N.O. Times Picayune 1 Sm [700 (2:6 )
we ~
gements for the refinery.
fana Edacator.
rrett, president of Acadia
» Charles, arrived at the
»sterday, and will spend
ore,
» is a private institution,
7
reparatory, collegiate and
ments. It was located in
ven years, but two years
g burned, and Prof. Bar-
yeen in Lake Charles,
ttendance of 200 students
ne president said. “I am
increase the
ort now to _
oarding : students, as We
y much crowded.
- jcement exercises were
and fifteen students were
‘the business department.
| I bave already secured
all but two.
eg has been very mu
he Jennings oll field,
» big gushers have
Jennings excitemen
ke Charies. It has always
that Lake Charles had
ld, but the Jennings suct-
ed a new life. One well
was bored to a depth of
abandoned, but It is prob-
ork willl again be started
[here are five derricks in
and all in operation.”
emorial Library.
X. Gauthier, of Jennings,
ng the Hill Memorial Li-
Louisiana State University,
age, passed through the
', and stopped at the St.
started work
he foundations
have the
r has alread
building.
he expects to
leted by Dec. 1. The cost
00, Mr. Hill having since
i to his original donation,
a building might be con-
h would in every way
ants of the university.
Question at St. Louw
Fatr.
ion that now confronts the
thorities,’’ sald Mr. Herbert
VY UTSLe Ltacagry -—
Charles.
Pouchatoula,
here at the Hotel Grunewald.
arrived at the Cosmopolitan yesterday.
fourche planter,
politan.
Stern,
eet
\{ir. John W., Adley and Mrs. Adley, of
dre spending a few days
H.C. James and Mrs. James, of Biloxl,
Mr. Philip Lagarde, the well-known [a-
ig staying at the Cosmo-
D. C. Fitch, of Baton Rouge, and 8. F.
of Shreveport, were among the
Louisiana arrivals yesterday at the Cos-
mopolitan.
Ss. QQ. Hollingsworth, a _ prominent
Shreveport resident, i8 8 ending several
days here at tbe Grunewald.
Ww. B. Hall. of Shreveport, and John
Dixon, of. Newroads, were among the
prominent Leuisianians at the St. Charles
yesterday.
r. §. Atkinson, of Summit, Miss., reg-
istered at the Cosmopolitan.
?-4. Bridge, of Houma, is staying
e Grunewald.
ee
MURDERERS GARROTED.
Four Men Put to Death at Ponce,
Porto Rico.
Ponce, Porto Rico, June 3.—Barnabe
Acevido, Jose Torers, Ramon Troche Ca-
deno end Juan Torres, the four men found
cuilty of murder, robbery and outrage,
t=]
committed in October, 1898, at Guayo,
a suburb of Adjuntas, were Garroted
here to-day. They were ail put to death
within fifty minutes. All the condemned
men confessed their crimes. Two of them
aided the executioner to adjust the gar-
rote and forgave him for putting them
to death. One of the prisoners resisted
the adjustment of the cloth over his
face. He said he wanted to die with his
face uncovered. fFinally, after fifteen
minutes’ struggle, he was subdued. There
were only thirty witnesses of the execu-
tion.
The men were executed for the murder
of Antonio Delgado Delpino and the out-
rage of the women of his household, near
Adjuntas, on Sept. 30, 1898.
a
A BAKERY BLAZE.
Through some unknown cause about 43765
lock yesterday morning fire was start in
the “residence ‘and bakery of Fortunato fareco,
el man of St. Louis, in the
MO.
pit ae td
j was dope.
MuUBpBbwe-oONayuc ALT pereui
Mamou.
[Special to the Pic
Crowley, La., June 3.—T
of the Hogg-Swayne eynd
sentatives of the Crowley
Company are over at Mam
at the holdings of the latt
sible that a deal can be co:
whereby the Hogg-Swayne
quire a large interest in
company.
The location of the lan
Oll and Mineral Company \
to the Hogg-Swayne peopl
sons at a previous visit t&
is expected that the deal
the representatives of the
proposition that the home
offer.
Messrs. W. W. Dtson,
Dr. F. BR, Martin went
with the Hogg-Swayne de
Oil Company {in
Dover, Del., June 8.—A
orporation has been filed
sma and Mississippi Dev
abama, to drill, bore a
minerals, etc.; capite
RS. SNOW BOL
Hogg-Swayne Syndi
Claim on Spin
[Special to the P
Beaumont, Tex., June
Campbell and J. W. Sway
Hogg-Swayne syndicate, hi
E. Snow, of California,
half the price of her sal
tees of her interest in
practically every land owr
on the Spindle Top hill. T!
wil] be paid at a later
chasers will then have .
right, title and interest
of the largest and most
every brought in the sout
They made the purchas
pose of stopping the liti
tinuing it, stating fran
chase of this lawsuit is
Mrs. ,Snow’s attorney, J
“of Beaumont, condu
s. Snow, who lives in
ult as one of the num
Veatch to a life inter
gurvey, which inchides a
most valuable part, of S
damages aggregating mil
claims that she had uev
Jr., at 1138 Royal street. A damage of $250
{
7 nes Xi cayune
a settlement made with
j brount suits against 2
6-4-1902 (05?
