The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1910-10-01
fWs AS IT HAPPENS
arloNAL. STATE, FOREIGN. or
INTEREST TO READERS,
me WHOLE WEEKS OOiNGS
ess Mention OF interesting Happen.
ass From Day to Day Through.
out the World.
DOMESTIC

seports received from all owe
s,.hEest Texas indicate that the to
! eotton crop will not be more tba,
sshlrds of last year, and many es
- that it will not be more thar
i d great. In many places tn,
- ire already clear and there is ns i
.spest for top crop. This is throw
4 many cotton pickers out Of EN-
.bymsnt. They are going to Nortl
:. gsst Texas.
81 sh bodies, the victims of the inter
rbsn wreck two miles north Of TIP
"a Ind, Saturday, which was caused
believed, by the crew of the
A.lght train disobeying orders and
snshing head on into a limited on the
9 annapolis and Peru division of the
& ssIsna Union Traction Company
n sre taken to their homes for burial
Mrs. Francis Victoria Sankey, widow
y lra D. Sankey. the singing evange.
4 M died Sunday at her home in
a hosklyn. She was II years old.
Il With his encourage of six persons
4 n sultan of Sulu, under the guiding
4 ma Of Colonel Hugh L. Scott, Four
ssath Cavalry, United States OF
d lrerica, arrived in Washington Sun
4 Is 10 meet Presideit Taft with whom
4 ; became acquainted when the presi-
\ IN, was In the Philippines.
Eighteen hundred men, women and
tshdren, all Sunday school attendants,
sanday afternoon took part in one of
De most enthusiastic religious demon
rssions ever held in Houston.
Ca.hering at an appointed hour, they
nsrched through the principal streets
Il the city singing.
After two days and nights of silence
Marie Messerschmidt, the nurse held
since Friday night in connection with
1 she death Of Eva Swan, following the
finding Of the girls body beneath the
cement flooring of the basement of
vacant house at San Francisco, Cal,
confessed to the police Sunday that
she had knowledge of the operation
performed by DR.. James Grant upon
Miss Swan, and that she attended the
girl after the operation. The confes-
sion states that Robert Thompson"
Known as DR.. Grant, packed the girls
body into trunk, first cutting off the
kgs at the ankles; that Grant disucss-
u the burial of the body with the
aHTse and spent two nights at the
house where the body was found.
Twelve or thirteen persons lost
asir lives and eleven others suffered
INJURIES in the wreck Friday two miles
num Clayton, Kansas, on the west
@and Rock Island passenger train.
lae wreck was the result of cloud
MFst which carried out steel
wage under what is usually almost
cry bed, turning the latter into a
'eTent and washing out nearly thou
liHd feet of track.
Lee 0'Neil Browne, recently ac-
ssliled OF bribery In connection with
ns election of United States Senator
lefimer. was twice refused recogni-
uen on the floor of the Illinois State
Nmocratic Convention in session at
Iast ST. Louis, ILL.,, Friday. AS
MEMBER of the resolutions committee
= vas told by Roger C. Sullivan, ma
aanal committeeman of the democra-
u party in Illinois, not to assert him.
Rf.
samuel X. McIlhenny, cotton brok'
z Of Houston, Tex, died at the Char
~ Hospital. in New Orleans Friday
'san after being taken there from his
nom on Cont street.
rflVate dispatches from WinsloW.
Aa1s report a severe earthquake Fri
'as In that part of Arizona. No de-
~ are given. Messages rrom VII
'f1as hear the Grand Canyon, state
= snock was also felt there, but no
3 vas hurt, nor was there any dam
Aaef a long and warm debate taa
'alonal encampment of the Grand
aME Of the Republic at its final ses-
'aa ut Atlantic City, N. j. Friday,
'ssnnitely postponed action relative
' he controversy over the placing OF
& statue of Robert e. Lee in Sta
4siy Hall of the capitol at Washing
1a The vote was 133 to 102.
a cotton crop of 3,225,ooo bales
= iexas is the estimate given py
s'ohel L. ]. Polk, general agent OF
= santa Fe in Texas. He is convlnc-
ifom what he was told by those in
ses'ed in cotton as producers or
saefs that fully three-fourths OF the
w In the territory which is reached
Vm Austin and San Antonio is mar
eeo. This is the concensus OF the
'Aaions OF the cotton factors in that
1rritory.
As result of the conference called
GOVERNOR Stubbs, at Topeka, Kan
= Thursday, a permanent organiza-
- 70 be known as the Traffic Asso-
aaoh OF the Middle West, with Rail-
- commissioner W. D. Williams OF
'~As as president and Assistant AT
'.asy General John S. Dawson of Kan
: % secretary, was formed. Mr.. VIII
~4as Is also a member Of the execu-
= committee. Governor StubDs
'-1s The financial committee and
= Lee Cruce of Ardmore, Ok, is
enber of it.