The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1911-06-17

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day. 1t names MIR. Henry D. Gordon
an attorney, as executor, and provides
for the distribution of her estate
among her relatives and the Carrie
A. Nation National Home for Drunk.
ards at Kansas City, Kan.
The entire Middle West and part
Of the Southwest is baking under
merciless heat that has continued sew
eral days. Chicago, which has been
| exempt by reason of the lake breeze,
lost its advantage Saturday, when the
temperature rose to 98.8, the hottest
June day in thirty-nine years. The
police report two deaths and scores OF
prostrations. The heat was SO in.
tense that the thermome in de
partment store were melted, turning
on the automatic sprinkling apparatus
| over the big structure.
1000 troops before Rear Admiral
Ward of the Third Division Atlantic
| Fleet at Galveston Friday, and the
distribution of about $4,000 among
| the soldiers OF the First Separate
| Brigade in payment for their serv-
ices to Uncle Sam for the month Of
May, were the important happenings
at Camp Crockett.
Four persons, woman, two boys
and girl, lost their lives Friday at
| Hattiesburg, Miss, in an effort to
save the life of little 5-year-old girl
| yhn hol Ton fo,, =; L.
wading in Bowie river The dead:
Mrs. B. c. Tanner, Ernest Tanner,
| aged 12; Henry Tanner, aged Is; An
ME Coursey, the 7-year-old daughter
of ]. B. Corsey, loca! merchant.
State Fish and Oyster Commission.
er Sterett, with his staff of deputies
and boatmen on two State boats, came
into Corpus Christi Friday with five
boats and fourteen market fishermen
arrested in Corpus Christi pass,
where they were said to be seining
in violation of law. The prisoners
were Greeks and Mexicans, who usual
ly sell their catch to the local fish
houses.
The appointment of Secretary of the
Interior Fisher of William T. Vernon,
a negro, former secretaryregistrar of
the United States treasury, as assist
ant supervisor Of Indian schools. to
Supervision John B. Brown in Mus
kogee, has caused storm of protest
at Muskogee and news comes from Ok
lahoma City that the State officials
will protest against the appointment.
Madison Square Garden, which was
opened twenty-one years ago, and
since has become known as New
Yorks biggest indoor arena, is to give
way to a commercial building twenty
five stories high. The sale of the
property to syndicate was announced
Friday. The price paid is said to be
$3,500,000.
The body Of DR.. Austin Beverly
Chamberlin, secretary general of the
supreme council of Sovereign Grand
Inspectors General Of the thirty-third
degree, Ancient and Accepted Scottish
Rite for the Southern jurisdiction of
the United States of America, who
died in Washington Thursday, will be
inferred in Galveston
America crushed England's hope Of
regaining the international polo cup
at Meadow Brook, New York, Friday,
where a throng of thrilled spectators
saw the challenging British cavalry
officers outridden and outmaneuyered
AID finally defeated by score of AZ
to 3la goals.
An audience of some two thousand
men and women enthusiastically ap-
plauded and cheered the orators of
the Statewide prohibition cause. who
appeared Friday upon the platform of
the coliseum at Dallas in the first Of
a series of rallies to be held over Tex
as in favor of the adoption of the con-
stitutional amendment on July %.