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

in a saloon in Ponchatoula, La, Fri.
day.
Members of the Dallas Builders Elk
change are contemplating the erection
OF Builders EXcnange building
during the coming year.
An earthquake shock Sunday threw
the populace of Puyontra Dame,
France, into panic. but did not ma.
terially damage anything.
A fire OF accidental origin DESTROYED
the plant Of the Producers Turpen-
tine company at Elizabeth. La, Fri
day night The loss was about $4,000.
The public works department OF
Sherman is worried over a wanton de-
slruction of street lamps, not less than
a dozen of which have been broken
recently.
The Elks' clubhouse was totally de-
stroyed by fire, Wednesday, in Nc
Alester, Okla.
The United States has received an
official communication from the gov
eminent of Venezuela expressing the
wish of President Gomez to settle sat
isfactorily all international questions
and expressing desire for the pres
ence Of an American WarShip.
The Supreme Court of Missouri is.
sued decree ousting from that State
the Standard Oil Company and the
Waters-Pierce Oil Company and as
sessed fine of $4,000 against each.
Fire Wednesday morning IN Little
Rock, Ark, destroyed the Board of
Trade building, valued at 100000.
What is said to have been one of
the most successful teachers insti-
tutes in the history Of public educa-
ton in Dallas county was brought to
a formal close in Dallas Wednesday.
Cipriano Castro Thursday gave out
a statement to the Associated Press
which amounts virtually to an aban-
donment of his present claims to the
presidency of the Venezuelan republic.
Jay E. Rice of the Milwaukee Farm
Realty Company has bought a 5000
acre tract of Gulf Coast land near Sea-
breeze, Texas, to colonize Wisconsin
and North Dakota farmers.
AS result of shooting at Burke,
a small town eight miles from Lufkin,
Saturday, Mrs. Joseph Furgeson and
her daughter, Bertha, who is II years
OF age, are both seriously wounded.
John Mcbride. constable at Round
Rock, was killed Friday at Duval, by
Luis Guerra, a Mexican with several
aliases. Guerra was killed by Con-
stable Lem King, who met him at Mer
rilltown.
Dividends, interest, disbursements
in stock and bonds of the banks, trust
companies, railroads. industrial and
other corporations of New York City
| for the month of January, 1909, will
exceed s21O,O0O,OOO.
Gov Hoch Tuesday appointed a
commission to join with a commission
from Oklahoma to investigate the
Kansas penitentiary and the charges
Ct inhuman treatment, poor food and
unsanitary surroundings.
A battle between strike-promoting
miners and five United States mar
shals took place at Stearns, KY, a
coal mining town Friday in Whitley
county and resulted in the death of two
men and the wounding of several
others.
The Legislature of Texas will doubt
less be asked for an appropriation
sufficient to create and maintain an
other State normal schools. At least
the inadequacy of the presen system
to supply the demand for teachers will
be brought to its attention as forcibly
as figures can do so.
The whole question of the sentenc.
ing for contempt of court of President
Gompers, Vice-President Mitchell and
Secretary Morrison of the American
Federation of Labor by Justice Wright
in the supreme court of the Distric.
of Columbia Thursday will be thrash
ed over at the meeting of the execu
tive committee of the federation to
be held In Washington January II
next.
The Southwestern Telegraph and
Telephone Company announces new
system in Wichita Falls the first of the
year.
The most complete mystery, so fal
as any official admission can be oh
tanned, surrounds the destination oil
the battleship Maine, which left Nor
folk Monday under sealed orders.
Ignited by sparks from a passing
switch engine, about 200 bales Of cot
ton. valued at $4,000, stored in the
yards of the Harriss-Trby Cotton
Company, was destroyed Thursday
afternoon in Oklahoma City.
The fact has just been made public
that the First National Bank of Mon
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