The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1909-10-09

brother and sister and suicided. s.
iva light bandit rle 1o .Q6
Springs Col, and escaped
Engineer 4. Canley, of Iron Noun
tain train, was killed by rock Will
| leaning out of his cab window.
| The Massachusetts, Democratic Con
vention nominated James II. vahe.
for governor.
The prohibitionists were defeated
in local option elections at Roanoke
Va, and Vincennes., Ind.
Judge W.. J. Gaynor was nominated
for mayor of New York by the Demo
cratic City Convention (Tammany.
A highwayman shot up a Philadel
phia saloon, killing two men enc
Wounding third.
Governor E. F. Noel participated il
the opening of teh Tri-state air al
Memphis.
1t was reported that Southern Pa
cific dividend rate would be put or
a per cent. anual basis.
The report of the National Cotton
Ginners' Association, issued at Mem.
phis, Tenn, gives the condition of cot.
ton at co.,.
Joe Thompson, u years old, friend
and adviser of President Johnson dur
ing the impeachment trial, died at
shelbyville, Tenn. .
A feature of the Hudson-Fulton
celebration in New York was a pag-
cant in which historic SC snes were de-
picted.
The state of Illinois is claiming Il
part of the estate of the late E. H.
Hartman under the Inheritance tax
law.
The steel trust was said 10 be pre-
pairing to ship much of its Pittsburg
output by water to the South and
West.
President Taft gave credit to both
Forester Pinchot and Secretary Ball
linger in his conservation speech at
Seattle.
Body Of Mrs. Martha Foster was
found in woods near Spartanburg, S.
c., and her husband is held pending
Investigation.
w. L. Gillespie was shot and killed
in Grimes County, Tex, by Lester
Taylor, who eloped with Miss Giles
pie.
William Mitchell, murder, and Ce-
eel Palmer, criminal assault, were
hanged in the state prison at Nash
vile, Tenn.
The selection of Chinaman as SUI
perintendent caused a strike in a
fashionable Pittsburg Presbyterian
Sunday school.
The director of the census SUBJ
mitted report showing wireless tel
egraphy to be established on sound
commercial basis.
Mrs. L. B. Mason went to trial at
South Bend, Ind, for having at
tempted to kill John w. Talbot, su-
preme president of the Owls.
Jos. Miller, head of a diamond
company at Buffalo, N. Y, was ar
rested on the charge Of using the
mails to conduct lottery.
John w. Montgomery, politician
and Union veteran, was shot and kill
ed at Glasgow, KY, by Morris Will
coxsen while in the latter's home.
The interstate Commerce Commits
sion commanded the railroads of Lou
isiana and Mississippi to pay the yell
low pine reparation claims rs quickly
as possible.
A protest was sent to the War De-
partment against Major General.
Frederick D. Grant for riding at the
head of a prohibition parade in Chi
cago In full uniform.
The Southern Pacific Railroad
pleaded guilty in the United States
District Court at Los Angeles, Cal,
TO rebating, and was fined $1,000 by
Judge Wellborn
The crew Of eight men of the fish
ing schooner Caldwell Fl. Colt, out of
Pensacola, were Jailed at Progreso on
the charge of poaching, a Mexican
yunboat seizing the vessel.
Wilbur Wright circled the Statue
If Liberty in his aeroplane. The dirig-
BILE balloon race in connection with
he HudSon-Fulton celebration was a
failure.
The impression was produced in
Washington that Mr.. Bryan's criti-
,ism of Senator Bailey was but the
beginning of punitive campaign
against other senators.
September shorts on wheat and
,ats were given hard squeeze on the
Chicago Board of Trade. The price
If September wheat was advanced to
;1.2O, and oats to so cents per BUSH
j.
Secretary Dickinson Hnds nothing
% criticise in the action of General
Grand in taking part in a temper
.nce and law-enforcement parade in
chicago in his uniform as a major
general of the United States. Thel
secretary said that as to such move
nents each soldier and officer has
| right to decide for himself.
Will Price, a negro, confessed at
Tazoo City, Miss, that he murdered
Tohn Witscher, a planter, and lmpli-
ated his victims wife and her broth
#, who were arrested.