The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1909-09-24
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tric Light, ice anu '"0l pony
W., DESTROYED by fire Friday. The
amounts TO about 100000. with |
r:oOo insurance The fire is said |
have originated in the grass near
the plant and was quickly communicate
cd to the building.
IN the most important utterance
80 hos made since his occupancy Of
tho White House, President Taft Fri
day. at Winona Mimi, defended the
payne tariff bill as the best .ariff bill
.bs people have ever known.
II Thiery, s. years old, IS cele-
,r,ting the birth Of son III his home
IN Long Island City. 1t is the fourth
child since he was married eleven
wears ago when IS years old to Miss
Margaret OConnor, a comparatively
young woman.
hundred brief words, weighted
with approximately $lOO,OOO,OOO, and
containing the last testament of f. H.
Hartman. makes his widow, Mary Az
drill Hartman, one Of the Weal,hiest
women in the world. 1t is perhaps the
hripfest will on record for the dispos-
al Of an estate Of such MAGNITUDE.
All his property is left to Mrs. Harri-
man Wall street estimates that Mrs.
Hartman will inherit in realty and
personal property between $75,OOO,OOO
and S1O00OO0OO. Mr.. HaTiman's pri-
yata fortune is supposed to have been
greater than this by many millions.
The first of its kind in the world.
an exhibit for the blind, at the Ma
tural History Museum in New York
will be opened in the near future.
hut there is reason TO believe that his
unmarried daughters Mary and Carol,
his married daughter. Mrs. Robert Liv-
ingston Gerry, and his two sons, Will
liam Ayerill and Roland boy of A.,
Mrs. Simons, and other relatives,
together with his surviving sister,
have all been substantially provided
for in gifts out of hand, trust funds
set aside by MIR. Hartman during his
lifetime,
Hog cholera costs farmers OF the
United States S40,0O0,00O> annually, &C
eording to estimates presented at the
closing session of the Interstate Asso-
citation OF State Boards Of Live Stock
Commissioners at Chicago this week
President Taft, during a stay OF
twelve eVentful hours in Chicago
Thursday, plunged with will into the
long program of entertaining which
awaits him on his long Western and
Southern itinerary. With perfect
weather and crowds that fairly fought
to catch a glimpse of the chief eX
ecutiye, the first city to be visited
set a high mark of enthusiastic wei
come, which the president seemed
deeply to appreciate.
Reports of showers throughou
South Texas continue to come IN
While some localities seem to have
been skipped, most counties received
a wetting some time during the week
Rains have run from slight fal
of an hours duration to ~ inches
Apparently they have come at tn
right time to insure good crops OF win
ter truck as we'll as to start the glaS
on the ranges. From all accounts tn
season has been one of extreme dry
ness and the rains are most welcome
One life was lost, 100 head OF catti
DESTROYED and between three and NJ
teen miles of mountain lands burne
over are the net results of forest an
brush fires near San Diego, Cain
Thursday.
A fire in Greenville, Texas, Thurs
day destroyed six large buildings an
contents, aggregating a loss DetWee
$4,000 and $4,000.
The Western Union Telegraph con
pany has applied for Writ OF erl'
in the case in which the State
Texas recovered judgment against
for 100000 permit fee. Since tn
Judgment was obtained in the ceu
of civil appeals for the Third olstrl
the law has been changed SO as
LIMIT the amount of the permit II
to $4,000, but the company reluS'
to pay even this sum.
Albert T. Patrick, who is serVii
a life sentence in Sing Sing prison II
the murder of VIM. Marsh Rice
New York in 1900, has filed wan t!
clerk of the court OF appeals notl
of an appeal from decision render
by the appellate division, dlsmlssl'
the writ of habeas corpus granted nj
nv Justice VIM. j. Gaynor last re
ruary. Patrick claims he Is comm
illegally, and that Gov. higgins n
no right to commute his senten
from death to life Imprisonment. r.
rick's appeal will probably come
fore the court in October.
The third deplorable tragedy gro
ing out of the escape OF the three
gro prisoners from the Angleton J