The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1909-08-07
WIRE FLASHES

/ Orville Wright broke his world 8
aer9plane record at Fort Myer.
SIX thousand Moors are besieging
the Spanish Island of Alhucemas.
Secretary MacVeagh gave orders
/ to cut down expenses in the Treasury
Department.
One man kIa.ed and ten In
lfed n emphis when 4 train ran
into a street car.
Henry Looney, convicted OF Black
1 Hand blackmail at Alexandria, La,
was pardoned by the governor.
Three alleged postofice robbers,
were arrested at Memphis.
| Marks suit against insurance COM
panies at Crowley was compromised
for $4,000. He sued for $4,000.
| Fourteen indictments charging
collection of graft were returned by
the Chicago grand jury against po-
lice officials.
w. ]. Bryan'S announcement that
| he would move to Texas was not re-
| ceived with enthusiasm by Texas
politicians.
Forty miners were overcome by
| gases in a mine near PittsDurg.
| Twelve were seriously hurt and three
| fatally.
The Spanish forces suffered
| crushing defeat at Melilla, Moroc-
co. Three thousand men were kill
ed or wounded So
Another hot day in New York re-
| suited in six deaths and many pros
trations. The thermometer regis
tered above 80 degrees.
Governor Conner, in a message to
special session of the Alabama
legislature, advised making prohibi-
tion constitutional.
The Nebraska State Republican
Convention indorses President Taft's
stand for downward revision of the
tariff.
In the Georgia House of Repres-
entatives Representative Anderson
denounced Rev. Len. G. Broughton
Of Atlanta in strong terms.
Announcement was made in Phil
adelphia that the Morgan line
would establish a direct service be-
tween that city and New Orleans:
At the session Of the State Far
mers' Union at Opelousas. La, T.
H. Lewis of that city, made an at
tack upon the public officials of
Louisiana.
The prohibition law in Alabama
was said to be farce, Locker
clubs" by which drinks" can be
produced, having sprung up all over
the State.
Three Hoboken policemen rescued
a number of women and children
from a burning building by forming
a human chain from one building
to the one in flames.
Harry c. Pulliam, president of
the National League of Professional
Baseball Clubs, died at New York
as the result of self-inflicted wound |
with a pistol.
The revolutionary movement in |
Spain is apparently spreading. The |
government is maintaining such a /
rigid censorship that little reliable
news can be obtained.
Edmond Fredrickson, juror in a
trial for alleged violation of the pro-
hibition law at Mobile, Ala. was ar
rested on charge of soliciting a
bribe from the defendant.
Mexico was devastated by one of
the worst earthquakes in the history
of the country. Many lives were
lost and millions of dollars worth
of property destroyed.
Evidence was brought out in the
Thaw lunacy inquiries at White
Plains, N. Y, alleging that Harry
X. Thaw whipped young girls and
paid 100000 in hush money.
N. B. Marker, charged with hav-
ing absconded with 100000 from
bank in Upton, Ind, Of which he
was assistant cashier, returned to
his home after an absence Of sia.
days.
The reports from Barcelona were
ominously meager and from round
about quarters, but the revolution
ary movement appeared to have
passed its climax. Government
troops were reported to have the
upper hand.
Spanish crimes at home and abroad
continued to present many alarm
ing features, with Barcelona still in
the throes of revolutionary move
ment and an army of 10000 Moors
pressing Spain's defeated and ex-
hausted forces in Morocco.
A quarterly dividend of three
fourths Of i per cent on the common
stock was declared by the directors
of the United States Steel Corpora
ton. This is an increase of one
fourths Of l per cent, as compared
with that of the last previous quar-
ter.
Spanish warships went to the re-
lief of the defeated army in Morocco
and reported she1ling the Moorish
forces.
The news of the terrible defeat
inflicted on the Spanish forces by
Moors at Melilla and the conf1rma-
ton of Z. the extent of the insur-
rection in Spain has caused appre-
hension in France.
John H. Stuart, secretary off
James Hazen Hyde when The latter
was an insurance magnate, suicided