The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1910-06-11

Eugene Baihle, IS years old, sui
cided at Comite, La, by shooting.
George Trotter and Ellis Jacobs
met with serious accidents at Lake
Charles.
A state health conference will be
held at Baton Rouge June 21,. %
and 23.
Knights of Columbus at Opelousas
initiated the fifth class of thirty
five candidates Sunday.
f. Numerous store robberies and
fires at Plaquemine were traced to a
half-witted negro.
The second meeting of the Gen.
! tral Louisiana dairymen was held at
Baton Rouge June 2.
Steamer Borealis Rex resumed
regular schedule between Lake
Charles and Cameron.
Five cases of smallpox developed
in the family of Rev. j. J. Smiley, of
Mansfield, the saloon crusader.
The D. X. Jeffries Company, Of
Chicago, will build a hardwood mill
and railroad near Morville, La.
An incendiary fire at Pioneer de-
stroyed the store and warehouse OF
E. C. Bess, causing $4,000 loss.
| A number of the Louisiana law
makers attended the State Normal
anniversary at Natchitoches June 5.
Thomas Crawley, of Alexandria,
was appointed probation officer of
the Juvenile Court for Rapides Par
| is.h.
Captain B. W. Marston believes
that plants other than cotton hatch
boil weevils, and is experimenting
with sunflowers.
The Rural Free Delivery Letter
Carriers Association, while in ses-
sion at Ruston selected Minden far
the next annual meeing.
j. r. McDade contemplates remov-
ing his lamp-black plant from West
Virginia to the Caddo field and util-
ize natural gas.
Captain Clyde Barbour, of'Frank-
lin, bought the interests of the stock
holders in the Teche Transportation
and Fuel Company for $6s,000.
Two negro men and two negro wo-
men, charged with burning and rob-
bing the new depot at Mangham, La,
were threatened with lynching.
Peaster Edwards was probably ia
tally wounded at Richton when a pis-
tol he was handling was accidentally
discharged.
The first days enrolment of the
Summer Normal at Natchitoches
reached 1,149, with 800 to report.
President Aswell admitted that the
limit of accommodations had been
reached.
Sam E. Ford was shot and killed
at Pollock by Miss Carrie Pritchard
last week because, 1t is alleged he
Tilted her.
A jury at Marksville upheld the
unwritten law in the case of Isidore
Lemone, acquitting him of the
charge of numbering Charles G. Col
lins.
The new pipe line of the Standard
Oil Company from the Caddo fields
to Baton Rouge burst in the bottom
of Little Bayou, near Zimmerman,
and thousands of fish in the stream
have been killed.
A compromise was effected with
the New Orleans Great Northern
Railroad whereby the track taken up
between Florenyille Junction and
Pearl River will be relaid and reg
u1ar mixed train service inaugurated.
Negro Shoots Prominent Citizen.
The people at Deerford and in the
surrounding vicinity are up in arms
lover the shooting of one of the
prominent citizens, T. w. Millican,
by negro, who goes by the name Of
Chunk He was laborer oh the
Millican place the first of this year,
but for some cause ran away. He was
found at the place by Mr.. Millican
the morning of the shooting. After
6Oul6 WOIuS LuS ACSlO SuOI Ml VMIlli-
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Woman Burned in Gasoline Explosion
Mrs. 8. L. Lawrence of Jennings.
was severely burned about the face
and neck while attempting to start
fire in the cook stove by using gas
oline, the flames catching in her
hair. She was alone in the house at
the time of the accident, and her
screams brought the neighbors to her
assistance They succeeded in extin-
gushing the flames, but she was left
in a serious condition. I
West Point Cadet Named.
Eugene Darden, sen of Mrs. w.
r Darden of HOuma has been aD-