The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1912-03-23

The preiiIii. Ss..y tiIai oI Dr. "A {
Stafford, charged with killing Bert Fl
Barton last St-1day at Beaumont was
brought to an abrupt termination Sat
urday by the grand jury reporting a
bill indicting Stafford with murder in
the first degree for the killing OF
Barton.
Though he has received numerous
enticing offers to go on the stage,
David A. Trousdale, the Wells Fargo
express messenger who killed Ed
Welch and Ben Fitzpatrick, the two
outlaws who held up and attempted to
rob Sunset train No Wednesday
morning near Dryden, says he will
retain his position with the express
company.
The balloon Buckeye, which sailed
from San Antonio Wednesday. de
scended Thursday in Missouri in a
frsmote region
Tie xno a1Iaw 1hlafs Nho led q.
sassins into the Virginia court room
at Hillsville. Va. Friday. were cap
tured after a. bloody battle with a
posse.
Fifteen thousand dollars in cur
rency was taken from the registered
mail pouch on the Arizona and New
Mexico railroad at Clifton, Ariz., Fri
day. The money was consigned to
the Detroit Copper Company.
With all thearivers booming as a
result of recent terrific rains, South
Carolina, it is thought, faces fresh
flood, exceeded only by the disas-
trous flood of 1909.
Five persons are known to have
been killed. a dozen injured, several
of them seriously, and scores Of
buildings in both business and resi-
dence districts of Headland, Ala, are
total wrecks as the result Of hurri-
cane which struck the town Friday.
Express Messenger Trousdale on
the Southern Pacific train killed two
robbers Wednesday, who attempted to
enter his car near Sanderson, Texas.
Armed Mexican rebels crossed the
Rio Grande at Fabers, Texas, on We'd
nesday and took five horses and sad
dies belonging to ranchers.
No more troops will be sent to the
Mexican border at present to enforce
the neutrality laws, in accordance
with President Taft's proclamation Of
Friday. The army regards that as
the duty of civilian customs officers.
The report this week of thirty.six
national banks in Texas shows big In
crease in deposits.
The forty-six men charged with
completely in the alleged dynamite
conspiracy pleaded mot guilty" Tues
day at Indianapolis. :~s.-
| FoRElcN.
Secretary Knox has cabled from
Nicaragua to President Taft urging
that the senate foreign relations COM
mittee give attention to the Nicara-
guam loan treaty which has been pend
ing more than year. Secretary Knox
cabled that the Nicaraguan govern
ment and citizens were anxious to
have the United States senate ratify
the treaty.
Several arrests have been made in
connection with the attempt to as
sassinate King Victor Emanuel last
week. Among the prisoners Is Nicho-
las Tactic, a Roumanian. who was
mentioned in a report sent the gov
ernment by the Italian consul at Ge-
neva recently as being connected with
q plot hatched there to kill the king,
Premier Giolitti and Foreign Minister
Di Guilaniano. Tactic was arrested
in Rome.
Major T. R. Aldana, chief Of staff to
Pancho Villa, taken prisoner Satur-
day in the fight between rebels and
Villas band on the ConchOs river,
near Santa Rosalia. Mexico. was exc
cuted at sunrise Sunday in accord
ance with orders of General Orozco.
The finances OF China are In a
chaotic condition. Financiers accuse
Premier Tang Shao VI of thickness
sud consider his financial policy dan
gerous.
The German steamer Axenfels,
which sailed from Rangoon for Ham.
burg February II, is ashore near
Cires Point, Morocco. according to ad-
vices received in London Sunday.
Four passengers and several sailors
are believed to have been drowned
Sunday SITTER collision between the
Peninsula and Oriental liner Oceana
and the German bark Pisagua off
Beachy Head in the English channel.
signor Santorro. the crown prose
cutor,> after having spoken fourteen
days, finally finished his summing up
- roiuof tho CamOrriata Friday af