The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1912-12-07
THIBODAUX SATURDAY, DECEMBER
Governor Colquitt is drafting and
will have introduced at the next leg
islature some twenty-eight bills.

uoVeTHOT COlQultI 1s drafting and
Will have introduced at the next leg
islature some twenty-eight bills
The killing of a man in Lowell,
Mass, twenty years ago was given
Saturday at Buffalo, N. Y, by John F..
Hickey in a signed statement as the
starting point Of career of de-
oauchery and crime during which he
murdered two boys and assaulted
many others. Hickey's victims, ac-
cording to his confession, were Ed
Morey of Lowell, Mass, poisoned with
laudanum over twenty years ago;
Michael Kruck, IL years old, a New
York newsboy, strangled in Central
park in 1902, and Joseph Josephs, the
7-year-old son of George Josephs, a
merchant of Lackawanna, killed in a
similar manner October IL, 1911.
- T.. RoWman, Governor ca,anitt.s-
private secretary, will serve as Sec
retary Of state until John L. Wortham
qualities.
Willie Richie won the lightweight
championship OF the world from Ad
Wolgast in the sixteenth round at
DAILY City, Cal, Thursday.
Twelve cars of cotton burned at
Greenville, Texas, Thursday, entailing
a loss of $4,000.
Joe Mandot of New Orleans was
defeated by Joe Rivers of California
Thursday in a hard 2O-round fight at
Los Angeles, Cal
Texas has erected more than two
school buildings day the past year,
according to Superintendent Bralley's
report at the meeting of the teachers
association at Fort Worth Saturday
That half million dollars in prop
erty has been stolen by syndicate
of twenty thieves in Chicago, headed
by two physicians now under arres..
with two other men, is heHeays-rtion
of officers who have been following
the trail of thieves for months. The
alleged leaders of the organization
arrested Saturday are DR.. Nicholas
Kern, DR.. Edward B. Stalhutte, Joseph
Todd and Romus Doughty.
A son was born at Cincinnati, Ohio,
Friday to Mrs. Lucien P. Smith of
Huntington, w. Va, a survivor of the
Titanic disaster. The father Of the
boy, Lucien P. Smith, went down with
the Titanic. Mrs. Smith is the daugh-
ter of Congressman James Hughes
of Huntington
The great t$7,000,o00 Medina dam
near San Antonio will be completed
the first of the year. The irrigation
project will water 10000 acres of fer
tile land f.
Friday night thirteen convicts at
the Retrieve plantation sawed out and
made their escape. A few of them
went to Angleton, Texas, and in the
quarters where the negro women who
do the town washing had clothes out
on the line they helped themselves
and when caught Saturday with the
clothes on.
An armed band of Mexicans have
invaded New Mexico and are bent on
destruction
Albert T. Patrick, who is serving a
life sentence in Sing Sing prison at
Albany, N. Y, for the murder of Will
liam Marsh Rice, an aged millionaire,
in New York City on September %,
1900, was pardoned Wednesday by
Governor Dix.
Snow fell Wednesday over an area
of the Southern States extending from
the Texas Panhandle to Central Geor-
gia, and the South felt the effects of
a sudden drop.
An engine of the Trinity County
Lumber Company exploded Wednes-
day, killing Engineer Aaron Nors-
worthy and Fireman Joe Shepherd
The explosion occurred about five
miles from Groveton, Texas, on the
G., L. and N. track, and at the time
the engine was running and was pull
ing cars loaded with men who had
been employed during the day in the
woods.