Lower coast gazette., 1909-07-03
GENERAL NEWS.

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on June 23, destroying the building and
mercantile stock of David Levy.
The Preachers Institute, snder the
direction of the Methodist conferences
Of Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana,
opened at the Seashore Camp Grounds,
Mississippi last week.
The supreme court decided on Tues
day, June 28, that the Orleans Levee
Board did not have to deposit its funds
with the State Treasurer, as commended
by Gov. Sanders, but that its contract
with the Interstate Trust and Banking
Co, was valid and within the authority
Of the Board.
lWilliam Adler was released from the
Parish Prison on a bond Of sal, 900. His
friends quickly raised the sum OF $780,
coo.
Prof. George Boyer of Tulane Uni
versity was reelected president of the
Audubon Society of Louisiana,
The latest hunting news Of ex-Presi-
dent Roosevelt is that he shot three
buffaloes.
A tornado, followed by a cloudburst,
struck the town of West Point, Ne
bgaska, June "a, destroying a church
and q number of residences.
The St. Tammany Parish grand jury
was unable to place any criminal liabil-
ity in the accident that occurred re-
Gently at Vaudeville when some eleven
people were drowned while the steamer
Margaret was making q landing, The
jury stood eight to four to indict the
captain of the Margaret,
The convent Of the Sisters of Notre
Dame on Calhoun street, New Orleans,
has been bought by the Jesuit Fathers
and will be used by them as a school
for boys and girls, although not coedu-
cational.
A severe dynamite explosion occurred
in the business district of Chicago the
night of June II, wrecking an entire
block of stores. The exact nature of
the explosion is not known, nor its
cause. but it is surmised that it may
have been the outcome of q gamblers
war.
A street car strike is prevailing in
Pittsburg, Pa, with the result that
the population of the Smoky City is
waking. "|I: y
A joint educational and good roads
rally will be held at Winfield in the
Parish of VIM, on July 8, at which
time addresses will be made by Gov.
J.. Y. Sanders and Hon. j. B. Aswell,
former state superintendent of eGuca-
ton.
The Louisiana National Guard goes
into annual ehcampment at Alexandria
on July II, and will remain in camp ten
days.
Plans are on foot in N~apoleonyille,
Asampti0n parish, to estabilsha fasa
: tack association and build a race track
a third of a mile long.
Amass meeting was held at Cor
zales, La, June rs, to discuss the
forming of a drainage district to drain
ITS, 600 acres Of land in that v~acinity.
The meeting was addressed by Mr..
Joseph Monget of the State Board of
Engineers and several others.
The barge Hoo Hoo from Morgan
City and bound for Galveston, Texas,
lost her entire cargo, comprising 5000
cypress ties, in the Gulf.
The enrolment of students at the
summer term of the State Normal
School at Natchitoches has reached
LII.
Dispatches from Crowley, La, under
date Of June n, are to the effect that
many new cases of Charlton are being
reported. The disease prevails around
the the towns of Morse, Esterwood and
lota.
The Vermillion Parish Rice Farmers
Association is DESTROYS of having a day
set aside to be observed in Louisiana as
Rice Day, which day will be devoted to
eating .ies' t.. P1st E'ef sa and sdys't''i
Sunday RIGHTS Ig;als 55en Lake :lPont-
chartrain sunk the tugs Fearless and
Byadweil, both of which, it. is said, will
be easily raised. a., i,
The first bale of cotton forithis, sea
son, grown in Texas at Mercedes, Hi.
dalgo' county, weighed 1863 pounds and
was sold at auction on the fooy Of the
Houston Exchange, bringing s425. The
cotton came in to Houston June Is,
Last years first bale arrived on the
10Th.
Police Jury Of St. Tammany parish
has reduced assessment Of pine timber
lands half a million dollars.
Two of the state convicts who have
been employed IN the model good road
now building at Mansfield in DeSoto
parish, escaped Sunday morning and
have not yet been located.
The New Iberia City Council has
been asked to grant a franchise for the
use of certain streets for the New
iberia, st. Martin and Northern cleo
trio railway.
DR.. E. A. White, chief food Inspector
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