The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1909-09-04
WIRE FLASHES

Dixie Day was celebrated at he
Alaska Exposition.
President Taft will urge Congress
TO pass postal savings bank bill.
President Taft agreed to extend
his stay at Baton Rouge, La.
The American Bar Association con-
vened at Detroit Mich. ;'ss
The National Conservation Con
gress convened at Seattle.
Fighting between the Spaniards
and Moors has become general on
the Moroccan coast.
The annual meeting of the Ameri-
can Bar Association was begun in
Detroit.
The Supreme Court of the Forest
ers of America met in Toledo in an
nual session.
e. H. Hartman has gone into re-
tirement at his home at Arden, N.
Y.
At local option election Harris
burg, W., voted wet by a majority
Of 81.
Archbishop Farley returned to
New York from a visit to the Pope
in Rome.
The benzoate of soda controversy
is raging in the National Pure Food
Congress at Denver Colo.
An attempt was made to burn a
negro lodge building at Monroe, La,
where negro shot thirty citizens.
Henry Farman won the Grand
Prix de la Champagne at Rheims,
and broke all endurance recods.
A girl giving her home as Laurel.
Miss. was arrested in mans attire in
the railroad yard at Mobile.
E.. H. Hartman returned to the
United States as he left last June, a
tired, sick man seeking health.
e. H. Hartman placed himself in
seclusion, and reports as to his
health we're conflicting.
Evidence of peonage was brought
out in the Pittsburg strike investi-
cation.
"A river-railroad transfer was de-
dicated with imposing ceremonies at
Donaldsonville, La.
President Taft discussed the re-
port of the monetary commission
with Senator Aldrich.
G.. Grosvenor Dave spoke at
Chautauqua, n. X, on Conserva-
tion.
Radical changes III State courts
were recommended at the National
Bar Association meeting in Detroit.
Ten men were killed and over
dozen injured In an explosion of dy-
Mantle at Boca Chica, Fla
Ambassador Thompson wired the
State Deparement that there was
no danger of serious trouble in Mexi-
co.
Food experts in session in Denver
declared benzoate of soda harmless
by indorsing the Remsen Board re-
port.
The assessed value of the real and
personal property in New York was
fixed at $7,250,500,559 by the tax
board.
No further disorders by strikers
were reported from McKees Rock,
Pa. The death list reached a total
Of eleven.
Three men were wounded, one fat
ally, in the climax Of feud be-
tween two families at Independence,
Ind.
Rufus Gillespie, Samuel F. Thig-
pen and Lemuel P. Conner were ap-
pointed Mississippi census supervi-
sors.
The Federal Government is In
peonage charges In the
Pressed Steel Car Company's at Nc
KEGS Rocks, Pa.
A total of 145,000 bags of coffee
from Brazil arrived in New York,
breaking all records for one days
receipts.
The Louisiana team remained In
Iastt place at the Camp Perry rife
match. Mississippi dropped from
to fortieth place.
In his second attempt, at Rheims
France. Hubert Latham. the Fnsnch
aviator, broke the worlds record for
time and distance.
The investigation Of the graft scan
dal at Montreal, Canada, shows that
the city was swindled out OF thou
sands Of dollars.
Steve Brown, negro, was killed
near Bronson, Fla, while in the act
,f assaulting Mrs. Becky Snowdon,
BY Bart Farcloth, a white man.
Gov. Wilson. Of Kentucky, address
ID the American Bar Association on
The recent tobacco war and night
riding in his State.
The announcement by E. H. Harri-
man that there would be no dis
.ribution of extra dividends to Union
and Southern Pacific stockholders
caused slump in prices on the
New York Stock Exchange.
At Meadville Buckley Halford was
arrested in connection with the at
tempted assassination of q. w. New
man. A warrant was sworn out LOT
The arrest OF Fred Middleton, and
The sheriff is said to be seeking one
or two other men he suspects OF
It was stated in Washington that
The anti-peonage law might be in
yoked against the officials OF the
Pressed Steel Car Company IN Plus
burg.
The Board of Pure Food and Drug
Inspecti on of the Department OF
Agriculture made a ruling on what
Ls wine and what may not be brand
ed wine.
The last Of the State troops were
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