The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1909-05-08
WIRE FLASHES


/ Five excursionists were drowned
near Oakland, Cal.
Jailer Kennedy, of Baton Rouge
was injured in handling an insane
negro.
The Hazlehurst Ice Company OF
Hazlehurst, Miss. is charged with vios
lating the Antitrust Law.
a movement for new parish
court house was launched by the
Baton Rouge Bar sociation
The State Treasurer received 4
check for 1906. .6s6.44 from the Or
leans. La, Levee Board.
/ George Breland, convicted at Nat
chez, Miss, of robbery, was SEN
fenced to four years.
Mrs. Clack Jett suicided at Shreye-
port, La, by drinking water soaked
in match heads.
The Mississippi Penitentiary has
a population of 1889, against 1856
for april, 1908.
A patrolman and a pickpocket
were killed in a pistol duel at Lo-
gansport, Ind.
Charles Scarborough, negro was
lynched near Barlow, Fla, for at
tempted criminal assault.
The case of William Thompson,
charged with being member of the
mob that lynched a negro was given
to the jury at Pensacola.
Eighteen sets of twins, three of
triplets and one of quadruplets have
been born at Town Creek, Ala, since
1906.
Miss Muriel White, daughter of
the American Ambassador to France,
has married Count Hermann Scherr-
Thoss at Paris
An anarchist named Verder was
arrested at Monte Carlo for threat
ening to kill President Fallieres of
France.
Refusal of Judge Murff at shreve-
port, La, to grant bail to near-beer
convicts may result in contempt pro-
ceedings.
Attorneys for James Labry, con-
victed of manslaughter at New
Roads, La, have filed a motion of
new trial.
The Faculty of the New iberia,
La, High School has demanded the
resignation ct Parish Superintend-
s;zslsIs';s:sssl|ssis.
gang Of negro boy Burglars
which planned to extend operations
to stores, residences and banks has
been broken up at Crowley, La.
Eight persons are known to be
dead and many injured in an incen-
diary fire which swept a five story
tenement house in New York
DR.. G. Boyajian, in a court room
ed his nephew and attempted to kill
his wife.
The residence of Captain John
Quill, at Mobile, Ala, was struck
by lightning and badly damaged by.
fire that followed.
Beach Hargis was convicted at r.
vine, KY, of the murder of his fa-
ther, Judge James Hargis, and given
a life sentence.
One fireman was killed, eight in
jured and a million dollars property
loss caused by the destruction by fire
of elevator B of the Illinois Central
Railroad at Chicago.
Governor Sanders has offered a
reward of $500 for the arrest and
delivery of Garfield Kinchen, charg-
ed with murders in Tangipahoa par
ish.
The Mississippi law providing for
county agricultural high schools, by
which both races are taxed and only
white youths educated, is before the
Supreme Court on a test.
The planning mill of the Lee Lum-
Der Company, lloga, La, together
with considerable lumber was de-
stroyed by fire, causing more than
$4,000 loss.
Henry BIankford and Monroe
Smith, negroes, were convicted at
Lake Charles, La, of the murder OF
Rene heed, the verdict carrying the
1eath penalty.
Two bandits held up Northern
Pacific Passenger train near Haus-
n Junction, Idaho, one Of the rob-
oers shoveling coal while his COM
oanion guarded the engineer.
Admiral Dewey, because of i'll
health, will not attend the presen-
alton of the silver service to the bat
tleship Mississippi. President Taft
md Secretary of the Navy Meyer
tlso declined invitations.
Rufus Green, negro, was shot
Ind perhaps fatally wounded by Po-
iceman C. NJ. Kelly at Lumberton,
Mss, after the negro had shot c. o.
stevens, railroad agent, and negro
porter.
The tornado which swept over the
south Friday night caused great loss
# life and damage to property. Fif-
y-six persons were killed in Ten
lessee and as many more in other
states.
The agreement between the min
RS and operators insuring industrial
,eace in the Pennsylvania anthra-
lite coal regions for another period
# three years, was signed at Phlla-
Ielphia by the representatives of the
employers and the men. f
For the second time within year