Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1910-04-29
LATE NEWS NOTES.
General.

LATE NEWS NOTES.
General
An oficial can for the fifth reuns.
ion Of the Roosevelt Rough Riders
at New York from June is to 20 was
issued at Oklahoma City, Okla. The
chief object Of the reunion is to vel.
come Colonel Roosevelt home.
Revised estimates Of the aggregate
cost of the Philadelphia trolley strike
to all those interests involved place
it at $l2,200,000. The greater burden
of the loss fell on the business com
munity, which IL estimated to have
suffered in the loss of trade and in
other ways to the extent of $8,000,0OI
The cost to the strikers, including
those who went out on sympathetic
strike, was 100000. while the di
rect loss to the Rapid Transit com.
pany is figured at not less tnan 81.
100000.
What is said to be the first light
house built for airships has just been
erected on the top of small railroad
building at 6pandau, Germany. II
consists Of thirty-eight powerful elec
trio lamps, which shoot a glaring
light skyward. Its purpose il to guide
the dirgibles of the German army at
night
Four thousand Philadelphia carmen
who have been out on strike practi
cally two months have returned to
work for the Philadelphia Rapid
Transit Company under the terms of
an order issued by officials of the 10
cal union calling the strike to an end
The total exports of the Japanese
empire for the first three quarters of
1909 show an increase over 1908 OF
$S.921,S77, of which the principal
items were rice, tea, refined sugar,
camphor, raw silk, cotton yarn, straw
and chip braids. cotton tissues and
matches.
Washington
Colonel w. F. Cody, who has en-
deared himself to the youth of the
land as Buffalo Bill' and caused
more truancy than all the baseball
games In history, has established his
claim as private in the army of the
United States, and has been granted
pension Of $12 month. The pen
sion office records show that William
F. Cody, enlisted in the Seventh Kan
sas calvary February 19, 1864, and
was honorably discharged September
20, 1865.
Although 1t was generally known
that splendid progress had been made
by the army engineers in digging the
Panama canal, the statement con-
tanned in the Canal Record just at
hand comes as q surprise that all OF
the excavation that was contemplated
in the original project has been CON-
pleted. Under that plan, 103, ,795, 900
cubic yards of material were to be
removed and that mas been done But
subsequently in order to accommo-
date naval--.vessels of the Dread
naught type and the giant liners now
under construction the president or
dered the widening and deepening Of
the canal prism. That involved the
removal of 70,S71,594 additional yards
of material.
Little or no comment was to be
obtained from congressional visitors
at the white house on the coming re-
tirements of Senator Aldrich and
Hale. Speaker Cannon, who was an
early visitor, was asked whether the
retirement of the two members of
the "Old Guard" in the senate would
have any influence on him or other
members of the house. He said he
believed politics did not enter into
their determination at all. For him.
self, the speaker after taking q fling
at "Muckrakers" declared he was 60
Ing to live twenty-five years longer
and have good time while he was
doing it.
President Taft's office at the white
house mas been an artists studio
during the past week and Official cal
lers have had the double advantage of
an interview with the chief executive
of the nation and glimpse Of the
sculptor's art Robert l. Aiken of
New York has finished the clay mod.
el of q bust of the president, which
is said to be destined either for the
Metropolitan museum art In New
York or the Concoran Art gallery in
Washington.
During the three months ending
December 81, 1909, there were 1,09S
persons killed and 2.491 persons In.
jured on railroads, according 10 q
bulletin issued by the interstate com.
merce commission. This is an in.
crease Of sol killed and 5.645 injured,
as compared with the previous year
On electric lines rs were killed and
e42 injured. The accidents on steam
roads numbered 3,206.
The National Woman's Suffrage
convention has elected the following
on1cers: President, DR.. Anna How.
ard Shaw, Pennsylvania; first vice
president, Rachael Foster Avery
Pennsylvania; second vice president
Catherine Waugh McCulloch, Illinois
recording secretary, Ella 8. Stewart
Illinois; corresponding secretary
Mary Ware Bennett, Massachusetts,
Auditors. Laura Clay and Miss Ellis
Stone Blackwell, Massachusetts,
treasurer, Harriet Taylor Upton