRE FLASHES

The Empire lumber mill at Jack
son, Miss, was destroyed by Are with
$50, 900 loss.
The Louisville and Nashville re-
port showed increased earnings over
last year.
The preliminary report on govern
ment inspection of fruit was made to
the Treasury department.
John F. Hayner, who shot and Sc
riously wounded Ex-State Senator
G. w. Summerville, at Sleepy Eye,
Minn., hanged himself in his cell.
To allay threats of lynching, a
special term of court was ordered at
Gainesville, Ga, to try three white
m5n and a negro accused of crimi-
nal assault.
AS the result of a train striking
mobile at Douglassville, Pa.
three persons in the machine were
killed and one fatally hurt.
Heavy rains broke the protracted
drought in some sections of the Mid
die West, while in other sections
frost did extensive damage to garden
products and the tobacco crop.
The government spent $2s.00U.-
600 more than its revenues in the
past two months. The receipts were
greater this year than last, how
ever.
The breaking of ground for the
construction of the New iberia, st.
Martin and Northern Railroad was
celebrated at New Iberia, La.
Alva Carter, wanted in Tangipa-
hoa parish, La. for the murder Of
David Wall, was captured in Fresno
county, Cal, whittier he fed after
escaping from jail six years ago.
Eight persons were injured, one
probably fatally, when an automo-
bile collided with a street car at At
lanta, Ga.
Treasury officials intimated that an
issue of temporary Treasury certifi-
Gates might have to be issued soon.
Reports from the New England
cotton mill industry indicated a rap
i'd recovery from the recent depres-
sion.
Western railroads made a propo-
sition to the Post Office Department
10 put on a sixty-two hours mail
train service between Chicago and
Seattle.
Postmaster General Hitchcock dis
cussed with the President plans to
reduce the expenses of his depart
ment.
The dispute in the Pittsburg mine
district was adjusted at conference
of national leaders and operators.
A lone highwayman held up ar
express train on the Pennsylvania
Railroad near Lewiston, Pa. and Sc
cured Lincoln pennies by mistake
for gold coin, escaping to the noun
tains.
Several children, inmates of st
Malachy's Home at Rockaway Park
l.. l., were suffocated in a fire tina
destroyed part of the building.
Police at Nashville, Tenn, ar
mystified by what is described a
the "odorless drunk"
Six companies submitted bids 70
the construction of the New Orlean
Federal building. A Philadelphi
| - l. ha 1nWncf
Byrd S. Coler filed charges wit
Gov. Hughes charging Mayor Nc
Clellaa- with squandering New Yorl
funds for political purposes.
Miss Giles report showed an unu
sual deterioration in the growin
cotton crop caused mainly b
drought.
James Bannister, accused of com
plicity in the killing of JEFF Amack
er in Tangipahoa parish last Dec
ember, was arrested at Bogaluss
La, and taken to New Orleans fo
salekeeping.
The War Department has refuse
to take action for the maintenance
or removal of the Mermentau rive
dam in Cameron parish, which ha
been dynamited three times, holdin
that it is a matter for the State
Louisiana to settle.
The Rev. N. F. Malone, Bapti'
minister, was attacked by robbers
the Eolston Mountains of East Tel
nesee.
After a hearing before Chancello
T. A. Wood, of Gulfport, Miss, X.
Cowan was appointed special mastt
to take testimony in the petition
the heirs of Mrs. e. c. Maloney
remove their brother, Harry H. Hi
loney, as executor of his mother
will.
DR.. Cook was said to have pr
sente confirmatory data relative
his discovery of the. North Pole
Representatives of the Danish go
ernment.
Glenn Curtiss, the American avi
tor, decided to take part In the Bre
, cia, Italy, races.
! The Cunard liner tusitania,
/ landing her passengers in New Yol
at 1890 o'clock Thursday night, a
complished the first four days ives
ern passage of transatlantic line
, Her time from Daunts Rock to Il
t Ambrose Channel lightship was To-
days, eleven hours and forty-tV
minutes. This new record eli
more than three hours from the Lu'