Lower coast gazette., 1909-10-16
The Virginia and North Carolina pea
nat crop is reported as short.

nat crop is reported as short.
The St. Louis III a balloon that en-
tered the contest at the st. Louis cele-
bration. won the prize for distance,
having travelled $50 miles.
The Louisiana Commercial Score
taries held their annual meeting IN MOI
roe, La, last week, elect!ng :. v.
Anderson Of Monroe as president and
selecting Alexandria as the e Y meet
ing place.
The merchants Of New Orleans are
Offering free transportation to buyers
il the tropics for the Buyers, Conven-
ton.
President Taft spent a couple OF
days in the Yosemite National Park IN
California.
Seventeen men killed and ten seri-
ously wounded mark the result Of a
wreck on the Santa Fe r. r. near To-
peka, Kansas, an October s.
The town council of Hammond has
passed an ordinance making It compul-
sory that property owners shall kill the
weeds growing thereon.
Snow is reported from Texas on the
9Th, being five inches deep at the time
of the report and still falling.
Eight convicts employed on the pub
lie roads near Jennings, La. escaped
during the night.
Wilbur Wright predicts that he can
make 70 miles an hour in an aroplane
racer.
Eight children were seriously burned
in Minneapolis, MIMI, by playing with
a bonfire, two of whom may die.
Gov. Campbell of Texas got on his
dignity because Austin, the state cap
ital, was left out of President Taft's
it~inerara and at first refused to be
present at FL Paso for the meeting Of
! Presidents Taft and D;az, but has since
thought better of it and will save the
manners of his state by attending. The
state of Texas will present President
Diaz with a huge silver key on a plat
ter bearing three silver cups
Admiral Winfield Scott Schley, the
hero Of the battle of Santiago reached
his SEVENTEEN birthday on October 8.
The general staff Of the U. S. Army
has outlined plans for increasing the
number of army officers, m of which
consists in the appointment Of cadets
to West Point every three years, in
stead Of four as now.
The Louisiana Railway ard Naviga-
ton Co. is planning a combinatign rail
and water trip from Shreveport to New
Orleans at the time Of the Taft river
parade. A train of Pullmans will leave
Shreveport and proceed to Naples,
where the cars will be transferred TO a
steel barge on Old River and proceed
to the Mississippi and join the Taft
hotilla.
Trouble is brewing between Secre-
tary Of State Knox and Charles B.
Crane, u. S. minister to China and it
may result in Cranes being removed
from his position. 1t is alleged that
he allowed some secret negotiations to
leak out to the newspapers.
Mayor Behrman of New Orleans, who
has been in St. Louis attended the cen-
tennial festivities there, has returned
to the city.
:. Secretary Saunders of the Water
ways Convention was in New Orleans
this week completing arrangements
with the local committee for the con-
vention.
Florida this week got a specimen Of
hurricane weather and it is reported
that two millions Of dollars worth Of
damage was done on the Southern coast
Of Florida. At key West the vino
reached a velocity Of 70 miles an hour.
This same hurricane has also struck
the island Of Cuba and in Havana the
, wind at one time reached a velocity Of
120 miles an hour.
The Southern Pacific passenger trair
had a wreck on Tuesday near Shrews'
bury, La. IN which nine cars were
: smashed and derailed, but no one was
seriously hurt. Six people were slightly
injured.
| The first snow of the season fell al
. Hamilton, Ohio, on October IL. At the
, same date a blizzard was reported a:
raging at Duluth, Minnesota and one
also reported from Wisconsin. De:
Moines, Iowa, also reports snow.
:. The Liguria has arrived in New Or
, leans with six hundred Italian immi
= grants on board.
Gov. j. Y. Sanders has gone to New
York by sea to take a rest.
Work began Monday at Baton Roug'