The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1909-10-30

NEWS FROM EVER YWfiER F.
The revolution IA sAnto Domingo

! The revolution ii sAnto1 Domingo
is spreading.
Macon, Miss, Waas badly damaz ed
by severe electrical storm.
A tariff war is threatened between
the United States and Germany.
The American pure fopd laws are
being felt by shipper throughout the
world.
Commander Peag1 kdbmitted his
records to the NatIona Geographic
Society.
Charles PIT heobaa y Vas, appointed
as deputy col lectof eustoms at
| Three transa tlantic Hhefs d afffvfng
from European ports reported heavy
gales all the way across.
1t was said the Bank Of England
might still further increase the min
imum discount rate.
Mrs. Emmeline Gould Pankhurst,
leader of the militant suffragettes of
Great Britain, arrived in New York.
B. F. Barnes, postmaster at Wash
ington, D. c., and formerly assist
ant secretary to President Roosevelt,
died in Washington.
Gov. Noel, criticised the action of
the Yazoo-Mississippi Delta Board in
failing to heed the opinion of the At
torney General.
In an address before the Southern
Textile Association at Raleigh, N. c.,
A. S. Winslow defended the cotton
mill.
Mrs. Henrietta Morgan Duke, a
prominent member of the Daugh-
ters Of the Confederacy, was found
dead in bed at Louisville.
Senor Morety Prendergast, Pre-
mier of the New Spanish Cabinet, de-
clared the liberal government would
reverse the Maura policies.
At Blackpool, England, Hubert La
than, the French aviator, made a
daring flight in a thlrty-mlles-a
hour gale.
Patrick H. McCarren, democratic
leader of Brooklyn and State Senator,
died in New York.
| The collector of customs at New
Orleans was relieved of the duties as
custodian of the public building.
The enormous amounts covering
the governments losses by fraud at
the port of New York would never be
reckoned, it was said.
Germany's attempt to put what
would amount to an export duty on
crude potash on shipments of this
| commodity to america, II successful.
it was said, would probably bring
about the penalization of German ex-
ports here.
1t was said Gov. Burke of North
Dakota might appoint a Democrat to
succeed the late United States Sena-
tor Johnson, who was Republican.
A new 100000 enterprise was
planned to regulate the output of
| handmade window glass.
The recommendation of Secre-
tary Meyer were said to call for the
abolition of the Southern navy yards,
along with other important changes
| in naval affairs.
Four new active members were
added to the supreme council of the
Southern jurisdiction, Scottish Rite
| Masons.
T. p. O'Connor, member Of Parlia-
ment from Liverpool, arrived in New
York to raise funds for Ireland's fight
for home rule.
The annual convention of the Ma
tional Women's Christian Temper
ance Union was convened in Omaha,
Neb.
The Daughters of the Confederacy
elected officers and adjourned the an
nual session at Houston, Tex.
President Taft declared himself in
favor of inland waterways in an ad-
dress at Corpus Christi, Tex.
DR.. S. C. Bigham and William B.
Avant were convicted of manslaugh-
ter, at Georgetown, S. c., for killing
the formers young wife as she en-
tered the. surf for a bath, and each
sentenced to three and one half years.
August Brockmeyer, milkman,
was found murdered in his wagon,
at Lyons, Illinois.
The body of Bishop Seth Ward
reached San Francisco and will be
buried at Houston.
A semi-official st. Petersburg news.
paper publishes story alleging that
the relations between the United
States and Japan are strained.
twenty-five persons were killed
and a score Of others injured in re-
cent earthquake at Bellput, India.
Collector Loeb admits that the GUS
toms frauds in New York will amount
to millions of dollars.
Secretary of the Navy Meyer IA
vors building larger battleships, and
is also advocating the closing OF
number of the navy yards.
OF. Garsaur and Abraham L. Metz
of New Orleans and many other
Southern Masons were elected to the
thirty-third degree by the Supreme
Council, now in session in Washing
ton.
Despite rumors, no one has yet
been selected for the post of minister
to China to succeed Charles r. Crane
whose resignation was recently ac-
cepted by the president.
Commander Robert E. Peary's oD-
seryation records and proofs that ne
reached the North Pole April 6. 1909,
were submitted to the National Geo.