Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1910-10-14
ST. JOSEPH, La, FRIDAY. OCTOBER H. 1910
Driven back repeatedly by the dead.

idad, Col. have made no headway
and it is probable it will be days be-
fore the inner workings of the
wrecked mine where the men are
trapped will be penetrated.
Fire did 100000 damage to the
Fond du Lac (Wis.) Cheese and But
ter company's warehouses, in which
were stored 40 carloads of cheese,
valued at $15O,0OG. r
w. X. Hearst offers $4,000 for a
iight in a heavier-than-air machine
from the Atlantic to the Pacific.
Seven persons are lying in a hos
>ital, three seriously injured. as the
result of midnight Joy ride" in
which their automobile collided with
a horse and buggy driven by George
Welver two miles west of Toledo. o.
The Lorimer inquiry in Chicago
1as been closed by the adjournment
OF the senate investigating commit
ee, subject to the call of Chairman
Burrows.
In a collision between a lumber
wagon and an open street car loaded
with school children bound for the
state fair in Salt Lake City, Utah,
he supports of the roof of the car
were torn out and the roof was
dropped onto the heads of the chill
dren. Four were probably fatally hurt,
four were taken to the hospital and
all in the car were seriously cut and
bruised.
While the Pulaski county grand
jury was trying to find some clew as
20 the identity of the mysterious as
sassin who has been operating on the
pixies leading from Little, Rock, Ark,
news was brought to Little Rock of
another assassination committed on
The Nineteenth Street pike at the
Four-Mile grocery in the suburbs.
Yancey f. Mashburn, one of the
leading planters of Pulaski county,
was the victim of the assassin.
Judge James d. Fox, chief justice
If the supreme court of Missouri. died
suddenly, following a stroke of ap-
oplexy.
Frank M. Lupton, president of the
f. NJ. LuptOn company, incorporated
publishers of the Peoples Home Jour-
nal and a millionaire, killed himself
by cutting his throat in the bath
room of his home in Brooklyn, n. Y.
United States Senator Robert L.
Taylor, three times governor OF Ten
nessee, and whose terra in the United
States senate does not expire until
1912, was nominated for governor by
the regular Democratic convention in
Nashville. Gov. NJ. X. Patterson was
nominated several months ago to sue
ceed himself. but the nomination
caused split in the party and he
withdrew from the race, hoping there
by to unite the party.
Disobedience of orders is the YER
dict reached by members of the Illi-
nOis railroad commission who investi-
gated the head-on wreck of two Nc
kinley interurban cars, with the loss
Of sc lives, near Staunton, Ill. Afto
an inquiry General Manager Club
buck issued an official statement in
which he said that Motorman John
w. Herman of the northbound car
was alone responsible for overrun-
ming a siding.
Jim Hatfield, member of the ia
nous Hatfield feudist family, was shot
n in in
KY. by John Puckett, a fisherman.
The men quarreled over the payment
'or drinks.
The celebration Of high mass by
Archbishop John NJ. Farley, head of
he archdiocese of New York, was
the beginning of two days religious
festival for the dedication of st. Pat
rick's cathedral in New York to tSs.
uses of religion. unencumbered by
debt. The conservation of the grea;
Catholic place of worship at Fifth
avenue and Fifty-first street brought
together an assembly of prelates only
little less notable than that which
marked the recent Eucharistic con-
gress in Montreal.
The Standard Oil company, through
its official publicity representative, J.
l. c. Clarke, has announced that th.
company has inaugurated q cam
paign tc increase the worlds con-
sumption of refined OIL, and is lower
ing prices of kerosene in Europe and
the far east. This action follows that
of August last, when the Standard Oil
company reduced refined oil in bar
rels l cent gallon from 9a4 to s..
cents at the refinery, and refined oil
in tanks from 61s to 5lz cents gal
Ion. In part the statement reads:
The Standard Oil company has inau-
gurated a campaign to increase the
worlds consumption of refined oil.
The level Of prices for refined oil to-
day in the United States is lower than
at any time during recent years, and
as a direct result of these prices the
consumption of refined oil in this
country is increasing. The same pol
icy is now being actively pursued
abroad"
Twelve persons were injured when
an outbound traction car on the Lo-
gansport division of the Indiana
Union Traction company turned over
in taking a curve near Broad Ripple.
suburb of Indianapolis.