Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1909-12-11
GENE NEWS.

The American Society of Mechanical
Engineers met in New York in it's
thirtieth annual session.
President Taft. head of the Ameri-
can Rec Cross. opened the fifth anDu-
al meeting of that organization in
Washington. and addresses were made
on relief work in Italy, Key West and
elsewhere.
The annual meeting of the Lake
Michigan Commercial Fishermen's as
s~ociation was held in Charlevoix,
Mich, II. Barlow presiding.
The state horticultural societies of
Illinois and Michigan met in annual
convention at Champaign and Kalama-
zoo, respectively.
Striking foreign wOrkmen at a steel
plant in Monaco. Pa. tore down an
American flag and hoisted i'm it's place
q black flag, and when Deputy Sheriff
Crowley sought to ~displace the latter
he was shot and fatally wounded.
The Pennsylvania st. Louis-New
York flyer was wrecked by a broken
rail near Louisville, Ind, and three
express messengers seriously injured.
None Of the passengers were hurt out
side of some minor bruises and cuts.
Secretary of the Navy Meyer in his
annual report warned the govern
ment to hold on to the navy yards and
recommended the immediate building
of two battleships of the most de-
structive type and another dry dock
on the Pacific coast capable of dock
ing the largest "Dreadnoughts."
President Zelaya of Nicaragua has
become a fugitive from justice and
a common murderer in the eyes of the
United States, according to a report
which emanated from the state de-
partment. 1t is the intention of the
government to capture him If posi-
BILE and try him for the murder of
Groce and Cannon, the Americans.
It is believed in New York that the
purchase of the majority of the stock
of the Equitable Life Assurance So
ciety by j. Pierpont Morgan fore.
shadows the naturalization of the
Equitable.
The British parliament has been
prorogued and the fight to end the
powers of the house of lords has be
gun.
A full set of autographs of presi.
dents of the United States. from
Washington to Roosevelt, was sold in
New York for $1,000.
That Mrs. jeanette Stewart Ford
shot and tried to kill Edgar S. Cooke
o. Chicago at New York several years
ago is asserted by Prosecutor Henry
Hunt OF Cincinnati, after an investiga-
ton in connection with the Warmer
embezZlement case.
Secretary Dickinson, in his annual
report, recommends to the president
many sweeping changes and reforms
in the army, including the centraliza
ton OF troops in forts erected ada.
cent to the principal cities of the Uni
ted States, the adjustment of the
Roosevelt physical tests for officers
and governmental control of wireless
telegraphy.
Robert r. Doherty, a prominent
Methodist who was one of the found
ers of the Epworth league, is dead of
pneumonia at his home in Jersey City
He was 62 years old.
The Rock Island and Frisco rail.
roads have dissolved the merger that
involved more than $500, 900. 900 and
will operate separately hereafter.
The English house of lords rejected
the budget and have referred it to the
country for ito INDIGNANT On tho ,,,,c
ure.
One miner was killed and 100 res
cued with difficulty when gas exploded
In q mine les Marion, III.
Mrs. Mary J. Wilhelm was placed on
trial at Newark, N. j.. charged with
the murder Of her husband. Nicholas
8. Sica. indicted with her. will b.
tried separately.