The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1911-10-21
NEWS AS IT HAPPENS
NATIONAL, STATE, FOREIGN, OF
INTEREST TO READERS.
The WHOLE WEEKS DOiNGS
Short Mentioning of interesting Hap
peninss From Day to Day
Throughout the World.
DOM MEsTic.

IoFner Head or score or railroad anC
quarry enterprises, paroled{ Saturday
from the Fort Leavenworth fedora
prison, after serving part of term oi
imprisenment following conviction on
charges of infraction of national bank
ing laws, spent Sunday at his home in
Chicago.
With an attendance of $4,000 per
sons the twentysixth annual Texas
State fair opened Saturday at Dallas
Governor 0. B. Colquitt formally de
ciared the fair open at noon, termed
1t the greatest educational institution
In Texas, and attributed the growth
and development of Texas, in large
measure, to the State fair
In the presence of what was prob
ably the greatest throng of baseball
enthusiasts ever gathered Saturday,
the National league penpant winners,
the New York Giants, defeated the
American league title holders, the
| Philadelphia Athletics, to 1, in the
first game of the series for the
worlds baseball championship of 1911
at the Polo. grounds in New York
Controller Lane is to forfeit the
licenses of forty-two saloon keepers
in the city of Galveston He will
have the usual hearing by notary,
but possesses in his desk forty-two
half pints of liquor, which he asserts
were purchased from a like number
of saloons in the Island City on Sun.
days.
Already 100000 of the minimum
$125,000 undertaken by the university
alumni to be raised for the purpose
of advertising the University of Texas
has been subscribed
A saving estimated at $1,000,000 an
nually to the pensioners of the United
States and eventually about $1S0,Oo0
year to the government is contem-
plated by simplified plan for the
payment of pensions without vouch-
ers, which Commissioner of Pensions
j. L. Davenport submitted to the Sec
retary of the interior in his annual
report, made public Monday Dur
ing the year $157,325,160 was paid as
pensions, a decrease of $3,49S,154 from
last year, making the total amount
paid in pensions since the foundation
of the government $4,230,3S1, ,730.
There were 55,185 names dropped
from the rolls and 26,200 added, leav-
ing a net loss of 2S,9S5 pensioners
The total number at the end of the
year was 892,90S, the smallest since
1892.
The plans for the eight-day cam.
paign to be conducted in Houston
under the auspices of the Men and
Religion Forward Movement Decem-
Der to IL are taking very definite
shape. Several different committees
headed by some of the most promi- |
nent business and professional men
are busily engaged in working out |
every detail. The pastors are all coop
Grating and committees are organized
and at work in most of the churches. |
Each week deputations of laymen and |
pastors go out to the surrounding |
towns for conference with the church |
leaders and to assist in arousing such
interest as will insure large delega-
tions attending the Houston conven-
ton. Full information may be Sc
cured by addressing Mr.. T. F. Weever,
secretary of the Men and
Religion Forward Movement, Hous.
ton, Texas.
Seven persons were killed and twen-
Ly-two injured, four OF them seriously,
IN a collision between Missouri Pa
cific passenger No. 105 northbound
and a fast freight at Fort Crook,
Neb., Sunday The accident is be-
ieved to have resulted from misun-
of orders by the freight
rev.
Confederate pensioners will receive
he same amount during the next two
quarters as was paid them during the
,ast six months-$1050 each quarter.
This apportionment must be made
vice in every twelve months and the
emi-annual event occurred Monday,
l. G. Buford, Texas State pension
having fixed the 8
mount
Robbers VINO entered the postoffice r
t Mulberry, fifteen miles east of
ittsburg, Kan, early Saturday, es-
aped with several packages of regis i.
red mail One package is said to .
ave contained $4,000, being sent to -
le Sheridan Coal Company to pay =
S miners.
Edward w Sewall. vice president is
the Carson-Sewall Company and IL
e of the most prominent business n
en- of Houston. was found dead in Sc
d Wednesday morning III
Six and three-quarter inches of rain 80
/ at Eagle Pass Friday. The south
stern portion of the city of Piedras
gras was flooded and hundreds of IN
Miles homeless.
4 systematic robbery of freight 81.
s has been in progress at Browns Sc
lie for some time, according to the tn
al officials, and eight arrests have dis
N made in connection with the af
:. Ita
he Texas board of pardon advisers Tr
e an accumulation of approximate WI
700 applications for pardon. Wis