The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1911-09-16
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DOMESTIC.
That the cotton crop of Texas is a
ready breaking records is indicated /
-.urn hsas,s-s< s0Hsfe',s-sxse OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
4 weston for the month Of August. Dul
Ing the month 100000 bales, valued a
Il $l5,6SO,OOO, were received. Thi
breaks all records at the Galvesto
port FOR the month of August. Las
years August receipts were 1858
bales, and the next largest August re
ceipts were 129,810 bales, in 1908.
Mrs Brown, wife of George Brown
wealthy farmer living seven mile
southwest of Brownwood, was brutal
ly assaulted and mortally wounde,
Sunday night while asleep on her BET
on the front porch of the home Th,
assassin used blunt iron rod an incl
in diameter and two feet in length
with which he struck the woman.
forehead and spattered blood anl
brains over the bed clothes and wall
Reports from the public ginners OF
the State to the Texas department OF
agriculture, counted, tabulated and
made public Saturday by its cotton
bureau, show that 421,O05 bales OF
cotton, counting round bales as half
bales, were ginned in Texas during
the month of August this year, and
that up to September / there had been
ginned of this years crop in this
State total of 438,243 bales.
A. B. Hepburn, president of the
Chase National bank of New York,
was elected to fill the vacancy caused
IN the directorate of the Texas Oil
Company by the death of John w.
Gates, at meeting held in Houston
Saturday. Charles G. Gates attended
the meeting of the directors, coming
to Houston from Port Arthur.
u Colonel J. C. Gordon, whose name
heads the list of Georgia heroes of
the civil war inscribed on the Georgia
State monument in Chickamauga Ma
tional park, died at Chickamauga
Sunday in the seventy-seventh year of
his age. He commanded the Second
battalion of the First Georgia regi-
nent 10 the battle Of Chickamauga.
Plunging head1ong from height at
zoo feet, biplane operated by Tom
Q. Sopwith, the English aviator, who
was carrying Lee Hammond, another
aviator. as a passenger, plunged into
the Atlantic ocean Sunday, in full
view of 10000 spectators gathered on
the board walk or on the sands of
Brighton Beach, New York.
Special meetings of the Houston
Chamber of Commerce and the Hous-
ton Cotton Exchange were held on
Saturday to consider the information
emanating from Palestine that the cit
Hens OF that place were about to in
sltute legal proceedings to have the
general offices of the International
and Great Northern returned to Pales-
une. Strong resolutions offering to
combat the proposed legal proceedings
OF Palestine were adopted by the bust.
ness men of Houston.
Governor Woodrow Wilson of New
Jersey was indorsed for the demo-
cratic nomination for president Sat-
urday at joint meeting at Trenton,
~ j., of the State auxiliary committee
and the executive committee of the
Federation of Democratic Clubs of
New Jersey.
The railroad commission of Texas
Saturday indicated that there will be
a fight to the finish with the Texas
railroads if the latter do not desist
from applying the same rates to New
Orleans on cotton as now in effect to
Iexas ports. 1t issued an emergency !
notice of hearing for next Thursday, |
the 14th instant, to consider a 10c re-
luction in Texas, the usual differential
70 apply. The maximum rate to Gal
Geston to be 41c instead of sic as
low.
Henry Clay Beattie, Jr., was de-
Jared guilty of wife murder Friday at |
Chesterfield Court House, Virginia,
md sentenced to the electric chair
November "a.
Two Texas congressman will be in
he list of delegates from the United
States to the International Peace Con-
erence to be held in London early
lext month. These will be Repre-
tentative John II. Stephens of Yer
non and Representative James L.
Slayden of San Antonio.
10 Nt,IF aFi pI,k |
n an old time gusher Saturday in the
Jennings oil field, which made about
me rate of thousand barrels day
Ior few hours, till it choked up with
sand
The Texas Midcoast Congress, with
non W. S. Holman of Bay City pre-
sialhg In the chair, convened at Port
oConnor Friday with a fair attend
aace OF men and women who are in !
lefested in the development of the 6
sieat section which they represent. |
, FISHERMEN of Texas are greatly re-
.eved over a ruling from the State .
asn and game department to the eff .
.sc. mat parties fishing for recreation 9
-uu VINO fish for personal use do not
sone under the regulation of the re- !
ieuons y Tor market fishing. Mar :
.e' !. nshermen are prohibited from TAX Il
'As iish under and over certain size. a
!, 1he Texas City line steamer Ogee- C
go go from New York with general t.
so, ar, reached Texas City Friday sew S
sral days overdue as a result of the a
H. hurricane on the South Caro- tt