Lower coast gazette., 1909-09-25
GENERAL NEWS.

on Tuesday, September ID. arriving in
Boston, where he addressed some two
thousand Of Boston's business men at a
banquet.
David E. Thompson u. S. Ambass'
ador to Mexico, who resigns his am
bassadorship on the first Of the year.
has purchased q railway in Mexico. the
Pan-American.
A heavy snowfall WAS reported from
Colorado under date Of the 18th.
The power house Of the electric light
and water works plant of the town OF
Crowley, La. was destroyed by tire
September l3.
Various towns along the Mississippi
are preparing to enter boats in the
Taft river procession.
The new speedway along the bayou
out to West End will be ready for use
by January first.
Poririo Diaz, president of Mexico,
celebrated the seventy-ninth year OF
his birth on September Is.
The U. S. Marine Hospital service
will issue a weekly bulletin dealing ex-
clusiylely with the new disease pei
lagra, about which the medical fra
~ternity practically knows nothing and
concering which data is being collected.
The two new battleships, n to be
built by the New York Shipbuilding Go.
and the other by William Cramps Sons
& Co., will be known respectively as
the Arkansas and the Wyoming.
George &. Cotton will be the new
governor of Porto Rico and will assume
his duties November LIST.
A collision occurred between a pass
enger and freight train on the Nash
vile, Chattanooga and St, Louis Rail-
way. resulting in eight deaths and a
number of persons injured.
A flow of natural gas is reported to
have been struck in Terrebone parish
at Linette.
The American Bankers Association,
in annual convention in Chicago last
week, is opposed to the proposed postal
savings banks,
E. H. Hartman willed all of his pro-
perry to his wife. The estate is valued
at between SIS, OOO, 900 and 500, 900, 900.
The n%inty-ninth anniversary of Mexl-
can independence was celebrated all
over the republic on September l6.
A royal Bengal tigress escaped from
shlpboard in the harbor of Marseilles,
France, on September Ia and at latest
report was still at large.
The federal authorities have ex.
pressed themselves as satisfied with the
titles to the Louisiana quarantine sta
ton and the purchase price Of 500, 600,
will now be paid over to the state.
Wyatt Ingram's bond of $500 has
been reduced by the court to $50. 600,
but doubt is expressed as to his ability
to furnish the reduced sum.
Jules Layolle, director of the French
Opera troupe has arrived in New Or
leans and that a brilliant
season will be had. The members Of
the troupe arrived in New Orleans o.
tober 20, the initial performance to .oc'
cur about the 30th, will be attended by
President Taft.
1t is proposed to change the name o.
Hospital Street in New Orleans Il
Nichols. after Judge Francis T
Nichols.
A new steamship line between New
Orleans and Philadelphia, known as tn
Philadelphia and Gulf Co., is using non
union labor for unloading at the New
Orleans docks.
A Good Roads Convention will b.
held in New Orleans on November 10
Archbishop Blenk was given q ban
quet Thursday evening at the New
Denechaud Hotel in New Orleans t
celebrate his recent return home from
abroad.
Japan's new ambassador to tn
United States is Y. Uchida, who wa
formerly minister of foreign affairs i
Japan and now ambassador to Austria
Mr.. Uchida succeeds Takahira.
A company capitalized at $40, 600, 90
and to be known as the Mississippi Va
. ley Transportation Co., will soon be or
Grating a line of steel barges and to,
boats on the Mississippi River and tn
Gulf If Mexico. The head If the No,
company is w. H. Kavanaugh. who
president of the Lakes-to-Gul Deer
Waterways Association. "
A fearful disaster occurred at sea O
the Isle of Pines in August, when tn
steamer Nicholas Castania was wrecke
during the hurricane that prevailed
the Caribbean sea August %. II
boilers of the vessel blew up and tn
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