The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1910-03-25

BOD Austin and Richardson, negroes,
were lynched at an early hour Friday
morning in the court house yard at
MARION Ark, by mob of 300 citizens.
Inc victims were charged with aiding
ana abetting Jail delivery which oc-
CURED there Monday night.
Nearly forty representatives of the
interstate Commerce Commission are
now in Texas on a still hunt for re-
oates or other violations of the rules
anu regulations of that body. These
examiners are not only checking the
records in the general Offices, but thew
are also checking the stations along
Ine lines as well, to see that there Is
no discrepancy in the records
AS a result of the governors inquir.
les addressed to the county Judges of
leXas he finds that there is total of
l94 insane persons now confined in
Ihe Jalls of Texas and awaiting accom-.
inoaatlon IN the state insane asylums,
winch are now filled to overlooking.
VI that number there are q white
women, So white men and q Mex.
leans and 80 negroes.
In his address before the chamber
OF commerce in Rochester, n. Y. Fri
day, President Taft made an earnest
appeal to congress to subordinate and
sacrifice individual opinions in order
that the measures he had recommend.
cd in fulfillment of party platform
pledges shall be enacted into law. He
expressed the hope that the party
would show that it has the sense
and discipline" to meet it's responsible
| tiles
Edwin Cleary, who managed Louis
Paulhan's aeroplane flights in this
country, has his troubles, caused by
Paulhans refusal to make further
flights, multiplied in New York Thurs
day through proceedings brought
against him by the Wright Company,
controlling the Wright brothers pat
ents for flying machines.
Commander Robert E. Peary has cut
| short his lecture tour in the South.
| The refusal of Governor Brown of
Georgia to introduce him to an Atlanta
audience Thursday, his reference to
the commander in an interview as a
'fakir,' and the small crowd that at
tended the lecture brought forth an an
nouncement from the Civic Forum in
New York, under whose auspices
Peary is lecturing, that his plans have
been changed.
John P. Cudahy, the Kansas City
millionaire who recently used knife
with telling effect on Jere F. Lillis,
another wealth man of that city, is
guest at the Battery Park hotel, Ashe-
vile. N. c., with his brother, Jos.
Cudahy. and his valet 1t is believed
that the latter is Cudahy's chauf-
feur. who figured prominently in the
cutting of Lillis.
Matt Henson, lecturing in Syracuse,
N. Y, on his trip to the north pole.
with Commander Peary. Friday night
expressed indignation at what he
termed Peary's shabby treatment" of
him since their return to this coun.
try.
Barney Oldfeld, driving his ZOO
horsepower Benz in practice Friday
at Daytona, Fla, covered mile in
twenty-eight seconds. being one-ffth
of a second faster than the worlds
record made by steamer car four
years ago.
The North Dakota coal rate law Of
1907 was Monday held to be constitu-
tional for the present by the Supreme
Court of the United States, despite
the claim that the railroad law re-
quires transportation of coal below
the cost of service
A large part of the $1.S45,00O which
New York will spend this year for
new school buildings is to go into the
construction of portable schoolhouses,
a scheme of Mayor Gaynor for the
immediate relief of the congestion ip
crowded parts of the city.
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