The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1909-07-03
WIRE FLASHES

The Pope has been annoyed by tn,
presentation of an automobile b,
Americans.
! Fire at Lake George, N. Y, caused
S250,u00 damage to the Fort viii
liam Henry Hotel.
Sarah Orne Jewett, the authoress
died at her summer home at South
Berwick.
Seventeen men were killed ant
sixteen injured by an explosion il
coal mine at Wherum, Pa.
A. T. Puryear Confederate veteran
= and Rankin County supervisor
died at Jackson, Miss, aged 76 years
The Goldman Reichstag rejected
the governments bill for the taxation
of inheritances.
The Sultan's troops were victori.
Gus in battle with insurgents in
Morocco.
Miss Bessie Day, school teacher,
and her cousin M. e. Barton were
drowned by the capsizing of boat
near Pittsburg, Kans.
The New York police think Leon
Ling, the Chinese murderer of Miss
Elsie Sigel, may be hiding in New
Orleans.
William Carroker, a negro, accuse
ed of the murder of William Leon
ard, was taken from Jail at Talbot
ton, Ga, and lynched.
The old school Board of iberia
Parish urged that early action be
taken by the courts on the injunction
against the new board.
Fire at Rayne La, destroyed the
mercantile building and stock of
David Levy. Loss $4,000; insur-
ance, $4,000.
Oscar Lewisohn, the husband of
Edna May, the former actress, is
reported to have been killed in an
automobile accident in Europe.
| Three arrests were made in con-
nection with the murder of Tony
Mascinea. an Italian storekeeper at
Berwick.
Robert E. Eastman who murder
ed Mrs. Woodill near st. Michaels,
Md, committed suicide in order to
avoid capture.
Albert Reese, a negro who chop
ped off an. arm of Miss Mary Taun-
ton, was taken from Jail at Cuthbert
Ga, and lynched.
Justice Bowling, in New York,
granted Mrs. Howard Gould separa-
t1on from her husband and alimony
of $4,000 year.
A man named Shelber, of Jesse,
KY, attempted suicide at New Iberia,
La, after being arrested on a charge
Of petty larceny.
The Grand Jury at Covington re-
ported that it was unable to place
any criminal liability in connection
with the Vaudeville disaster.
Five American and four English |
tourists and two Irish boatmen were |
drowned during storm on Lake
Killarney, Ireland.
Myron H. Phelps, a New York,
lawyer, who, it is alleged, has been
preaching sedition in India was or
dered out of London hotel.
Mrs. Katherine Clemmons Gould /
took the stand in New York as a wit
ness in rebutal in the trial of her
suit for separation from Howard
J. Gould.
P. J. Gentry an actor, after serv-
inf fourteen years in the Pennsylvan-
ia Penitentiary for the murder of
Madge Yorke, an actress has been
pardoned.
The branch of the Wagner Bank
and Trust Company, at Fort Worth,
Tex, was held up by lone high
wayman. The robber escaped with
$500 in currency.
Louis Mayer, Alex Bryan and C.
o. Weick were convicted at Baton
Rouge of selling liquor to minors.
Sentenced was suspended because of
extenuating circumstances.
Sanford Robinson personal coun-
sci to F. Augustus Heinze, was con-
victed in the United States Circuit
Court in New York of impeding in ad
vising grand jury witness to aevade
the service Of a SuhnOena
The grand jury at Sumner, Miss,
indicted the Board of Supervisors for .
the Second District of Tallahatchie
County, the F. B. Hull Construction
Company and F. B. Hull Individual {
ly, charging conspiracy to defraud ]
the county in the contracts for re-
building the Courthouse.
The two lawyers engaged by the
citizens of Sumner, Miss, to rose
cute Town Marshal Zack Denton, in
dicted for manslaughter in connec-
ton with the death of James Craw- {
ley, withdrew from the case because {
District Attorney Harris would not ]
cooperate with them.
That he had mathematically prov
ID a discovery that the moon was
planet captured by the earth from =
space and not a detached portion OF
,ur globe, was the announcement
made by Prof. T. ]. J. See, astrono- c
ner in charge of the naval observa- q
;ory at Mare Island, in resort to S
he Astronomical Society of the Paci- /
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