The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1911-08-19
FOREIGN.

FOREIGN.
More than 500 lives were lost and
great devastation ashore and afloat
resulting from a typhoon and tidal
wave which swept over Japan July
26, according to advices brought tc
Victoria, b. c., Sunday. BY the EN-
press of Japan s'.,ssssSs = as fisls fleets
from Shidzaoka suffered severely.
More than 200 fishermen were drown
ed.
General Victoriano Huerta, in COM
mand of the federal troops in Cuerna-
vaca, has received orders from Presi-
dent de la Barra to proceed with all
activity and not to cease operations
until the forces of General Emilliano
Zapata, which have risen against the
Mexican government, are forced to un-
conditional surrender and the laying
down of their arms.
Without his consent having been OBJ
tanned, Francisco de la Barra was
Monday nominated for the presidency
of Mexico by group Of men repre-
senting the "liberalradical party.
General Bernardo Reyes was selected
as the candidate for the vice presl-
dency. They did not secure the con-
sent of this candidate either. The
general is an independent candidate
for the presidency.
Fire on the Queensland docks at
Antwerp, where much cotton is stored,
did damage Friday amounting to
81 100000. Immense amounts OF salt
peter were destroyed.
The report of the court martial
which investigated the recent revolt
on the Spanish battleship Numancla
in Moroccan waters shows that the
mutineers had planned to seize the
warship and sail for Malaga to foment
a revolution. Letters and documents
which give evidence of widespread
republican plot are said to have been
found on other Spanish warships.
Their was rioting in the streets OF
Barcelona following procession and
demonstration in sympathy with the
mutineers who were put to death on
board the battleship Numancla Friday.
There was some shooting and several
persons were wounded. The troops
had to be called ont TO restore order.
London's dock neighborhood was
under mob rule Friday. with the re-
suit that there was such a dwindiing
of food supplies that the metropolis
experienced something akin to what
might happen If a hostile foreign force
should succeed in interruptlng the
empires trade routes.
King George of England Is to open
the grouse shooting season this year
with Lord and Lady Ripon at Studley
Royal, when he viii have two days
shooting over the celebrated Dalowgill
moors, in Niddersdale. These moors
always yield very heavy bags at the
beginning of the season, and it has
not been the custom to shoot over
them for more than three or four days
in the year.
The entire Oriental province OF the
Congo Free State is In revolt Ihe
natives are said to have carried off a
Belgian magistrate and are holding
him as a hostage.
The French steamer Emir foundered
Wednesday five miles east of Tarifa,
Spain, in the straits of Gibraltar.
persons were drowned.
An hour later in a dense fog she col
|ided with the British steamer Silver
ton, bound from Newport, England.
Tor Tarinto, Italy. The crew of the
latter received twenty-seven of the
tmir's crew and passengers. The Sill
gerton later put in with her starboard
DOW stove in and her forepeak full of
water The Emir sank few minutes
after the collision.