Lower coast gazette., 1909-07-31
GENERAL NEWS.

of a hying machine, attempted to eros:
the English channel in his m%onoplant
on July 18th starting from Calais
France, and heading for Dover, Eng
land. The attempt was unsuccessful
after about half the distance was Gov
cred. and the machine sunk to the
water where it was kept at1oat by its
wings until the French torpedo boa
DESTROYER, Harpon, which had kept W
with the flying machine during the tria
came to the rescue.
The body Of Mrs. j. A. Hayes, the
daughter of Jefferson Davis, was Gre
mated in Denver and inferred in Ever
green cemetery, Colorado Springs, or
July goth.
According to Col. l.. II. Beach's re-
port to the general government on last
years work, the United States has
spent over two millions of dollars in
Louisiana on Southwest Pass and other
waterways improvements IN the state.
The Lakes-to-Gulf Deep-Waterways
Convention, will be- held in New Or
leans on Nov. II, II and l3. President
Taft has promised to attend the con-
vention. The committee on arrange
ments has decided that the sum of SIS,
600 will be necessary to entertain the
big convention and immediate steps are
being taken to secure that amount.
In Washington, D. G. on December
8, 9 and 10, the National Rivers and
HarbOrs Congress, of which Congress-
mar Ransdeil of Louisiana is president,
will hold its annual convention. Presi-
dent Taft will speak, as well as Secre-
tary of War Dickinson, Gov. Harmon
of Ohio and Count Won Bernstorff, the
German ambassador.
The State Board of health has pub
iished its list of drugs which druggists
are prohibited to sell without a whole
lot of red tape, including the signature
of the person to whom the drug is sold,
his residence, use the drug IS intended
for, date of sale, etc. Rule 26 of the
drug law covers the drugs that cannot
be refiIled in prescriptions when the
words "do not refill" are written on
the prescription above the physicians
signature. 1t also covers patent medi-
cines, household remedies, destroyers
of vermin, etc! that contain poisonous
ingredients.
The Summer Normal being conducted
at N%achitoches completes its term the
end of this week and will then close
until the fall opening.
A movement has been inaugurated at
Donaidsonville, La. by the Lafourche
Levee Basin Board and the Atchafa-
laya Levee Board to secure an appro-
priation from congress to remove the
dam at the head of Bayou Lafourche
and build locks there.
The Police Jury of st. Tammany
parish has raised the salaries of just
ices of the peace and constables in the
9Th ward to $25 per year.
Ouachita parish will soon rival
Bloody Tangipahoa" in its fatalities,
as a recent press dispatch from Mon
roe says that seventeen violent deaths
have occurred in the parish during the
year,
President Taft seems to he haveing
difficulty in enacting the part of the
soothing oil on the troubled waters of
tine Tariff Conference Committee.
The House passed the urgent defic-
ency bill last week after considerable
debate.
Ex-President Roosevelt is said to be
busily engaged in writing a book be-
tween hunting trips and is now only
looking for rare game.
The Southern states are reported to
be infected with the hookworm disease
and the surgeon general of the army
has prepared a report thereon. This
hook worm produces the ''lazy disease"
50 common in Porto Rico and 1t ia now
said that the army surgeons estimate
that SO per cent. of the army recruits
from the rural districts of the South
ern states show hook worm infection.
The Western states are crying for
help to harvest the big grain crops now
ripening and the state of Minnesota
alone wants fifty thousand able bodied
men. Kansas is also looking for men
to harvest the crops.
A buyers convention will be held in
New Orleans from August I'd to 7th in
elusive. the wholesale houses of the city
paying travelling expenses and furnish
ing entertainment to the visiting buy
ers.
DR.. W. 7. O'Reilly health officer Of
New Orleans. has recently returned
from a trip to Cuba. which island he
reports a. in excellent sanitary con-
dition, especially the city Of Havana
and says that flies as well as mosqui-
toes are practically eliminated by the
sanitary improvements installed in
Cuba by the Americans.
Kingsley House, a settlement house
in Annunciation street, New Orleans,
has established a summer camp wei at
Lewisberg on Lake Pcnchartrain and
are giving two weeks long outings to