The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1911-09-30
NEWS AS IT HAPPENS
NATIONAL, STATE, FOREIGN, OF
INTEREST TO READERS.
THE WHOLE WEEKS 0OiNCs
Short Mentioning Of Interesting Hap
penings From Day to Day
Throughout the World.
DOM EsTlc.

carmen > uuiOu CAPiOy Su. ny Lie hdLy
IN 1'eEAs went out on a strike Satur.
4 day following the receipt of instruc.
tons from the headquarters Of the
order. The walkout affects the car
men on the entire system, a total o1
slightly more than 1000, of whom
$50 are in Texas.
Obediah Gardner of Rockland
Maine, was appointed United States
senator Saturday to succeed the late
Senator William Pitt Frye. Mr.. Gard
ner was democratic candidate for gov
ernor of Maine in 1906.
Endeavoring, it is believed, to jump
from a moving train as it was enter.
ing Galveston Sunday, Louis Burk.
meyer, 16-year-old Galveston boy, is
now at st. Mary's infirmary with his
right leg severed near the knee and
his left foot cut off above the ankle.
Sixteen deaths probably will result
from mile a minute passenger train
crashing into party of thirty-one
merry-young people loaded upon a
hay rack near Neenah, Wis, Sunday.
A big billboard obscured from view
the locomotive as well as from the
wagon. Mist and fog did the rest
Twelve~persons On the hay rack were
instantly killed, one has since died,
and three out of eight others in
jured are believed to be fatally hurt.
Nine of the thirty-one passengers on
the wagon escaped without scratch
and so did both horses.
Bodies of the three firemen killed
when the wholesale millinery house
Of David Baird & Sons was destroyed
Sunday were recovered from the
debris at Louisville, KY.
The first United States mail ever
transported by aeroplane was carried
Sunday from the aviation field on
Nassau boulevard, Long Island, N. Y,
to Garden City, distance of five
miles, by Earl L. Ovington in
Bleriot machine. s
Ramparts Of mountains shouldering
Y rhfengh autumn mists Sunday beat
hck Robert G. Fowler when he tried
'h scale the Sierras near Colfax, Cal,
~ resuming his transcontinental aero
plane flight.
Descending upon the brokerage Of
nces OF Jared Flagg Saturday in New
York, United States postal inspectors
arrested eight men, including Flagg,
David N. Morgan, once treasurer of
the United States, and F. Tennyson
Nicely, broker, all on the charge Of
attempting to defraud by use of the
mails Seven fashionably dressed
women, who were in the office when
She raid was made, were taken along
with the prisoners in taxicabs to the
federal building as witnesses.
An avalanche of bricks from the up
per walls of the burning two-story
building of David Baird & Son, whole
sale milliners, at Louisville, KY, Sat-
urday, crashed through floors of the
kentucky Wall Paper Company's four
story adjoining building, killing three
[iremen and injuring at least two
other men. -fs
Tom Rorie, owner of livery barn
at Madilla, Okla, and L. L. Reed, a
,arpenter, are dead as the result of
iispute they engaged in during cir
'us performance, which eliminated in
revolver duel.
Political Washington is considerably
It sea over the future precise effect !
this country of the rejection of the |
eciprocity proposal by the Canadian |
lectorate. This failure, together with |
ne possible failure of the important |
Filtration treaties in the senate, al
hough both policies stand thorough
indorsed by majority Of the Amer
,an people, will, in the opinion even
MIR. Taft's friends, prove to the |
lsadvantage of the administration
the coming National campaign.
Driving into creek swollen into a
aging torrent by rains, Louise and
[argaret Finnel clung to their horse
ho faithfully swan ashore with them
tier their buggy had been torn to
ieces by drift near Eureka Springs,
TX, Friday. Leaping from the ve-
icle, which was fast being wrecked,
le girls climbed on the back of their
orse, which made the opposite shore !
tier being carried down stream al.
lost half mile.
The outlook for a big sugar cane
rop in the Brownsville section at
resent is very encouraging. The
rowing season has been ideal and v
ae major portion Of the product now i
.ands in the fields eight to ten feet {
ign. The entire absence of rain has b
iade irrigating necessary and the il
'ater has been applied generally at "
&c proper times so that the growing G.
'0p is in healthy condition. t.
Two enginemen were killed and sew
,ai passengers slightly injured when al
= southern Railway passenger train h
" II struck a switch engine on the II
!, sacn Greek bridge in the outskirts al
! ! atianta, Ca, Friday. The switch b,
ss'ae was knocked off the bridge to al
q oeaooard Air Line tracks, block ty
= Traffic on both lines several hours. st
S 7aolner perpendicular advance of fe
~. points occurred in the price of raw CO
ns ~ New York this week, max
NJ rs,.s suDa centrifugal, 96 test, 5.92c, wi
,e.sa a Is the highest figure in many m,
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