The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1909-01-22
FOREIGN.

After lying buried in the ruins OF
the consulate OF Messina for eighteen
days, the bodies of Arthur Cheney, the
American consul, and his wife were re.
covered Saturday by a detachment OF
sailors from the battleShip Illinois. The
bodies were recovered in what evident
ly had been the bedroom of the Chen
eys. They were found lying side by
side. Mr.. Cheney was identified by a
slight physical deformity, while the
body of his wife was identifiend by a
locket and wedding ring. There is rea.
son to believe that the cople were
killed while they were asleep.
The Duke de Litta, who is reported
to have offered to settle a colony OF
Italian earthquake sufferers on some
Florida lands, married some years ago
Miss jamie Perry of Charleston, S. e
The central committee of the Rus
sian Socialist Revolutionary party,
| which is holding meeting in Paris,
announces that Asef, the head of the
fighting organization of the party, has
been convicted of being the paid agent
| of the secret police.
Indictments have been issued against
fifty-tWo school teachers, priests and
other persons at Agram, Croatia, fol-
participation in conspiracy to unite
I Croatia-Slavonia and Bosnia with
Servia. They will be tried next month
During the excavations which are
steadily going on among the ruins of
Messina, safe containing $4,000, was
found Saturday on the site where the
municipal building stood.
The distress in the port wine grow
ing regions in Portugal, arising from a
crisis in the wine trade, eliminated in
rioting. At Regoa Saturday the troops
that were preserving order were fired
on by an Infatuated mob and replied
with bayonet charge.
Louis Etinene Ernest Rey, better
known under the nom de plume of
"Reyer," musical composer of note,
died in Toulon Saturday.
The ashes of Lady William Beres-
ford were deposited in Curraghmore,
Ireland, Friday, beside the coffin OF
her husband, Lord William Beresford,
in the Clongate graveyard, in the pres.
ence of the Marquis and Warehouses
of Waterford and Marquis of Lans-
doWne.
The death of Vice Admiral Rojestv.
ensky, who was in command of the
Russian feet in May, 1905, when it
was practically annihilated by the
Japanese in the battle of the Sea OF
Japan was announced Thursday at
st. Petersburg.
The Brazilian employees of the Great
Western railway of Brazil, British
concern, employing 1000 men, went
on strike Saturday.
Shaft Khan, Persian prince in the
Russian service, committed suicide be-
cause h9 had been relieved of the com.
mand Of the Fifteenth dragons.
The American battleship Illinois,
while on the way from Suez to Malta
with the battleships Wisconsin and
Kearsage, received orders by wireless
telegraph Thursday, from Rear Admir-
al Sperry, the commander of the
American feet, to proceed forthwith
to Messina, to assist in the work Of
relief.
Crowds Of people again Thursday
visited the United States battleships
Minnesota, Vermont and Kansas,
which are lying in the harbar of Viii
lefrancne.
The decree of the Netherlands gov
eminent at Wallemstad permitting the
free export of arms and ammunition
from that colony has been revoked.
The decree was an act Of reprisal
against former President Castro be-
cause of his attitude toward the Meth.
erlands government.
Lillian Blauvelt, the American pri-
ma donna, has been engaged as the
leading soprano at the Mendelssohn
Centenary concert to be held in Lon
day on February 3. She will then pro-
coed to New York in "Hansel und
Gretel." on February II.
King Victor Emmanuel received
Rear Admiral Charles S. Sperry in
private audience at the Quirinal Pal
ace Thursday. His majesty conversed
in English for more than half an hour.
The king also talked with each men,
Der of the staff, and expressed his
pleasure at being able to meet them.