Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1910-06-10
ST. JOSEPH, La, FRIDAY. JUNE 10, 1910.
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| The BrltlSn ANTARCTIC eXpedltlOn
sailed from London.
Clifford Pinchot is expected to aid
the Republican insurgents.
| President Taft delivered addresses
at Ada, Ohio, and Detroit, Mich.
All grades of refined sugar were
lowered 10 cents per hundred lbs.
The Tariff Commission question
will cause serious trouble in the Sem
ate.
A demented Russian hurled a tin
can at the crown prince of Germany
at Berlin.
Ex-President Roosevelt and Sena-
tor Elihu Root held a conference in
London.
The Panama Exposition fight has
been renewed at Washington. The
San Francisco boomers ere trying to
dazzle Congress with a display of
money.
President Taft delivered an ad-
dress at Byrn Nav College, Phila
delphia, Fa.
Secretary Meyer has ordered i'm
provements at the New Orleans Ma
val Station.
!, Seventeen men were killed by a
! premature explosion of powder at
: Morgan, Utah.
Twelve persons were injured in a
passenger wreck on the Southern
railway at Sycamore, Va.
The Government of Peru has in
dicated it's purpose to withdraw Its
army from the EcuadOrean frontier
on June 4.
The Republican insurgents in the
House will make another effort to
depose Speaker Cannon before the
House adjourns.
The city of Nanking, China, has
been posted with placards melting
! the people to the destruction of for
| eign life and property.
! Captain Charles S Rolls, the Eng
! lish aviator, flew across the Eng
lish Channel from Dover to San
! Gate, France, and returned without
] stopping.
Bills have been introduced in the
House changing the material of the
4 New Orleans postoffice, in course Oi
! construction, from limestone to gran.
3 ite or marble.
x The San Francisco exposition
: boomers are bringing strong pressure
3 to bear on Congressman Rodenberg
|. of Illinois, to induce him to consent
to a favorable report on their bill
) The La Toilette amendment to the
5 railroad bill providing for the ascer
) tainment of physical valuation o
) railroads as basis for fixing rates
! was rejected by the Senate by vote
5 of 25 to 80.
The Postoffice Department is abOu
to issue a ruling striking out thu
eight-hour limit of a working da!
for letter carriers.
An appropriation of 100000 was
= made by the House to enable the sec
retary of agriculture to make an in
q vestigation of methods of maxim,
paper from various plants and woods
By a vote of 81 to SO the HOUSE
adopted an amendment to the sundr!
civil bill providing that no none!
appropriated for the enforcement o
the Sherman antitrust law shoult
be used for the prosecution OF labo
organizations.
The United States, it was Officiall.
!. declared, has no intention of in an,
way intervening in Nicaragua or re
cognizing either party to the contro
versy until one faction or the othe
has obtained full control of the gov
ernment by consent of the people.
Church growth in the United State
has been greater than the increase /
population between the years 100
and 1906, according to the specia
report on the census of religion
bodies.
An amendment to the railroad bi
offered by Senator Overman, regula'
ing the suspension of state laws b
the issuance of injunctions In intel
locutory proceedings in Feders
courts, was adopted by the Senate
1t prohibits such a course except
ter hearing by three judges.