Lower coast gazette., 1910-09-10
NATIONAL NEWS.

NATIONAL NEWS.
: At the recent democratic primaries
held in Georgia for Governor. Hok.
Smith was nominated. defeating Gov.
J. NJ. Brown.
A million dollar tornado was rXpar-
fenced at I.~uuington, Mich.. last week.
The L. S. Census Department has
announced the population OF Mobile.
Alabama. as 81. 52l. an increase Of %.9
per cent. in the last ten years.
: EX-President Roosevelt has entered
the New York republican fight to a
finish and will eni,aIor to down the
odd guard.
! The population OF the State of Yer
mont is said to ahow i ,tartirg de-
crease.
{ The estimated loss from the Idaho
forest fires is put at two hundred lives
and the property damage as beyond
calculation. Quite a large number Of
lives has also been lost in adjoining
states.
The first cold wave Of the season
struck the West on August Is. In the
Texas Panhandle the temperature fell
forty-eight degrees in twelve hours.
dropping to SO deg. F. In Colorado
Springs. Colo., a record was made Of
SO deg. F., it being the coolest weather
known so early in the season. In Den
YER a drop Of fo%rty-nine degrees was
recorded, the thermometer falling thir-
teen degrees in ten minutes.
New cotton is bringing fifteen cents
per pound.
, President Taft will make a trip to
Panama. the party going on the armor-
ed cruisers Montana and Tennessee.
William j. Bryan says Theodore
Roosevelt is working for the 1912 re-
publican presidential nomination, which
shows a depth Of penetration on the
part Of the Nebraskan that is quite
wonderful.
Roosevelt is making a spectacular
and spcechful tour of the Weat, attend
ing the Cowboys Carnival at Cheyenne,
Wyoming, on August q. at which time
he was apparently unable to restrain
his rough riding prociivities and mount
ing a "snowwhite charger" made a lap
around the ring.
The Mississippi Board Of Heath has
decided that in the future applicants to
: practice medicine in Mississippi must.
besides other requirements. submit a
hali-tone photograph OF the applicant.
sworn to before a notary.
Some OHIO parties are reported rs b.
my DESTROYS OF securing land in MissiS-
siypi on which to establish a musArAt
farm.
The first wireless message to be sent
from al arrop,ane in flight was received
on August q from J. y. A. McMurLy
at Sheep,hcad Bay race track, New
York.
The y. S. Weather Bureau is now
using wireless biography t, keep track
of the Gulf storms.
Mayor Gaynor of New York left St.
Mary's Hospital. where he had been
confined ever since his attempted as
sassination. on the morning of August
% and went to his country place or
Long Island. The mayor stood his re-
moval remarkably we'll considering his
long confinement and the critical wound
inflicted on him.
Census returns show that Houston,
Texas has made a gain in population
during the past ten years equal to rs
per cent.
James T. Lloyd of Missouri, chair
man of the National Democratic Con-
gressional Campaign Committee, claims
that the Democrats will have control
of the next house in congress.
Maine is predicted as in the uncertain
line and likely to elect a democratic
governor this month. 1t is said that
the difference of only 1000 votes will
make Maine godemocratic.
Cotton reached twenty cents on Au.
gust %. the highest price attained
since the civil war.
The fast ocean lines Lusitania from
Liverpool, and the Italian steamer Gio-
pAnni from Naples and Palermo. were
held in quarantine in New York for
careful examination. it being feared
they might bring in cholera. After due
investigation the health authorities re-
leaned the vessels.
The U. S. Department of Commerce
and Labor is authority for the state
ment that in spite Of the complaints of
the high cost of living in the United
States the increase is greater in other
countries.
1t is planned to use jackscrews. cables
and c%aissons to raise the wreck of the
battleshiD Maine in HAVANA harbor.
The recent republican convention in