Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1914-12-11

Frederick Eswsllyn Goss. inventor
of the printing. pssss which bears his
name. died at his home in Chicago.
He was born in Wales in lS4S. 0oss
established the 0ooo Psrfecting Press
company in 1855.
Mrs. Carolina n. Severance, known
a. the Mother of Women's Clubs,"
died at her homo n Los Angeles, Cal.
She would have been ss years old in
January next
Canada forbade the importation a
cattle. wool and hides from the United
States, giving the W.evalence Of the
foot and mouth dissass a the cause.
More than 500 dsleea4ss from WON.
ems clubs Of Illinois arrived In Spring.
field to attend the annual convention
Of the Illinois State Federation q
Woman's Clubs. .-s1
The Industrial relations commission
will begin an Investigation Of the Colo
RADIO coal strike situation at Denver.
Dec. /.
The United States supreme court
announced 1t would take its usual
Thanksgiving recess from Nov. ls to
Nov. 30.
Holding that the Oklahoma courts
had interpreted the state liquor laws
as not applicable to interstate com
merce. the United States supreme
court dismissed an attack ON the con-
stitutionality Of the statutes.
The lives Of scores Of children were
imperiled and Miss Lillian Burdette.
matron. was burned to death in . fire
that partly destroyed the Fremont
Children's Home, near Alliance. o.
John Menick and Steve Burris, two
Of the miners who have been held In
Jail at Pine Bluff. Ark. on charges Of
contempt Of the federal court orders.
returned to Prairie Greek. having
made bond Of $4,000 each.
Fire OF unknown origin caused
$4,000 loss in the business district at
Hartford, Ark. A bucket brigade Of
1000 volunteers probably saved the
entire, town from destruction.
nh v>~ls~o - N~,r, Yo.l >~A Y>~~>v
City are searching for Gustav Martin.
10 years old, . blacksmith, who shot
and killed his two brothers-in-law,
Raymond and George Leonard.
Mrs. Nellie Scripture Ross, .
former resident Of Gardiner, H.. who
recently died in Pasadena, Cal. left
$1,000 for the care and maintenance
Of her pet cat Tiger.
PNirie fires are sweeping over 500
square miles 6f territory In the vicin-
ity Of Mandau, N. d. A score Of set
tiers are missing. and 1t II believed
that number of them have perished.
A seven-year term for presidents of
the United States was advocated BY
former President Taft In an address
before the Harvard law school.
Roy Yarmouth. is. Of Tallula. nL.
fell under the wheels Of = Chicago 4
Alton train he was trying to board
at Petersburg. ILL.,, and was killed.
Following the resignation Of Dr..
Aurelio Souza, president Of the Pc
ruvian cabinet, all the other members
Of the cabinet resigned. The imme-
diate political situation is uncertain
William johnson. aged 50. was sem
fenced to q year in the federal prison
at Fort Leavenworth by Judge Francis
M. Wright upon his plea of guilty to
a charge Of bootlegging whiskey at
Venice, III.
8. J. Blythe, q farmer living just
across the river, brought to Atchison.
Kan, . 100-pound pumpkin that u
now on exhibition at . local bank.
The Panama canal IL again open to
traffic. COL Goethals cabled that ship
ping began passing through channel
opened through the recent landslides
north Of Gold Hill.
Theodore Roosevelt went to the
polling place in Oyster Bay with his
coachman and two gardenets.i Col
Roosevelt voted first and then waited
while his employees cast their ballots.
Four Of the six states that voted on
the ousting Of saloons decided. accord
ing to late returns, to forbid the sale
Of alcoholic beverages and two voted
to retain saloons.
The Western Union Telegraph and
Cable company announces that COM
munication with Germany and Aus
tria by way Of wireless station 1t
Tuckerton, N. J., has been suspended
until further notice.
The youngest member Of the new
legislature is Harold G. Kessinger
(Rep.), elected from the Fourteenth