The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1909-08-27
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in the Philippines.
Atlantic City, N. j., was select
ed as the next meeting place OF the
Grand Army Of the Republic.
Rev. Hiram W. Thomas of Chi
cago, orator and author, died at De-
funiak Springs, Fla. r
William Creigg fell overheard
from a vessel at Pensacola, Fla,
and was deyoured by a shark.
Governor Haskell Of Oklahoma
will be forced to stand trial tins
fall on charges of alleged comph-
city in land frauds.
Prohibitionists carried fifteen
counties out of twenty-one IN the
local option elections in South Car
DINA.
Cloudbursts at Howard, Colo,
and in the Ute Pass turned the
streams into raging torrents and
caused the greatest flood of years.
Judge W. B. Rose of the supreme
court of Nebraska handed down his
opinion declaring the non-partlsan
judiciary act passed by the last Ne
zraska legislature to be invalid.
The Burley Tobacco Society has
filed suit against fourteen lndepend-
ent tobacco companies for damages
for failure to take the tobacco sold
to them when the big sale of pooled
tobacco was made in November,
1908. ..
Dreaming that he was diving to
the rescue of a drowning woman,
Roswell Porter, clerk at hotel in
Hot Wells, Tex, took a header
through the third story window of
his bed room. He received severe
injuries, but they will not be fatal.
A national campaign in the in
terest of missions will be opened in
Washington, D. Cv on the evening
of November II, continuing four
days. President Taft will make the
opening address and every evangell-
cal denomination will be represent
ed by delegates.
Princeton university is given
100000 by the will of Cornelius
C. Cuyler, the banker, who was
killed recently in an automobile ac-
cident in France. This sum is to
be known as the Theodore Cuyler
general fund, the income to be used
as the trustees may deem best.
According to a telegram received
from the captain of the Italian
steamer Thalia, now at Hammer
fest, Norway, Walter Wellman left
Spitzbergen August IS in his dirig-
ible balloon, bound for the north
pole. He had favorable wind when
the start was made. 49,
Owing to the fact that the Unit
ed States battleship kearsarge has
been placed out of commission, Cap
tain Benjamin Tappan, the COM
mander, has been placed in COM
mand of the battleship Indiana.
Captain Tappan is from Helena,
Ark. The Indiana is in reserve at
the Philadelphia navy yard.
In the divorce suit of Helen Kel-
ly Gould against Frank Jay Gould,
the statutory limit of ninety days
that must elapse between the sign
ing of an interlocutory decree and
the final one has expired, and the
wife of the millionaire will soon be
forever freed from matrimonial re-
lations with her recreant husband.
Harry Thaw has resumed the mo-
notonous routine of asylum life at
Mattewan, the keeper declaring that
he did not take it from Justice
Mills decision that the patient was
to have any special privileges.
Telephone companies and slot
machine owners are complaining
about the new Lincoln copper cent.
They claim that the change in the
size Of the coin is damaging their
business.