The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1909-10-08
ITEMS OF INTEREST
NEWS THAT IS NEWS, WHEN IT IS
NEWS, FOR ALL.
DOINGS OF DAY AND WEEK
happenings the Wide World Over OF
Important Events Condensed to
Good Reading.
DOM EsTic.

com home such as few returning hn.
roes Can hope to receive. From the
bridge OF his Arctic ship, Roosevelt,
commander Peary, with his wife bv
MS size, was the most prominent fea-
lure 0l the SlXty-mile Hudson Fulton
naval parade from New York to New
Ourgh. All the way land and water
ech0eO the cheers of congratuatiOn,
while the tall, military looking man
smiled back his answer Meanwhile
Capt. bartlett was kept at work inces
sanity with the whistle cord. answer
ing tht salutes of passing craft, and
Chief Engineer Wardell called up from
the engine room that he would not
nave steam enough to prOpel if they
did not stop the whistle.
In an auto accident shortly after
midnight Friday night on the Mission
loop south Of San Antonio, six persons
were injured, two fatally. Harry Cot
tam, fatally; O, ", Worthy, serious;
Mrs. 0. W. Worthy, fatally; Russell
johnson, serious; Mrs. j. II. Brack
serious.
A fishing schooner from Pensacola
was seized Friday by a Mexican gun
boat. II is stated that the Mexican
gunbOat's capture was contraband car
go.
The Southern Pacific railroad plead
ed guilty Friday in Los Ange-
les, Calf, in the United States
District Court to rebating and was
fined $1,000 by Judge Wellborn. The
company entered a plea of technical
and unjntentional guilt. The maximum
penalty would have been $4,000.
Joe kemper, young white man
charged with assault to murder, the
charge growing out OF the. shooting OF
Police Officers Heck and Munroe over
a year ago in Houston, was found
guilty by jury and his punishment
fixed at ten years in the state peni-
Tertiary. Kemper was tried for the
shooting of Officer Heck. At the last
term Of the court he was tried for the
shooting of Officer Monroe, and on
that occasion a jury gave him five
Years The shooting of the two Off
GERS occurred at the same time and
under exactly the same circumstances.
The board of managers OF the Con
federate Home, in session at Austin,
received information that certain in
mates of the home took advantage OF
Gen. Grants amnesty proclamation
and virtually gave up their allegiance
10 the confederate government before
peace had been declared. An investi-
cation is to be instituted, and all in
mates found guilty of having accepted
the terms laid down by federal Gen
eral Grant will be dismissed from the
home.
Assistant Attorney General Sluder
will adhere to his decision previously
given to the Fort Worth city author
tiles. 10 the effect that the recent
bond election in the Panther City on
s650,000 Of city improvement bonds
was Illegally held, and therefore the
record preparatory to issuing said
bonds cannot be approved and the
bonds can not be legally executed.
AS a result of hazing by four
scheolmates, Albert Whitticker of
River Park, east Of South Bend, Ind,
is in a serious condition. The boy,
who is II years old, was stripped OF
his clothing, tied to a tree and SO
terribly beaten with clubs that ne
tainted
The steamship Irak sailed for LiV-
erpool Thursday from Galveston with
a cargo consisting of $4,000 square
bales of Texas grown cotton.
Settlement of the street car war
which has been waged at Cleveland,
Ohio. for the last eight years, seems
nearer than it has at any time since
the city and street railway officials be-
gan fighting.
The American Association of Sur
geons. in convention at Chicago Fri
dav officially Endorsed Dr.. COOK S
claims as discoyerer OF the North
Pole.
The notable achievement OF taking
a reproducable photograph OF Harley S
comet. now 35OOOO,OOO miles from the
earth has been accomplished at the
Yerkes Observatory, Williams Bay,
Wis. II is the first photograph taken
in the United States since the return
of the comet, in which the meteorMd
can he seen with the naked eye. It
is also believed to be the first photo
of the comet ever taken.
Daniel Clifford, one Of the perseVer-
ing and much suffering soldiers VINO
marched to the relief of Gen. Custer
and who was within forty miles OF the
Little Big Horn when Custer and MS
men we're massacred by the Indians
is diving in a hospital at New YORK
from starvation.
Frank f. Seagrave, a Providence, X.
astronomer, whose calculations rel
.;,o 70 Halley's comet have attracted