The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1911-11-04
NEWS As IT HAPPENS
NATIONAL, STATE, FOREIGN, OF
INTEREST TO READERS.
The WHOLE WEEKS DOiAGs
Short Mentioning of interesting Hap
penings From Day to Day
Throughout the World.
DOM MEsTIc.

DOMESTIC.
The Orient railroad is now graded
from San Angelo west to Alpine. {
distance of 225 miles, and south 10
ward Del Rio it has been graded 81
* miles. Ess ssssss.@-af.-45.5S 5S-sg4gs s,7~,s d
Joseph. Pulitzer, proprietor of the
: New York World and the st. Louis
Post-Dispatch, died Sunday on board
his yacht, the Liberty, in Charleston
harbor. The immediate cause of Mr.
PulitZer's death was heart failure.
He had been in i'll health for several
days, but until few hours before the
end none of those around him had
any suspicion OF the gravity of his con
dition.
Soldiers of the third great war OF
this country, seven grizzled veterans
of the Mexican war, probably the old.
est living soldiers of the United
& States, met in Dallas Sunday and
celebrated the eighty-sixth birthday
of Colonel Abe Harris of Fort Worth.
For the first time in public utter
ance Governor Woodrow Wilson of
New Jersey, the probable democratic
candidate for presidential honors, at
luncheon in Dallas Saturday, ex-
pressed his belief that democratic
success was certain next year, giving
as his reason for expecting that sue
cess the fact that the democratic par
ty is controlled by the progressives
of the country. while the progressive
republicans could not control their
party,
{. II. Bird, an orchardist who lives
two miles north of Fort Davis, Tex,
left Monday for San Antonio with a
carload of apples grown in mis- or
chard. This orchard contains 105 bear
ing trees, and from these he picked
450 boxes of apples.
Captain Klaus Larsen of Detroit
Sunday made his second Niagara
river trip in motor boat from the
cataract to Lewiston. He completed
the six miles through the turbulent
water in 25 minutes, coming through
without scratch. Larsen says he
/ OuEh Will 4NleSoi q 1usSAASAA "
but next year will make trip across
the Atlantic in his boat, the Niagara.
Matt McGrath of the Irish Athletic
Club threw the siXteen-pound ham,
mer 1877 feet four inches at Celtic
Park, New York, Sunday, thus break
Ing the worlds record. held by John
Flanagan, by three feet.
Miss Fola La Toilette, daughter of
Senator La Toilette of Wisconsin,
was married Sunday at the home of
her parents in Washington to George
Middleton OF New York, a playwright.
Four dead bodies in the morgue at
Bridgeport, Conn, Sunday are the
grim sequel to mothers threat ut
tered in. the city court last Thursday
that she would kill herself if her only
son was taken away from her and
sent to the reform school
Fifteen convictions in felony cases,
with IA total sentence of sixty-one
years in the penitentiary, was the rec
1 ord made by the Harris county crimi-
nal court at Houston Saturday.
Philip Selow, Morris Cohen and his
wife, Lena Cohen, were convicted in
the United States circuit court in
New York Saturday of being impli-
Gated in the white slave traffic.
Unless Selow pays a fine of $4,000,
Y 1t is possible he may stay in Jail
thirty-four years, according to the
sentence OF the court.
, The defense in the Mcnamara MUIR
der case collided head-on with court
ruling at Los Angeles Saturday. The
trial proceeded The point at issue
was made ground for exception, and
may come up again. Attorney Dar-
row, chief of counsel for James B. Nc
Namara, brought on the clash for the
avowed purpose of obtaining ruling
on the time which the court will take
to decide whether challenge direct
ed against talesman shall be allow
ed For the purpose of making the
situation a part of the record Darrow
refused to proceed until ordered to do
SO by the court. This was the third
day that A. c.. Winter, challenged
talesman. sat in the box, and the court
had said he would rule on Winters
case If the defense desired.
The tropical disturbance in the
West Indies, for which the weather
. bureau at Washington Friday order |
ed hurricane warnings along the |
South Atlantic coast. Saturday we're
ordered lowered when it was found
that the storm was OF less intensity
than feared s.4
The Webster Refining Company
plant, established at Orange about two
y years ago, was sold by j. J. Love,
trustee in bankruptcy, to E. w. Brown
Of Orange for $4,000 Wednesday.
According to an official of the
Southern Pacific in Houston, the
movement of sugar cane in Louisiana
Is the greatest in the history of the
road. That the sugar cane crop in
\ Inc neighboring State Is the largest
VI record is the claim made, and rail
roads running through the cane belt
4 are very busy transporting the cane
the sugar mills for grinding The
soutnern Pacific reports that it's
louisiana lines now have in service
-'1oo Hat cars for the exclusive pur-
suse OF transporting the cane to the
mills. q ,