The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1909-01-02
BRIEF NEWS SUMMARY.
From All Sources, State,
National and Foreign.

went adrift off Norfolk
The United States has resumed
diplomatic relations with Venezuela.
J. E. McColgin, Mason, and insur-
ance man, died at Monroe, La, aged
Sc.
F. w. Cutting, treasurer of saw
ings bank at Worchester, Mass, sui
cided.
Fire at Wham. La destroyed the
saw mill of the Matthews Lumber
Company.
C. R. Parker, prominent Hoo Hoo
was drowned while hunting near
Monroe, La.
The fate of the sugar tariff de-
pends upon the attitude of Western
Congressman.
A site was selected for the $780,
900 -ederal building to be erected
at Franklin, La.
The Board of Trade Building at
causing 100000.
Mrs. F. L. Peterson shot and kill
ed her husband at Kansas City be-
cause he slapped her.
Bishop John Stephen Michaud, of
the Catholic diocese of Burlington,
| VT, died at New York
President-elect w. H. Taft will
visit New Orleans when he returns
from his trip to Panama.
Fire at Lima, Ohio, threatens the
entire business section, entailing an
estimated loss of s1,000,000.
The Venezuelan Government has
raised the embargo on the trans
shipment of goods at Willemstad
I The Louisiana Board of Eduea-
ton will open bids March / for text
book contracts for the next four
years.
Thrilling stories of raids by night
riders were told in the trial of al
legged night riders at Union City,
Tenn.
Sensational disclosures were made
in the municipal graft scandal at
Pittsburg, Pa, and more arrests are
expected.
Harvey Hazel, II years, old, was
convicted at Toledo, Ohio, of the
murder of his mother and sentenced
to life term.
One thousand families in Brook
lyn tenement block were made home
less by fire that inflicted. 100000
property loss.
Mob violence is threatened at
Haveloc, Neb., because teh traction
company failed to keep its pledges
to give scent fare.
A burglar at Natchez, Miss, as
saulted and killed Robert F. Reed,
70 years old, and probably fatally
wounded his wife, aged 60.
The new $4,000 water works
system at Columbia, Miss, was given
a satisfactory test, and reduction
in insurance rates is expected.
Evidence was introduced in the
Cooper trial at Nashville, Tenn, to
show that the Coopers made threats
against Ex-senator e. w. Carmack.
Two wrecks occurred on the Yazoo
and Mississippi Valley Railroad in
the vicinity of Bayou Sara, La, caus-
ing a delay of twenty-eight hours to
traffic.
Fire in the Herald Square Thea
ire, New York, caused $4,000 prop
erty damage. The audience left the
building without disorder. Actors
and chorus girls fled to the street in
their stage costumes.
Frederick A. Burnham, former
President of the Mutual Reserve Life
Insurance Company, was found dead
III bed in his home in New York, of
gas poisoning The police say that
death was due to suicide.
George L. Breland, a river pilot,
his wife and a negro were arrested
at Natchez, Miss, on charge of
grand larceny following the discov-
cry of carload of stolen goods and
valuables in the Breland place.
President Castro's power in Ven-
ezuela has been completely broken
Acting President Gomez has reor-
ganized the Government and liber-
ated all of the political prisoners.
A plot to assassinate Gomez by Cas-
tro's adherents was frustrated.
The contempt case of the Bucks
Stove and Range Company against
President Gompers, Vice President
Mitchell and Secretary Morrison, of
the Federation of Labor, was deeid-
ed by Justice Wright, of the Supreme
Court of the District of Columbia,
adversely to the Federation OF La
bor, Gompers was sentenced to
twelve months Imprisonment, Mitch
ell to nine months and Morrison to
six months.
The suit of Count Boni de Castel-
lane for the custody of his children
was given another hearing in court
at Paris.
Secretary Root will be a member
of the Committee on Foreign Rela-
tions when he goes to the Senate
as the successor of Senator Platt. of
New York.
Preside.t oosevelt is said to be
somewhat worried about what to say
in his message in reply to the House
resolution of censure on his use OF
the secret service.