The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1911-09-09
NEWS AS IT HAPPENS
Us-toNsL. STATE. FOREIGN, OF
INTEREST TO READERS.
The WHOLE WEEKS DOiNGS
ebert Mention Of interesting Happen.
ioes Eecm Gay to Day Through
cut the World.
DOMESTIC.

at the Norton county Idlr. FrlS bic
met, with an accident Friday and only
sasas sssssss s rrreKds Air agafn 81 6a.trGay when
driven to do SO by the taunts and
jeers of the crowd. Frisbie fell about
100 feet and the engine of his machine
came down on him, crushing his left
side and chest He fingered about an
hour before he died.
Almost two months ago the United
States treasury began the fiscal year
in 1912 with surplus on all accounts
OF more than $33,000,O00. The heavy
expenditures and low receipts of July
and August have reduced it to 81, ,OOO,-
600 and the new year September / reg
istered an ordinary deficit Of more
than $21,O00,000 compared with this
time year ago. Briefly, the govern
ment spent during August $500, 900
more than it received from all it's
sources of income, the receipts total
Ing SIS, 100000. the expenditures $780,
100000.
One hundred and ten minor league
baseball players will become members
Of the major league clubs next season
as the result of the drafting process
before the National baseball commits
sion at Cincinnati Saturday. OF this
number sixty-three will enter the Ma
tional and forty-seven the American
league
The boyhood home of Mark Twain
on High street, Hannibal, Mo-, built
by his father, John M. Clemens, in
1889, was Saturday purchased by Hon.
George A. Mahan and his wife and
presented to the city of Hannibal in
order that it may be preserved The
old home is a two-story five-room
frame building, in fairly good state
Of preservation. 1t stands flush with
the building line of the street in the
old part of the city on lot 201a feet
by 65R feet. 1t is only few feet
away to the alley where Tom Sawyer
had the fellows to paint the fence and
on the other side of which lived
Huckleberry Finn.
Representative Charles d. Carter Of
40hidholild VI CdICu q sCloaIiCll III LIIS
heart of the shopping district Of Wash
ington Friday by assaulting four
clerks, one of whom he alleged in
suited his 13-year-old daughter, Miss
Italy Carter, who was with her father
on shopping expedition.
Farmers in Oklusko county the most
populous negro county in the State Of
Oklahoma, have organized a white
farms congress and immigration bu-
reau" for the purpose of discouraging
the negro who seeks to locate in that
part of Oklahoma and to encourage
the white farmer.
Two elders Of the Mormon church
we're driven from kamrar, Iowa, Satur-
day with the din Of many dish pans
beaten by women echoing in their
ears.
DR.. J. s. Abbott, State pure food
and dairy commissioner of Texas, has
taken the position that high sounding
and chemical names given simple
compounds must cease. His campaign
in this matter Is to begin in the near
future according to his annual report
filed. lie gives public notice that
he will shortly place a ban on the
unnecessary employment of chemical
names by druggists where common
names would do as well, and that he
will proceed to prosecute those who
fail to heed his warning.
Texas has an area of 265,S96 square
miles The land area comprises 262.-
sos square miles. There are 3,49S
square miles of water in the State. +
The total acreage is 167,934,720. There
are 19,576,G76 acres in the State i'm
proved. The acreage of unimproved
farms in Texas is 106,230,941. Badly |
peak, altitude $3.50 feet, is the high
sst point in Texas.
The export business in pine lumber
s becoming an important item in the
Texas field, Arrangements are being
made at Port Bolivar for extensive /
ABILITIES for handling this item of \
,xport business and other ports along
he Texas coast are preparing to
landle q portion Of the traffic. De
,ression in the lumber industry the
,aSt few years has led the mills OF
rexas and Louisiana to meet the re-
luirements of the foreign trade and
his has given an impetus to the out
yard movement of timbers.
Custom house receipts at Galveston
or the month Of August, just closed,
we're the largest for single month in
he history of the port Total col
sections for the month were $143,-
l53&9 .
The State treasurer during the {
month ending Saturday deposited t
HAT ,lG.t0 to the credit of the various i
|unds, being receipts from land ac- +
sounts {
Two trunks full of conclusive docu-
nentary evidence proving long-con- t
0aued violation of the antitrust law d
which are now in possession of the C
apartment Of justice at Washington, v
'kpialn why it is the Southern Whole L
nae GrocerS' Association has agreed 9
10 90 out OF business and accept con- t
lsht decree to be entered shortly in
w United States court at Birming- !,
la.o, Ala, where the government last p
oc'ober tiled suit against the comb,n I
loa. Lawyers representing the asso-
saeion !. ale now dickeripg with Of D
.iciais OF the department Of the best a
terms possible. \