The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1909-05-15
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Columbus, Ohio.
Boyle, the Whitla kidnaper has
been found guilty.
Ben Kinchen, held in Amite City
in connection with the Breeland mur-
der, was admitted to $4,000 bond.
The fourth annual Convention of
the Louisiana FireAnen's Association
| opened at Donaldsonville.
Thirty-three Vicksburg, Miss, po-
licemen voluntarily asked for a re-
duction in salary.
William Hoffman was shot and
killed by w. H. Cobb at logging
camp near Alexandria, u.
The steamer shores was sunk in
Lake Superior, and twenty-one lives
were lost.
The strike movement in France is
growing and serious labor disturb
ances are threatened.
A fatal heat prostration occurred
at Des Meines, Iowa, the tempera-
ture being "a degrees.
Seven defendants convicted in mu-
nicipal bribery cases at Pittsburg
were fined and sent to prison
James G. Ezell, an Alabama far
mer, was called to his door at mid
night and assassinated.
The Missouri House passed a bill
prohibiting treating in saloons or
other places.
The question of dividing the Dio-
cese of Alabama into two parts will
go over until next year.
The two carmen held at Pensacola,
Fla, in connection with the fatal col
lision between an automobile and
trolley were exonerated of blame.
The Calcasieu Trust and Savings
Bank, capitalized at 100000, has
been incorporated at Lake Charles,
La.
The next conference of the Meth
odist Episcopal church, South, will
be held in Nashville, Tenn, next
January.
The Arkansas Legislature has
asked that the battleship Arkansas
be sent up to Helena to receive her
silver service.
Charles Hall, Liberian and Mica
raguan Consul at Boston, and Will
liam. w. Risk have been arrested on
a charge of getting money by fraud.
Swedish Consul Lindgren has Civ
en- Northwestern University $4,000
for lectures an aceand 900 for
a chair Of Scan INA Wan literatu
Ilssopli paaas o.
wiss prohib 81, res Ton but With
= rider increasing taxes. and the
House may reject 1t.
Judge Sheppard, at Charleston, re-
fused to dismiss charges In naval
stores case, and the trial is proceed
ing.
Investigation has disclosed the fact
that Abdul Hamid, former Sultan of
Turkey, has millions of dollars de-
posted in foreign banks.
A material reduction in the cotton
acreage of Louisiana and a CORES
ponding increase in corn is shown by
the first quarterly report Of the State
Board of Agriculture.
William Eberhardt, Memphis
merchant, and Mrs. B. F. Chiles, his
sister-in-law, and her young daugh-
ter were drowned in the Mississippi
River near Pecan Point, Ark.
Four hundred thousand square feet
of cement sidewalks will be con-
structed at Crowley. La, at cost of
100000, property owners bearing
the expense.
Chancellor Hicks, at Natchez, re-
fused to dissolve the injunction re-
straining the Simms Express and
Telegraph Company from doing bust
ness in Mississippi.
There is considerable disorder In
the country surrounding CONSTANT
nople, and brigandage is being car
ried on in the very suburbs OF the
Capital.
Pistol toting should be made a
crime, in the opinion of the Mississip-
pi Bar Association, in session at
West Point, which also urged that
the Constitution be changed to allow
ten members of the jury in civil cases
to render a verdict.
Missouri Legislature rejected Gov
ernor Hadley's inheritance tax meas
ure. A bill was passed prohibiting ci-
garette smoking by minors. The bill
creating a public utilities commis-
sion was passed by the House.
Charles Woods Cannon. an Amer
ican, who says he is a native OF Sac
ramento, Cal, was found guilty OF
swindling the French public through
the selling of shares In California
mining companies, and was condemn
ed to two years in prison.
The State completed its case against
Mrs. James Boyle, charged with aid
ing and abetting the kidnapping OF
Willie Whitla at Mercer, Pa. After
a conference Mrs Boyle and her coun-
sci determined not to offer any tcstf-
mony in her behalf, and announced
that the defense rested.
In the opinion of District Attorney
Foster, of Shreveport, more than
eighty .mfsdemeanor laws of Louisi-
ana, will rendered imperative II
the Supreme Court upholds the con-
tention that the Caddo prohibition
law is defective and unconstitutional
Because it fails to specify the mini
mum. Imprisonment authorized.