Lower coast gazette., 1910-01-08
NATIONAL NEWS.

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the Atlantic coast as the result of the
big storm that swept the New England
coast last week.
Navigation of the Ohio River has
been completely blocked below Pitts
burg due to the ice in the stream. At
Cincinnati the river was frozen over.
1t is estimated that ten millions Of bu-
shells of coal are tied up in the Ohio
River by the ice.
Ten degrees below zero at st. Paul,
Mimi, six below at Des Moines, Iowa
and Duluth, MINI. and four below at
Madison, Wisconsin are some of the
weather records for December 18th. At
Chicago it was within one degree of
zero, while at Winnepeg, Canada, it
was 20 below. In the South the weather
was relatively warmer, but at the same
time very cold. Louisville registered
6 degrees above zero; Nashville, 8;
Chattanooga, l6; Memphis, is and At
lanta % above zero.
President Taft is preparing a mes
sage for Congress on the subject of the
conservation Of resources.
The director Of the Department of
Health and Charities Of Philadelphia,
Pa. makes the charge that some of the
local physicians qroloDg the Illness Of
their patients in order TO increase thsil
income.
New York City has a Milk Trust.
Attorney General Wickersham has
fled a brief against the Tobacco Trust.
The parents Of ,jt;le lima Kellner,
who disappeared December s, have re-
ceived q letter from an Ohio town pro-
missing the return Of the child on the
payment of S. 5000 ransom.
The recent snow fall in New York
city will cost that municipality fous
hundred thousand dollars to clear it up.
John Brown, superintendent of the
Bolen, Darnell Company's coal mine
near McAlister. Oklahoma, was res.
cued alive. but unconscious, on Decem.
Der 80, after having been entombed for
t~wenty-eight hours in a smoke filled cut
of the mine. Brown risked his life tc
save that of Angelo Aspicar, a shot
firer, who was entombed after an ex-
plosion on one Of the lower levels Of
the mine. Aspicar has not yet been
rescued
News from Beaufort, s. C. under
date of Dec. 80, was to the effect that
the Southern Pacific steamer Excelsior,
enroute to New Orleans from New
York, was drifting about forty miles
north OF the Diamond Shoals Lightship,
with signals out that she was rot under
control.
Two railroads had serious wrecks the
last day of 1909, the Rock Islands
California Special was wrecked near
Trenton, Mo-, killing three persons and
injuring forty-three others, and the
New York Contra! had a real end col
lision near Croton, New York, killing
Spencer Trash, a prominent New York
banker.
Quite a serious accident occurred at
st. Louis on December 81, when some
Of the Mckinley bridge, under cor
struction across the Mississippi River,
was knocked down by the ice jam, pre-
cipitating sixty nine men, who were at
work on the bridge. into the river.
The fleet of war vessels in the Pa.
cific Ocean will be divided into two
sections, to be known as the Asiatie
and Pacific fleets. Rear Admiral Johr
Hubbard will be commander in chief OF
the new Asiatic Fleet, which will con-
sist of the Charleston, Galveston. Cleve,
land, Denver, Chattanooga, Helena,
Wilmington, Callao, Samar. Vi!lalobas,
Arayat, Paraguay. Mindora and Mont.
Grey. The Pacific fleet will consist Of
the Tennessee, Washington, Califor
MIA, South Dakota, West Virginia, Mary
land, Pennsylvania, Colorado, Milwau'
kee and St. Louis.
Hon. Horace H. Lurton, the newly ap
pointed associate justice of the Su
preme Court of the United States, tool
his seat on Monday, January 5.
Beginning with this year, Memphis
Tennessee will be operated under thu
commission form of government. Thu
new charter provides for a mayor ant
/, four commissioners, VINO will act il
place of a city council.
Mrs. Russell Sage has made a gift O.
$3.50, 900 to Yale University which vii
be utilized in the purchase of q thirt,
acre park for a new campus.
4 A big New Year reception was hel,
in Washington at the White House
I when President Taft shook hands witt
over five thousand people.
y, Chas. w. Morse of New York. con
victed,of violating the national banking
Laws, left New York last Sunday TO
Atlanta, Georgia, to serve a ffteel
years. term of Imprisonment in th,