Lower coast gazette., 1909-10-16
LOUISIANA
AT A GLANCE
Free night schools in New Orleans
opened with about 5000 pupils.


Free night schools in New Orleans
opened with about 5000 pupils.
Postmaster S. +. Steer or Shreve.
port was painfully burned in a gas
explosion.
Prof. J. NJ. FoOte was elected su.
%perintendent Of education of Terre-
bOnne parish.
Two veins of brown irO.s ore have
been discovered al Wood Station,
Ouachita parish.
Government rations were distrib-
uted to relieve the distress OF storm
refugees at HOuma.
The city council OF New Orleans
changed the name OF Hospital street
TO Governor Nichols.
Salaries of public school teachers
in VIM parish are gagged according
to attendance of pupils.
A school agricultural demonstra-
ton farm will be established at ia
CODY, Pointe Coupee parish.
Amite City proposes to levy a 5
mill tax for twenty years to build a
$25, 900 waterWOrks system.
The Houma Lighting company lost
it's suit cOntesting the right of the
town to erect an electric plant.
APPS Ard, a negro, who shot al Rep.
r%esentative B. T. Young at Liverpool,
was captured near Gloster, Miss.
The death roll in Te"rebonne par
ish as the result of the recent hurri-
cane has reached more than 200.
Lee Olivier, charged with the muir
der OF DR.. Allen King, vas acquitted
by the jury in the trial at Franklin.
Edward Ollinger and Harry Prop
son travelled $500 miles in a frail
canoe and landed safely In New Or
leans.
Tulane is rushing building opera
tons to completion for the Taft re-
ception during the Waterways con-
vention.
C. A. Singleton, Is years old, was
accidentally shot and killed at Lake
Charles by his cousin, Nat Materne.
aged IL.
Joel F. Johnson of Jackson, Miss,
charged with peOnage, will be tried
next month in the federal court at
Monroe.
A raid on near-beer places al
Shreveport resulted in forty arrests
for alleged violation of the prohibi
ton law.
The trial of F. F. Bouvy, charged
with the murder of Prof. F. S. Var
Ingen, will begin October II at Pla
quemine.
A party of Pennsylvania capital
lists en- route to Washington, St. Ian
dry parish, were entertained at Ba
ton Rouge.
Business men OF the Latin-Amerl
can republics will be induced to yisi
New Orleans during the Waterways
convention.
A party of capitalists from Ian
caster, Pa, en- route to Washington
st. Landry parish, was entertained a
. Baton Rouge.
) Planters and business men OF Yves
Feliciana parish, in session at 81
Francisville, mapped out a stall
burning campaign.
The Caddo Game and Fish Protet
: tive association, in session at ShreVe
, port, condemned the methods OF tn
state game commission.
Harry Morgan, 8 years old, is ur
der arrest at St. Francisville, chars
ed with the murder Of his siste
Charlotte, II years old.
: William Ballard was shot an
killed at Dixie by his brother, Ca
: win Ballard, because he struck a NJ
gro employe of the slayer.
S Congressman Broussard and Coli
f mel Foote returned from Terrebonn
and at once petitioned the govern
ment for tents to temporarily shelte
t the homeless.
The membership of Boys Cor
clubs in Louisiana is expected
reach 10000 in another year. TW
l. hundred exhibits will be made at til
l. state fair at Shreveport.
. The Baton Rouge Street Railwa
~ company adopted the ~pay-as-you'e
ter-in-front system, the motormen &C
lecting the fares. No conductors al
- employed in winter months becau'
Of light traffic.
Vt Examination of applicants for tt
Louisiana Rhodes scholarships wi
be held October 10 and 20 at eth
Louisiana State university or Tulal
university, as may suit the conve
IS fence of applicants.
le Statehouse employees at Batt
IS Rouge are peevish at Uncle Sam +
u unloading the eight ton figurehe;