The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1911-04-01

10iu 5OlSJMC1JSdI, StluGh 4NE VI dShR ouh-
DE- xsslA IL ranlal1 sweeping eastward,
and southwark. Already the snow IS
piled high on the prairies and rail-
road traffic to the north and west is
seriously impeded.
One hundred and forty-one bodies
had been recovered from the ruins of
the New York fire Sunday and seven
OF the forty injured had died in hos
pitfalls. This, it is believed, completes
the list of dead, most of whom are un-
identified. Grief-crazed relatives be-
sieged the morgue as the bodies were
laid out.
Jack Johnson, champion heavy
weight pugilist, was sentenced to serve
twenty-five days in the county jail at
San Francisco on a charge of exceed
ing the automobile speed limit.
Five hundred thousand dollars to ad-
vertise the South was the figure de-
cided upon by leading advertising agen.
cies of the Southern States, who met
in Washington at the call of Manag-
ing Director Dave of the Southern
Commercial Congress, for the formu.
lation of definite plans for the further
publicity work of the congress.
While Sunday was quiet and un.
eventful day in the maneuver camp,
kilograms from Mexico indicated that
rebel activity had been rather increas-
ed since the resignation of the cabinet,
intention to force such matters to a
point where recognition of the bellige-
rents would be necessary on the part
of both the Mexican and the United
ST ties governments.
Judge Emory Spear, in the United
States circuit court at Savannah, Ca,
Saturday, imposed fine OF $4,000 on
the Merchants and Miners Trans
portation Company for giving prefer
ence in freight rates. The corpora
ton was convicted last week.
Decrepit and broken in health by
illness and long time III prison, John
F. Gaynor, who, with Benjamin D..
Greene. was convicted of embezzle-
ment from the government in connec.
ton with harbor improvements at sa.
vannah, Ga, took the pauper's oath
Saturday and walked out free man.
The oath released Gaynor, as it did
Captain Greene, from any obligation
to pay the government the 900
fine imposed on them in connection
with their prison sentences. 1t also
marked the end of the Greene-Gaynor
litigation in the United States courts,
which has existed over twelve years.
Governor o. B. Colquitt Friday ap-
proved the bill recently enacted by the
legislature providing for an inspector
of masonry, public buildings and work
at a salary of $4,000 per year, and
named ]. B. Nitschke, brick con-
tractor of Austin, as the inspector pro-
vided for in the enactment.
Startling evidence of sea tragedy
was revealed at Great Point, Nantuck-
ct Island, Friday when dory from the
barge Stonington, containing the bod
les of Captain Nelson Davis, of the
barge, and that of seaman, together
with two unconscious sailors, one of
them the captains son drifted ashore.
Both of the bodies were frozen stlf,
The survivors had suffered so severe
ly from cold and exposure that 1t is
hou tor yi1I din
With penalty suits aggregating S170,-
900 hanging over it's head for alleged
failure to observe the law requiring
the running of passenger trains ON
schedules, the Texas & Pa
cific Railroad Company Saturday,
its general attorney, Judge w.
l.. Hall of Dallas, appeared before the
railroad commission at Austin and
asked that the proceedings be held up
and that it be placed on probation,
with the promise that in future the law
would be observed to the very letter.
Associate Justice F. A. Williams OF
the supreme court of Texas Friday ten
dered his resignation to the governor,
to take effect April |. The resignation
was reluctantly accepted by the states
chief executive, but after a personal
interview the governor acquiesced and
named former State Senator j. B. Dib-
rell of Seguin, Guadalupe County, as
the successor of Justice Williams, who
announces he will engage in the prac-
tice of law as partner OF Judge N. A.
Steadman of Austin.
Fort Worth was unanimously chosen
for the next meeting place OF the lex
as Cattle Raisers' Association at it's
final session Friday at San Antonio,
and Ed. S. Lasater of Falfurias was
chosen as president without opposl-
ton. Ell Paso and Oklahoma City, RI
walls for the next convention, with
drew before the matter was put to a
vote.
Judse Moves of the United States
circuit court of New York, handed
down a decision Saturday to quash
the second cotton pool indictment
a against James A. Patton, Eugene G.
Scales, Frank 5. Haynes, William P.
Rrown and Colonel Robert M. Thomp-
son. He sustained certain technical
aufered the cabinet many years <go,
and to him is due largely the credit for
building up Mexico's schools. Toward
him objection has rarely been made,
and the burden of praise that is his far
any condemnation that
may have been given him.