The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1909-06-12

DR. John =. Brinkley. octogeRarian
was murdered mysteriously ID CHI:
cago.
Seven employees of big Detroit
brokerage firm which failed have
! been indicted for conspiracy.
Cortes, father and son, Cuban. in
surgents, must pay penalty of re-
volt.
Earthquake shocks were felt in
Portugal and on Isthmus of Pana-
ma.
]. E. Miller was killed by jumping
from a trestle near Hattiesburg,
Miss, on the approach of a train.
John Maxey, who shot Snowman
in Frankfort, KY, was lynched in
the shadow of the state house.
A fifteen-year-old boy in Nashville
called playmate out of his house and
blew his head off with shotgun.
A new high school building will
be erected at Shreveport, La, at a
cost of 100000.
The population of the Louisiana
Penitentiary at the beginning of
June totaIed 2,O33.
w. T. Flynn was shot and prob
ably fatally wounded at Meridian,
Miss, by j. C. Walton.
D. C. McInnis, ex-sheriff of Simp-
son county, Miss, has been sentenced
to one year in jail.
The steamer Iron Age of Huron.
Ont, was burned to the waters edge
on Lake Erie.
The administration has reduced by
$50,000,000 the estimates of expen-
ditures for the fiscal year 1910-1911.
The city of Baton Rouge lost its
suit for $1,000 against the louisa
ma Improvement Company in con-
nection with a paving contract.
Two Boston Councilmen and a
lawyer caught defrauding the city
were sentenced to long terms in
House or correction.
DR.. E. N. Lowe, of the University
of Mississippi has been elected Direc-
tor of the Mississippi Geological Sur
vey.
The War Department insists that
members of the Louisiana National
Guard must be equipped with over
coats.
A tornado below Lockport demol-
ished the home Of Mrs. Joseph Le-
vert and injured her and five chill
dren.
Two members of the crew of the
steamboat c. H. Hugo were cooked
to death by steam in the hold of
the vessel at Mound City, Ill.
Essell Sisk, 16-year-old boy, blew
his brains out because his parents
could not buy him new clothes for
commencement.
1t has been decided to put seis-
mographs in a chain of Jesuit college
for the purpose of compiling earth
quake records.
Southern white republicans have
started a movement to secure the re-
moval of VIM. T. Vernon of Kansas,
the negro Register of the Treasury.
Miss Garwood, whose marriage
was stopped through the State De-
partment and her sister, is white
haired woman Counts wife has
helped to complicate matters.
The Security Savings Bank and
Trust Company, of Toledo, Ohio,
brought suit against the Shreveport
La, Telephone Company for $213,-
900 for non-payment OF mortgage.
John Perry was arrested In Cow
ington, La, for attempted assault on
white woman and sent to New Or
leans for safety. He will be tried
without delay.
There was more rioting in Phila-
delphia until became known that a
settlement was in sight. when the
mobs dispersed Political leaders
got busy and have effected a COM
promise.
The foods in the Southern States
are reported to have damaged crops
seriously. Eight were hurt in a
wreck In Alabama caused by soggy
roadbed, and railroad superintend-
ent was drowned when bridge
was washed away on the Warrior
river.
Ambassador Leishman has appeal
ed to Americans to relieve the dis
tress In the Adana and Aleppo dis
tricts of Asiatic Turkey, the scene OF
the recent massacres.
The contract for the concrete dry
dock at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii has
been awarded to San Francisco
firm. A Boston bid. rejected as ir-
regular, was nearly 100000 lower.
In the will of the late Mrs. Mar
garet J. P. Graves, widow of Henry
B. Plant, disposition was made OF
an $4,000, 900 estate. To New York
charities she left 100000.
Onaferio Cairamente was convict
ed at Tampa, Fla, Of the murder of
B. Labella, al wealthy Italian mer-
chant Of New York.