The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1909-11-27
NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE

Ind, was dynamited.A
The Irish Land .biilsvas passed in
the House of Lords.
Rev. J. Da Hathaway suicided hy
hanging at Mayvi1N, Mo.
The British g6ipet announced
that no compounds With the House
OF Lords will h. entertained in the
contest over the SbfAget bill.
Eugene HiggnssNte4 veruna was
wrecked on. the coat Of the Island
of Maderia;.
The Dominissf Cehtress has rat
ified the extraH0pn treaty between
that government AAd the United
States. x55s
Lively tin1es are exleeted in Wash
ington when resconvenes the
/ first. Monday in December,
| The Treasury Department will
probe the sugar trust frauds, regard
less of any action that may be taken
by congress.
| Booker T. Washington headed a
committee which called at the White
House to solicit the support of Pres
ident Taft for a movement which has
been started by leading colored peo-
pie throughout the country looking
toward the holdins of an exposition
| in 1913 to celebrate the fiftieth an
niversary of the freedom of the ne
J gro race in America
Prompt action will be taken by
President Taft to prevent contrac
tors engaged in building railroads N
South America from enticing labor
ers away from Panama.
Hattie Sinda, IA years old, was
attacked and murdered at MilWalt-
kee, Wis.
H. w. Dowda, postmaster at Bun
Mrs. H. G. Clarke.
General A. C. Oxford and r. j.
| Cunningham engaged in a person
al difficulty during the Alabama
Confederate Veterans reunion at
Montgomery.
Mexico City was greatly excited
over the. announcement Of a new
candidate for the presidency of Mex
leo.
Big Four Railroad shareholders
| voted a bond issue Of $4,000, 900
for improvements to the system.
John Mitchell, under sentence for
contempt of court, declared no trib-
unal could stop him from declaring
| for the rights granted by the Or
| ganic laws of the country
Republican insurgents claimed to
| have enough votes to strip Speaker
Cannon OF, his power
Postmaster General Hitchcock's Sc
lection of a census supervisor for
North Carolina and an enumerator
for Pittsburg were turned down by
Mr.. Taft.
On the stand in his own behalf,
Henry Sibley, accused of the murder
of DR.. NJ. NJ. White at Shreveport,
La, advanced the unwritte1 law
plea.
After the Ascension parish police
jury had refused to rescind its Or
dinance appropriating 100000 for
good roads, opposing taxpayers Sc
cured a temporary injunction at
Donalsonville, La.
Application for charters for three
new railroads to traverse the state
T. east and west and north and south,
and to enter neiglboring state were
filed at Jackson, Miss, by agents
said to represent French syndicate.
Plans for a merger of all indie
pendent telephone lines in Ohio were
announced, and it was rumored and
denied that the Postal Telegraph
Company would merge with the
American Telephone Company,
which purchased the Western Union.
Charles N. Crittendon, 76 years
old. of New York, founder of seven
ty-three Florence Crittendon rescue
homes for girls, died at San Francis
CO.
The elimination from the customs
service of Acting Deputy Surveyor
James F. Vail, the abolition of that
Office in the New York Custom-house
the dismissal Of 104 men and demo
tion of 123 other men at New York
from March 4 up to last night, with
about a score of other changes in
cluded in Collector Loeb's statement
from New York was announced by
Secretary MacVeagh tonight.
Mothers of the Catholic pupils at
the young girls school at Chassigny
Sous Dun, in Saone-et-Loire, France,
made public bonfire of the inter-
dicted textbooks used by their
daughters
The Finnish Diet was dissolved be-
caused of its refusal to sanction the
bill introduced by the government
asking for appropriation of $4,000
900 for the defense Of the empire.
Richard Watson Glider, author and
editor Of the Century Magazine, died
in New York.
Pope Plus, in an address to French
pilgrims, declared that France was
making war against the church with
an aim of undermining the basis OF
Christianity.
Seventeen soft drink dealers at
Re1yidere. Ill. were. fined Sill 900