The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1910-01-07

- o anu al letiSt IIT6S ser.
iously injured when Rock Island pas.
senger train No. 3, 1.-THE California
Special" was wrecked two miles south
OF Trenton, Mo-, Friday.
A terrific cold wave gripped the en-.
tire South Thursday, not even the
orange exempt from the freezing tenn
perature. The mercury ranged from 2
degrees above at Asheville, N. c., to
81 degrees at FL Paso, Tex, with 20
above at Jacksonville, Fla, and % at
Tampa Points in Texas and the ex-
IRENE southern portion of the Florida
peninsula alone escaped the freezing
blast
Five men were instantly killed Wed.
nesday by the explosion of boiler at
the new plant of the Metropolitan Elec-
trio Company in West Reading. The
night Watchman had just left the plant
and the day force had arrived when
the boiler exploded. All in the imme-
date vicinity met instant death.
Fire insurance men say state law
which becomes operative Saturday,
Jan. l, will revolutionize business in
| Texas.
After two weeks search, the United
| States officials finally landed the last
or the eighteen persons indicted by the
Brownsville (Tex) grand jury in the
famous Chinese smuggling conspiracy,
when Constantine Gripiotis, a Greek,
was arrested in New Orleans by United
States Inspector Brough.
For the first time since Halley's
comet reached this section of the heav-
ems on its present visit it is visible to
the naked eye in New York. Prof.
Eastman of Columbia University has
been studying the comet without the
use of a telescope. For two weeks
it will be visible and it will be plainly
seen for several nights.
The best hogs sold at $3.50 q hun.
dred pounds at the Kansas City stock
yards Tuesday. This is the highest
price paid in the last twenty-seven
years. In 1882, the year following the
hog cholera scourge, which killed sew.
eral million hogs in the corn belt, $3.50
was paid at this market.
Executive clemency has again been
exercised In the case of Thomas West
moreland, who was convicted in the
Circuit Court for the Eastern District
of Texas for murder committed in the
Indian Territory in June, 1898. West
moreland was sentenced to be hanged
and the United States Supreme Court
affirmed the sentence. Then President
Cleveland on October Is, 1895, com
muted the sentence to Imprisonment
for life. President Taft Monday di
rected the sentence be committed tC
twenty-five years with the usual allow
ance for good conduct.
The New York Stock Exchange has
an investigation on its hands. Common
stock of the Rock Island Company
rose 81 IA points almost Immediately
after the opening Monday, then even
more suddenly dropped to so. Thereby
hangs a mystery or fiasco or some
thing that the governors of the STOCK
Exchange will Immediately sift to the
bottom. With the close of Mondays
session, the governors quickly held
conference and it was announced that
a special investigation had been insti
tuted.
William E. Annis, the publisher, who
was slain by Capt. Peter c. Hams, Jr.
at the Bayside Yacht Club in August
1908, left an estate valued at only $500
according to the report just placed Oh
file in New York.
With tons on tons of ice piled high
against the piers of the bridges span
ming the Ohio river at points below
Pittsburg, Pa, river traffic has beer
abandoned.
Determined to smother New York
Chinatowns attempted renewal Of
Tong fueds, which resulted Monday
night in the death of two persons.