The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1911-10-14
NEWS AS lTHAPpENs
NATIONAL, STATE FOREIGN, OF
- INTEREST TO HEADERS.
TEE WHOLE WEEKS 00iAGs
Short Mentioning Of Interesting Hap
penings From ay to Day
Throughout TIN World.
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and he took care merely to refer to
| the majestic mountain as the "moun.
| tain," for residents insist that the
! proper name Isl Mount Tacoma"
Sunday, near Austin, an incoming
| freight train on the Houston and Tex
| as Central str uck wagon, contain.
ing four Mexicans, resulting in the
| death of one, the injuring of two
and narrow escape for the fourth.
With final games played on East
ern fields Sunday, the closing games
of the 1911 American league season
were played in the West, Detroit los
ing twice to st. Louis and Chicago
winning from Cleveland.
The protesting voice of the leaders
of organized labor against the pro-
posed introduction of the Taylor or
any other system of scientific shop
management in the navy yards will
be stilled, at least temporarily, by
the assuring statement issued at the
navy department Monday. Secretary
Meyer announces that the scientific
systems advocated in this country
would require so much detail that
they could not be used advantageous
ly in our navy yards without serious
changes in the established civil serv,
ice rules and the opposition of labor
interests.
Five hundred striking shopmen at
tended a mass meeting in Houston
on Saturday, and after listening to
a talk from Judge John Lovejoy, in
which he counseled them to be peace
full and law-abiding. unanimously
adopted a resolution in which they
pledged themselves to obey the law.
Lawyers for the strikers will at once
take steps to have the federal in
junction against them dissolved.
Fifteen families are homeless and
property damage to the amount of
$1,000, 900 has been wrought and the
city lis, Eis., 4 il
1aboring under the handicap OF the
loss of it's business district as the
result of the flood.
Complete returns from the court
house and Jail bond election at
Brownsville show a total of 1,162
votes cast in the county, OF which
1,O14, majority of 866, were in favor
of the issuance of the bonds, amount
ing to $23O,0O0.
Ross French, age 21, a Cherokee
Indian living in Birdtown (Swain
county, reservation, North Carolina,
was safely locked in the county Jail
Sunday charged with the murder of
Ethel Schuler, the 14-year-old daugh-
ter of a Birdtown farmer, after hay.
ing attempted to assault her.
Seventeen bills of exceptions have
been prepared by the prisoners coun
sci and duly approved and certified
by the trial judge in the case of
Henry Clay Beattie, Jr., convicted
month ago at Richmond, Va, of the
murder of his wife. The State SUI
preme court will convene for it's
autumn session November 9 and the
apepal in the case will be presented
promptly at that session.
The Texas division. United Confed-
crate Veterans, in session at Beau
mont, Friday selected Cleburne as the
place for the next meeting, elected
General Felix H. Robinson command
er, refused to adopt resolution re-
ferring to the death of Admiral Win
field Scott Schley and extending SYM
pathy, and voted down resolution to
hold the reunions of the Sons of the
Confederacy, the Daughters of the
Confederacy and veterans at different
times and places, and pledged sup
port to K. NJ. Van Zandt as the next
commander general of the general as
sociation.
The overthrow of Diaz and the
cientifico party in Mexico by Madero
has had an echo In the United States
geological survey in the resignation
of DR.. G. Willard Hayes, the chief
geologist, who will leave the service
Of the United States on October Is to
go into business IN Mexico. It is un-
derstood that MI Hayes will enter
the service of the Pearson syndicate.
Rough weather Friday drove to
earth seven of the nine racing b. :
oons that left Kansas City Thursday
n contests for theEJames Gordon Ben
aett trophy, the Lahm cup and the
altitude record None Of the other
,wo bags that sailed has been heard
rom The missing bags are the Con
lor of France and the Berlin II of
Germany. No records were broken by
my of the balloons that are down. |
rhe estimated distances ranged from |
29o to AGO miles.
Fully fifteea Kindred people saw |
he Farmers drag Southwestern uni |
rersity from one side of the field to |
he other at College Station Friday |
n q hard contest Tor the first football |
anne of the seaEon, and when the |
core 4as writte4 finally 22 to in
ayor Ct the Famers there was |
reat outburst of Iheers.
The steamer .JHob Luckenback OF
he Seaboard and Gulf Line reached
he port OF GaIleston Friday frola
saltjmore With 4 Iarzo Of 6o,o9o cases
/ canned goods which We're dis.
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