Lower coast gazette., 1909-07-17

W nave teSliOJtt tiIouooil"S Vi AiNA
worth Of property ard to have put a
large area under water.
Ex-president R~oosevelt's wife and
children have arrived in Naples, Italy
OF their way to join Col. Roosevelt.
Damages to the extent of $250,coo
and a thousand LeCple Homeless are
sCme CT TIE results Of the floods at
Sioux City, Iowa. The heavy rains
were also continuing in Missouri ard
Kansas.
Brownsville, Texas is partly inundat-
ed owing to the rise Of the Rio Grande.
Tie Louisiana Railroad Commission
will grant a general hearing to the
railroads in the state on July u for the
purpose of adopting rates and rules
governing the Transportation of fresh
fruits and vegetables, native grown,
between points in Louisiana
The short cotton crop throughout the
state may necessitate the shutting
down of the cotton seed oil mills in
some sections.
The business men of Morgan City
have organized a Board of Trade and
have elected John M. Dalton Jr. presl-
dent.
A man died from heat prostration in
the town of Plaquemine, Iberville
parish.
The town council of Jeanerette, La.
granted a right of way to the promot-
ers Of the electric street car line to
New iberia.
Lloyd's 1909 Yacht Register shows
1855 yachts, most of which are motor
boats, ard are distributed over
the waters of the United States, Can
ada and the West Indies.
The u: S. Senate made 847 changes
in the tariff bill as received from the
House of Representatives.
NJ. Sakao, head Of the Japan Sugar
Co., recently convicted in Japan during
the trial involving the recent japanese
sugar scandals, committed suicide by
shooting himself.
The New Orleans troops left Sunday
afternoon for the ten days encamp'
ment at Alexandria.
The barber shops of New Orleans
closed at noon Sunday, obeying the
new ordinance for Sunday closing.
Six people were killed and fifteen in
jured near O~rtonville, Minnesota by
tornado on July II.
Owing to the recent mad dog scare
there. the town of Crowley, La. hal
Just adopted an ordinance to the effec
that it shall be unlawful for any dog
licensed or unlicensed, to run loose il
the city limits during the months o
June, July, August and September ant
ordering the police to kill all dogs ST
caught. The chief of police reported
that during the past two, weeks 20
dogs had been killed and estimate'
that there were as many more unli
censed dogs left,
A mar is reported as having gon'
mad at Esterwood, La. after having
been bitten a week previously by a dol
suffering from hydrophobia. He wa
semitic New Orleans for the Pasteu
treatment. 1t is said that rabid dog
are being killed daily in that neighbor
hood and the uneasiness has become 81
great that some people are keeping on
of the fields at present for fear OF en-
counterlng a mad dog.
A fire creating a loss of $1,000 600 &C
Cured in the Benson Clothing store i
Shreveport, La. July IL.
Ensign Hugh Aiken, son Of DR.. Gayl
Aiken of New Orleans, vas killed O
board the IT,. S. Cruiser North Carolin
at Naples, Italy, by a coal gas explc
sion. Young Aiken was born in Ne,
! Orleans in 1884, entered the Navs
Academy in 1902 as a cadet and gradu
ated in 1906.
Two steel steamers, the Isaac N
Scott and John B. Cowle, colided O
Lake Superior July IL, resulting in tn
loss of fourteen lives. A heavy fog o
the lake was the cause of the collisio
and within three minutes after the a
cjdent the Cowle sunk to the bottom
the lake.
A severe storm swept over souther
Ohio, Kentucky, Illinois and Indian
. early this week, doing c%onsiderab
damage.
y Orville Wright, of flying machir
fame, has succeeded in circleing arour
Fort Meyer, Virginia, just across Il
I the Potomac from Washington, $
times, remaining in the air five minute
$ and thirty seconds, attaining durir
= that time a speed of forty miles {
hour. The six times around Il
parade grounds amounted to 31-2 mile
The nurses of the Presbyterian no
pital in Atlanta, Ga. are on a stril
and refuse to work, claiming that tn
y were overworked and underfed.
o The boil weevil is said to be inva
ing the parishes of St. Tamany a,
Washington.
Gov. Sanders will deliver a go
is address before the State Normal Schc
], at Natchitoches about July 20.