The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1909-02-19
president-Elect Taft attended a Gre

Die banquet provided In his honor by
The citizens Of New Orleans Friday; |
Duo people attended; the Invocation
was delivered by Cardinal Gibbons.
Charles R. Smith was found guilty |
Of the murder of e. A. Laurent by "a
jury at Columbus, Miss, Friday, and !
will be given life sentence.
A most impressive feature of the
Lincoln celebration in Springfield, H.,
Friday, was the scene at Lincoln tomb,
when Robert T.. Lincoln, son of the
stood beside the sarcophagus
in which the remains of his great faith
er rested and stood with tear-dimmed
eyes in silent meditation with Ambas-
sadors Jusserand, Brice, Hon. w. j..
Bryan, Senator Deliver and many 9TH
er distinguished guests gathered
about. At the base Of the monument
old soldiers who had responded to
Lincolns call to arms stood with fixed
bayonets.
Miss Sylvia Green, daughter of Mrs.
Hetty Green, often referred to as,
Americas .wealthiest woman, is en-.
gagged to Mr.. Mathew Astor Wilks of
New York. The marriage will unite
two families possessed of great wealth
for Mr.. Wilks is a great grandson of
the original John Jacob .Astor.
The drouth has become serious to
stock interests in Llano county, Texas.
The jury in the Cooper-Sharp muir
der trial at Nashville was Friday COM
pleted, when the state served notice
that it had information showing two
men to be incompetent.
Claude Golden, negro, was hanged
at Jasper Friday for criminal assault.
That the schooner Cleopatra, eight
tons, burden, engaged in the naval
stores trade between st. Andrews and
Pensacola, was sunk during one of
the recent storms on the gulf, carry
ing down with her her captain and a
crew of four men is believed to have
happened.
In the municipal election in Mart
Texas, on Wednesday, the issuance
of $4,000 in bonds for a water
system the proposition carried by
the overwhelming majority of 243 fol
and 5 against.
President-Elect Taft declared him
self as we'll pleased with congress re
moval of the bar to Senator Knox's &C
ceptance of cabinet position.
The corn show given in Bryan, Tex
as, Wednesday by the farmers of Bra
EOS county at the courthouse was
great success. Sixty-three exhibitor
entered the contest. The county wa
divided into commissioners precincts
and first, second, third and fourtl
premiums offered on the best ten ear
white corn and the best ten ears yeI
low, corn exhibited.
The Merchants National Bank o
Houston received from Roth Wells 4
Co. of Cincinnati Wednesday some
thing like $4,000 which has bee
placed to the credit of the city Q
Houston. The money is the amour
paid by the We'll Wolf Company TO
the bonds recently issued by Houston
and is to be used on city improve
ments.
Y Within a few hours of the time Sc
+ for her wedding, Smila Martorfleld,
, years old, the belle of the RUSS
e Greek colony of Duqueen, PennsylVal
/ ia, suburb, was found with NJ
: throat cut in the cellar Of her home.
John Henry Seals, well-known Geo
gia journalist and founder OF the Su
ny South, died Wednesday at Milledg
n Vile, Ca, aged 76 years.
0 Tuesday afternoon the bushes
S men of Hampstead, Texas, met al
) organized a retail merchants assocl
e ton. A great many of the buslne
v men were present at the meetlr
and enrolled their names.
l, The police of st. Petersburg mas
e sued a warrant for the arrest OF Ma
D. i'm Gorky, the well-knoWn Russia
!. novelist. In the document Gorky
r described as a Mimi Novgorod hou
it painter. Gorky is in Italy, and rece
d dispatches have said he intended
k reside permanently in France.
n The English king and queen Ct
70 clnded their visit to Germany a.
have left for London.
r William Beckett, second secreta
l., of the German legation at SANTA
IS and perpetrator of the diabolical tril
q .nhhoru murder and drS(