The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1911-11-11
THIBODAUX, LOUISIANA, sA
Exports of cotton from the Calves

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$50 bales, valued at $27,269,792. Ex-
ports from Galveston were 415,361
bales, valued at $21,377 $50, while
from Texas City 120,459 bales, valued
at $5,892,142, were exported.
Mrs. Louise Vermilya, who was ar
rested in Chicago Saturday on a
! charge of having murdered Policeman
Bissonnette by poisoning him, made
an attempt Sunday to commit suicide
| by taking mineral poison
Mrs. Ada Marshall of Philadelphia
was Saturday elected grand president
of the Woman's Auxiliary to the
Brotherhood of Railway Tr1fn1p
|-wffch has been I'd CONVENTION III Kan
sas City since October %.
P. H. Fagan, Jr., well known stock
man of Victoria county, while plow-
ing in his field, near the old Aranama
Indian village, about fourteen miles
north of Goliad, unearthed one of the
oldest coins on record and that may
be worth a large sum. 1t is an old
Chinese DIN, and the date on it is
thought t. be sos, which would make
it 1,4s5 years old, according to Chris
tian reckoning; 5,166 years if it's date
corresponds with the Jewish era, and
thousands of years older if the tales
regarding the age of China are true.
D. S. George, one OF the best known
broncho busters in the Southwest,
was killed on the ranch of ex-Sheriff
William Ellis near Finley, Ark, We'd
nesday when his horse ran over
steer and fell on it's rider. Georges
parents live at Cooper, Tex.
Alexander S. Rochelle, father-in-
law of Millionaire Brodie l.. Duke, the
tobacco magnate, was sentenced We'd
nesday at Durham, N. c., to six months
in the county Jail for illicit liquor
selling.
In the criminal district court at
Houston Wednesday Judge Robinson
set the bond of Lee r. Jones, charged
with the killing Of e. A. Zahn, at
$4,000.
Kansas City. Mexico and Orient rail
road has sold an issue of 50,000,000
francs of 4 per cent first mortgage
bonds in Paris and has given an op-
ton on 5O,0O0,00O francs additional.
The company has made application
with the public utilities commission Of
Kansas to issue s20,OO0,000 of gold
notes for general construction in Mex
leo and Southern Texas.
The Peabody education fund board
will not be dissolved nor the remain a.,
ing funds distributed for another year
at least This was decided at a meet
ing of the board of trustees in New
York Wednesday. At last years meet
ing it was intimated that the present
year might be the last in the boards
history. The Peabody fund of $780,
900 was donated by George Peabody to
promote education in the South,
Fire which destroyed the powder
factory of the Imperial Powder Com
pany at Chehallis, Wash, Wednesday
caused seven young women employed
in the factory to lose their lives.
FOREIGN.
The town of Pedracino, Durango,
Mexico, was attacked Sunday night
by nineteen bandits. The inhabitants
made sharp resistance, firing upon the
marauders from the roofs of their
houses. Three of the bandits were
killed and two others were wounded
and captured.
Cyclonic gales swept over the Brit
ish Isles Sunday, doing widespread
damage. Shipping suffered, buildings
were unroofed and vessels were
driven from their moorings. Coasts
are strewn with Wreckage.
An official dispatch to Rome Sun
day from Tripoli says that an artillery
duel has been raging between the
Italians and the Turks since Satur- |
day. Another military division, $4,000 |
to 10000 strong, is being collected, |
together with artillery, quick-firing
guns and aeroplanes. They will be |
embarked and escorted to Tripoli with |
the usual secrecy.
The Philadelphia National players |
Sunday at Havana, Cuba, lost the !
first game Of the series which they |
are to play in Cuba to the Almen-
dares by a score of to l.
Hang Chow, China, in Che kiang
province, and 500 Chow, in Kiang
Su, were taken over by rebels Satur-
day without serious trouble. The gov
ernor of Kiang Su was imprisoned.
The port authorities of the Island
Of Chios, Turkish possession in the
Aegian sea, report that the Italian
squadron of six ships has been sight
ed off the coast
The presence of General Bernardo
Reyes at San Antonio, Tex, and the
'eports that are reaching the state
appear to be getting on
he nerves of the authorities at Wash
ngton.
The Turkish government has
odged protest with the powers that
igned The Hague convention of 1907
lgainst the execution Of Arabs in
rripoli.
Lieutenant Philip M. Schultz of the
thirteenth Hussars, stationed at
on the Main, was convicted
t the Devonshire assizes Saturday on
he charge Of spying and sentenced
0 twenty-one months Imprisonment.
Escorted by a company of federal
roops, H. l.. Hall, the American who
as kidnapped in the state of Morelos,