Lower coast gazette., 1909-09-18

don Times, predicts a war between
England and Germany.
E. Lefebre, a French aviator, was
, killed by q fall from his aeroplane In
France.
r. L Sandoz of Opelousas has been
appointed assistant travelling auditor in
Louisiana
A boat line will be r~pes.ablished be-
tween Baton Rouge and Morgan City.
The parish OF St. MARTIN lag voted a
tax to construct a navigaole drainage
cana! from St. Martinv!!e 70 the
Atchafalaya.
Peanut oil will be manufactured this
season at Shreveport, La: some 1900
acres of peanuts having been grown IN
Caddo and Bossier parishes.
Commodore Peary disputes DR..
Cooks claims Of discovery Of the
North Pole.
Cen. he. Coroin died In New York
on September 8.
Continued reports from Mexico indi.
cate that the damage wrought in and
about Monterey and surrounding Will
ages is much greater than at first esti-
mated. One town, La Ascension, with
a population of 1000, is said to have
totally disappeared. The town Of Al
lende is also reported TO have been to-
tally destroyed.
Orville Wright made a successful
flight in his airship at Berlin, Germany,
last week, making twenty four miles in
thirty-six minutes.
Leading tinaneiers Of Berlin and
Frankfort, Germany are reported to
have subscribed the necessary capital
to float, financially, not arially, a pro-
jected air line navigation company.
st. Louis capitalists, interested in
the reclamation Of Louisiana lands, are
visiting in St. Bernard with a view of
establishing some colonies Of German
families in that parish.
Hotel Dieu graduated a class Of seven
trained nurses last week.
Archbishop Blenk arrived in New
Orleans Wednesday morning, Sept. 8,
from his trip abroad. While in Italy
the archbishop was received by the
pope who sent a papal blessing to the
archbishop's diocese.
Twelve barrels of new molasses have
been shipped to New Orleans from
Breaux Bridge by Numa Tauzin.
j. Pierpont Morgan offers to back up
DIR: Cook with any money needed to
prove his claim to the discovery Of the
North Pole.
The Union Veteran Legion, in ses-
sid1, in Washington last week, nnani-
mo.ls}y passed q resolution favoring the
raising Of the wreck of the battleshjp
Maine IN Havana Harbor, 50 that the
truth IF its sinking may be definitely
known.
The trial of Wyatt Ingram. defaulting
trust officer of the Hibernia Bank, has
been,set for October 20.
Judge Robert S. Lovett has been
elected chairman by the board Of d.
rectors of the Union Pacific R. R., to
succeed the late E. H. Hartman.
The Louisiana Anti tuberculosis
League has received a gift of S. 600,
to wards its desired fund Of $780, 600 to
establish q sanitarium in New Orleans.
The donor requested that his name be
not given.
The republic of Mexico seems to be
getting more than its share of disas-
trous floods and another one is reported
from the state of Oaxaca, one of the
sugar districts OF Mexico. Sugar plan
tations are reported damaged, cattle
lost and a number of persons drowned.
DR.. Frederic Cook is willing to SUBJ
nit his proofs to the Geodetic Survey
for confirmation of his claim to have
reached the North Pole.
J. Pierpont Morgan is reported to be
DESTROYS Of gaining control of the Union
Pacific Railroad.
Prof. Adolph Struempell, the Vienna
specialist whom F. H. Hartman con-
suited while in Europe, is quoted as
saying that Hartman had cancer.
The two BARRACKS. suspected of
shooting into the Giacona residence in
New Orleans last week, were arrested
at sarpy, La.
The buildings for the immigration
Station at New Orleans. which will be
constructed on the Algiers side Of the
river, will be completed in about a
years time. ""'
Six garbage stations will be arranged
for at intervals along the river front,
where the city's garbage will be taken
and then dumped into cars and carried
out to fill the low lands in the rear of
New Orleans.