The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1909-01-30
THiBoDAUx, LA. SATURDAY. JANUARY 80 1909
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W. A. Bethea shot and killed his
father at Jacksonville, Fla.
Much damage was done by a storm
and floods in northern Morocco.
The Venezuelan Government has
reached an agreement with Holland.
"Buzzy' Bieland, his wife and step
daughter were assassinated near Tick
faw, La.
Mrs. Pauline Palmer was acquitted
at Tampa, Fla, ofsthe murder of her
husband.
Otto schueister of Philadelphia,
suicided in q church pew at sa-
vannah
Six hundred houses were destroyed
by an earthauakeI at Phocaea, Asiatic
Turkey.
Fire in i1ons destroyed the
Globe Casket Works, causing loss
of $250,O00.
Robert E. Mobley, former pas
senger conductor, suicided at Mobile
with poison.
Twelve persons were injured in an
explosion at a powder plant at Glib
bstown, N. j.. >
Great Britain has protested against
the imposition of surtax by the Ven
ezulan Government.
The list of victims in the Chicago
water works crib disaster may be in
creased to seventy.
The indications are that the In
ternational Naval Conference in Lon
don will be failure.
Ere broke out in the earthquake
ruins at Messina, Italy, and caused
still greater damage.
The Liberian Government has ap-
ologized to Germany for firing on
two German steamers.
Four defendants, convicted of vio-
lating the Caddo Parish prohibition
law, were fined $1,000.
The eleventh arrest in the Chinese
smuggling cases along the gulf coast
was made at. Biloxi, Miss.
B. w. Aswell, father of Prof. J. B.
Aswell, head of the State Normal
School, died at Choudant, La.
Eight persons were killed and con-
siderable damage was done by an
earthquake in Asiatic Turkey.
Several persons were killed and
injured in wreck on the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad near Summer Hill
Pa.
The naval appropriation bill was
passed by the House The bill in
cIudes a provision for two battle
ships.
The death sentence OF Herman Bill
lik was commuted by Governor De
neen, of Illinois, to life imprison-
ment.
Homer G. Taber, banker, was ar
rested at San Diego, Cal, on a
charge of .embezzling $4,000 in Ne
vada.
Senor Paul, the Venezuelan repre-
sentative, has reached satisfactory
understanding with the French Co.
erment.
The new Russian loan has been
many times oversubscribed and is
already selling at a premium of 2
per cent.
After twenty minutes deliberation,
a jury at Meridian, Miss, acquitted
Covest Taylor of the murder of Os-
car Hatcher.
The captain of a British steamer
at Hong Kong, China. arrested the
commander of a Chinese guard boat,
who fired on his vessel.
Three children were killed instant
ly and others hurt at Johnstown, Pa,
as result of the putting of a match
to keg of powder.
A. Correro, Manager of a grocery
at Greenville, Miss. was fined $400
and sentenced to 120 days for vio1at-
ing the prohibition law.
An agreement has been reached
between the United States and Vene-
zuela in regard to claims against the
Venezuelan Government.
Fifteen people we're injured by
burns, some of them seriously, when
the Infirmary of Mahoning County,
Ohio, was destroyed by fire.
DR.. P. Rytter, the Swiss Minister /
to Japan has been named to succeed |
Leo. Vogel, at present Minister of |
Switzerland at Washington.
Four negroes were wounded, some |
of them seriously, in raid in a craps
game at Shreveport, La, by Deputy
United States Marshal James w. Tur-
ner.
1t is not thought that troops at
Clinton, N. c., will be able to save
Will Ward, negro, who criminally
assaulted white woman from lynch
ng.
Italy is confronted with a grave
problem, the caring for the 100000
persons made homeless by the earth
quake of last month in Sicily and
Jalabria.
Over two scores of lives were lost
md many persons were injured by
IN explosion and fire in water
works. crib in Lake Michigan, in front
If Chicago.
The Cooper-Sharpe trial. at Nash
lille, Tenn, was halted because of an