The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1913-05-17
NEWS BRIEFLY TOLD.

GOV. Johnson reIuSeu request 10 VeCo
the anti-alien bill.
Senator Ransdell thinks that the free
sugar bill will fail.
Louisiana's crop of edible frogs is
said to be worth 100000.
Baton Rouge has voted in the COM
mission form of government
Militant English suffragettes attempt
ed to dynamite st. Paups Cathedral.
DR.. r. M. Carruth is coroner of Pointe
Coupee vice DR.. Ruffin Claiborne de-
ceased.
Good roads association is formed at
De Ridder, Beauregard parish. +. E.
Powell is secretary
Disagreement between Senators Var
daman and Williams are holding up
Mississippi appointments.
Shriners on their way to the Imper-
ial Council at Dallas made gala day
of Saturday in New Orleans.
The Bureau of Mines estimates that
$4,000 worth of natural gas is vast
ed daily at Shreveport oil fields.
Women convicts, temporarily at Bat
on Rouge, were returned to Angola as
flood danger is believed to be over
Senators Thornton and Ransdell re-
quested delay of New Orleans mass
meeting in endorsing Newlands bill.
President Wilson has asked Gov
Johnson of California to veto the anti
alien bill The latter has sent no re-
ply.
Tangipahoa school board owes $780,
900 and unless special tax is voted
to care for the debt, they will be
obliged to close the schools.
Investigation shows that the New Or
leans market man makes tremendous
profits. The producer has to sell at
ridiculously low figures.
The Supreme Court affirmed the
Judgment and sentence in the case Of
Eugene F. BUTLER and j. H. Gomilla,
convicted of looting the Teutonia Bank.
James j. Woulfe, defaulting notary,
and Cornelius P. VOORHEES,, concicted
murderer of Alfred ]. Theard, were
taken to the Louisiana State Peniten-
tiary.
DR.. C.. P. Wilkins, of Wilkesbarre,
Penn, is the prospective superintend-
ent of the New Orleans Charity Hos
pital. His speciality is hospital man.
agement.
Gov. Hall was asked by Charles A..
Farwell, president of the American Cane
Growers Association, to call confer
ence of Southern Governors on the
pending tariff legislation.
A New York doctor threatens to
make public the formula for DR.. Fried
mann's turtle serum. He believes it
good however. Government experts
declare it not so effective as claimed.
Jack Johnson, the black prize-1ght-
er, has been found guilty of white slav-
cry on sufficient counts to give him 70
years in prison. 1t is believed the in
cident will bring about an anti-nusceg-
enation law in Illinois.
The first of the damage suits result
ing from the MONTE, La, wreck on the
Yazoo and Mississippi Valley Railroad
was tried at Hahnville and resulted in
a compromise for $1,000 in favor of Os-
car Zambrano, a Mexican student of
l.. S. U. who was the plaintiff.
Three men from McComb City, Miss,
picked Walters, the alleged kidnaper,
out Of crowd as the man whom they
saw in their town in Dec, 1912, and
who admitted that the child with him
was Bobbie Dunbar, and he was TAX
ing him home. Other witnesses claim
that they saw the child with Walters
in 1911. And there you are.
Women Of the Presbyterian Church
organized the Women's Presbyterian
Synodical and the Presbyterial. The
former is composed of six members,
two from each of the three presby-
teries in the State. Miss Flournoy and
delegate from Shreveport represent
ed the Red River Presbytery; Mrs. c.
A. Weiss of Alexandria, Mrs. William
Payne of Baton Rouge and Miss Sen
tell Of Bunkie the Louisiana Presby-
terry, and Mrs. Knapp and Mrs. J. l..
Many the New Orleans Presbytery.
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