The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1912-04-06
Mrs. Minnie Lee streieht .

Hector Jewell, alias Henry Johnson,
| was arrested in San Francisco Satur-
day, charged with the theft of $4,000
worth of diamonds from d store i'll
Sydney, Australia, in August, 1908.
Settlement of the bituminuous coal
miners wage dispute on basis salts
| factory to both sides was announced
Saturday at Cleveland, Ohio, as hav-
| ing been practically arranged.
A permit to do business In Texas
has been granted the Investors Mort.
gage company OF Edin burg SGptl tlands,
capfta1 stock S., ,VgU, ,uuU. A-'''sss-|a's
"A crop OF between $500 and 5000
carloads OF Bermuda onions from La
| redo territory will begin moving short
| ly.
The next biennial convention OF the
supreme lodge, knights of Pythias,
| will be held in Denver, Colo, from
| August to August Is. This was de-
cided on Thursday at meeting of
the officers of the supreme lodge in
New York.
| Preparations for conversion into
park of the old jefferson Davis home
site at Fairview. KY, since the bill
appropriating $500 for the purpose
has become a law, are moving speed
lily.
| The axman visited the town of Gid
den Wednesday night, Stayed ne
gro family of six Bloodhounds trailed
the murderers and negro man and
woman have been arrested.
! The Houston Gas and Fuel Com
pany have procured new charter and
raised the capital stock from $1,000
900 to s2.ooe,ooo.
An interurban trolley line from Dal-
las to Waco is being promoted.
John Arbuckle, well known coffee
man, died at his home in Brooklyn,
N. Y, Wednesday.
| The Chicago meat packers were ac-
quilted Tuesdaylof violating the Sher-
man antitrust law.
| Representative of colony of Penn
sylvania Germans have closed deal
for several hundred acres of land
near Pecos, Texas. There are 100
families in the colony and all are
truck farmers.
The Troyford Automobile Manufac-
turing company has been organized
at Houston, Texas. with a. capital
stock Of 100000.
The Commonwealth Trust company,
has been organized at Houston. Tex
as, with a capital stock Of $500,000.
FOREIGN.
Captain SCOTS vessel arrived at
Akaroa, New Zealand, without the ex-
plorer. Scott and party will remain
in the antarctic another year.
AS a result of conferences it is be-
lieved at London that home rule for
ireland will be realized.
Rebels Saturday shot and killed in
cold blood thirtystwo federal soldiers
near the City of Mexico.
General Leonidas Plaza has been
elected president of Ecuador. General
Plaza was commander of the govern
ment troops which opposed the recent
revolutionary movement. He was
president from 1900 to 1904, minister
to the United States in 1905 and
served also as minister to other coun-
tries.
The crisis in the Hungarian cabinet
which was ended Saturday by EN-
peror Francis, Joseph expressing con-
fidence in the ministry under the
premiership of Count Kuehn Won
Hedervary, had sensational develop
ment in threat of the emperor to
abdicate It is said that during re-
cent audience with the premier the
emperor openly threatened to abdi-
cate unless certain proposals in con-
nection with the controversy over the
army were Immediately abandoned.
The German federal council have
approved army and navy bills provld-
ing for a new battleship squadron and
two additional army corps.
The rumor that General Trucy Au-
bert was killed in the battle between
the federals in Mexico, whom he COM
manded, and rebels under General
Salazar, was unfounded. He has ap-
parently escaped. as no trace OF him
can be found
Jose Maria Valladares, the revolu-
tionary leader, whose rebel band was
disastrously defeated on March in
a battle with government troops near
Ell Horno, Honduras, has taken to the
swamps along the Ulua river, between
Puerto Cortez and Tela, with 100 men.
Valadares is making for the coast in
an effort to get out of the country.
Ferdinand Poggenburg, the Ameri-
can amateur champion billiardist, Fri
day in Paris lost his fourth game in
the amateur billiard tournament for
the championship of the world. He
was defeated by Roudil of France, 400
to PIT.
| At the trial Of the Camorrists at
Viterbo, Italy, v. Amoroso, who it was
alleged was present when the Gamer
rists passed the sentence of death
upon Genarro Cuoccolo and his wife,
was released from prison Saturday
| after serving five years imprison-
ment.
Eighty workmen barely escaped
with their lives Thursday when the
River Sprei broke through the tunnel
now being bored under the river for
the extension of the Berlin subway to
the northeast of Berlin, Germany.
The entire downtown section Of the
subway was flooded and damage to
the extent of several millions was
done. The downtown traffic will be
| interrupted probably for month and
the completion of the extension prob
ably indefinitely deferred.
! The Turkish army have won great