The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1909-03-20
THIBODAUX. IA. SATURDAY MARCH 20, 1903.
WIRE FLASHES

The big deficit in the French
| Treasury may cause changes in the
Cabinet.
By the caving of a ditch at Hamil.
ton, Ohio, three workmen were bur.
led alive.
The British naval estimates pro.
vide for the construction of four new
big battleships.
The cases-of four defendants in the
Lejune case at Port Allen, La, were
mol pressed.
Oscar Strauss it is said at Toxic
will be the next ambassador from
the United States.
Mexico viii declare ON ali wheat
duties by April in order to pre-
vent a bread famine.
Nat Bolton "a Biloxi policeman,
was acquitted at Gulfport, Miss, on
! the charge of extortion.
Ognacio Difatta, accused of the
murder of Salvatore Rineldo, was
acquitted at Port Allen, La.
Oliver Collins, negro, was killed
near Lake Simonnette, La, by his
wife who claims self-defense
Charles Page Bryan, the American
minister to Portugal, has forwarded
his resignation to Washington.
Joe Gordon, negro, who shot and
seriously wounded two white men
at Cruegar Miss, was lynched.
It is said at Paris that Robert
Bacon will succeed Henry White as
American ambassador to France.
The Jewish Religious Teachers
Association. of Mississippi, held q
three days session at vicksburg.
Plans were outlined for the drain
age of the Fifth Levee District at q
big meeting held at Tallulah, La
Contract for the battleship Missis-
sippi silver service was awarded to
Caldwell and Co., of Philadelphia.
A speaker before prohibition
meeting at Chicago declared that
corsets kill as many people as rum.
Application was made at Shreye-
port, La, for 4 receiver for the Cad
do Lake Oil and Pipe Line Company.
The Peterson brothers were res
cued from mine near Salt Lake
City. after. being imprisoned fifty
hours.
President Zelaya, of Nicaragua,
has invited Ex-President Castro, of
Venezuela to make his home in Mica
ragua.
A visitor to a San Francisco de-
partmeat stora fonnd packaaes
holding $26,000, which remains un-
claimed.
A battle between Nicaraguan and
Salvadoreangunboats is reported to
have occurred off the coast of Gen.
trail America.
The conference of anthracite coal
miners and operators adjourned at
Philadelphia, Pa, without reaching
an agreement.
W. c. Pinson was convicted at
Laurens, s. c., of manslaughter for
killing Thornwell Boyce and SEN
fenced to two years.
Servia addressed note to the
European powers in which the Bel
grade government gave its version
of the Balkan dispute.
Miss Ruby Penton, near Chu-
muckle, Fla, was criminally as
saulted by a negro, who will. probably
be lynched If caught.
Mrs. J. D. Raymond, wife of one
of the men now in jail at Franklin,
La, was arrested on suspicion in the |
postoffice robbery case
A twenty-year card game between
Civil War Veterans at Traverse |
City, Mich. ended when one of them
won ten consecutive hands.
Nine men were arrested in connec-
tion with the murder of Father |
Ausion at Newark, N. j., but no tan
gible clew has been obtained.
W. H. Pope, Jr. son of Beaumont
judge, on the verge of starvation at /
ST. Louis advertised to give himself
away He received two answers.
Crsc men dyramited the Southern
Express Company's safe in the Lou
isiana ana Arkansas Railroad depot
at Winfield, La. securing 5000.
John UIrich, a former Judge, after
delivering an eloquent address. was
released from the New Jersey In
sane Asyiumy~~-wi1 inuds-bco1-t
confined ten years.
The Texas legislature is in the
midst of a fight over charges OF
lobbying made by Senator Thomas,
and charges of alleged misuse OF
power by Speaker Kennedy.
The British steamer Mechanician,
a ship of 5,592 tons, which left New
Orleans for Liverpool on Feb. 20.
burned in the Mursey. She has 400
bales of cotton aboard.
The anthracite coal operators re-
fused all the demands of the mine
workers, and made counter PROPOSE
ton that the present agreement be
continued for another three years.
BY a vote of 1875 to 70 the Georgia
division of the United Daughters OF
the Confederacy, decided on Ander-
sonville, Ca, as the location for the
to Captain Wirz, having
rescinded it's former action in voting
the monument to Richmond, Va:
Charged with sending might RI
der" warning to D. S. Floyd to shut
down his cotton gin at Shubuta. Miss.
J. O. Touchstone was indicted by the
federal grand jury at Meridian, Miss.
DIR. W. R. Dodson, in charge OF
Louisiana experiment stations, may