vat
ed Chate-
h oO, at
aid “hai, 7 10¢
figs, extra value, worth loc,
[L_EINERY. ‘
shown and at pr.ces
Bl wou cameeee eves HENS Ge sees
Fie ar ee. 15¢ - AN
Javouet Eugings, 9 Inches 10)g IN
Fine tnsertings and bdgings, 20 AN
WOrth Bou, at orce cee ceeeercee C AN
absvulutely unequaled. “¥.
ed Hats are the best in the world for the price. 4,
todo BOO
med Hats, 6.00
OO upnd..... ‘
Children ° f
med tlats,
a atadl.ow... 3,00
aby Caps,
5c
Jvc, GO und...
Children's Leghorn Flats, at
SOOO AOL Lee.
a —enanmmeerasamns
at dc, 10c,
oven e eee erae
Freneh Flower
Loe and
Fine Freueh Flowers, at 40c,
Hc, OOe and ..-
Children’s Mull Hats, at 60¢e,
Joe, $1.00 and
Gi
eae ene
Pr oe ee ee
1,00
luv, 25e, a0e, bOc, Toe and..
x: °
eae
RS, DEWEY.
‘or the admiral's
Aspirations.
, She Says That
d to Dissaude
His Course.
de Pleayune. ]
Like World's Wasnhinug-
es Mrs. Dewey as suy-
ro 1 am respousibls for
A presidential) caodl-
belong the case I at-
Lim from thiag cours,
stevies aud responsibllt-
{\date.'
ith great feeling of tbe
between the ueurth and
she said, ‘dreadful as
one big loving wutiou
ible prkce to pay, but
hb and svuth.
ad with the bearflocss
e old suldiers of the
> wy busbaud’s opemies
thug bim with brotherly
berrible even to the
{ral.
dates,’’ be
ch tlme to
bave plenty of
continued,
themselves.
time to
Js’ BONNET.
uld Like to Be a
al Nominee.
~The World says; Gen-
io in willing te be the
oy president. Hie ims Su
nnd ten days ayo be
bitney to telk wito bin
ft bis berg mulbloated,
die ogeuerui that all of
moctats Were us much
wtion of bryan bow &s
is Huwed four years aye,
vir btinself ote the mine
Washington, to acquaint Admiral Dewey With
the ptuns for bls entertainment while {n
Chieage, and to confer with him re urding
tue route to be taken jn comlog to CBlergo.
The committeemen sald that polltfes weuld
net be mentioned at the conference.
i
STAR DISTANCES.
Twinkle, Twinkie, Little Suns, lp
in the Shy.
Propanly you Sepowy that the stars are suns,
and that they look Hke mere shining poluts
of [ght beeau8e they are so far away, The
cenapest jg so far that a canpea shot fired io
Adios thine from the Garden of Edeo and
tying voutinualty with undiminished speed,
would eye pew hardly bava started oo MCs
journey. Lt would be as if a train bound for
Sanuther tuwa. bad juet pulled well eut of the
Pacat fom, | a
On a anmymer evesing you may eae Acturus
high up io thé sooth or southweet in June or
July aud farther down ip the west in Augusl
or September.- You will know it by its red
eolur. That star bas been arias straight
ahead ever pa -astrunomers began to eb:
serve, \{, at euch a epeed that it woukl run
from New York to Chicage io a small fraction
of a winute. You would bave tv be spry to
rise from your cbatr, a op your bat and
overvoat and glaves aud ge out on the street
while it was croasing the Atlantic ocean from
New York to Liverpool. And yet if you sbould
wateb tbat-star all your life, and lfve as loug
Methuselab, you would bot be able [fo See
that ¢t woved at all. The journey it would
make In a thousand years would be nothing
gloogaide its distance.
Muny, perhaps most, of the etare are really
much larger aud brighter than the sun. Canvo-
pus, as it appears to us, is the second bright-
est star in the heavens. It never rises Ju our
nerthern latitudes. ‘To see It well you would
have to go at least nv far south as the gulf
sintes. Alibough It shines to us only as a
very brighc ewtas, It Js really thousands of
thmes as bright as the sun. If our earin
should fly ne near to it as it ts to the sun,
the whole sky would seem to be ablaye, ain
everything combustible on the eurth's surface--
forests, houses and fences—woulkl be burued
by tbe fervent heat as if thrown Into a hit
ive, But the distance of Canopus%f{s immeas-
urably great, so that astronomers Save not
been able fo learn anything certain a&B
The must interesting conclusion from fi
that Cavepus, although ft {fs oply a ata
the sky, Is really thousands of times bright
than the gun. ;
Canopus ts vat the only star of which this
ip true. Rigel. in the constellation Orion, {3
a stur of the first magnitude, yet {ts distance
is beyond all that the most powerful ftostru-
menty of astrobemy can fathom. There may
be yet other stars ten thuvusand [mes is
bright as the gun and yet so fur awny thut
we do not see them as very bright stars.
