The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1909-09-25

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The bodies Of two miners who be
ished II Death Valley from thir
were found near Skiddoo, Cal.
Four forest fires threaten the sa
Gabriel watershed and the oil regio
around Whittier, Cal.
H. w. Estes and Benjamin Ma
sball killed one another in a stree
duel at Neosho, Mo.
Four cadets of the Annapolis Navs
Academy Were dropped for "inapt
| tude."
S. W. Lahrot, of New Orlean,
bought the Montrose Hotel in WASH
ington for sl5D.000.
Commander Peary was being pal
SAT- a month by the governmen
while on his trip to the North Pole
Posses in a man hunt near Sand
Point Tex, which previously ha
cost three lives, killed two negroes.
Ollie Williams, on trial for murde
at Quitman, Miss, testified that b
killed his father in self-defense.
Bishop William George McCloskey
the oldest Catholic bishop in tn
United States, died at Louisville, Ky
The body of Miss Florence Webc
was found in river at Canal Dover
Ohio, and foul play is suspected.
The Black Hand is suspected of tn,
murder of two Italian children ant
the wounding of third at Utica, N
Y.
Five bandits dynamited the ex
press car of a Denver and Rio
Grande train near Malta, Col. bu,
secured no booty.
President Taft delivered an ad.
dress at banquet at Chicago while
there on his tour across the cont.
nent.
DR.. Cook sent a wireless message
regarding his trip to the pole from
the boat on which he was coming to
America.
Details Of the loss of the steamship
Castania on the coast Of the
Isle of Pines, costing tWenty-three
lives, were received ct Mobile, Ala.
E. T. Elizey, q farmer OF Pike
county, Miss, was arrested on an in
dictment charging him with the mur-
re of his wife June IL, 1907.
Resident of Taft, Okla, an exclu-
sively negro town, object TO the pres
ence Of three white merchants, one
of whose store has been dynamited.
President Taft delivered the first
speech Of his tour at Boston, Mass,
before leaving there, on his $4,000
mile tour of the West and South.
The nervous breakdown of J. w.
Castle was attributed to the losing
light he waged against e. II. Harri-
man for control of the Guaranty
Trust Company of New York.
Mrs. Mary Scott Castle will not be
prosecuted for shooting William B.
craig at New York, the grand jury
lismissing the charge of felonious as
ault.
Salvatore Arrigo. alleged to have
cen the head Of the Society of the
Banana, was given preliminary
earring at Cincinnati,i and bound
yer to the December federal grand
ury at Toledo.
J. F. Hansen, president of the Cen
raj of Georgia Railroad, in filing
is answer at Atlanta to the suit for
ivorce brought by his wife, blames
heosophy for his marital troubles.
In tariff speech at Winona, Mimi,
resident Taft practically read out of
le Republican party the Republican
insurgents who voted against the
ayne-Aldrich bill.
John w. Castles, president Of the
MON Trust Company. who commit
] suicide at the Grand Union Ho-
1, was buried In Woodlawn Gene
nv, New York.
"A new strike was inaugurated at
le Pressed Steel Car Company works
McKees Rocks, Pa, by 5000 for
gners, who refused to work unless
,e bosses and sub-bosses of the
ant were discharged.
Judge Robert s. Lovett was elect
chairman of the executive commit
e of the Southern Pacific Company
New York. Jacob H. Schiff and
illiam Rockefeller were reelected
rectors and also members of the ex-
utive committee.
Eight trainmen were killed and
Iteen other persons injured in a
llision between freight and pas
niger trains on the Louisville,
and ST. Louis Railroad
ar Pegram, Tenn The bodies of
e victims were cremated In the de-
is.
Hanson, Explorer Peary's negro
want, gave out statement in
ich he said that Peary was accom-
1ied to the North Pole by one ne.
, and four Eskimos.
King Manuel of Portugal will vis-
london in November. It is rumor-
that he will wed an English prin-
s.
Robert E. Peary, the explorer, in |
interview at Battle Harbor, La
dor, said he was the only white
n who had ever reached the North
e and he is prepared to prove 1t. ii