The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1909-03-05

Stone & Webster of Boston an
nounce that a semi-annual dividend OF
s. per share has been declared on
the preferred capital stock OF Calves
ton-Houston Electric Company. pay,
able March Is, 1909, to stockholders
Of record at the close of business
March /, 1909.
The price of May wheat Friday sur
passed all records of recent years on
the New York Produce Exchange,
when 1t advanced &c bushel to
Sl22 3-S. The final price was $1.22 IA,
net advance for the day of | Use.
Mrs. Margaret Teal, wife of Benia.
min Teal, OF New York. one of the
best known theatrical managers in
this country. was Friday convicted of
attempted subornation of perjury in
/. the divorce case Of Helen Kelly Gould.
Senator Weinert of Texas has intro
duced measure for the erection OF
a monument in honor of the Texas
heroes of Gonzales. The measure ap.
propriates $4,000 for the erection of
| this monument on the square at Con
zales, the birthplace of Texas hide
pendence"
Ben de Palmero. the 15-year-old son
Of Antonio de Pemero accidentally
killed himself at Dickinson, Texas, Fri
day, the entire load of shot from a
tG-gauge shotgun entering his neck,
tearing away the jugular vein.
A death certificate was filed in the
office of the secretary of the board
OF health Of Crowley, La, on Monday,
in which 1t is alleged that Hester Viii
liamS, coiored, who died there last Sat
urday, was $50 years Of age.
DR.. W. W. Lunn OF Houston, Texas.
died Tuesday morning at his sani-
tarium at the age of 60 years. Two
years ago, while performing a danger
GUS operation and one that required
Immediate attention, his hand became
infected. For the past six weeks DR..
I Lunn's condition has been hopeless.
The corner stone Of the new engn-
eering building being erected on the
campus of the Agricultural and Me-
chanical College of Texas was laid
Wednesday morning with impressive
ceremony. rr
Miss Jennie Croker was relieved of
a $4,000 necklace at a Mardi Gras
ball In San Francisco Wednesday
night.
In order to suitably reward nine
teen men, most of them confederate
veterans, who, on the night of June
II, 1865, rescued the treasury of the
State Of Texas from an organized
band of plunderers, and thereby saved
to the state government approximately
$4,000, Representative Porter intro
duced in the house Friday a joint res
olution providing for the submission
OF the constitutional amendment to au-
thorize the remuneration. No specific
reward is suggested in the resolution.
A sugar mill to cost 100000 will be
begun at San Benito, in the Rio
Grande valley, adjacent to Browns
vile. Texas, within the next few
weeks, is the statement of Edwin E.
Cox, who is backing the project.
Col. Cooper of Tennessee, who is
being tried for the murder of Senator
Carmack, is subjected to severe cross
examination on the question of embez-
zling and defrauding widows and or
phans.
The Houston, Texas, waterworks
case, growing out of the city hall fire,
has been passed upon by the supreme
court.
The minister of marine has issued
an official statement declaring that
practically no change has occurred in
the formation of the straits of Messina
through the earthquake.
The powers find the Balkans ques-
ton hard to settle, as they fear to
compromise Austria-Hungary.
Ed Morel, secretary of the Congo
Reform association, has presented an
appeal to the French government to
join with the United States and Great
Britain in exacting from Belgium the
restoration of the rights of the ma
tives to the products of their lands
and the freedom of labor
Advices received from Hardin, Man
churia, state that the situation there,
arising out of Russia's insistence' that
she administer the local municipal
government on account of her extern.
sive railroad interests, is rapidly near.
ing crisis, and that quick action on
the part of the powers will be neces-
sary to prevent serious trouble
The, cruisers California and Penn
sylvania Of the United States Pacific
squadron. now in Panama. will leave
for Anlapala on the west coast of Hon.
duras. @ KS
Ernest H. Wands, who has been act.