Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1910-07-01

10 Date seventeen candidates for
mayor have announced in Boston.
President Taft rode fifty miles an
hour in an automobile at Savannah,
Ga.
lrs. Mary Gels. at Chicago, killed
her daughter and suicided by asphyx-
iation.
Zelay claims to have won q vio-
tory over the insurgents in Nicarau-
qua.
Geographers are making arrange
ments for an official map of the
world.
The Interstate Commerce Commits
sion resumed sittings at Washing
ton this week.
Mayor-elect W. ]. Gaynor, OF New
York. Is being doomed for the Demo-
cratic nomination for president.
The report that Col. Roosevelt had
been killed in Africa was charac-
terized as a fake.
The Federation Of Labor leaders
are planning to appeal the Gompers
contempt case to the Supreme Court.
State Senator J. l.. Fleming and
Harry Skinner, Jr., were killed In
an automobile wreck near Greenvllle.
N. C.
More than s25.000,O00 is left to
charitable institutions in the will Of
John Kennedy, filed in New York.
The entire estate is worth more than
$60,000,OOO.
4 A boiler tube on the North Dako-
ia blew out in the battleship's four.
hour endurance test, off the New
England coast, injuring four men.
The North Dakota, nevertheless, ful-
filled her contract Of 81 knots an
hour for four hours.
After relentless examination by
the Judge, In which he savagely at
tackled her veracity, Nine. Steiheil.
charged with the murder OF her hus-
band and step-mother, was carried
fainting from the courtroom In Par
is.
Lord Lansdowne, leader Of the op-
position in the House of Lords.
would decline, 1t was said, to accept
the finance bill until it had first re-
ceived the sanction Of the electors.
Greek senior naval officers de-
manded that the extreme penalty
be melted out to Tibaldos and his
band OF mutineers.
William Torey Harris, former
United States Commissioner OF Edu-
cation, died in Providence, r. 1.
The reward Of $4,000 offered by
the State of Pennsylvania In the
Whitla kidnapping case was allotted.
The annual report of the Postof-
fee Department tended to show that
foreingers would deposit vast sums In
postal savings banks here should
they be established.
Rudolph Spreckles announced
plans for q national organization to
make war on municipal graft.
It was rumored that Mrs. Russell
Sage would give $1,000,000 to aid
in fighting tuberculosis and that An
drew Carnegie would denote a like
amount with which to war on palla-
gra.
Honduran and Guatemalan diplo-
mats assured Secretary Knox that
their countries were neutral as far
as the affairs of Nicaragua were con-
certed.
The negro hlghwayman who
wounded w. T. Willis near Pensa-
cola. Fla. was reported to have es-
capped.
1t was admitted that the pres
ence Of soldiers at Jackson, KY,
during the recent election prevented
much bloodshed.
Dogs believed to be affected with
rabies bit several children at Coving-
ton, La.
Public dance halls were flayed by
the grand jury of Acadia parish at
Crowley, La.
Forest fires have destroyed miles
of valuable timber In the great
North Mountains of Virginia.
The San Francisco District Attor-
ney's ONCE, taking the result OF
Tuesdays election as a mandate from
the people. decided not to push the
graft prosecutions.
1t was rumored that the Jackson.
Miss, Electrical Company bad been
purchased by a New York concern.
The dying state Of "Buzzy" Bree-
land was introduced at the trial Of
Ben Kinchen, at Amite City, La.
The Mississippi State Fair at Jack
son closed after most successful run
In its history.
In the will of John Steward Ken
needy, one Of New York's little known
rich men, requests of more than $685.
100000 were made to religious.
charitable and educational institu-
lions. He died of whooping cough.
The Eastern trunk lines decided to
reduce the rate on sugar from New
York IN ST Louis and MiSsissipDi