The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1912-09-21
NEWS AS u HAPPENS.
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penings From Day to Day
Throughout the World.
STATE AND DOMESTIC NEWS,

STATE AND DOMESTIC NEWS,
Al G. Boyce, Jr, was shot and in
stantly killed Saturday at Amarillo,
Texas, three charges from an auto
matte shotgun having entered his!
body Bean Sneed ss,lrrensae xo
the off Tiers re- N minutes Ia III, hand
Ing over two automatic pistols and
the automatic shotgun with which the
shooting was done.
The worst storm experienced since
the memorable hurricane of Septem-
Der, 1906, swept Pensacola's water
front Saturday night, doing thousands
of dollars damage to the shipping in
terests.
Booker T. Washington, the apostle
of Industrial education and the fore
most negro in America, was greeted
by thousands of his people Saturday
night at the auditorium in Houston.
Frank Merrick, a prominent news
paper man and managing editor of
the Guthrie (Okla.) Leader, was lured
to sparsely settled portion of Guth-
rie Saturday by telephone call and
on his arrival at the rendezvous was
shot and almost instantly killed by an
unknown party, who escaped
Aviator Howard W. Gill of Balti-
more, Md, was fatally hurt on the
Cicero aviation field at Chicago Sat
urday, dying later, while George
Mestach of France, whose monoplane
collided with GilPs biplane when they
were participating in race seventy
five feet in the air, was injured, as
the two men and their machines fell
to the earth in the dark.
The Panama canal is to be opened
to traffic in the fall of 1913. This
statement was made officially at the
navy department in Washington Satur
day, with an announcement that the
Atlantic fleet would be rendezvoused
at Colon this winter before the water
is turned in.
Western Champion Charles Evans,
Jr., of the Edgewater Club Saturday
at Chicago won permanent possession
of the Mayflower golf cup, given by
the Ontwentsia Golf Club, by defeating
Paul Hunter of Midlothian in the
finals.
William D. Haywood of Denver, gen
eral organizer of the Industrial Work
ers of the World, was arrested in Bos-
ton, Mass, Sunday on capias war
rant issued as the result of an indict-
ment by the Essex County grand jury
charging him with conspiracy in con-
nection with the strike of textile work
ers in Lawrence last winter. He was
released on $1,000 bond.
Five naval apprentices were drown
ed and five are missing as result
United States naval training station
at North Chicago, III. The known
drowned are R. G.. Harlan, |. L. South
worth, j. Wallace, J. A. Patton and
W. N. Autrobus.
Sidna Allen, leader of the Allen
clan, which shot up the Carroll County
court house at Hillsville, Va, March
IA, killing Judge Massie and others,
and his nephew, Wesley Edwards,
were captured Saturday in Des Moines,
Iowa. Both have announced their
willingness to return to Virginia with
out requisition.
Advices to army officials at Ell Paso
from Maria, Texas, report the cap
ture by Captain Thomas F. Mitchell
of Pascual Orozco, Sr., colonel in
the revolutionary army.
The plant of the Texas City Cotton
Seed Company, located at the indus
trial site at Texas City, was entirely |
destroyed by fire Saturday, entailing |
a loss of between $4,000 and $4,000
President Taft has given President
Madero thirty days in which to pro-
tect American property and lives in |
Mexico. If Madero fails to do this, |
the United States will require that he
resign. If Madero should
speedily follow. This statement was
made Saturday by a high official OF
the department of state to Juan Pedro /
Didapp, representative Of the Mexican
revolution in Washington. t
The conference between the South.
western railways and representatives
of the conductors and trainmen over
the question of an increase in wages /
was brought to a close Friday at I
D. c., by the railroads
agreeing to submit the matter to me.
diation under the Erdman act Eff
forts by the railroads to have the mat.