The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1911-10-28
NEWS As IT HAPPENS
NATIONAL. STATE, FOREIGN, OF
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Throughout the World.
DOM ESTic.


i the rate Of more than a mile a min
ate. Aviator Cal z. Rodgers made ths
trip from San Marcos to San Antonio
Sunday in fifty-five minutes.
Rain which began falling at Phila
delphia Sunday effectually killed al
hope that the grounds at Shibe park
would be in condition for the playing
of the much postponed fourth game
of the worlds championship series be
tween the Athletics and the New
York Giants. Nature has bone little te
dry up the field since the postpone
ment.
Following collision between q pas
| senger train and a freight engine in
| the railroad yards at Marshall. Texas
| Friday, the passenger engine, which
had been abandoned by the engineer
running backward. collided with a
passenger train at the station, result
ing in one death and the injury OF fiji
teen persons.
+. August Kahn. white man, was
stabbed three times in the region OF
the heart late Friday afternoon in a
grocery store at Blodgett, point on
| Main street at the city limits of Hous-
ton, and died within ten minutes.
Lee Jones, a blacksmith, residing in
the neighborhood, drove in his buggy
20 the police station shortly after the
killing and surrendered.
Out of eleven talesmen who sat IN
the jury box at the Mcnamara murder
trial at the opening of court Saturday
at Los Angeles, only six were left
when court adjourned until Monday.
Of these six, however, it is considered
more than possible that two or per-
haps three will find themselves on
the jury as it is sworn in. Those
having been passed for cause by both
sides were: Seaborn Manning, ranch
er; F. d. Green, orange grower; Rob-
ert F. Balm, carpenter.
According to reliable information
which has been obtained at Dallas,
the Wichita Falls system OF railroads,
which was built and owned by ]. A.
Kemp and Frank Kell of that city, has
been sold to the Missouri, Kansas and
Texas Railroad Company. 1t is said
that the purchaser gave $2,00O,OOO for
the stock, assumed about $6,OO0,O0o
of bonds and the obligations ON the
15O-mile extension now under con-
struction, being about another $4,000
900 in bonds.
Eugene Ely, the well known avia-
tor, was fatally injured at the State
fair grounds Friday at Macon, Ga,
when his machine refused to rise from
a sensational dip and plunged with
him fifty feet to the ground. He fell
in the presence of nearly 5000 people
to the middle of the inclosure OF the
mile track, after almost clearing the
machine by desperate leap when he
realized his peril. His body was
broken in a score of places and he
died eleven minutes later, regaining
consciousness just before the end
long enough to mutter: Il lost con-
troll. l know l am going to die"
Sixteen Texas Masons were elected
knights commander of the court OF
honor at the session of the supreme
council for the Southern jurisdiction,
Scottish Rite Masons, in session at
Washington. Those SO honored were
John K. Blackstone, W. c. Temple,
De Witt McMurray, E. M. Reardon and
Frank Mackin of Dallas; Emory H.
Smith, Fort Worth; Alexander Crane
and Joseph Henry Benson, Galveston;
NJ, G. Davis, Orange; Andral Vann
and Harry Redan, Houston; W. G.
Franklin, Austin; John H. Bolton, San
Antonio: q. johnson Duncan. Mason;
Francis Bacon Stuart and Edmund
Samuel Heller, Ell Paso.
Railroad Commissioner Williams,
who has devoted much time and at
tention to the New Orleans cotton
rate situation, says that the amended
tariffs filed with the interstate COM
merce commission by the Texas rail-
roads do not cancel out the 521ac ex-
mort rate on cotton from Texas COM
mon points, as the roads agreed to do
at the special hearing before the COM
mission in September. but merely
withdraw the rebate provision of the
tariffs.
The first issue of the Student Far
ner for the session of 1912 has been
delivered by the printer at College
Station and is being put in circula.
ion.
The contract for the building of the
hall and commons OF the
William NJ. Rice Institute at Houston
has been awarded, James Stewart &
20. bidding lowest at $202, 900.
E. FL. Young, cotton seed meal and
.ake exporter, engaged in business in
Galveston for some years, was arrest
ID Thursday on All indictment found
" federal grand jury at Houston
N October 16 charging the aiding and |
betting in the misappropriation OF |
unds of the recently consolidated |
National bank.
What is said to have been the most |
representative meeting in the history
T American Prison Congress closed
n Omaha Friday. 1t will meet next
ear in Baltimore. Frederick G. Pet
Ieroye of Boston was elected presi-
>nr