Lower coast gazette., 1909-07-10

I'd from Florida. Sh. made the all
gator loosen its mold by emptying five
/ shot from q revolver into its head.
Leonardo GcbLia. convicted Of the
murder Of little Walter Lamana two
years ago, will be hanged in HahnvilIe,
st. Charles parish as . Q as Gov, San
ders sets the day. The gailows have
been erected and everything is in
readiness.
The Picayunc Of Saturday. the 3d.,
reports that Capt. Z. M. Douilut had
discovered a mysterious bubbilng and
| spoutiug in the river in front Of his
place near Egania Street. The location
was examined by Chief Engineer Kerr
and Col. 5. +. Lewis of the Orleans
Ievee Board. Col, Kerr thinks the
| phenomenon due to Il gradual settling
of the river bank, while Capt. Doullut
seems to think there may be Of! located
under the river bed at that point.
which is but ito 8 feet deep.
The transfer of the franchise grant
ing the Busch-Everttt syndicate a fifty
year grant for the use of the public
streets and highways of New Orleans
was made on July 2. The company
will be known as the Mississippi Valley
Gas, Oil and Pipe Line Co. and will
pipe natural gas to New Orleans from
the Caddo fields, The company signed
a bond of $50. 900.
1t is reported that the national gov
eminent may reduce Jackson Barracks
to a very small post, placing it under
the jurisdiction of Fort Morgan at Mo-
bile, Alabama. The Louisiana dele
cation in Washington will probably
pndeayor to have the order ~rescinded,
Congressman Broussard having already
taken it up.
A petition is being circulated in Rich
land, Morehouse and adjoining parishes
asking the governor to abolish or amend
the present game laws, it being con-
tended that as now handled they are
detrimental to the real preservation Of
the game of the state.
The Mexican flea is reported to have
appeared in the cotton fields around
Logansport. La. and il said to be more
injurious even than the boil weevil,
which came originally from the same
country.
Two animals dead and several more
affected with Charlton are reported
from Sulphur, in Calcasiu parish.
The press dispatches for the past
week have brougot daily news of deaths
from heat all over the northern and
eastern section of the country.
President and Mrs Taft left Washing
ton last Saturday for their summer
home in Beverly, Massachusetts. The
president, however, will return to
Washington to await the adjournment
of congress.
jefferson Parish has issued bonds to
the extent of $500 0 to be utilized
for new schools.
The whereabouts of Leon Ling, the
murderer of Elsie Siegel in New York
early in June, are still unknown, al
though. some of the reports are that he
is in hiding in New Orleans.
The New Orleans Police department
has just installed an automobile police
patrol which was built by the Stude-
baker Co. Of Indiana.
The French steamship Gree a into
the British ship Whatatane, imperiling
the lives of the passengers and crew,
together numbering three hundred per-
sons. The Whatatane was taken in
to. Dover, England by mean of tugs,
whose pumps kept her aloat until port
was reached. -
The big steamboat, Queen City, of
Cincinnati, which has made several
trips to New Orleanl during Carnival
season, was taking a big crowd of
Fourth Of July pleasure seekers from
Cincinnati to Pittsburg and struck
some of the submerged government work
on a dam in the Ohio river and in order
to avoid a terrible disaster the Captain
ordered the boat steered into shallow
water, where she sunk. The prompt
action of Capt. Brown and the boat's
carpenter prevented any loss of life.
In order to prepare for the usua
Fourth of July accidents the New York
Board Of Health appointed twelve dis
tributors of lockjaw antitoxin and al
the city hospitals laid in an extra supply,
The French submarine Grondin, dur
ing some recent manoeuvres of the
French navy, was in danger of collidinf
with the battleship Massena but avoid
ed the collision by diving under thu
ship, coming up some distance beyont
the Massena, after having passed com
pletely under the ships keel.
Eleven persons who have been con
fined on the Hawaiian leper island, Mo
lokai, for periods varying from two t
twenty years, have been declared cure'
and free from leprosy. Eight Of thes'
persons have already petitioned tn
board of health to permit them to return
} to the island to live.
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