The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1909-04-17
WIRE FLASHES

AO oOuSy CdoS dI L Ild4uSlu1ue, Lid.
resulted in mistria1
Two were injured in freight wreck
at Morton, Miss.
F. F. Funcke died of wound lin
neck at Hattiesburg, Miss.
A violent earthquake shock was
felt at Messina, Italy.
The jury in the case of F. NJ. Saul
ter at Poplarville, Miss, returned a
verdict of manslaughter.
July IL has been fixed as date for
Louisiana militia encampment, but
site has not been definitely fixed.
S. S. Bryan, of Alexandria, La, be-
queathed $4,000 to the Public Lii
brary which he founded.
Janes1 has been definitely fixed for
prv1vrrerr
tleship Mississippi off Horn Island.
Masked raiders along Spring Creek,
Wyo., murdered three sheep herders
and cremated the bodies of two.
Roy Martin of Mobile, Ala, was
found murdered on a street in Bir-
mingham.
The Gulf Coast Oil and Gas Com
pany will sink it's first wells near
Haughton, La.
Willie Home, II years old, was
drowned in the Mississippi River near
Donaldsonville.
The new million-galon reservoir at
Gulfport, Miss, has been placed in
service.
Fire at Macland, La, destroyed the
hardwood saw mill of Mcdonald
Bros.
Avery Blount, charged with the
murder Of J. o. Breland, was found
guilty by jury at Amite City, La.
Several persons were killed, many
injured and great damage done by
a tornado in north Mississippi.
Governor Gilchrist, of Florida, di-
rected an investigation into the re-
cent lynching at Pensacola.
Mrs. G. A. Sampson was acquitted
at Lyons, N. Y, of the murder of her
husband.
With the passage of the first large
vessel through the PlaquemiEe Locks
the new waterway was christened by
Miss Carrie B. Schwing.
The Louisiana National Life Assur-
ance Society complied with the de-
mands of the Department, and the Ii
cense will be renewed.
Simms' express and telegraph es-
tablishment was seized at Natchez,
Miss, on ground of violating prohi-
Mtion law.
Several persons were killed and a
large number injured by tornadoes
in Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois
and Michigan.
David Johnson, Jr., held at Allan
ia, Ca, for sending a Black Hand
letter, says it was as an April fool
joke.
Three men who dynanited and
robbed the Gibsland postoffice were
convicted at Monroe and sentenced
to varying terms in Federal Prison.
The French Government has Or
dered the deportation of Ex-Presi-
dent Castro, of Venezuela, from the
Island of Martinique.
A storm has been raging on the
Black Sea for two days. Several
Turkish vessels have been wrecked |
and a number of loves have been lost |
Hassan Fehmi Effeldi, editor of
the Liberal newspaper serbesti, was
shot and killed by an unknown man
at Constantinople.
Four men were killed and many
others wounded in conflict at
Monte Leme, Spain, with the local
carbineers.
The British torpedo-boat destroyer
Black Water was sunk off Dungeness
as a result of a collision with the
steamer Hero.
Ben Brame, a negro, charged with
criminal assault on Miss
Ruth Gee near Pee Dee, Ky, was
lynched.
The Higgins Oil Company became
identified with the Gullett Oil COM
pany in the operations at the De So
to parish field, and two new wells
will be drilled.
Mayor Walter Mckinnor. OF hfc-]
Ghee, Ark, was shot and killed by
Harvey McDermott, an ex-sa.oon
man, who later was slain on street
by supposed friends of the mayor.
An Indian woman near Port Ar
thur, Mont, cut strip of flesh from
her body as fish bait and secured
food for her starving children until
help arrived.
F. F. Bouvy, charged with the
murder of Prof. F. S. Van 1ngen,
took the stand and testified in his
own behalf in the trial at Plaque
mine, La. He pleaded the unwritten
law and self-defense.
State Travelling Auditor Smith de-
clared that the accounts OF Sheriff
Marrero, of Jefferson parish, has
been found accurate. He has no au-
thority to check the accounts OF a
parish treasurer.
The Persian COVE -nment has been
notified by the State Department hat
the United States you'd hold Persia
responsible fo- the protection OF
American citizens at Tabriz and 9TH
ar places where disorder exists.
Henry T. Green. appointed from
Minnesota, has rendered to President