Lower coast gazette., 1909-11-20
GENERAL NEWS.

corvcned in annual session 1T e Or
leans Wednesday, Nov. 10. The meet,
ing lasted for three days and much val
liable data was brought out. One OF
th4 features of the second day was a
SYMPOSIUM on palIagra. At the election
Of officers Or. w. W. Crawford OF
Uatuesburg, Miss. was chosen pfesl-
d.ut for the ensuing year and Nash
vile. Tenn, was selected as the place
for the next meeting.
In New York last week gifts reach
ing nearly a million dollars were made
for the purpose OF fighting disease.
The principal donors were Nathan
.Straus, Miss Dorothy Whitley, Henry
II. Phipps, Isaac N. Scligman andlacob
u. SchjtT. out of this sum 800, 600
was given for the establishment OF q
ganat0rium for the prevention OF tube"-
cuIosis in children. $50, 900 were given
by Mr.. and Mrs. W. G.. Sloane for a
3Dven story addition to the Maternity
HOSPITAL of the Clllege Of Physicians
of Columbia University.
The Ralleiger Plnchot row IN wash
,nglon goes merti!y on, but fortunately
Forester Pinchot indicates that he will
not resign and if his services are dis
pensed with it must be through re-
moyaI.
Eleven lives were lost two weeks ago
bv a collision at sea between the bark
entine John S. Bennett and the four
masted schooner Merrill G. Hart.
Ling Edward of Germany celebrated
his sixty-eighth birthday anniversary
on NOv.9.
Col. J.. H. Beach, the U. S. Engineer
in charge of the West Gulf District,
to Washington last week to hasten
work on the construction of the second
big dredge that will be utilized in deep
ening the channel of Southwest Pass.
New Orleans business interests are
going to approach Secretary of the
Navy Meyer and insist on the govern
ment using it's magnificent dock located
in Algiers.
The New Orleans and Northeastern
Railroad asked the Orleans Levee Board
81, 1883, 900 for land necessary for the
construction of the new levee by the
Board, which is rather an astounding
proposition when the fact is considered
that the railroad acquired the land thro
grants and rights on the river front.
In the contest for the parish seat in
the new parish Of Evangeline, Vile
Platte won out over Eunice and Mamou,
An artesian well, $50 feet deep, has
been drilled at Roseland, La, from
which a flow of 200 gallons a minute is
obtained. {
President Taft and his party reached
Washington IN Nov. 10 after an abb
sence of three months, part Of which
time was occupied in making his fam
Gus tour through the West and South
west, covering $4,000 miles.
1t is reported that the somewhat
malodorous New York Democratic
Party will be %reorganized and put on a
cleaner basis. ~
Captain Peter Irrelevant, known
throughout the state Of Louisiana, died
in his home in Shreveport, on Nov. 10.
Capt. Trezevant was seventy years of
age, was a confederate veteran and for
many years served as clerk of the
House Of Representatives in Baton
Rouge.
The sugar house Of Justice E. D.
White on his Broussard plantation near
I'hibodaux burned down early on the
morning of Nov. 10. The entire sugar
house was destroyed, although it is
hoped that some of the machinery may
not have been severely injured. The
loss is estimated at nearly $65, 900:
Warrants were issued in Clinton, La,
for the arrest of DR.. E. C. McKowen
and H. E, Mcqueen charging the first
with the murder Of E. X. Judson and
the latter as being accessory to the
crime, Judson was an inmate of the
insane asylum at Jackson.
Cairo, ILL.,, has been indulging in a
bloody riot, resulting in the lynching of
a negro and a white man. 1t is won
derful what a difference it makes on
whose foot the shoe fits.
Spain and Cuba have agreed upon the
terms of q treaty between the two ma
tons which will give Spain a continu-
ance of Cuba.s preferential treatment
Spanish products imported and Cuba
will receive a 40 per cent. reduction in
the duty on tobacco. cocoa and fruits
sent to Spanish ports. The U, S. Au-
thorities are reported as Directing to
this treaty.
Secretary of Agriculture James Viii
son IS reported as saying that the
South is not keeping pace agriculturally
with its advance along manufacturing
lines.