The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1909-05-14

can theatalS to produce indecent
plays.
Robert Wade, a gunner, was per-
haps fatally injured by the prema-
ture discharge of cannon while
firing a salute at the Confederate
memorial exercises at Fort Gibson,
Miss.
In Congress Senator Overman of
North Carolina has proposed a tax
of $12 on every immigrant, urging
that this had the virtue of protec-
ton to, labor as we'll as a means Of
raising large revenue and bringing
in a better class of immigrants.
Last week Queen Wilhelmina of
Holland gave birth to a daughter,
somewhat to the disappointment of
the people who hoped for son.
However, it settles the question of
foreign succession, which was in
doubt for several years after the
marriage of the queen.
A record price for a quarter Sec
ton Of oil land in the famous Glen
Pool, Sapulpa, Okla, in the pur-
chase of the holdings of Lucinda
Pittman, at present in Colorado
Pittman, was established by the
Gulf Pine Line Lumber Company.
The price was 100000.
John Cooke Of Hoopeston, ILL.,, a
prisoner in the county jail at Dan
vile, ILL.,, is willfully dying of star
walton. For more than a week he
has not taken food, and he says he
is determined to die. He is farm
err and declined to give a peace bond
which his wife sued for.
One fireman was killed, another
is missing and eight were seriously
injured in fire which destroyed
Elevator B of the Illinois Central
at Chicago. The confagration, which
was discovered at the height of
violent electric storm, consumed the
elevator and its contents. The loss
is estimated at $1,000,000.
Prospects for the presidents fu-
ture trip through the West this
summer assume a brighter hue,
Chairman Tawney of the House APP
preparations committee, after a con-
l ference with Mr.. Taft, announced
that he would offer a bill appropri-
ating $4,000 for the presidents
travelling expenses for the current
fiscal year.
Enraged because Miss Helen
Aver Marden of Somerville, Mass,
a Smith College senior, his former
fancee, refused to marry him, Por-
ter Smith, Dartmouth graduate
and travelling salesman, fatally
wounded the girl and then commit
ted suicide, falling across her body,
on the college campus, at North
ampton, Mass.
Secretary of the Navy Meyer de-
clares that the 16 battleships of the
Atlantic fleet which had made the
voyage around the world were in
excellent condition, and the fact
that they were accompanied by re-
pair ship kept them in good order
throughout the trip. He referred
| to an article in an English publica-
ton, saying that the result of the
trip was worth from $25,000,000 to
$5O,0O0,0OO to the United States
navy.
The resignation of Judge Henry
L. Palmer from the highest posi-
ton in Masonry in the United
States, that Of most puissant SOW
ereign grand commander of the SUI
preme Council, Ancient and Ac-
cepted Scottish Rite, thirty-third,
Northern jurisdiction Of the Uni
tied States, has been officially pro-
mulgated among the active mem
bers of the Supreme Council, whose
grand "east" is situated at Boston,
Mass.
Before the protests Of all Chris
tendon could be made effective
through diplomatic channels in the
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