Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1910-05-27
ST. JOSEPH, La, FRIDAY. MAY 27. 1910.
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ficially declared off.
The steamer Venus blockaded
Bluefields. There had been fighting
at Rama.
The railroad bill was displaced in
the Senate by the naval appropria-
ton bill.
The submission of evidence in the
Ballinger-Pinchot investigation has
been ended.
The United States offered to medi-
ate in the threatened war between
Peru and Ecuador.
Thirty black spots were observed
on the sun, one of them 10000
miles in diameter.
Twenty to thirty men were killed
and fifty injured in a boiler explosion
at Canton, Ohio.
Several persons were killed and
great damage done to property by q
tornado in Oklahoma.
Six bishops of the Catholic church
were consecrated simultaneously at
st. Paul by Archbishop Ireland.
Work on the Bush-Everett gas
pire line from Caddo field to St.
Louis will start within sixty days.
Nine crowned heads of Europe and
Theodore Roosevelt were among the
guests of King George at a dinner.
Arrangements are being perfect
ed at Washington for the visit of the
members of the Louisiana legisla-
ture.
Astronomers secured valuable pho
tographs and data during the passage
of the earth through the tail of the
comet.
Thousands passed the bier of
King Edward. Theodore Roosevelt
rode in the eighth carriage during
the ceremonials.
Senator Stone, of Missouri, will
introduce a resolution in the Senate
inquiring into Senator Knox's Mica
raguan policy.
One hundred persons were killed
by dynamite explosion that wreck
ed the Rural Guard Barracks at Pi-
mar Del Rio, Cuba.
Henry Watterson, in an address
before the Canadian Publishers AS
sociation at Toronto, deplored the
passing of personal journalism, say
ing the duel is more interesting than
the libel suit.
The body of King Edward was re-
moved from Buckingham Palace to
Westminster Hall, while the remains
lay in state.
The College of Methodist Bishops
vetoed the action of the conference
at Asheville, N. c., by which the
name of the church was changed to
the Methodist church.
Revs w. B. Murrah, w.. S. Lam
buth, Z. ID. Mouzon, K G. Water
house and ] II. Mccoy were elected
bishops by the general conference of
the Methodist Episcopal Church,
South
The Gulf Coast Lumber Exporters
Association, in session at Pensacola,
was told that the soda-dip process for
export material is unsatisfactory.
Four thousand independent Demo
Gratis of Tennessee, in session at
Nashville, rebuked Governor Patter-
son for raping the judiciary, and
nominated tickets for the Supreme
Court and the court of appeals.
The Methodist Conference at Ashe-
vile adopted the committee report
| placing the control of Vanderbilt
University with the church.
The American Cotton Manufactur-
ers' Association, in session at Char
lotte, went OH record as favoring
| the ship subsidy.
Paul ]. Rainey and Harry Payne
Whitney have purchased the steam
err Roosevelt, and will sail for the
arctic regions June 20 ON hunting
expedition.
The Mississippi Press Association
in session at New Albanay, adopted
resolutions favoring New Orleans a:
the place for holding the Panama
Exposition.
1t is announced that the Missis
sippi Central Railroad will go tt
Mobile from Hattiesburg, Miss, owe
| the New Orleans, Mobile and Chica