Lower coast gazette., 1909-09-04

The u. II. fOlneS w., o"hoi' Y"
the big Canal Street dry goods store,
closed their store on Saturday OF last
week and gave their entire force. num-
being some five hundred, an outing over
to Vaudeville where a delightful day
was spent pi%c-nicking.
The National Pure Food Congress de-
clares benZoate of soda is not harm1u
as a food preventative by a vote OF 81
to AZ.
Donaldsonville, La. has inaugurated
a big coaling station on the river bank,
which also has accommodations tor trans
fer of heavy treights from river to
rail.
Cholera has broken out at Rotter
dam. Holland, and the Dutch ship
Andvk,. enroute for the United States
is reported to have Cholera on board.
Four deaths have already occurred IN
Rotterdam and a number Of persons
are under inspection.
A broken cable in a mine shaft at
the La Paz mines at Matahueia, Mex
ico. last week resulted in twelve deaths.
The CITY Board of Health will fuml-
gate sixty-nine Of New Orleans eighty
public schools, as a precautionary meas
ure after last years outbreak OF scar
letina.
The storm warning season IS now on
and very few days pass without one ap-
pearing in the daily papers.
Thirty-nine young women took the
veil on August 26th, at the Convent OF
Perpetual Alteration, in New Orleans.
Germany and France are both dis
nleased with our new tariff law and 1t
is thought that a tariff war will ensue
unless satisfactory trade relations are
established with those two countries.
An explosion of dynamite on August
q. at Boca Chita, about twelve miles
from Kew West, Florida, resulted If
the death of twelve men and as many
more injured. 1t is thought that the
dynamite, Of which there were TN
pounds, was exploded by n Of tn
workmen throwing aside a Lighted
cigarette, which fell among the fuses
, New Orleans has secured the mex
annual convention of the Association o
State and National Food and Dairy DE
. partments.
The Alaska Steamship Co.'S steame
Ohio sunk off Steep Point. Alaska, o
= August &c, five lives being lost anon
= the crew. The l28 passengers that tn
ship was carrying were all saved.
An interesting railroad case to
. heard by the U. S. Supreme Court
October is the one the government n;
against the Chicago, Indianapolis al
Louisville Railroad for accepting a
p vertising in payment for t~ransportatlo
" One of the most violent storms al
gales experienced in twenty years WI
felt last week off the coast of Mexlc
the coast towns of Vera-Cruz, Tampl
e. and Matamoras reporting that t
IT, wind blew with a velocity of Is mil
lg an hour in the path of thu storm t
center of which was some dlstan
ng from the coast line.
y, The United Fruit Co.'S big ship, C'
~ tago, arrived in port last week at
:" experiencing a very severe storm
the Yucatan channel. The wind "
of 50 severe as to blow the name pla
'gs off the ships stateroom doors.
ter ,,;.l
Algeirs is now connected with
~Intercoastal Canal by the opening
in of Bayou Barataria, the U, S. dref
Hyacinth havine completed its work
cleaning the bayou.
Mayor Arthur of McKeesport, Re
=. sylvania, has just made a good rul
in his town, which is to the effect t
a man who is convicted of intoxlca'
~. shall have the alternative of signing
paper permitting his wife to draw
wages for at least one year, or IN
obe absence of a wife, his next of
and whether man or woman, or of ser'
ma a term of six months in the workho'
his
sn,t Acting Secretary of the U. S.
tho partment of Commerce and Labor,
OK. Harg, is quoted by the Washington
the patches as severely critcizing Exp
dent Roosevelt and saying that
Roosevelt, thought he was the L
teel This criticism came up in a discus
las' of the Pinchot- Ballinger quarrel
corning the conservation Of the v
es- ern water powers.
is"' A deluge of rain that fell in mort
Mu- Mexico for forty-eight hours last
ome' resulted in disastrous floods in
Santa Catarina river, which overfl
his portions of the city of Monterey,
,med a loss of life estimated at 1000 an
enormous property loss.
=, by Part of the Greek troops, dissat
III al Al. ~.o,o,% co;o;cfrv onN fhp