Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1910-08-05

Various political parties In Texas
held State conventions Tuesday Aug.
2.
Henri Rochette. the French pro-
motor. was found guilty Of swindling
through a violation Of the corpora
tion law and condemned 20 two
years Imprisonment and TO pay .
fine of 5000.
Prinzapulca and Rio Grands were
captured by the insurgent forces IN
Nicaragua.
From July 16 to Is. inclusive. al
Jews were expelled from Kiev, and
the suburbs, Solomenka and Demief-
fka, Russia.
The long-drawn-out arguments In
the Newfoundland fisheries case b.
for the Hague arbitration tribunal
closed.
Miscellaneous.
The Minnesota Democratic State
Convention at Minneapolis nominat-
ed John Lind for governor.
President Taft returned to his
summer home at Beverly. Mass.
The Republican Party In Ohio II
torn with dissensions, and Harding.
the nominee for governor. will have
rough time.
The Department Of Agriculture has
begun the distribution Of cotton
standards.
General Leonard Wood b acting
secretary Of war.
Owing to the discovery Of the foot
and mouth disease among cattle h
Yorkshire, England, the importatien
of cattle from that country into t1s
United States has been prohibited
until the extent Of the desease can
be determined.
Frank B. Hayne bid for $4,000
bales of cotton on the New York Cot
ton Exchange and caused Wild ex-
citement in the market.
Warren G. Harding was nominat-
ed for governor of Ohio by the Re
publican State Convention.
The Navy Department received ad-
vices that Americans and American
interest at Cape Gracias. Nicaragua.
are safe.
A vote In the Nebraska Demo
cratic Convention showed the ma
jorily against w. J. Bryan.
A process Of forced liquidation
was responsible for some very severe
declines in prices in the New Yorl
stock market.
The directors of the United States
Steel Corporation declared the re
gular quarterly dividend of Ia pei
cent Of the common stock for thu
quarter ending June 80. The regu.
lar dividend Of "a per cent on the
preferred stock was declared.
The regular Republicans gained
an apparent clear majority, Of the
resolutions committee Of the Ohio
Republican Convention at Columbus
when the district delegates met Il
select the committee members.
The gunboat Hornet. which wal
purchased by Mr.. Stern. Of New Or
leans. may not be permitted to leave
Washington.
The War and Navy Department.
will ask Congress for appropriation
to buy aeroplanes.
The extent Of the cholera epidemi,
In Russia II revealed In figures
made public by the government sani
tary commission. The stricken re
gion now includes forty-two provin
ces and territories Of European Rus
sia, and since the outbreak of the dis
ease. last May. there have been {
total Of 37.s52 cases, with 1855.
deaths.
i Spain has received practically Al
ultimatum from the Vatican In re
gard to the church question.
twenty-five persons perished In
flood that followed . cloudburst .
the town Of Dees, Hungary. Tn
damage to property and crops va
heavy.
u Twenty-eight hundred Ice cream
! cones shipped by Birmingham, Ala.
] concern were seized and destroyed b.
} Federal authorities at Nashville
Tenn. ON the ground that they con
tanned boric acid, which b held u
be Injurious to health.
The Treasury Department opene'
: bids for Federal building sites II
Mississippi and Alabama.
Recent agitation against gamblin
houses has resulted in the closing Q
practically every gambling joint Il
the city.
q An "unloaded" gun fred By
friend killed Ollie Hubbard an
wounded Dewey Horne. who was b
, hind him at Eastman. Ga.
Six were wounded in . race rio
At Ashland. w. Va.
A proposition was made to NIL
sissippi College, at Canton, that
: two-year medical course be establish
. ed.
,! Five hundred inmates Of the M
tional SOLDIER Home at Johnso
CITY. Tenn, were poisoned By 60
ing bread pudding. Two died.