The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1911-08-01
GEN ERAl
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NOTES. of government, the
vote standing l, 1872
for and 861 against.
Old Luella and Comic, Ark, are to
be razed wnd the soil devoted to rails
ing of crops. Lindsay & Landsay
have purchased the two towns. Con
trgct also calls for strip four miles
long and two and one-half miles wide
between the towns. Both towns are 20
vacate business houses and residences
within the next six months. Purchas-
gers ct title to every building. Some
residences will be utilized as farm
houses and more commodious stores
as outbuildings.
Lieutenant De Connau won $50, 600
prize offered by the London Daily
Mail for the circuit of Great Britain
aviation race of 1,010 miles. His act
ual flying time was % hours and "a
minutes. ]. Vedrines, second, made
the trip In % hours and 80 minutes.
Representative George W. Kipp of
Pennsy lvania is dead.
Nine.year-old son of Mrs. Virginia
Shiever Elmer of Roswell, N. M, ex-
pired from lockjaw, caused by step
ping on nail.
National senate defeated the house
wool bill, 4S to 81. It passed the La
Toilette compromise wool tariff bill,
AZ to 81.
Twenty five reindeer in Alaska were
captured by the crew of the American
revenue cutter Bear, cruising in Ber-
ing sea, to be taken to St, Lawrence
island. where the interior department
already has large herd. Govern
ment authorized this action and or
dered that bucks alone be secured. 1t
is the governments intention to intro.
duce fresh blood inta the herds every
year If possible
j Forty-six men, thirteen women and
nine children were killed the past six
months by grade crossing accidents
in New York, New Jersey and con-
necticut, according to report by the
National Highways Protective asso-
citation. That o. ganization will begin
at once a vigorous campaign for uni
versal abolition of the grade crossing
death traps
! James Adolph Coda, aged two years
and four months and weighing 100
pounds, created sensation at Allan
ia, Ca, as he walked with his father
from railroad station to hotel.
The giantsbaby lives at Mount Airy,
Ga. He stands three feet in his socks
and has Ia chest measurement of thir.
ty six inches, He eats from four to
six biscuits at meal and has a pas
sion for sweets His mother is of me-
dunn size and his father weighs 16C
pounds.
Three men were seriously hurt and
two automobiles merged into single
pile of smoking junk in collision
near Harrison, N, ]. One of the au-
fos, making tour of the world, was
nwned by Everett Vandever, banker
of Birmingham, Ala. DR.. II. L. Eos
ter, also of Birmingham. and Vande-
yer had been touring for some weeks,
and their car was covered with pla-
cards from the various cities passed
through.
John Y. Radcliffe, famous as a
baseball catcher in the late COS and
early 70's. died suddenly at Ocean
City, N. j., aged sixty eight years.
He was member of the famous Ath.
letics of Philadelphia. Radcliffe re.
sided at Camden, N. j., and after re-
firing from the diamond became q
prosperous poultryman.
British steamer Empress of China
hit a sunken rock off the coast of ia
pan. Her passengers were safely GO
to shore. Vessel was relocated.
/. Mother Kennedy we'll known
character at the Coney Island beach.
es, where for many years she has SOLD
pals and shovels to thousands of the
children, has been granted pension
of s25 per month by Andrew Carne
gle. When her lifetime savings were
wiped out in recent Dreamland fire
recalling her late husbands friend
ship with Mr.. Carnegie, who was al
employee of the Pennsvania railrouG
when Mr.. Kennedy was conductor
she wrote the former, telling him Of hel
condition. An answer came from Ski
DO castle, Scotland, notifying her shs
would receive the pension stated.
An elm tree 300 years old and nea,
Essex, Conn.,, and about 500 feet high
was blown down.