The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1909-06-11

safely from burning school at De-
troit, Mich.
Five motor cars have left New
York on 4,0OO-mile endurance run
to Seattle.
Dr. Haldane Cleminson is held at
Chicago On the charge of killing his
wife with poison.
King Alfonso, while playing polo'
fell from his horse. He suffered d
severe sprain of the ankle.
John W. Graves, a merchant, was
olcctrocuted at Jackson, Miss, when
he touched button to switch on
light.
It was said that the japanese have
invented an airship destroyer lifted
with shells that explode on contact
with another airship.
The p-stof1ice department at
Washington has announced a read
iustment of salaries of presidential
nostmasters in Louisiana and MIS-
sisippi.
Harry Stove, one of the leading
horse men of the United States and
Canada died in Salt Lake City re-
Gently. In racing circles he was
known as "Cy' Slower.
The pope of Rome was "A years
old June 3, having been born at
Refs on June 2, 1885. In accord
ance with lis wish the celebration
of the day was private.
Secret trials of airships and aero
planes in northern Japan have dem
onstrated that guns and heavy loads
can be carried, was the story brought
by the steamer Monteagle.
Tom Dickey pleaded guilty at
Baton Rouge to wrecking a train OF
the Louisiana Railway and Navlga-
ticn Company, and was sentenced TO
20 years in the penitentlary.
A dispatch received at the state
department from Lisbon says the
Portuguese government has author
lied the importation of eight million
kilos of wheat up to July 10.
WI Ting Fang, Chinese minister
: to the United States, sailed on the
steamer Panama for Cristobal on his
way to Peru to investigate the con-
. dition of his countrymen there.
& The extent Of the precautions be-
, ing taken to guard the car on ms
=, coming journey to Poltava shows
:, that the government does not regar(
the Terrorist movement as dead.
W A tax of per cent on all income
r. of individuals or corporations owe
70 $4,000 per year is provided in Scna
=, tor Cummins' amendment to the tar
Al if bill presented to the Senate.
$ Memphis parties have closed
v deal for the purchase Of Peters, is
land in the Mississippi, about 81
n miles below Memphis. The prlc
=, paid was between $4,000 and S4O,
,, 900.
" Earth shocks, accompanied b
rs subterranean rumblings, continu
de- daily in the Ribatejo district in POI
N tugal. No casualties have been IT
ported, although many walls nav
n collapsed.
as Negro John Junkin was foun
les guilty at Centerville, Ia, of tt
lrt murder of Clara Rosen, the Ottun
ty wa choir singer, February 5 las
f. and was sentenced to death by Juds
ev M. A. Roberts.
Forest fires in the Mescaler Il
ed dian reservation near Tularosa
yn south central New Mexico have d
he stroyed quantities of standing tin
nd Der and swept through thousands
he acres of grazing lands.
ng A bill has been Pissed by Il
lgs Florida legislature which makes
unlawful for children under IA yea
in of age to work in factories, mine
To- pool rooms, ETC., during the mont
the that schools are in session.
1u- Tony Caponi of Chicago W
the knocked out by Stanley Ketchel wi
de- a blow to the jaw in the four
the round of a scheduled 1O-round DO