The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1909-07-02
Mrs Edith Woodill Of Los An

have been murdered. s
Miss Bessie Day, school teacher,
and her cousin, NJ. +. Barton, were
drowned by the capsizing Of a boat
near Pittsburg, Kan.
William Carroker, a negro, ac-
cused of the murder of William
Leonard, was taken from jail at
Talbotton, Ca, and lynched.
Oscar Lewisohn, the husband of
Edna May, the former actress, IS
reported to have been killed IN an
automobile accident in Europe.
Grover Brandt, 11-year-old son
of cx-Mayor George 7. Brandt of |
Pass Christian, Miss. is missing.
He left a note indicating suicide
by drowning.
The parade Of the North Amerl-
can Turnbund at Cincinnati was
participated in by 10000 turner's,
soldiers, school children, civic So
cietics and secret orders.
Carrying out a suggestion Of the
Mississippi Press Association, Gov
ernor Noel named J. G, Mcclure,
E. A. Fitzgerald and Fred '. Sui
lens a committee to solicit sub
scriptions for the fund to erect a
: life-sized statue Of the late Bishop
: Galloway at Jackson.
The question of the eight-hou1
= law mas been submitted to Presl
dent Taft in the form of reQues
(, BY Thomas DoIan, president OF tn
, Steam Shovclers' Union, that tn
= president obtain from the attorne
n general an opinion as to whether tn
law prohibiting payment for over
- time is not being violated on tt
, Panama canal.
no The commission authorized
10 Tennessee legislature to select
site for the monument to Senat
49, Edward Ward Carmack, who W
- killed on the streets in NaShvlI
=. last November, has decided on a
IA cation above the south entrance
the state capitol grounds. 1t
proposed to erect a memorial co
II ing $4,000. Subscriptions to
'ii' memorial fund are being received
a One man dead and % inJur
several seriously, are the result
an error in train orders which ca
'f1 ed two night passenger trains
''"I the Southern Railroad to meet
'iN a head-on collision at Belmont,
Iion The two trains had been ordered
'lle meet at Belmont, but later this
'SeS- der was revised so that the meet
place was fixed at Browns.
rick t-bound crew did not receive
r at latter order and expected to
Sta at Belmont.
eph; Five years ago J. E: MARCEL :;
and cashier Of a bank in Hlgnl
from KAN. swindled banks in Ma
CITY, st. Louis. Chicago and
icing York out of 100000 and vre
max the bank in Highland. lie was
'oney victed and sentenced to 80 yea
run nrison. Fifteen months ago he
S are hardened by Governor Hoch.
$ and day MARCEL is fugitive 4, from n
o die. tice, He is wanted on the c,
t re- Of defrauding Kansas CITY
trial AGAIN, this time out Of $500
tatiye When Representative Bar
rman- Of Missouri called on General
:, who worth, adjutant general OF 'i, ,1
nment few days ago he was tolo " vi
ler-in- nlaps Of making Jefferson ba
St Louis, the model and cent
,t,+;on of the army
assem- being perfected and that, beg
Il gov, in the near future, it was the
begin ton of the departure " ~ :,
pressed 1000 soldiers anu ie,l ,oo
'achjne all times, as it is to be a rec
Of 40 station for all the branches
service.
ma oil Tuberculosis has its late late
tarv of an all-powerful foe IN , MIS-:
ooance Hartman, eldest daughter
,lations r, Hartman. She has tai
. earlv Of her fathers Erie ferry0o
by the turned 1t INTO d e n,'a hos r
~ from fight consumption. She mas
o,ls,, e +ho craft to the Brook,