Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1910-10-21
LATEST NEWS OF THE WORLD
TERSElY TOLD.
NORTH, EAST, SOUTH AND west
votes From Foreign Lands, through
out the Nation and Particularly
the Great Southwest.


retary OF the interior, the government
has secured indictments against seven
men who are charged with conspiracy
to defraud In connection with valu-
able coal lands in Alaska
Alva Daniel, vice-chancellor OF Da-
mascus Lodge. X. of p, and wealthy
real estate man of Danville, ILL.,, was
shot by his wife, Mrs. Anna M. Dan
is said to have been responsible for
the tragedy.
Charged with defrauding the United
States government out Of more than
S1,000,000 by undervaluations Of i'm
portations, two members of the firm
of Duveen Bros, French citizens, who
are art dealers and antiQuarians in
New York. London and Paris, were
arrested in New York by the federal
authorities. Warrants also are out for
the arrest of the remaining three
members of the concern, who are
now abroad.
Bloomington, ILL.,, according to the
returns of the recent federal census.
has increased from 23,2S6 in 1900 to
25,7 in 1910, the increase being 10.7
per cent.
Sweeping practically unchecked, the
forest fires raging on Big Chief noun
tin in Colorado are now menacing the
summer cottages and hotels at Mi
rante, about three miles from Carter's
lake.
Will Ward. aged II, and Amos Mills.
aged 16, of Peru, Ind, were sentenced
to life imprisonment by Judge Tillett.
They confessed attacking six girls,
none of whom was more than five
years old.
Federal officers raided the mahog-
any-furnished offices of the Redeem
able Investment company, covering
the entire sixth floor of the Lawrence
building in Boston, seized the books.
papers and all the cash in sight, and
arrested Charles II. Brooks, manager
and director of the company. The
raid was upon a warrant which
charges the company with using the
mails to defraud.
Seven lives were lost by the run.
ming down of the Swedish barkentine
Diana by the steamer Senator holt
husen off the Dogger Bank, accord
ing to dispatch to Lloyds' in Is'n-
don from Cuxhaven.
On motion of Attorney General
Wickersham, the cases in the suits
of the government to dissolve the
Standard Oil company and the tobac-
CO trust were reassigned in the su-
preme court of the United States for
hearing on January g. The corpora
tion tax cases were also set for hear
ing after the trust cases early in
January.
Officials and detectives OF the Pa
cific Express company in st. Louis
are making an effort to solve the
seemingly unexplainable mystery OF
how three packages of money contain
ing approximately $4,000 disappeared
while being shipped from St. Louis to
Fort Worth, Tex.
Gov. B. F. Carroll has started his
automobile campaign in Iowa in CraW-
ford county. One hundred automo-
biles will accompany him on his tour
over the county.
In an official statement authorized
by Rear Admiral Charles N. Vreeland
and given ou: by Capt. Thomas S.
Rodgers of tho battleship New Hamp-
shire, the number of the New Hamp-
shire's sailors who are believed to
have been on the battleship's sailing
launch when it filed in the Hudson is
set down at 80.
''If papa comes out will you prom
Use not to shoot him? He wants to
surrender" These words, spoken to
Sheriff Mike Madden, at the edge of
the clearing surrounding the besieged
home, near Winter. Wis, by little
Helen, youngest daughter Of John F.
Deitz, brought to an end the stub
born resistance of the man whose
stand for the last six years against
what he considered injustice has at
tracted widespread interest. The sur
render did not come. however. with.
out death and bloodshed. One man
is dead, three men and a woman are
wounded and much property has been
destroyed.
Ex-Judge Lambert Tree of Chicago.
former minister TO Russia, and later
to Belgium, under President Cleve-
land, who recently completed his 122d
trip across the Atlantic, died suddenly
of heart disease at the Waldorf in
New York.
A case Of cholera developed in the
steerage OF the Hamburg g-American
liner Moltke at New York.
Engineer Snyder of Council Grove
was crushed to death under his cab
in a freight wreck on the Missouri
Pacific road a mile west of Falun.
Kansas
King George and Queen Mary Of
England have returned from Balmoral
Sestle in Scotland, where they have
been spending the season.
w. R. Hearst offers $4,000 for
flight in a heavier-than-air machine
from the Atlantic to the Pacific.