The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1909-11-20

i Several persons were killed in
riot at Placi, Italy
}, Labor conditions in Gseat Br:tai
are going from bad to worse.
|, Louis w. Lewis killed his wife an
suicided at Jacksonville, Fla
: Mint officials are strongl Oppose
]. to changing the design Of mckels
: Five thousand persons Here rel
: dered homeless by a typhd0n on th
Island Of Panay, Philippines.
, London celebrated. IN Iqll6r Of iii
Kings birthday the s,ang gura
tion Of thes Lord Mayors
; Three were killed in head-on CO..
lision on the Louisville and Nash
vile Railroad at Coal Creek, Tenn
Ptomaine poisoning from eatin
canned goods has affected an entir
family at Houston, Texas.
Secretary Meyer will submit t
President Taft the Swift report o.
the reorganization of the navy.
Edward Hills, banker and legisla
tor of Plainville, Conn, was foun,
dead in a hotel at New York.
The postmaster at New Orlean
has been instructed to forward mai
for Nicaraguan Atlantic coast ports
Fourteen persons were killed ant
several injured in a wreck on an in
terurban railroad at Vancouver, B
C.
The Massachusetts delegation
bound for Baton Rouge, La, to un
veil a monument, passed through
Washington.
With a much heavier rainfall thar
was experienced in the prece linz
month 2,S27,79S cubic yards were
eXcavated on the Panama Canal dur.
ing October, as compared with g.
S36,3S5 cubic yards in September
according to report received in
Washington from Colonel Goethals,
chief engineer of the canal.
The appeal of Charles w. Moore,
convicted in New York of violating
| the national banking laws and SEN
fenced to serve fifteen yoass in the
Atlanta penitentiary, was filed il the
supreme Court of the United States.
The engagement of Duke Johaan
Albrecht, Of Mecklenburg-Sc -Schwerin,
regent Of Brunswick, to Princess Eli
zabeth, Of Stolberg-Rossla, was ga
Zetted.
King Edward of Great Britain eel
ebrated his sixty-eighth birthday at
Sandringham Palace, surrounded by
most of the members Of his family
and few intimate friends.
The executive council of the Amer
ican Federation Of Labor, in its re-
port to the convention at Toronto,
Ontario, recommended that an appeal
be taken to the United States Su-
preme Court from the Jail sentences
imposed on President Gompers, Vice
President Mitchell and Secretary
Morrison for contempt in the Buck
Stove and Range boycott case.
New York bankers are urging the
Treasury Department to eliminate all
bonds except United States bonds as
security for government deposits.
The District of. Columbia authori-
ties have started campaign to
change the date of the presidential
inauguration from March to the
last Thursday in April.
Commander Robert E. Peary, the
Artctic explorer, who has taken UP
his residence with his family in Wash
inston for the winter, says he is
not contemplating an expedition to
the South Pole.
A series of odd frauds upon the
First Provincial Court of Berlin was
by the arrest of Lother
Luedicke, former court employe,
and two confederates, Willie War
nick, professional bicyclist, and
Haas Meier, a cook.
The State Department has called
upon the Cuban Government for in
formation regarding the new trade |
treaty between Spain and Cuba, re-
ported to have been practically COM
pleted. Upon the answer may de-
pend the abrogation of the Cuban re-
ciprocity, treaty and the applica-
ion Of maximum duties upon Span
sh imports into the United States.
Samuel F. Morley aede a dying
statement at Detroit, Mich. that he |
was shot by his cook, Miss Bertha
Lietzau, because he refused to marry
her.
Henry Brodenheyer, of Madison,
Wis, believed to have been MUIR
Tered by robbers in 1905, was killed
oy his wife, now in an asylum, ac-
,ording to confession made by a
laughter of the couple.
The question Of prohibition occu
lied much of the attention of the
delegates to the American Fedora
ION of Labor convention in Toron-
James F. Bendernagel, for many
ears general superintendent Of the
williamsburg plants OF the Amerl-
an Sugar Refining Company, was
indicted by the Federal grand jury
n New York in connection with the
lleged sugar weighing frauds.
James S. Bradley, Jr., acknowledg-
d he had bought controlling in
crest in the new long-distance tele-
hone company of Indiana.
Friends of Mr.. Taft inferred that
hey believed conspiracy was on
cot to discredit the Taft administra
ion and force the nomination OF
in 1912.
Mrs. Jeanette Stewart, accused by
'harles L. Warriner of blackmail.
hargedu adlu ahrdl amfW annanan
eclared she never received a cent