The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1909-08-21
WIRE FLASHES

verest drought in years.
Il Fire at Milton, Fla, caused $50
: 600 loss
Miss Alma Pritchett was killed b
lightning at Inverness, Ala.
q Thomas Kastnes killed victori
kowalec In Chicago street car.
! Two girls were drowned Will
bathing in q pond near Amersterdam
Ga.
New York Democratic leaders ar
engaged in bitter fractional flgh
over the state chairmanship.
Officers Of Chicago street car line
and their employees reached a
ment on the wage scale. :.
One arrest was made at Pensaco
la in connection with an attack by
negro on women.
Four men were seriously injured
in passenger wreck on the South,r1
Railway near Slate Cut, Tenn.
The naval tug Nezinscot was sunl
off the coast of New England and
| four lives were lost.
Charles Pons, at Gravely Hill, Fla.
shot and killed his brother-in-laW
Charles Virgins.
The first fatality in the Pittsbure
strike occurred when a negro shot a
striker.
The next convention Of the Ameri-
can Federation of Catholic Societies
will be held in New Orleans.
President Taft will stop at Baton
Rouge, La, on his way down tn, Mis-
sissippi River, in October.
Harry K. Thaw gave out state
ment at White Plains, N. Y, in which
he insisted that he is sane.
Richard Golden. actor, 55 years old,
died on board a houseboat In Graves
end Bay.
Colonel Albert A. Pope, Sc years
old. pioneer bicycle manufacturer,
died at Cohasset, Mass.
Twelve drunken Seminole Indians
We're curbed after giving trouble in
the Everglades near Miami, Fla.
A remarkable series Of suicides and
attempts at self-destruction occurred
at Philadelphia.
Mrs. a. Gilbert, II years, at Allan
to. Ga, attempted suicide with poison
after . quarrel with her husband
youred BY shark
Rey. 6. w. woodruff was drown
ed near Pensacola. while his aged
wife looked On help1essly.
Ex-Governor S. r. Van SAINT OF
Minnesota was elected commander-in-
chief of the Grand Army Of the Re-
public.
Fire at Monticello, N. Y, destroyed
thirty-six buildings, including three
summer hotels, causing $1.000,000
loss.
Captain James Dent. 63 years old,
veteran river pilot, running out of
Vicksburg, died at Mineral Wells.
Texas.
AL Thompson. at Mateo, N. c., shot |
and killed his wife and wounded 8.
w. H. Seaman, who eloped with the
Model roads are being built into
Oakdale from Ward and Elizabeth,
two large lumber mills near the
.own.
Asa Hoy and William Ruckholz.
were shot and killed at Bisbee Ariz.,
~ William Pfankuch, striking 3rjn-
.er.
Three men who robbed the Valley
Bank, at Santa Clara. Cal, and es-
,aped in an automobile, were captur-
ed after q short flight.
Mrs. Esther schwermer, with
young child in her arms. jumped to
ieath from blazing tenement in
New York.
Angelo Caprio, in jail at Newark,
Y. j., after murderously attacking
wo keepers was shot and killed by
.hird.
J.. A. Engleman, night agent Of the
queen and Crescent Railroad at
Kings Mountain, KY, was assassi-
,ated in his ONCE by robbers.
The first the Greenville. Miss, pub
ic knew lynching had occurred was
when negro's body was found hang
ng to tree.
The greatest midsummer day In
n history was experienced in Wall
street when 100000 shares Of
tock were dealt In Friday.
Gerald Persch, the young New
York broker charged with larceny.
Who was released on writ Of hateas
:orpus was re-arrested.
Two Of the largest cotton mill cor
,orations in the South were merged
It meetings Of the stockholders in
oanville, Ill.
Ella Gingles, recently acquitted in
shicago of the charge OF larceny, sail
ID from New York for her home in
reland.
Efforts are being made to secure
he pardon of w. s. Harlan, Of the
Jackson Lumber Company. Lockhart,
Ala., convicted of peonage.
Justice Mills handed down a de-
.ision at White Plains, N. T., declar-
ng Harry X. Thaw insane. He dis
missed the writ of habeas corpus un-
Ter which Thaw was endeavoring to
,btain his release from Matteawan,
Ind ordered him turned over to the
to be returned to the in
;titution.
The public school system Of Mobile,
which was deprived Of $4,000 be-
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