The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1909-10-09

the Mississippi River Commission.
The Department of Agriculture has
: prepared new standards for cotton.
Spanish soldiers fell into an am.
buscade in Morocco and lost several
men.
The British steamer Clan Mackin-
,tosh, reported blown up at sea, ar
a rived at Calcutta.
Hundreds Of families were render.
led homeless by floods III Southern
III kiissfslppi, ] !
II paymaster In the army, will be placed
on the retired list.
Herbert Latham flew at the rate
of seventy-four and one-half miles
an hour in an aeroplane in Berlin.
The French episcopate issued a
letter declaring the public schools
|jeopardized the faith of children.
| Colonel George w. Goethals, chief
engineer of the Panama Canal, ar
rnved in the City of Mexico.
/ Speaker Cannon will take the
stump in the West to fight the in
surgent Republicans.
The Neptune, the biggest battle
ship in the British navy, was launch
ed at Portsmouth, England.
! British scientists discovered what
they said were absurdities in Peary's
story, but none in Cooks narrative
! The Ba1linger-Pinchot controversy
has broken out again. Ex-Secretary
Garfield may be drawn into the row.
Engineer Parr, of Arkansas, will
liekly be appointed to the the vacancy
on the Mississippi River Commission.
Secretary Carpenter is insisting
that the arrangements for the en-
tertaihment of President Taft be
made simple.
A gold medal was presented to
Secretary of War Dickinson for saw
ing a man from drowning some years
ago.
Harry Whitney arrived at st.
Johns, Newfoundland, and told what
he knew of the Cook-Peary controv-
ersy.
Senator Beveridge, Of Indiana, an
nounced that he would continue his
fight for a national tariff commits
sion.
Colonel w. II. Morrison, who was
for many years Democratic leader in
the National House Of Representa-
tives, died at Waterloo, Ill.
The comptroller Of the currency is
making an effort to bring about CO.
operation between national and State
bank examiners.
The Journal of Commerce October
cotton report shows the condition of
the cotton crop on an average date
of Sept % to be 59.5.
Moorish tribesmen resumed the
fighting on the summit of Mount Gu
rugua, now occupied by Spanish
troops, but were repu1sed easily.
The British authorities rfds Bar
-celona of republican and anarchist
suspects. Hundreds are daily exiled
to the provinces without q hearing.
The British government arranged
to purchase all but two of the coast
stations of the Marconi wireless sys-
TEN and, to take over the Lloyd sta
tions
Lieutenant. Edward w. Terry. OF
Louisiana, attached to the Twenty |
second Infantry, was court-martial- |
ed for drunkenness and for being fl
nancially irregular.
Government Forester Pinchot says |
a water power trust is being formed |
to secure control of all the valuable
water power sites in the country.
Senator Kovalevsky, formerly d. |
rector of the st. Petersburg Depart
ment of Police and an official of
high social standing, committed sui
eide by shooting.
Another dissolution of the Finnish
Senate Is imminent as result of the
conflict with Russia over the amount
of Finland's contribution to the de-
fense of the empire
The British steamship Clan Mack
intosh, bound from Rangoon to Cal
cutta, India, was blown up at sea,
and every person on board, with the
exception of one man, perfshed.
The capture OF the towns OF Ma
dor and Zeluan by the Spanish forces
in Morocco is being celebrated at
Madrid as the virtual end of the
war with the Riffs.
The jewels of Abdul-El-Aziz. for
mer sultan of Morocco, which we're
pledgtd in French pawnshop in
1907, and have not been redeemed,
will probably be sold at public auc-
tion.
The Spanish troops scaled Mount
Gurua in Morocco, and planted
Spain's ensign on its topmost peak.
Madrid celebrated the news of the
Spanish success.
The Mississippi Tax Commission
adjourned at Jackson, after recon-
a permanent state commits
sion and assessor, and that all prop
erty be assessed at half Of Its value
The governments plea for recon
tinuance of the hearing of the pro-
prietors of the Indianapolis News
charged with criminally libelling for
mer President Roosevelt and others,
was refused in the Federal District
Court at Indianapolis.
Short weights and measures are
costing consumers millions of dol
lars annually. A movement has been
started for national legislation reg