The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1909-04-23
The Ne VS. IN BRIEF
Items of interest From Everywhere
With Especial Attention to the
Happenings of the Great
Southwest.

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Kentucky.
Governor Haskell was the winner
in the recent suits against him.
Thirty people were injured at
kansas City in street car wreck.
W. L. HARRISON, an oil magnate,
was killed in an auto collision in
California. ""
The river at Niagara Falls was
completely frozen and the falls ran
dry Sunday.
The state of Washington has a
new law which forbids any female
entering a saloon.
Algernon Charles Swinburne, the
famous English poet and essayist,
died at the age of y.
William Fitzhugh Whitehouse,
the American explorer, died sud-
denly at Beaulieu, France.
Thomas Johnson, well known
planter of Bienville parish, La, was
killed as the result of a feud.
The state of Missouri and rail-
roads operating there are entering a
serious fight over the passenger
rates.
William Clancy, while taking part
in an Easter procession Of the Scot
fish Rite Masons, fell dead at st.
Louis.
Fifty English mechanics, unable
to obtain employment in England,
arrived in New York with their
families.
A middle-aged-, well-dressed
American, Emile Amy by name,
killed on the railroad tracks at st.
Raphael, France.
One of the strongest sections of
the Alabama prohibition law was
declared unconstitutional by JUS
tice Mayfeld at Montgomery.
Cipriano Castro, former presi-
dent of Venezuela, has been igno-
niniously expelled from the island
of Martinique by the French gov
eminent. He protested to the last
against his expulsion, but his pro-
tests were in vain.
After three months of grand jury |
1nquisition at Chicago, the govern
ment has officially dropped its at
tempt to indict Morris & Co., one
Of the ''big four" Of Chicago's stock
yard packing firms, on charges Of
accepting railroad rebates.
The condition of the throat of
Enrico Caruso, the famous tenor,
is giving his close friends some
alarm. Sig. Caruso has decided to
sail on the Mauritania. He will
60 to London and devote himself to
complete rest for the summer.
Robin Cooper, recently convicted
In the Tennessee courts for the muir
der Of former United States Sena-
tor Carmack, is in Louisville, Ky.
He is said to be visiting the fam
lily Of a Louisville society girl, to
whom he is said to be betrothed.
A passenger train on the Chicago
and Alton railway was derailed near
MAYHEM, Mo. The accident was
caused by the terrific windstorm
raging at the time, which literally
lifted the coaches on the track and
rolled them down an embankment.
The police Of Terre Haute, Ind,
have rounded up four young men
who have confessed they robbed the
railroad stations in a number of
towns near Terre Haute in the last
few months. The last was the Bio
-Four office at Marshall, Ill, where
the night operator was left tied
ropes on the floor of the Of
hlong the promotions in the
French army just announced by the
minister of war is one of peculiar
interest, a man who entered the
army as a gunner having been rails
ed to the rank of general. :
In the municipal campaign in
Nashville, ILL.,, the old-time parties
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