The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1909-12-11

Chicago experienced the warmest
November on record.
A member Of the Russian douma
was wounded in duel.
Several villages in Asiatic Turkey
were destroyed by an earthquake.
The Delaware, Lackawanna and
western railroad entered the sugar
rate fight,
Eight -Inen were antombed IN q
copper mine at Ducktown, Tenn, but
were rescued.
| Cliff Holley was shot and killed by
negro when he attempted to be
peace>maker In fight.
The King of England signed an
order proroguing Parliament until
Jan. II, 1910.
Members of the Danish royal fam
lily were summoned to the bedside of
Princess Waldemar, who was said to
be dying.
The government Of Chilli signed
the protocol with the United States
referring the Alsop claim to King
Edward for settlement.
The United States sent more war
ships to the vicinity of Nicaragua
1t was announced no men would be
landed unless Americans were In
danger.
| The cruiser Prairie, with 700 ma
rines aboard, ran aground as she was
leaving Philadelphia for Central
America.
A dispatch from Washington was
to the effect that congress would
make no investigation into the af-
fairs of the sugar trust at the coming
session.
Alienists testified at Little Rock.
Ark, that w. Y Ellis was insane
when he killed N. P. Willis.
A negro was killed, seven persons
were injured and property loss of
100000 resulted from an explosion
in an express Office at Camden, S. C.
A we'll defined plan to place Cen
trail American republics under peace
bonds was decided on by the presi-
dent and will be urged in congress
this week.
Mrs. L. B. Doxey, of Columbus.
Neb., was charged with the murder
by poisoning of her first husband,
William j. Erder, at St. Louis.
seven-year-old Lotfie Lenninger,
maltreated and murdered, was found
on the roof of a New York tenement.
IAN Alabama cotton firm is being
tried In the Federal court in Mobile
on charges of using the mails to de.
fraud Witnesses testified to ship
ments of short bales.
Mrs. Sneads husband is now being
sought by the New York police as
having some knowledge of the muir
der.
Judge Cabaniss, at San Francisco,
ordered the release from custody of
Abraham Ruef, the boodler on $780,
900 bail.
The railroads in the Northwest are
employing hundreds Of strikebreak-
ers in an effort to break the switch
mems strike.
The Congress of Spanish Honduras
ratified the extradition treaty be-
tween that republic and the United
States.
1t was estimated that the govern
ment's receipts from the special cor
poration excise tax for the fiscal year
of 1910 would reach $4,000, 900.
Attorney-general Wickersham ex-
onerated Mr.. Ballinger in report |
to Mr.. Taft on the Alaska coal land |
and water power sites matter.
In probing the death of Mrs. Snead |
in East Orange, N. j., detectives
found blood stains, human hair and
bones and a child's skull in the
House Of Mystery" in Brooklyn.
John Harvard, a negro preacher,
was burned at the stake by mob
near Cochran, Ga, after he had
wounded a white man.
Attorneys for H. Clay Pierce filed
two pleas in abatement at the open
ing of the trial of the oil magnate for
false swearing at Austin, Tex.
Talk Of lynching was heard at Nc.
Comb City, Miss, following the cap
ture after a fight Of two negro tramps
who shot and dangerously wounded
W. H. Griffin, railroad detective.
Miss Ethel Norman, reprimanded
for extravagant indulgences, suicided
at Greensboro, N. c., by shooting.
Hubert Latham, the French aero
naut. attained height OF between
Ats and 500 meters (about 1900
feet), beating the official worlds rec
ord.
Miss Virginia Wardlaw, a gray
haired spinister was charged with the
of her young niece. Mrs. ..
w. Snead, whose body was found IN
A bathtub at East Orange, N. J.
Some Interesting testimony was
given at the trial OF the Sugar Trust
on charges OF corruption in New
York.
Can't. w. r. Shaw, veteran steam
boat man and former resident of
New Orleans died in Norwood, Ohio.
CONGRESSMAN Needham, Of Califor-
MIA, will press bill for the creation
~ a national tariff commission.
Hearings will be given by the
House committee on election of pres
Ident and vice president on the prop
osition to change the date OF the IN
President Zelaya, of Nicaragua,
-reated the State Department with
defiance and contempt. He sent ennis