The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1911-11-18
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I pIt alone Of the United States
Ier than the whole American co1
ysas should II reac
I310O,oo0 bales, at the preyPe. ..a
prices of cotton.
The Agricultural and Mechanica
College Of Texas suffered seriou
loss in the destruction of the mes
hall Saturday.
Rev. ]. e. Offstedahl, PROMINENT,
Identified with the United Lutheran
Church of America, committed suicid
by jumping into an abandoned well a
Grafton, Nd, Monday. Despondenc,
because of i'll health was the cause.
A general teamsters' strike in sym
pathy with the striking garbage col
lectors threatens New York.
Travelling at velocity variously es
timated at forty to fifty miles al
hour norther drove into Texas Sat
urday night from the north and in q
very short time the temperature had
dropped from almost summer warmth
to near the freezing point
Nearly a score of deaths, several
million dollars property loss and much
suffering and inconvenience resulted
from the violent change of tempera
ture, the preceding storms and the
succeeding cold and snow that beset
the central portion of the country Sat
urday and Sunday
Pending the negotiations of a new
treaty with Mexico for the use of the
waters of the Rio Grande for irriga-
ton purposes, planters in the lower
Rio Grande region will be permitted
to take out one-half of the flow of the
Rio Grande for irrigation purposes.
This policy was settled in an order
which has been signed by Secretary
Stimson at Washington.
Poison found in the viscera of two
more of the ten persons who have
died mysteriously beneath the roof of
Mrs. Louise Vermilya. made more
than visionary Saturday the suspic-
ions and accusations against the wom-
an. At the county hospital in Chicago,
where Mrs. Vermilya lies i'll from at
,tempts to take her own life, she was
mot informed of the new evidence the
police will bring to bear in charging
her with murder
A man who has been making his
home in the brush and under the old
buildings at Fort Brown, Texas, for
the past three months was captured
by the police Saturday. The man is
all but starved to death. He says
he has family in Chicago. but refuses
to give further details of his past.
The supreme court, in a special ses-
sion Saturday, held that the court of
civil appeals at Ell Paso was legally
and also defined it's juris-
diction as to counties, ordering that
several hereafter be changed as a re-
suit of the mixup following the gov
ernor's vctoes
An appeal was sent to Sheriff ]. A.
Russell of Bentonville, Ark, the coun-
" seat OF Benton county, Saturday,
asking him to Immediately send a
force of officers to Gentry, town OF
700 inhabitants, where angry deposi-
.ors of the Bank of Gentry, which
ailed Wednesday, threatened to lynch
:. A. Catron. cashier of the bank.
Two New York stock exchange fail
lres resulting primarily from the re-
cent advance in the market were an
lounced Saturday. The insolyent
irms are w. l.. Stevens & Co. and
Ball & Wicher Company.
While the United States govern.
nent is concentrating troops at large
Interior posts, the MeXicans are buy
ng arms and ammunition in this coun
Try and sending them across the Rio
srande Nearly $4,000 worth of these
represent one days purchase
n LAREDO alone.
Tie controversy between Bishop
)avid H. Moore of Cincinnati of the
'aiilE NOpC vi SpChd, oOt
iethodist Episcopal church and Mrs.
( he formation by Mrs. Cope of an
uxiliary of thes national branch OF
ne Womens Home Missionary So
iety of the Methodist Episcopal
hurch, reached a crisis when suit for
$4,000 damages against the bishop
as filed by Mrs. Cope Wednesday.
The schooner George May, which
allied from Philadelphia for Port
oivar October l, lies in % feet OF
ater at Little Isaacs, Bahama
stands The schooner was loaded
18th iron pipe to be discharged at
ort Bolivar She is reported to be a {
,tal wreck. /
A billiard wizard who shoots left
anded, wears green eyeshade and d
lumL.es to himself while making a c
IN, retains the Lambert trophy and S
he tlree-cushion championship Of the
orld This was decided Friday at 4
hicaSo when Alfredo de Ore won s
40 third and final block of his 150-
ONT match from George Wheeler of +
'nicago by tae score Of so to 40.
With their throats cut, the bodies {
Jacob Lutz, aged IS, and his wife, "
y We're found dying in pools of their G
'Mh blood at their home at Gallant, t
Aia-' Friday by reighbors. Il