The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1909-10-16
THIBODAUX. La. SATURDAY. OCTOBER Is. 1909
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NewsgeoMEverywhere.

Railroad Commission yesterday
set dates for rice rate hearing.
Mobile liquor cases are thrown out
Of court On technical grounds.
Total valuation of railroad operat-
ing in Mississippi was given at $751;
479,041.
Hon. w. Baskin of Meridian was
urged to enter the gubernatorial
race.
Race war is threatened at Tom
ball, Tex, owing to scarcity of em-
ployment. 4ss 5sfs.
William Randolph Hearst accept
| ed the nomination for MAYOR, OF. New
Yorkstenaered m. epeAdent
| mass meeting.
Charles w. Morse, it was said,
would again head the Metropolitan
Steamship Company, which was bid
in by member of the board of re-
organization managers.
The torpedo flotilla which took
part in the centennial celebration at
st. Louis was ordered to visit Port
Arthur and Beaumont, Tex, before
coming to New Orleans during the
waterway convention.
1t was said more diamonds were
imported into the United States in
September than in any corresponding
period in the history of the trade.
The Pittsburg National League
champions defeated Detroit, by a
score Of to 1 in the first game of
the worlds championship series in
Pittsburg.
1t became authoratively known
that Miss Katherine Elkins and the
Duke of the Abruzzi met in London.
1t was said there was no renewal Of
their engagement.
Charley Taft younger son of the
President, will be taught how to box
by Jimmy Walsh, former bantam
weight champion, 1t was announced.
At least six Republican Congress
men from Illinois, it was said, would
not support Mr.. Cannon for re-elec-
tion as Speaker, if they are returned
to Congress in 1910.
Arrangements were completed for
the second annual meeting Of the
Southern Commercial Congress in
Washington, Dec. and Z.
Nov. 80 was fixed as the date on
which Louisiana molasses men would
appear before Secretary Wilson to
give facts concerning what is New
Orleans molasses.
President Taft spent the day in.
sightseeing in the Yosemite Valley.
1t was announced that the count of
all government moneys in the Treas
ury Department would begin Nov. /,
when Lee McClung, the new United
States Treasurer, takes his post.
The New York Presbytery was
charged with fostering heresies and.
it was said,. the entire body might be
put on trial before the synod.
Fire at Milton, Fla, destroyed the
Louisville and Nashville depot and all
the freight it contained.
The Ransdell "hog and hominy
party conducted a meeting at Tai
lulah, La.
The balloon st. Louis No. 3 won
the st. Louis race.
Glenn Curtiss made three aeroplane
flights in St. Louis, none of which
was a success.
1t was announced that Philadel-
phia banks would raise the rate on
call loans to 6 per cent.
j. M. Linwsey was killed and En-
met Yates was injured seriously in
a runaway accident at Laurel, Miss.
The Louisiana Commercial Secre-
taries' Association elected officers at
Monroe.
Admiral Dewey answered former
Congressman Landis' declaration that
the United States navy was bluff.
Mobile citizens protested to the
Treasury Department against the site,
of the proposed government building
there.
New York physicians opposed the
plan of the Physicians Federation OF
Paris for rate of fees with an ir-
reducible minimum.
The Atlanta Chamber Of Commerce
hegan q crusade against the hook !,
worm disease.
Colonel Robert B. Snowden, So
years old, of Memphis, capitalist and
Confederate veteran, died suddenly
at Atlantic City.
The government will build a sea
wall around Fort McRea, at the en-
trance to Pensacola Harbor.
Etta Henderson, actress and play
wright, "A years old, died at Long
Branch, N. ].
w. W. Coleman, 60 years old. sui
cided by shooting, at St. Petersburg,
Fla.
One person was killed and thirty
four injured in collision between
Illinois Central passenger trains at
Parnell, Ill.
A. P. Perham, Jr.. an editor, was
killed In an electrical storm at Way
cross, Ga.
A third incendiary fire at Milton,
Fla, caused heavy loss to railroad
and telegraph property.
The preliminary hearing OF the
Of the Indianapolis News
charged with criminal libel was set
for Monday.
Ruth Bryan Levaitt formally an
bounced her candidacy for the NOM