The Rice belt journal., 1909-07-23
John D. Rockefeller gave another
$10,000,0O0 to education.

enumerat0rS.
A quarrel over s. resulted in the
killing Of Tim Galloway, negro
waiter, by Frank Martinez, a Porto
Rican in the kitchen of hotel at
GuIfport, Miss.
The government crop report for
July is extremely favorable to the
farmers. indicating a record break,
ing corn yield and other cereals in
promising condition.
The only hope of the downward
tariff reylsl0nists to secure reduc-
tons rests with President Taft.
Speaker Cannon ''fixed" the House
cOnferes to suit Senator Aldrich.
The striking miners in the Kan
SaS district to the number Of 5000
were ordered back to work by Presi-
dent Lewis of the United Mine
Workers of America, pending the
outcome of a conference between
the managers and the union, re-
queSted by the former.
Governor Johnson of Minnesota
in recent address is quoted as say
ing: 81 hope to see the time when
women will join with their hu2
bands in political affairs. Where
woman is the atmosphere is better
and politics would be better with
her refining influence"
The Tennessee Supreme Court
has reversed the lower court in the
conviction Of eight night riders
found guilty Of the murder
of Capt. Quentin Rankin at Wal
nut Log last October, six of whom
were sentenced to be hung. This
decision was expected to make way
for new trials.
Hussein Hilmi Pasha has sue
ceeded in squeezing $5.000,000 out
of Abdr., Hamid, and the screws
are being frightened in the hope of
making the late sultan disgorge all
his ilI-gotten wealth. The former
sultan was always in fear of being
deposed, and he put away in foreign
investments many millions.
The Indiana Supreme Court in
deciding that townships cannot be
compelled to supply conveyances to
carry children to school, argues
| that it is better for the health Of
the pupils to walk some distance in
the open air than to be carried,
usually in closely covered carriage
or busses.
Suicide ended the gay career of
a wealthy young Cuban when Juan
Balsinde shot himself in his apart
ments in East Fourteenth street,
New York. Nearly 200 seat checks
from theaters. some memoranda
and a letter indicated that he had
been infatuated with an actress and
had followed her from place to place
in Cuba and in this country.
The Interstate Commerce Com
mission bulletin Of railroad casual
ties for the first three months Of
this year, based on reports from
the railroad companies, gives a to-
tai of 663 persons killed and 1922
injured. This is an increase of 344
lin casualties, but a decrease of 65
in the number of killed. The wrecks
numbered 1884.
AT midnight Saturday more than
| / 900 saloons in Texas ceased oper-
atjons because of the coming into
effect of the law enacted at the re-
cent session of the state Legislature
invalidating all liquor licenses is
sued after February 20, 1909, Inn
itine the number of saloons in each
county to one for every 500 Of popu-
lation and barring new licenses In
conjunction with a hotel.
The American Woolen Company,
commonly known as the woolen
trust, has formally notified the
manufacturers of clothing that they
must be prepared for an advance OF
about rs per cent on all goods and
to put up their fall prices accord
inglv. The trust circular tells the