Lower coast gazette., 1909-08-28

Temperature. ranging as n'gl AZ lZo
have prevailed during the past week IN
fbe Southern States. New Orleans
reached the hundred mark but many OF
the towns throughout the state regis
tered from l05 to 10.
The third and last change in the dates
for the Waterways Convention has
been a~nnouncpd, the time having peer
advanced to October 81, Nov / and 2
IN order to have the president here for
the opening day instead OF the closing
day.
Earthuuakc shocks were experienced
in several Illinois towns on August 10.
Or the same date shocks were reported
from Mexico City, Mexico.
Mexico is experiencing political d!s4
turnances, due to the approaching cleo
tons and opposition to vice preslden-
tai candidates.
4 new tax!cah company has been es-
tablished in New Orleans and expects
to have ten cars in operation inside a
month.
An eighteen year old boy, native OF
Niagara Falls, n. Y. was swimming in
the river on August Is, below the foot
of the fails and was carried down into
the whirlpool! rapids, where he was
drowned.
The Tulane Dental department, with
DR.. Freidrichs as dean, vii! have an
equipment equal to any institution in
the country.
1t is announced that John A. Wogan,
recently appointed supervisor OF the
census for the First District of Lou!si4
ana, will endeavor to appoint compe-
tent Lily Whites wherever possible.
Some 1900 interested persons attended
O picnic AID barbecue at Chatham,
jackson parish, last week to consider
ways and means of organizing a truck
growers association, which will coop
crate with other associations in the
~heighboring parishes.
Four torpedo boats wall 60 up to St.
Louis in October and escort President
Taft down the river to New Orleans.
f. Fl. Hartman, the railroad mag
nate, is enroute home from Europe
where he has been under treatment
for some months.
In a special election held last week in
South Carolina. fifteen Of the twenty
one counties that have previously gone
wet went ''dry'.
Unofficial thermometers at Fort
Worth on Aug. l6. registered l20 de-
grees. The government the rmometer
registered III degrees.
Splendid rice harvesting weather is
reported from the rice fields of South
west Louisiana as well as from the
river parishes.
The town Of Alexandria, in Rapides
parish voted $40, 900 bonds 10 be used
for water and light extension.
In contrast with the hot weather re-
corded in the United States comes the
cable new from Johannesburg, South
Africa that the heaviest snowfall in
many years occurred there on the 18th,
six inches having fallen by noon and the
storm was still in progress.
Some $500 feet of the river bank
caved in last week at Sycamore, La,
across the river from Natchez.
William Asher of New Orleans, who
has been employed in Honduras as a
train dispatcher, was fatally stabbed
by a crazy Honduran the other day. 1t
is stated that the attack was entirely
unprOvoked and that the Honduran
probably mistook Asher for someone
else.
The Greek flag, which has been run
ming up and down the hagpole of the is
land of Crete, is at present on top,
having been hauled down once by the
powers, but returned to its position by
the Cretons, who have deied the SOW
ereignty Of Turkey.
A bill was introduced in the Alabama
Legislature providing for the commits
sion form of government for the lead
ing cities of the state, but was indef-
nitely postponed by the House.
Harry X. Thaw, slayer of Stanford
White, has again taken up his resi-
dence at MatteWan, the New YORK
State Insane Hospital.
The Naval Court of Inquiry that has
been Investigating the charges made
concerning the death of young Sutton
some two years ago at Annapolis, re-
turns findings to the effect that Sutton
died by his own hand and that the &C
cused young men are not responsible
for his death, the verdict being that
Lieutenant Sutton is directly and
solely responsible for his own Heath.
which was self inflicted, either inten-
~tionally or in an effort to shoot one of
the persons restraining him, and his