The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1909-08-27
Enraged because he had been

Sh0t ana 1dldlly Noultu'" -''''' -
ME Clarke, aged II years. Inc
shooting took place at one OF the
most prominent street corners IN
Portsmouth, Ohio. and was the Gil
max of scene in which Bliss de-
manded the return of diamond
ring.
Believing that deaf mutes would
make good operators for the large
number of puncturlng and tabulat-
ing machines to be used in making
up the returns of the next census,
Secretary NageI of the department
of commerce and labor is inclined
to appoint them to such positions
if capable ones apply for the
places.
While driving to church at Frls-
bee station, near kennett, NO., tive
children of A. H. Hyde, a farmer,
were killed by St. Louis 4 San
Francisco train No. 81, which
struck the wagon on crossing a
mile east Of the Hyde home. The
dead: Leila Hyde, 23; Juda
HYDE, 20; Jesse Hyde, Il; Susie
Hyde, -; Charles Hyde, 26.
During the last twelve years, the
period covering the administration
Of Secretary Of Agriculture James
Wilson. the agricultural balance If
trade in the United States in
creased from a yearl Y average OF
1924 100000 to Sill 100000, Or
15.7 per cent, According to the de-
partment,S year book. just made
public.
Two more American Dread
noughts, the Wyoming and the Ar
kansas, authorized by congress, took
definite shape at the navy depart
ment when bids for their construc-
ton were opened. The vessels are
each to cost $6,000,000, and will be
equipped throughout with the lat
est improvements.
Undergoing an operation that
might have resulted in his death,
in order to save the life of the wo-
man he loves, lsa Y. WE'LL, a prom
inent merchant of Memphis, Tenn,
submitted to opiates for four hours
while surgeons transfused a quart
of blood from his arm to the body
of his bride Of a few months, who
lay i'll with typhoid fever.
That $2,O0O,OO0 has been wasted
in digging drainage bitches in east
ern Arkansas, and that the whole
drainage scheme on which millions
of money and years of energy, toll
and effort have been spent is a fail
ure, is the startling feature of a
report made by Arthur E. Morgan,
supervising engineer Of the govern
ment.
Richard D. Watkins, aged "A,
cashier of the Central of Georgia
railroad, was shot and probably IA
tally wounded at Augusta, Ca, by
Miss Elvira Todd, aged ~. The
police were compelled to break
down the door of Watkins office to
capture the young woman, who, in
her statement to the police, says
Watkins betrayed her.
Capitalization of the combined
garment manufacturing interests of
Chicago by the erection of a group
of eighty buildings to cost approx
mately $5,000,000 and the abolish
ment of the "sweat shop" by the
building of homes, club houses, L.
braries and gymnasiums for $500
employees, is part of the plan.
In the opinion of acting Mayor
John 7. Walsh Of Memphis, Tenn,
and other members of the legisla-
tive council, who returned from
Nashville, where they appeared be-
fore the Railroad commission in
behalf of a union station, not less
than two, and probably three, pas
senger stations will result on &C.
count of the failure of the railroads
to get together on a union depot.
With the utilization of ot;n