The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1909-11-27


1910 is the largest in the history of
the country.
President Zelaya of Nicaragua is
SO distrustful of his own people that
he is guarded by foreigners.
The Berlin and New York bankers
who are to participate in the Han
kow SEE Chuen loan of .s30,000,-
600; adjusted their differences.
Arrangements were completed for
the opening of Hun-Chun, Manchuria
to international trade on Jan. next.
The Department Of Justice is in
vestigating the telephone and tele-
graph merger.
President Taft. will urge Congress
to pass law regulating telegraph
and telephone companies.
The railroads are planning to OPP
pose administrations plan to give
the Interstate Commerce Commission
additional powers.
The total value of cotton exports
from the United States for the month
of October, 1909, reaches the enor-
nous sum of $SS,SS3,330. In no one
month previously have such exports
ever reached the $S0,000,000 mark.
The fire in the St. Paul coal mine
at Cherry, IL, after several days,
was brought under control.
Mrs. Mildred Hart, of Grand Rap
ids, Mich, was found murdered in
her room at Chicago.
Rev. Leon G. Broughton, of At
lanta, Ga, received cable from
London, offering him the pastorate
Of Christ Church, Westminster.
William NJ. Laffan, 81 years old,
publisher of the New York Sun, sue
cumbed to an operation for appendi-
citis.
A site was purchased near Nash
vile, Tenn, for the establishment Of
a university by the Jesuit fathers.
Two worlds records for height
were broken by the aviators, Latham
and Paulhan in France.
A dispatch from Bluefields via Co
Ion declared that the Nicaraguan
forces retained control of Greytown
and that Zelaya's failure to attack
indicated he was having great trouble
in the interior.
, In the French Assize Court for the
first time a trial was conducted ac-
cording to the AngloSaxon proce-
dure.
There was said to be possibility
Of a new Christian Science Church
being formed under Mrs. Stetson's
leadership.
1t was reported that Chill had ex-
pressed a willingness to submit the
Alsop claim for arbitration.
Clarence H. Mackay, in an official
denied that the Postal
Company was in the big telegraph
merger.
Secretary Ballinger of the Depart
ment Of the Interior characterized
as false man, of the charges made
in magazine article.
In Washington it was stated that
the Nicaraguan legation had replied
to the note demanding an explanation
Of the execution of two Americans
by Zelaya. The reply was not made
public.
S. P. Smith, a Gulfport barber,
was arrested in that city in connec-
tiou with Chinese smuggling inves-
LEGATIONS.
Having been donated site, the
Baptists of Mississippi have decided
to establish a State hospital at Jack
son immediatel ly..
The story of how DR.. M. M. White
came into possession of Mrs. Sibleys
wedding ring was told by a brother
of the woman in the trial OF Henry
sibley for the murder of White at
La.
Omer Bond was placed in jail at
Gulfport on a charge of criminaliy
assaulting ten-year-old girl at Wig
gins, Miss.
A. S. Mitchell was found guilty
without capital punishment OF the
OF Marshal MCGEE of Horn
beck by a jury at Leesville, La.
President Taft spoke at Norfolk.
Va, favoring an increased navy, I'M
proved coast defenses and relteratlng
his views on waterways improve
ments.
The report of the execution of two
Americans in Nicaragua, by order
Of President Zelaya, caused the
United States to order Warshlps to
the ports of Nicaragua.
The relations between the United
States and Chile are strained on &C
count of a dispute over the Aisop
claim.
President Taft is striving to avert
4 tariff war with Canada.
A clash between Federal and State
occurred in the Ma
tional Convention of Railway Com
missioners at Washington.
DR.. Lavinder, of the Marine Hos
pital Service, reports that he found
ten cases of pellagra in the State
Insane Asylum, at Jackson, La.
Five thousand delegates will at
tend the National Rivers and Har-
bors Congress at Washington in De-
cember.
The Episcopal jubilee of Pope
Plus X was celebrated in Rome.
The body of the late dowager en-
press of China, which was removed
from the forbidden city week ago,