Ite order will be made for your
May 1 by such route and taking such
time as may be agreeable to you. With
undenstanding thac General \WMacAnthur
will sueceed you as nullitary governor,
secretary of war wishes recommendation
for commander of department of north-
ern Luzon. OCOKBIN.”
“Manila, April 6.—Adjutant General
War Department, Washington: Will re-
main until certain important moiifica-
tions civil administration determined.
New code judicial criminal procedure ap-
proaching completion and other matter
receiving consideration, think can leave’
about May 1 Will cable latter part of
month date | desire to be relleved and
for department com-
wish to return by must expedi-
MURDERERS GARHOTED.
Public Execution of Five Men on
the Streets of Ponce.
Ponce, Parte Rice, April 7.—The five
men, Sigewn Rodrigues, Carles Pacheco,
Herwoyepes Pachece, Eugenio Reodri-'
gues upd Rosallo Nantlago, convicted of |
murder ig October, 199%, ef Prudico
Mendoza, at Yuacoa, after criminally as-
saultiug the wie apd daughter ef their
viet, whe were compelle to dance
about the corpse, were executed by i
gurrote during the day th this ofty.
great publigity of tbe garroting exbibl
tion, with the black robe of the con
dewnued pn open carts, the slow proces-
sion, the entreaties of the riests and the
braggsudovig mauBers of ¢t executiwner,
with the later exhibition of the corpses
ty the assembled thousands, made a hor-
rible spectacle,
Lysiness was suspended and jarge, but
orderly, crowds Mned the streets sur.
rounded the elevated platform upon
which tbe execution took place. ‘Lhe
policing Was perfect. A company of in-
fautry was held ready in the vicinity,
but its services were bot needed.
Ne Dispesition to Interfere.
Washington, April 7-—Beyond the mere
announcement chat five criminals were
executed at Ponce today for murder |
und outrage, General Davis, the governer
of Vorto HKico, bas made bo representa-
tlups tu the war department on this sub-
ject. ‘Nbe officials here are somewhat
vonverned about the situation, mainly
because of the method of execution af
these criminals—the garrote,
But it |
explained that neither the pitoeceniedk
of the death penalty nor for the Tre
pulsive method of execution are the miil-
tary autborities responstbie. These are
tbe results of the coutinuance of Spanish
legal methods, according to the officials
here. The mep were arrested, by Po
Hican officials; they were tried by Port
Rican judges, under Pormo Hican laws,
and tpe method of execution conducted
also ax prescribed by the law and cug-
tom of the island. ‘There is a marke
indisposition to take any official actio
that will tend to excite the latent jeal-
ousy of the islanders over any encroaci-
ment by the national government updo
thelr cherished customs and laws. Henge
the hesitaney to act in the present In-
stunee by commuting the sentence of the
criminals.
Otis Coming Home.
| New York, April 7.—Aceording e
‘“Vashipgton correspondent of the Merald,
(Fémeral Otis will leave for the United
States in April.
Spaniards Desire to Return.
Madrid, April 7.—It is announced that
the minister of war,
General Polavieja,
returD |
H. B, STEVI
710-712 Cs
Sole Agents &
“KNOX”
Felt and Stra
“KNOK’”’ 19
ors for :Lalle
your approval,
(Br.), ton, for
alyersen, for
Marcassen, fk
; arliing, Robert
Savannah, April 7-—.
from Key West to
Hear
‘from Darien.
Leeders, for Antwerr
Denali, for Liverpool
Bremer aad tterdar
Kandr for Liba,
en
(Br.), Nicholson,
barks Pahoa enna
Patria (Nor.), Dawvels
dewn to bight: ae
born, for Bremen.
FOREIGN FPORFS~A
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[Bpeetal te 1
Aatwerp, April 6—
(Nor.), from Pensece
Beashy Head, A
Helsingberg (Swed.),
Dell Orto (Hal.), fron
smburg,
(Ger.), for Persacok
Kingston, Jamaica
yachts Eliza ‘aad eu
tourists on
iy pea ‘april ; ri
Gfbraltar, ‘abe sf.
(Br.), from New Orje
Las Palmas, Apri
ropa (Br.), Pinter
anchester, } April
Ramon de rrinags
ton. ‘
Rouen, 1 5—4A4
gate (Br.), from New
Rotterdam, April 5-
Radcliffe (rj), from
Stockton, {1 5—
(Br.), Brown,! for Ne
St. Vincent,! April 4
more (Br.), Davis, fi
The lAzard, April
jp phe yee ea
eardam; nefield (
Dordrecht. :
Table Bay, {April 2
arch (Br.), Morgan,
Triegst, April 8-—A
(Aust.), from) Pensac
| THE
Port Fads, |
April '
ather ¢
northeast;
sey, Taster,
arris.
At 2:30 p. m., 8
Tenant, master, frou
Mexican ports, to Al
Balled: Stpamshbipi
master, for Port Lim
Marullo, magter, for
bocker (Am. Post,
Teutonla (Ger),
Fl Cid (Am.), Quick
Sunniva (Nor.), Johal
recelved a disnateh from Manila.
har
fields. ‘
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