The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1911-09-19
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bury. DR.. Drennon had an early pro-
fessional call to make, of which he
complained. While his wife was in
the kitchen to prepare him cup o.
coffee before starting, she heard 9
shot and rushing upstairs found hei
husband in dying condition. He did
not speak and soon expired. He had
apparently bent over shotgun and
pulled the trigger with toe. The
/ doctor was in fine circumstances; had
wife and two sons, his practice lu-
crative and his health fairly good. He
was forty-f1ve years old and one of the
best known men in his section.
Four persons were killed and over a
score injured in wreck of Pittsburg
and Lake Erie railway work train at
| Cleveland, o. The men were laborers
and riding on fiat car when engine
and four cars jumped the track and
overturned. The train crew, except
the fireman, who was injured, escaped.
Wreck is thought to have been caused
by spreading rail.
Baton Rouge La dairynen have
| joined the fight to hold milk for high
er prices, and the Dixie Dairy mems
association at a meeting decided not
to ship any more milk to New Orleans
to the Cloverdale Dairy association
unless the New Orleans milk concern
agreed to pay IL points butter fat
during the summer and points in the
winter.
Because his parents locked him in
room as punishment for some indis-
erection, Bartel Leblanc, fifteen years
old took his own life at st. Martins
vile, La. Surprising he had been
punished enough the parents unlocked
the door and we're Mortified to find the
boy hanging to the head of the bed,
dead.
Summoned from home by a passer-
by, who saw burglar in his store, J.
NJ Overfield, grocer of Henderson,
Ky, armed only with a poker. felled
the party, and after a fight sat on him
until the police arrived.
Mysterious circumstances surround
the drowning of Captain F. G. War
ner, commander of the Dorothea, the
naval militia ship of Ohio, who is said
to have tumbled out of small row.
boat near pier at Cleveland, o. A
trio of men gave an alarm following
the discovery of the accident and then
disappeared, Captain Warner was
preparing to take the Dorothea on her
last cruise of the season.
Officers of Kenton, O., hunting for
the slayer of Della Halsey, who had
been dragged out of James Watts
bakery and shot to death in,the dark.
ness discovered the corpse of Jesse
Newman. rejected sutton of the girl,
in a barn on his fathers farm, about
five miles south of Kenton Il is the
opinion that after killing the girl the
young man went home and hid in the
barn and when he heard the officers
were in pursuit suicined
Mrs r Nicely, white woman, who
killed negro man at her home, near
Langsdale, Miss, recently was acquit-
ted by jury that was out but fifteen
minutes.
Jonathan Henderson of Coyle, near
Guthrie, Okla, was shot and killed
near Sumner, Noble county. His STAY
er used a shotgun. the load taking eff
feet in his head
Cholera epidemic continues in Italy
and still continues in European and
Asiatic turkey, iu Marseilles, France,
and is on the increase in Russia.
Positive announcement was made at
Heudersonville, N c., that Myrtle
Hawkins. whose body was found in
Lake Oceola. died as the result of an
unlawful operation. Several rewards
have beve been offered for the arrest
and conviction yf the murderer.
John Johnson confessed at Madi
son, Wis, to the abduction and muir
der of Annie Lemberger, seven years
old, whose body was found in Lake |
Monona Johnson was tried and life |
Imprisonment the verdict johnson
said be went to window beside which |
was the bed in which the child was
with her sister; that the little
one was dragged through the window.
taken to railroad bridge and into
the lake thrown. He refused to assign
any reason for committing the fiendish
act.
After running fight C. T. Connell, |
chief of the southern California inn |
district and deputy, cap
tured an automobile containing three /
contraband Chinese ten miles from |
Los Angeles, Cal. They were jailed
at that city. Learing Chinese were to
be taken to Ventura by automobile
from Los Angeles officers rugged up
near the roadside and its
glare turned on automobiles. One with
Chinese came along. but driver would /
not stop. Auto was fred at and chased /
and captured. Allwere arrested, in
cluding the chauffeur.