The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1911-10-07
NEWS As IT HAPPENS
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DOM ESTIc.

~ Tile CLERK 5 Office Oh the supreme
Eourt at Austin Saturday in a cas-
HtyIed r. b. Minor ct al VS.. G. G. Nc
Donald, secretary Of state, and Is The
hest brought by the board of codifiers
fd the governors veto Of senate bill
INo. IL, which appropriates $4,000 fol
Icompleting the revising, annexation
Iindexing and publication of the civi
land criminal codes of Texas. Sew
eral allegations are made, but the
whole case hinges on the construction
Id the constitution which gives the
lgoTernor twenty days after the ad
Ijcurnment of the legislature to either
fagn or disapprove bills filed with
him preceding the close OF the legisla
Tive session.
l Mrs. Levi Sprague and Mrs. Jess
Bennett and their escort, e. l.. Music,
we're shot Saturday at Bartlesville,
HOkla., in moving picture theater
Iduring the performance. Both women
Twill die, while Music probably is fatal
hly wounded. Their asasilant was E.
ER. Richardson and jealously is be-
/ Neyed to have been the motive for the
shooting.
The hopes of police officials of New
I0rleans that Annie Crawford, charged
with the murder of her sister Elsie
by administering poison, would break
down and confess something relative
II 10 the sudden deaths of her mother,
I father and another sister, were shat
tered when the prisoner declared Mon
day she would do no more talking
ibout the case.
DR.. Harry Elgin Webster, Rush
Medical College graduate, student and
bterne at local hospital Of Chicago,
Hin remarkable confession to the po-
lice Monday admitted that he mur-
dered one Of his two young wives,
NBessie Kent Webster of Chicago, in
I the woods Of Ogle county, ten miles
rom Dixon, H., September 16. The
police say the motive for the crime
Twas Webster's desire to hide from
4 his first wife, Zoe Varney Webster
stf.edar Ranids. Iowa, the fact that
he was a biganiist. He had married
the two women within one week last
January. The accidental discovery
4 oi Bessie Kent's body, almost two
weeks after she had been killed, was
iollowed by identification and the ar
rest Of Webster.
The close of the fourth day of matri-
trlation at the university at Austin
. Saturday gave an increase in the
matriculation of Is students over the
corresponding days for last year.
The Texas State treasurer reports
that actual deposits from land sales
and leases during the month ending
Saturday totaled $128,481.6S. That
does not include the 20 per cent re-
tained for refunds where title or pos
session did not pass, the State being
unable to make deed.
Nine children of Mr.. and Mrs. Will
lam Dias of near Heshbon, Pa, lost
their lives in a fire which destroyed
the Dias home Sunday.
Subscriptions of approximately
100000 by the commercial interests
for operating tCats on the Mississippi
liver between St. Louis, New Orleans
and Galveston and the guarantee of
an adequate volume of freight is the
object Of campaign opened earnestly
Saturday by the Business Mems
League and the Real Estate Exchange
at St. Louis.
The Citizens State bank of Coving-
ton and the First State bank OF Shat
tuck, Okla, did not open for business
Saturday and are in the hands of the
State bank commissioner. The guar
anty fund will be called upon in the
case of the Shattuck failure.
I Hugh Hamilton, Jr, son of Hugh.
Hamilton, one of the wealthiest men
Of Houston, met with an automobile
accident Saturday morning. which
caused his death.
With the completion of the survey
Of the Neches river from Beaumont
to it's intersection with the Sabine
Neches canal and of that canal from
the river to Sabine Pass the practical
work OF making twenty-five-foot
channel from Beaumont to the Gulf
u Mexico may be expected to baain.
h In discussion~of the Canadian elec- |
ton made in the coming issue of the
commoner, w. j. Bryan says that
Speaker Clark's declaration in favor
OF annexation was very indiscreet
utterance for one occupying posi-
uon of authority" and hints that 1t
mad much to do with the result be-
cause of the use made of II
Cotton rate of Gle from Houston to
New Orleans satisfies railroad COM
mission.
Charles G. Gates and Miss Flor
nee E. Hopwood were married at
aunlontown, Pa, Wednesday.
cnanges of the greatest importance
n ate 70 be advocated in the construc-
won OF the next two dreadnoughts
su the United States navy. The
1eW seafighters are to have an i'm
s1osed system of fire control and only
~ instead of two of the military
skeleton masts.
0'ate Senator Cofer's resignation
~ accented Wednesday by Acting
Sovernor Davidson.
'esldent Taft ended his Kansas I
'as West. AA0 'sl' 40' IOWA anu :