The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1909-02-05

Coleman, Ballihger and San Angelo.
President Roosevelt declared to call
ers Monday that after his return from
Africa, where he intends to spend
year, he expects to go West and live
there most of the time.
In fog off Nantucket, Mass, at dawn
Saturday, the Lloyd liner Florida Ito
New York from Naples) crashed into
the White Star steamer Republic and
six lives were lost.
The Union Pacific passenger train
No. 5, known as the Oregon Express,
struck broken rail near Dana, $50
miles west of Cheyenne, Wyo., Tues
day afternoon and was wrecked. Two
persons were killed and many seri-
ously injured.
Governor Patterson of Tennessee is
expected to SEND to the senate his veto
of the bill prohibiting the manufacture
Of liquor after January /, 1910. That
the bill will be passed over his head
by both houses is foregone conclu-
sion.
Wall street was surprised Monday
by the announcement that Sidney G.
Love & Co. one Of the largest brok-
erage houses in the country, with Of
fees in New York, Chicago, Mime
apolis and st. Louis, had decided to
retire from business.
Three men were killed and ten
others injured, three of whom it is
thought will die, in an accident on the
incline railway leading to the mine of
the Piedmont and Georges Creek Coal
Company on the mountainside, near
Piedmont, w. Va, Monday.
At meeting held by the stewards
of the racing association of Ell Paso.
Wednesday, it was decided to extend
the present meeting not less than fif-
teen days, and as a result over $50
more horses are expected to arrive
here during the next week.
Two women and 200 men are for
sale in New York. They declare they
will work for nothing for any one who
will guarantee them food, shelter and
enough clothes to keep out the cold.
More Southern troops will be in line
in the Taft inauguration ceremonies
on March than have been in Wash
ington since Grover Cleveland was
inaugurated the first time, according
to the preparations that are being
made.
President-elect Taft Friday made
his eighth trip across the Isthmus OF
Panama. With his party Mr.. Taft land
ed Friday morning at Colon and pro-
ceeded by special train to Culebra,
where he Is quartered at the residence
of Lieut.. Goethals, chairman of the
Panama Canal Commission.
! Jose Miguel Gomez was inaugurated
first president of the re-established
Cuban republic at few minutes after
noon Thursday, and the American con-
troll of insular affairs came to an end
with the departure of former Gov. Ma
COON and all the provisional officials.
The government entomologists 10
Gated in Dallas are confident that the
days of the boil weevil are short, both
in Texas and in the latest scene OF
attack in Louisiana and Mississippi
With the aid of favorable climatic
conditions in the affected portions oil
Texas the ravages Of this pest will
soon be thing of the past.
Congressman ]. E. Ransdell OF
Louisiana, president of the national
rivers and harbors congress, in ad
dressing the Traffic club of Chicago
Wednesday, pleaded for the support
of the railways in securing more and
better waterways and advocated a
bond issue sufficient to secure $4,000,
900 a year for the purpose Of improV
ing rivers, harbors and canals.
Demonstration of one of the great
est achievements thus far reached II
!, aerial locomotion was given Wednes
day when Mark o. Anthony, New
York electrical engineer, sent small
dirigible balloon scudding abou
through the air by means OF power
making it perform all sorts of evolu
!. tons and having the air craft at al
times under perfect control. BY actua
performance, he demonstrated for tn
: first time that the long sought TO
/. secret of propelling airships by wire
less electricity has been discovered.
1 Fifteen persons were seriously in
: jured and score of other passenger
: more or less bruised by the derailmen
of a portion of train on the South
ern Railroad, bound from Evansville
3 Ind, to Louisville, KY, Thursday.
+ A special dispatch received in Lon
don from San Sebastian, Spain, say
that a terrible earthquake has devas
. tated several towns and villages II
: South and Southeastern Spain.
tidal wave partially submerged tn
coast near Barcelona, and a grea
= landslide at Ceuta buried the villag
l. of Romara and several hundred inhab