Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1909-06-04
WIRE FLASHES

block of business buildings at Crow
ley, La, with oil-soaked excelsior.
The cotton crop raised by convicts
on penitentiary farms in Mississippi
had a net value of 100000.
Raymond Thompson surrendered
at Shreveport La, for unintentional-
ly killing Thomas Furniss at Viva.
Tom Barnett, convicted of murder
was shot to death by a mob in Tay-
lor County. Tex.
Floods caused great damage in
Mississippi Alabama, Arkansas, Ten
nessee and Oklahoma.
The prohibitionists were defeated
in the election at Petersburg, Va,
after an exciting contest.
North German Lloyd passenger
steamer Princess Alice ran aground
off Staten Island.
Two workmen were perhaps fatal
ly scalded in an accident at the Roll
Ter pumping plant, near Crowley.
Adjutant General Stafford has is
sued an order regarding the Louis
lana rifle team that will compete in
the national shoot at Camp Perry.
DIR. F. C. Sheppard, of Mangham.
La, shot and perhaps fatally wound
ed John Dewey, a negro restaurant
keeper, in self-defense.
THE Reunited Sections will be
the subject of Colonel Henry Wat
terson address at the Lee memorial
dedication at Vicksburg. Miss.
William E. Darragh, chauffeur.
who ran down and killed a boy in
New York, was convicted Of man
slaughter.
d. C. McInnis, ex-Sheriff and Tax
Collector of Simpson County, after
being on trial several days, at Men,
denhall, withdrew his plea of not
guilty and entered one of guilty.
Brown Roberts, a negro, held for
completely in the murder of L. Re-
vert, was taken from the Jail at Port
Allen by mob. The mans fate is
not known.
The Federal Grand Jury at Tulsa,
Okla, indicted Governor Charles N.
Haskell, of Oklahoma, and several
other prominent men for alleged
completely in land frauds.
President F. w. Weller, of the
Standard Oil Company, announced
that pipe line would be built from
the Oklahoma oil fields to Baton
Rouge.
Count Boni de Castellane won a
partial victory in the litigation over
the custody of his children. He will |
be permitted to name their instruc-
tor.
Thirteen men were hanged in pub
lie in Constantinople, having pre-
viously been found guilty of COM
plicity in the revolutionary outbreak
of April Is.
Theodore Roosevelt, who is at pre-
sent the guest of Governor Jackson,
of Nairobi, Africa, accepted an in
vitation to a public banquet to be
given in his honor Aug, 3.
The Turkish Government has in
vited Jews from Russia and Rou-
mania to settle in Turkey, agreeing |
to remove all restrictions and to
grant full citizenship to them.
The Louisiana Railroad Commits
sion have issued an order COM
handing the Texas and Pacific to |
build passenger depot in New Or
leans to cost not less than $150,00O. |
No site is to be specified.
A member of the ministers and |
other high functionaries of the late
regime in Turkey, who have been
confined on the Island of Prinkipo,
have been deported to other islands
in the Sea of Marmora.
There has been a market increase
In immoral performances at the |
theatres of Havana, accompanied by |
"a general spread of vice an an out
break of gambling since the Ameri-
can occupation came to an end.
d. B. and w. H. Garner, brothers,
pleaded guilty at Alexandria to IL
licit distilling and were sentenced to
nve years each in the House of Cor
rection at Emmettsburg, Md. The
sentence of their father, H. G.. Gar
ner, was suspended.
President Taft sent a message to
Congress renewing the recommended
ton of President Roosevelt for the
appropriation for the participation
of the United States in the Universal
and Industrial Exposition to be held
in Brussels in 1910.
Mrs. w. s. Howard and her cou-
sin John Young. aged Is. are held
in connection with the assassination
of Joel Nolan, the intended husband
of the woman at the latter's home
near Indianola, Miss.
The Evangeline Oil Company in its
answer, filed at Lake Charles to the
application of Peter P. Van Vleet for
a receiver. denied every charge of
mismanagement and conspiracy to