The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1912-10-05
NEWS AS It HAPPENS
NATIONAL, STATE, FOREIGN, OF
INTEREST TO READERS.
THE WHOLE WEEKS MWS
Short Mentioning Of Interesting Hap
penings From Day to Day
Throughout the World.
STATE AND DOMESTIC hEws.

G60crally COlQ anu lalT NedIAeA HAA
preIail east OF the Rocky Mountains
tnls week, Wftns frosrs during the first
days in the Rockies. the plains states.
the upper Mississippi and Ohio vaa-
leys, the lake region and the North
Atlantic States, according to the week
ly bulletin from the weather bureau.
West Of the Rocky mountains" says
the bulletin, Temperatures will aver
age near or above the normal. The
next general disturbance to cross the
continent will appear in the Far West
the first part of week, and the Eastern
States the latter part. This disturb
ance will be preceded by general
rise In temperature and be attended
by well distributed rains.
Eugene V. Debs, the social nominee
for president, and Emil Seidel, nomi-
nee for vice president, were officially
notified of their nomination with
ceremonies which attracted crowd
too large to be accommodated in the
great amphitheater at Madison Square,
New York, Sunday. 1t was planned,
as it turned out to be, the largest So
cialist demonstration ever held in the
United States. Notwithstanding that
admission cost from 15c to 81, the
garden was overcrowded and an over
flow meeting was necessary.
Police and Industrial Workers of
the World paraders fought with knives
and clubs Sunday at Lawrence, Mass.
Two officers were stabbed, a number
of demonstrators were dubbed and an
Industrial Worker of the World leader
captured after hard fight and then
freed Only two arrests were made.
Louis Disbrow, driving a 2OO-horse
power Simplex car at the state falr
grounds at Detroit, Mich, Sunday es-
tablished a new worlds record over a
dirt track for 80, 40 and SO miles
covering the distances in 27:21, 36:25
and 1922, respectively. The previous
records were made at Syracuse last
year by Ralph de Palma. driving the
same car. De Palma's time for the
fifty miles vas 47s:2I. .e5: I. J
Two more lives were sacrificed 10
| aviation at the United States army
| aviation field, College Park, Md, Sat
urday, when an army aeroplane fell
thirty-five feet to the ground, instant
1v killing Corporal Frank S. Scott and
| so seriously injuring Second Lieuten
ant Lewis G. Rockwell that he died
few hours later. Hundred of people
including fellow-army officers, breath
! lessly witnessed the accident.
1t is believed Mr.. and Mrs. Charles
Pfanschmidt, their 16-year-old daugh
ter Blanche and Miss Emma Kaempen
| 81 years old, teacher, whose charreo
bodies were found Sunday in the ruins
of the Pfanschmidt country home. six
teen miles from Quincy, ILL.,, were mur
dered.
A crippled newsboy at Gary, Ind.
Sunday gave up $50 cubic inches o1
skin on his worthless leg to a burned
girl.
| The Texas Commercial Secretaries
and Business Mems Association has
recently completed census OF tai
buildings in Texas, and finds there
are 2O2 structures in the State at the
present time that are five or more
stories in height, while at this time
last year we had only 1853 buildings
| in this class. Thirty-four skyscraper:
have been erected in the Lone Stal
State during the past year, and nine
are now under construction.
According to the latest reports o.
the commissioner general of immlgra
ton 100000 aliens were admitted tt
the United States last year and 518,
215 departed There were six nation:
that gave us $4,000 immigrants ant
over as follows: England 86,131, Ire
land 50,48s, Italy 176,107, Poland IA,
437, Russia 56,913, Germany 81,714. o
aliens departing England leads witt
51,410 and Germany second with 81.
R88.
CIearins nineteen foreign steam
ships, having ON board cargo valued a
s11,054,5O6, of which vast amount O
value $1O,515,S17 was represented D.
17O,O62 bales of cotton, the balance
wheat, slaves, ETC., Galveston on Fri
day broke all port records in the mat
ter Of clearances.
Sales by the Southern Rice Grow
ers' Association at Beaumont Satur
day reached high mark for this sea
son, the aggregate being 28,964 sacks
at the association minimum. The sales
were distributed throughout Louisiana
and Texas.
Citizens of Guthrie, Okla, Saturda!
made over to the state deed to th'
Frank H. Greer residence lots uset
for a governors mansion, in case th'
state capital is returned to Guthrie
It is one of the handsomest homes il
the state, costing $4,000, and in
cludes a half block of ground.
Holding in her mouth card for
target, Mrs. Jose Holguin was sho
through both eyes Friday in her hus
bands shooting gallery in Dallas
Texas. 1t was found necessary to re
move both of the eyeballs to preven
other complications from the hurt.
AS the climax to rioting in Augusta
Ga. and the shooting of three citizens
Friday by state militia troops, Govern
or Brown has issued a proclamation
declaring "the city of Augusta to b'
in state Of insurrectioH, and order
ing the immediate enforcement OF mar
tiol law