The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1911-09-23
NEWS As IT HAPPENS
NATIONAL, STATE, FOREIGN, OF
INTEREST TO READERS.
TIE WHOLE Weeks DOiNGS
Snort Mentioning of interesting Hap
penings From Day to Day
Throughout the World.
DOM

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over northern and central districts {
: the country during this week Wer
forecast in a bulletin issued Monda
I by Chief Willis Moore OF the weatre
bureau. disturbance now centra
over the plains States will advanc
eastward. 1t will be preceded b
warm weather and followed by
change to colder weather.
A hobo comet which makes Haley
and other comets appear like anna
teurs is lowering nigh onto 45,OO0,OOt
miles southwest of st. Louis, accord
ing to Father Martins Brennan, notet
Western priest-astronomer. 1t ha:
been lowering modestly there for sev
eral days and may be observed in the
same general direction for two more
weeks.
A heavy earthquake was recorded
on the seismographs of the George
town university observatory at Wash
ington Saturday night The shocks
lasted an hour. Father Torndorf, di-
rector of the observatory, said the
center of the disturbance apparently
was about 4,50O miles away from
Washington and he believed it was
connected with eruptions in Mount
Etna
Henry Clay Beattie, Jr, the con-
| victed wife murderer, who has been
confined in the county Jail at Chester
field Court House, Va, since he was
found guilty of the charge, on Septem-
Der 8, was brought to Richmond, Va,
Sunday, by deputy sheriff and placed
in the Richmond city Jail, where he
will remain presumably until he is re-
moved to the penitentiary for execu-
ton. He is condemned to die Novem-
ber "a.
President Taft left Boston Friday
night on his 3,000-mile speaking tour,
embracing "A States and continuing
until November l. His departure in
the special train prepared for his
party was signalized by an enthusias-
tic demonstration from several hun
dred persons gathered at the South
station to bid him godspeed.
The resignation of DR.. Harvey w.
Wiley, chief of the bureau of chemis-
try in the department of agriculture,
and probably the best known pure food
expert in the government service, will
not be asked for by President Taft,
despite recommendations that it be
requested made by the personnel
board of the department and indorsed
by Attorney General Wickersham.
The seasons record was broken Fri
day by the sailing Of nine foreign YES
sells from Galveston for European
ports, carrying a total of 1928 bales
of cotton, besides miscellaneous cargo. |
The total value of the cotton cargoes
was $4,932,222.
Postmaster General Hitchcock Sat
urday consented to the establishment
of an aeroplane route between one Of |
the outlying branches of the Brooklyn
IN. " postoffice and the aerodome
at Nassau boulevard, Long Island, dur
ing the international aviation meet to
L.
Jim Flynn, the Pueblo fireman,
fought a winning battle of ten ter
rifle rounds with Carl Morris, the
gigantic heavyweight of Oklahoma, at
the Madison Square Garden, New
ork, Friday night. At the end the
Oklahoma mans face was battered to
4 pulp, while Flynn was unmarked
save for a lump over the left eye. AS
possible white hope" for champion
ship class recognition, Morris is
allure. He had nearly fifty pounds
n weight and five inches in height
,ver the Pueblo man, but failed to
laze Flynn at any stage.
Governors of twenty-four States
-oted Friday at Spring Lake, N. j.,
o unite in protest to the United ;
states supreme court against what ;
hey consider an invasion Of States ;
lights by Federal courts. The de-
ision of Judge Sanborn in the So
allied Minnesota rate case is the par !
cular invasion to which the gov ,
rnors object. By their action they I
stablish precedent in American h
istory. Judson Harmon, governor of
hio and former attorney general of /,
le United States, will head q COM :,
ittee of protest. - -
A saving to the government of fully B
100000 on the transmission of W
,riodica mail by fast freight was OF
.iday estimated by Postmaster Gen OF
al Hitchcock after two weeks q
al of this method of shipment D.
Tobacco growers in Massachusetts u u
e of the opinion that Friday nights Fl
,st caused a loss of $150,00O to &C
lnding. tobacco in Massachusetts, I'll
With the pouring of highway arch
J.. II of the Galveston causeway op
ursday, the last concrete arch to 81, 81.
link between Galveston island and
mainland was completed. ~
Iembers of the Southern Lumber -
orators Association and the Yellow -,
e Lumbermen's Association will -,
ampt to bid on the 600,000,000 feet O.,
pine and other timber to be sold
N the Apache and the Sitgreaves
.ional forests of Eastern Arizona, Do
ording to members of the organiZa- ~
is at meeting in Chicago Satur- -.