The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1912-02-10
NEWS AS IT HAPPENS
NATIONAL, STATE, FOREIGN, OF
INTEREST TO READERS.
THE WHOLE WEEKS NEWS
Short Mentioning Of Interesting Hap.
penings From Day to Day
Throughout the World.
WASHINGTON.

InFou9hout Ine WoFl0.
WASHINGTON.
Representative Sheppard introduced
d bill Saturday for the establishment
Of postoffice on the Texas side o.
the line, the postoffice being made tt
serve both the Texas and Arkansas
sides.
Amendments to the pure food Law
to remedy weaknesses in the drug anG
patent medicine regulations are to be
taken up by the house interstate com
merce committee.
Stenographic notes alleged to have
been made from a dictagraph record
ing an duplicating conversation of 8
Lorimer witness were dramatically
denounced as false" and ."manufac
tured" before the Lorimer senatorial
investigating committee Saturday
Myron T. Herrick, former governor
of Ohio, probably will be appointed
ambassador to France to succeed Rob
ert Bacon, who resigned recently tc
become a fellow in the Harvard cor
poration. This was learned Saturday
on reliable authority after Mr.. Her
rick's appearance at the White House
where he took luncheon with Presi
dent Taft.
. Southern claims for buildings anil
property destroyed in the civil war,
and claims for supplies furnished tie
union army were taken up in tie
house Saturday in an omnibus claims
bill, which carries a total of $1,551,'
583.
The pension appropriation bill,
carrying about $152,0o0,000, passed
the house Friday by q vote to 245 to
SO, after several Southern democrats
had demanded a roll call vote. A
provision excluding pensioners who
live out of the United States was de-
feated, 16O to l33 The bill abolishes
seventeen pension agencies which
have been maintained in different
cities.
Count Francis Won Luethzow of Bo-
hemia, chamberlain to Emperor Fran
els Joseph of Austria, addressed the
house of representatives Friday upon
universal Eeace, during a fifteen nan-
utes' recesf by Democratic I.eader
UnderWa2a !. ].
-..zlss IN is,fan apprUs'dFEfss ~
tion bill was completed Friday. It Is
the smallest in amount in twenty
years. The bill cuts $1,718,000 below
the bill of the last session. Among
the items eliminated is 100000 for
special Indian agents in Oklahoma.
There is to be an appropriation OF
$4,000 for a joint hospital for the
Kiowas, Comanches and other tribes.
Representative Bell of Georgia has
prepared a bill which would author
ize the director of the census to col
lect and publish statistics, concerning
the amount of cotton ginned. the
quantity of cotton consumed in man.
ufacturing establishments, the guam
tity of baled cotton on hand, the mum.
ber of active consuming cotton spin
dies and the quantity of cotton i'm
ported and exported, with the coun
try of origin and destination.
DOMESTIC.
Clarence S. Darrow, former chief
counsel for the McNamaras, pleaded
not guilty to the two indictments
charging him with jury bribing. The
pleas were entered after Presiding
Judge Hutton of the superior court
had overruled a demurrer filed on be-
half of Darrow and motion to quash
the indictments.
The great ice bridge that has
choked the river channel at Niagara
Falls between the cataract and the
upper steel arch bridge below the falls
for the last three weeks broke from
its snoring Sunday and went down the
river, taking with it to their death
man and a woman, believed to be Mr..
and Mrs. Eldridge Stanton of Toronto,
Canada, and Burrell Heacock, II
years old, of Cleveland, Ohio. Four
other persons were ON the ice at the
time, but managed to get ashore in
safety.
AS result of the meeting of the
magnates of the Texas baseball league
1t Houston Saturday, the league is
now an all-Texas affair, Oklahoma
City having sold out to Beaumont.
The franchise of the Galveston club
vas officially declared forfeited and
| committee of Galveston business
men Immediately bought back into the
eague and the meeting closed with all
apparently well satisfied.
A double suicide in New York Sun
|ay ended the sensational romance of
he former wife of Walter T. Suydam
nd Frederick Noble, the young
lumber. for the love Of whom Mrs.
,uydam ran away from her millionaire
husband and married. The bodies OF
Soble and his bride of month were
ound in their New York apartments.
he couple had been asphyxiated by
as.
The passengers and saforty-eight
,embers of the cx6& of the Hamburg
,merican liner ANagheny, which was
unk by the British steamer Pomaron
IF the Virginia ~capes Saturday, were
afely landed at Newport News Sun
ay by the Pcmaron, which took them
Il. To- t0t |
@She INV in the case of Mrs. Linda |
. = Hazard, accused in the Kitsap |
ounty, WGsh., superior court at Port
richard of having starved to aeath
[iss Claire Williamson, wealthy
nglisn paths at ths-Hazzard star
alton sanisSsam," w. returned
erdict OF manslaughter. |