The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1910-08-20
NEWS AS 1T HAPPENS
NATIONAL, STATE, FOREIGN. or
INTEREST TO READERS.
THE WHOLE WEEKS OOiNGS
Short Mention of Interesting Happen.
inos From Day to Day Through.
out the World.
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that if the Indian lands in Oklahoma a
we're sold and the $4,000, 900 proceeds
= were turned over to the Indtans IN
cash the state within ten years would
be flooded with paupers. 1t was assert
ed that many of the Indians who sign
cd the McMurray contracts allowing
10 per cent attorneys fee" to B, F.
McMurray and his associates were
financially irresponsible. They would
soon squander the cash, it was de-
clared, and within few years the
country would be confronted with the
problem of how to take care of them.
The biennial convention of the Phi
Delta Theta fraternity closed Friday
at Niagara Falls with the selection
of Chicago as the next meeting place
In 1912. These officers were elected:
President, Charles J. Lamkin of Jeyes-
vile, Mo-. secretary, Frederick J.
Coke of Wadesboro, N. c.; treasurer,
Alexander Pope of Dallas, Tex.
Result of Sundays games in the
Southwest Texas League: Beeville
S, Corpus Christi 4; Laredo 5, Victo-
ria 2; Brownsville-Bay City, no game.
More than 100000 eggs are annual
" retired from circulation by the pure
food inspectors in New York City, ac-
cording to a report just made public.
Miners of Oklahoma who went on
strike four months ago are in need Of
financial assistance. Solicitors are
seeking aid for the idle workmen
among other union organizations in
the state Five thousand are out Of
work.
The striking cloakmakers in New
York City number more than $4,000
men and women, according to brief
submitted by the supreme court of
New York by their employers, who
seek to have the union restrained by
a permanent injunction.
Mr.. Mark Lowd, chief engineer of
the Stone-Webster Engineering Cor
poration,, announcer Saturday that t-the
work of laying the big steel rails on
the Galveston-Houston Interurban
Railway would begin within the next
two weeks. The work will be started
at Texas City Junction from the ma
terial yards OF the Galveston-Houston
Interurban road and will extend to-
ward Houston, as the grading along
this portion of the right of, way has
been completed and the engineers are
about ready for the laying of the rails.
The body of o. L. Williams, one OF
the Dallas National guardsmen killed
by Dallas Artillerist Firmin at Hills
boro Saturday, was shipped to his ia
ther physician at Kemp, Texas,
where the funeral was had Sunday.
The body of A. B. Pickett, the other
slain guardsman, is still being held
awaiting the arrival of his father from
Galveston Pucketts mother, who mad
been in delicate health, died sunday
evening at Galveston soon after learn
ing Of the tragic death Of her son.
Continuation over the greater part
of the country of temperature near or
below the normal is predicted for the
coming week by the United States
weather bureau at Washington. A DIS
turbance is forecast to form over the
Rocky Mountain region Monday ana
to move eastward, attended by unset
tied weather and showers. 1t VIII
reach the Atlantic States by the MID
die of the week and will be followed
by fair and cooler weather.
Result of Sundays games in the
Texas League: Galveston l, ShreVe-
port 0; Waco 2, Dallas /; Houston .,
Fort Worth 4; Oklahoma City A, San
Antonio /.
AS a result of cerebral hemorrhage,
State Senator G. G. Stokes OF the
Thirteenth District died in San Anto-
pSo Friday. He was stricken at Aus
tin ten days ago and was rushed to
San Antonio for treatment. On reach
ing there he was unconscious and re-
mained in that state until he died.
SURPRISING even the success of the
pageant of last years cotton carr
val. which was then pronounced one
of the finest civic parades ever beheld
in the South, the civic parade Friday,
as it wound its way through avenues
filled with more than thirty thousand
people, was a revelation of beauty and
structural detail to the citizens and
visitors of Galveston. About one hour
was consumed in passing gwen
point, and as creation after ceatlon
of the brain and handiwork OF man
came into view, the citizen felt 1ustl-
fable pride in the pageant spread out
before the eyes of his guests.
An arraignment of President Thom-
as l.. Lewis, international organizer
and the executive board of the Unit
ed Mine Workers, and a complaint OF
the disbursements of the funds, by
Frank Feehan, president of the Pitts
burg district, occupied most OF Satur-
days session of the National Conven'
tion of Mine Workers at Indianapolis.
Only the preliminalies had attention
at the Republican State Convention OF
Texas at Dallas Tuesday. Some 2,5o0
delegates and visitors are on nand 10
take part in the exercises.