The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1910-02-05
THIBoDAUx LzkksATURDAY FEBRUARY : 1910
Wire Flashes.

York World was stopped by the Fed
eral Court in New York, Judge
Hough, in the United States Circuit
, Court quashing the indictment
against the Press Publishing Com
pany. publishers Of the World, for
alleged libel In connection with the
publications concerning the Panama
Canal purchase.
Paul Redieske, who recently resign
ed as deputy commissioner of pub
lie works; Mitchael H. McGovern, a
wealthy contractor, who has had
many big city contracts, and nine
other men who are city officials or
employees OF McGovern, were indicted
by the grand jury at Chicago charged
I with conspiracy to defraud the city
OF f.$254,000.
! What attorneys employed by q
dozen or more life insurance COM
panies to conduct criminal prosecu-
tions say is scheme to defraud in
surance companies through the for
nation Of widespread conspiracy
In Louisville, KY, is to be made the
subject Of a thorough investigation
In that city. New Albany, Ind, and,
perhaps, other points.
Accepting the action of the Demo
cratic caucus. the House elected Rep
representative Graham, of Illinois, as
member of the Ballinger-Pinchot
Investigating committee, in place of
| Representative Lloyd, Of Missouri, re-
| signed. The choice of Graham was
ratified by the House without de-
bate and by vive voce vote
The noninsistence on the part of
the United States that Germany adj
nit American meats more freely is
regarded in official quarters at Ber-
lin as greatly simplifying the pend
ing tariff negotiations and removing
one of the principal embarrassments.
While the greatest reticence is still
observed In official quarters in Paris
regarding the progress of the tariff
negotiations, which Ambassador JUS
serand is conducting at Washington,
confidence is manifested that the dan
ger Of rupture was passed.
Mrs. Frieda Sommers, of New
York, after being robbed of $4,000
worth Of diamonds by Frank A.
Giese, who had promised to marry
her, caught the man through clever
telephone trick.
Five persons were seriously injur-
ed at Cincinnati when a rooming-
house was demolished by the walls |
OF new fve-story building wrecked
by wind storm.
Dispatches state that Imprisonment |
OF members OF prominent families In |
Granada and Managua still continues |
and that Madriz has virtually re-es-
tablished reign of terror.
Assistant Attorney General Wade
H. Ellis arrived at Chicago to take
charge of the Federal grand jury's
investigation into the methods of the
so-called "beef trust"
Two trainmen were killed when
the Twentieth Century Limited, on
the New York Central, turned over
near St. townsville, N. Y, while
speeding sixty miles an hour.
Two physicians and a shoemaker
are held at Louisville, KY, on a
charge of conspiracy to defraud the
street railway company In a damage
suit.
Mrs. C. J. Smith testified at Los
Angles, Cal, that she had provided
more than 800 babies to supposed
fathers" who were kept in ignor-
ance of the parentage.
The British elections closed. The
Irish and Laborities hold the balance
of power between the Liberals and
Conservatives.
The Kentucky Circuit Court of Ap
peals affirmed the life sentence of
Beach Hargis for the murder Of his
father.
One naval prisoner was killed and
two wounded by guards while try
Ing to escape from Jail at Ports
mouth, N. H.
A court decision at GAINESVILLE, O.,
awarded the custody of Natalie Chris
ty to her father, Howard Chandler
Christy.
The Rhodes aeroplane was given
4 successful flight at Pensacola, Fla,
remaining five minutes at a height of
100 feet. +,
Robert Ewing was killed and three
other trainmen injured in a freight
wreck on the Mobile and Ohio rail-
road. near Mobile.
The German Steel Works Associa-
lion raised the price of half-rolled
steel s1.25 ton. ,
The National Board of Trade en- !
led its fortieth annual convention. ,
The Norwegian and the Greek Cab
nnets have resigned.
1t Is reported that battle occur
ed in Nicaragua.
The floods in France have set and
ne water has begun falling.
An Indian newspaper will be es- ,
ablished at Muskogee, Okla. ;
Four persons were killed in
york train wreck at Clinport, Va.
w. G. spiller, of New Orleans, was
Irrested at Santiago, Cuba, for ship
ling contract laborers to the Panama
,anal Zone.
Judge R. W. Taylor in the United
states Circuit Court at Toledo, Ohio,
ustained the constitutionality of the
federal corporation tax law.
The Federal grand iurv at Ghica- |