Lower coast gazette., 1909-11-27

dreadful mine disaster at Cherry, III.
were found alive last Saturday and
brought up to the earth's surface,
bringing hope that others of the four
hundred lost men might also be found
to have escaped. These men were al
most exhausted when found and had
subsisted on scraps Of food, bark, to-
bacco and pieces Of their shoes.
The United States Circuit Court for
the Eastern District of Missouri has
handed down a decision through Judge
Walter H. SanbOan of st. Paul, Mime
sofa, declaring the Standard Oil Co..
Of New jersey an illegal combination,
operating in restraint of trade and Or
dering its dissolution. 1t is stated that
the Standard Oil will appeal to the Su-
preme Court.
Wyatt H. Ingram, Jr. the ~defaulting
ex-trust officer Of the Hibernia Bank,
has decided not to appeal to the Su-
preme Court, but to accept his sentence
Of twelve years in the state penlten-
tiary, Ingram will leave for Baton
Rouge as soon as he arranges his per-
so al affairs.
Congressman Robert Broussard and
Hon. Henri l.. Gueydan, manager of
the Rice Association of America, have
just returned from a visit to Mexico in
the interest Of developing the market
for Louisiana rice in Mexico, but re-
ported that conditions there were un-
favorable for any early expansion Of
the trade. The duty on foreign rice is
about the same as in the United States
and rice in Mexico brings about the
same price as here.
John Jacob Astor's yacht NOurmahal
is reported as safe in San Juan, Porto
Rico.
Attorney General Walter Guion has
that women are not eligible to hold the
position of superintendent of public
schools in Louisiana and therefore Miss
Lizzie Mccall of Cameron parish. who
has enjoyed the distinction of being the
only woman elected to that position in
this state, will be unable to continue in
the duties of parish school superinten-
dent.
In the Good Roads auto meet held at
the New Orleans Fair Grounds on Sat-
urday and Sunday, Barney Oldfeld
lowered the worlds record for a mile by
one-fifth OF a second
1t is reported from Lafayette, La.
that six COWS died as a result of eat
ing boil weevil on cotton stalks.
Insurgents in the Republican con-
gresslonal ranks are full of Var talk
against Speaker Cannon's methods and
promise him a warm time in their cam
paign against him in congress this Win
ter.
The National Waterways Commission
which arrived in New Orleans Novem-
Der 16, after completing a trip down
the Mississippi from St. Louis and
after visiting all the principal European
ports during the past summer state
that no port in the world they have
seen can equal New Orleans for it's
natural advantages at this minute. Of
course many European ports are better
fitted with mechanical contrivances, but
for natural advantages New Orleans
takes the lead and the mechanical part
is easily added.
A big telephone and telegraph deal
has recently occurred in the north when
the American Telephone & Telegraph
Co.. acquired the Western Union Tele-
graph Co. and it is stated that an enor-
nous holding corporation will be Gre
ated.
Unusual floods are being experienced
in the state of Kansas, many rivers and
streams being out of their bounds.
The New Orleans Public School Alli-
ance, of which Prof. Alcee Fortier is
president, held a public meeting last
week in the interest of increasing the
salaries of the public school teachers.
The New Orleans Board of Trade has
refused to join in the movement for a
central commercial body, advancing the
belief that the present method of joint
conferences was sufficient.
Rabbi Max Heller of. New Orleans
was chosen president of the Central
Conference of American Rabbis attheir
annual session in New York, held re-
Gently.
The Louisiana State Museum, which
has been holding forth for some years
in the Washington Artillery Hall; hopes
to get into its new home, the Cabildo,
by Carnival
Tulane University hopes to have the
next meet of the Amateur Athletic
Association held in New Orleans on the
Tulane field. The meeting will occur
in October. 1910.
The eleventh annual session of the
Southern States Association of Com
miSSIoporc nf Aur;cult,,ro r,ac hol1 ~