The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1910-04-02
Wire Flashes

Bluff.
The Pittsburg graft scandal as.
sumed greater proportion when the
grand jury named six banks which
had been made repositories after
putting up $102,500 bribe money. De
posits were ordered withdrawn and
the directors have been summoned
to give facts. Thirty-one indictments
/ were returned.
The Philadelphia sympathetic
strike was called off Monday.
Syracuse University Alumni invit-
ed the president to a banquet, and
he had accepted, but withdrew his
acceptance because OF Chancellor
Days speech. Both sides deny that
any invitation was extended or &C
cepted.
An agent of the Holland Steam
ship Company was fined $4,000 on
pleading guilty to accepting rebates
from Wabash Railroad.
Prospect of settlement of the
miners trouble is not SO bright.
Father Boering died in Indianap-
oils from blood poisoning contracted
in administering saoraments to a dy-
ing man.
New York leaders are working on
Woodruff again, ON instructions from
Washington.
The most violent eruption of Mt.
Aetna in recent times is in progress,
and many villages are endangered.
The lava flow is very fast.
Colonel Roosevelt was given re-
markably enthusiastic reception on
his arrival in Cairo. There was
some apprehension because of agita-
ton against him on account of his
Soudan speech, but he refused police
escort. He called Oscar Strauss from
Constantinople to consult on the po-
litical situation at home.
Two American schooners were
seized at Prinza Pulca, and the Taco
ma was ordered to Bluefields to in
vestigate.
Minister Fielding and the Cana
dian minister of railways went to
Washington for final conference on
tariff differences.
Fifteen were drowned by the cap
sizing of a Norwegian freighter at
the mouth of the Elbe river.
Sensational letters were read in
the New York insurance investiga-
ton, revealing what Lawyer Buck-
ley did for $4,000 year.
James A. Garfield and Myron T.
Herrick made speeches at Tippeca-
noe Club in Cleveland, warning
standpatters in the party to retire.
One Pittsburg CRATER, after max
ing a confession, was refused the i'm
munity bath, because he acknowl-
edged getting too much and the
judge doubted him.
Twelve citizens of Cairo were in
dicted for participating in an attack
on the Jail recently.
J. H. Bethea, Southern contrac-
tor, went mad on q Baltimore and
Ohio train, killed the negro porter
and conductor, and was killed by the
police of Wilmington, Del. Two 9th
ers were wounded.
Mrs. Slocum was killed and Ma
jor General j. Franklin Bell badly
hurt in an auto accident in Washing
ton.
Insurance Investigation brought
out lawyer getting 100000 year
who could not recall what he did for
1t.
The German chancellor visited the
Pope.
England has announced her inabil-
ity to support the American propos-
ais regarding the Chinese railroad.
Canadian officials will not talk
about the tariff agreement, though
the idea of tariff war has been
Estrada is reported to be gathe.'-
ing another army together to resist
the advance of the government
troops.
Rioting was resumed in Bogota
and two English girls were attack
ed, being mistaken for Americans.
washington cabled our minister to
report promptly.
The House of Lords adopted the
third. section of Rnsebery's reform
resolution.
The French Senate passed the
wo@kmen's pension bill, ending a
four-year contest over 1t.
s. The Roosevelts visited Thebes.
Metchnikoff has inoculated ami
mails with typhoid.
The Rock Island wreck In Iowa
claimed forty-seven victims.
Foss, democrat, was elected to
Congress from the Fourteenth Mas
sachusetts District, by 5000 major
ty, This was a Republican strong
aold, and Democrats are jubilant.
Private advices from Russia says
great numbers of Jews are being ex-
,elled from the country by the gov
The Italian Cabinet crisis develop
I'd the day the German chancellor
arrived to discuss international af-
airs.
Maybray and nine co-defendants
we're given two years and $4,000
ines. Others were let off more
lightly.
A Colorado judge holds the par
,nts guilty of neglect for applying
Christian Science treatment to