The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1912-10-12

'ssss sc III u ss 8 s ss- .sss
with farewell messages Of insplra-
ton and cheer by the members,
mass meeting in the afternoon ana
service at night which packed the
First Methodist church to overflow
ing, the District Sunday school con-
yention. which convened in Calves
ton Friday morning, was brought TO
a close Sunday, ending what is gen
orally conceded to be one OF the most
successful gatherings OF Sunday
school workers ever held
Big Jack Selig was shot and killed
in New York Sunday by fruit mer-
chant. The east side gang leader
was a prospective witness in the trial
of Police Lieutenant Charles Becker
for the murder OF Herman Rosenthal,
the gambler.
Galveston county $2,000,O0o cause
way now without a semblame OF a
lighting system, is to be Adequately
lighted. TIE mammoth structure
representing Oue VI tuC Aio''
engineering works in this part OF the
country, is to have a ornamental hght
ing system in keeping with the mag
nificeDce of the structure.
Nine Young men lost their lives il
Philadelphia Sunday when an auto
mobile in which they were Joy rid
ing crashed through the railing OF
the side of the new Thlrty-thlre
street boulevard at Master street ant
fell into a coal yard seventy-five fee
| below.
The value of the farm property own
| ed and rented by co1ored farmers has
| in the Southern States, increased
from so per cent to 225 per cent il
the last ten years. In Texas, for IN
stance, it has gone from $56,ooo,oo'
to S113,ooO,00O; in North Caroiin;
from s2s. 900 900 to $81, 100000, and il
Georgia from $4s,Ooo,oo0 to s15S,ooo,
600. Nor has this been merely IN
creased bf Ivy Aof the sam
land.
The wealthy West Texas ranch
man, John NJ Chambers, who wa
dangerously mangled in an automobil
accident at San Angelo, Texas. Satul
day, died Sunday.
The bodies OF two Mexicans Wer
found under the wreck which occur
red at Mud Creek, near Hearne, Iea
as, Saturday. Il
Charles Becker, formerly lieute1
ant in the New. York police depar
ment, was placed on trial Monday 0
an indictment charging him with tn
murder of Herman Rosenthal, a gan
bier, alleged to- have betrayed tn
system"
After electing officers, dischargln
and thanking the Texas Welfare Con
mission, employing a field secretar
and creating a farm life comml
sion," the Commercial Secretaries an
Business Mems Association OF Texa
adjourned Saturday at Houston, lie:
as.
Rice thrashing in Texas and Loui
lana is now in full swing.
Six people were instantly klile
Sunday when an automobile IN whle
they were riding was demolished [
an interurban car near Arlington, e
The Bull line steamers will soon e
ter the gulf trade, plying Det"ee
| ~, fifv I9Xa
The New Jersey supreme court u
held the order for sanitary drlnklf
cups on trains.
Efforts of counsel for the Wate
Pierce Oil Company to trace oWhe
ship of the bonds of the indicted Ma
: nolia Petroleum Company OF lex
: we're successful when it was testlfl'
: at hearing in New York FRIDAY tn
s2.404. 900 worth of the securlti
were purchased by John D. Rock
teller. This revelation and the ia
that John D. Arehbold failed to OBJ
q subpoena summoning him as W
Z ness stood out as features of t
hearing in the. litigation over the
, tempt Of Standard Oil interests
, gain control of the Waters Pierce co
pany.
} Four masked men early Frld
: night held up the Kansas City Sou
f ern northbound train No. 4, three
half miles north of Poteau, Okl
ransacked the mail, blew the safe
, the express car and escaped into t
: wood-covered hills that stretch
l several miles on all sides OF
| scene of the robbery. The loot is
, timated at about $4,000.
' Aviator Charles F. Walsh was k
r ed Thursday at Trenton, N. j., VIII
Q his machine plunged 1000 feet
| earth.
The limit of liability for the own'
of the steamship Titanic, which sa
8 April Is. was set Friday at New Ie
t at 1000, as compared with clai
I. for damages which aggregate m'
I. than a million dollars.
I. Oklahoma's cotton crop will be
!. ner cent less than it was in 1911,
!. shown by statement issued by
state board of agriculture giving
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