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DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF THE LOWER COAST: AGRICULTURE, HORTICULTURE, FISHERIES AND COMMERCE.
VOLUME I. POINTE-A-LA-IIACHE, LA., SATURDAY, JANUARY 9, 1909. NUMBER2J
fIAR OP STARVATION AND DISEASE
Thousands of Bodies Lie in Ruins While
Numbers of Hungry Survivors of
Earthquake Throng Streets in
Vain Search for Food.
Rome.-South Italy and the island of Sicily have been visited by an ap
palling calamity, the extent of which cannot yet be grasped. An earthquake
Monday wrecked city after city and obliterated smaller towns and villages with
out number.
Then a' tidal wave swept along the Strait of Messina and added to the
horror, drowning the people in their helplessness and panic. Fire came to com
plete the work of destruction.
Flames broke out in the devastated cities and countless numbers of wounded
men, women and children were burned to death.
The finest palaces, churches and theaters of Messina are heaps of ruins. Count
less dead bodies are scattered through the wreckage and their decomposition will
4 doubtless bring pestilence to add to the horrors of the situation.
The devastation over the entire district was more or less complete. No part
of thetprovince of Reggio de Calabria escaped. The disturbance was most severe
along the shores of the Straits of Messina, where the cities of Messina and Reggio
are situated.
Rome.-Telegrams from Gerace Marina state that a squadron of warships
has bombarded all that remains of Messina in order to stop fires.
As mankind can do nothing against the work of n ture, it only remains
to raze Messina to the ground in which the bodies of the dead will be forever
buried. So the place where Messina once stood will thus become a huge cemetery.
Rome.-Although graphic stories are coming into Rome of the horrors in
Southern Italy and Sicily, these are but repetitions of individual tragedies
already recorded. What chiefly concerns the government and people is the
progress that is being made toward the relief of those who have suffered by
the dreadful visitation. Considerable advance in this respect has been made
at Messina, where, according-to official reports received here, the supply service
is beginning to work satisfactorily. I
Signor Chimirri, a leading Calabrian deputy, in an interview advises the
: i.centration of the injured at Naples and at Rome on the ground of the im
Spossibility of accommodating them, as in 1905, near their own homes. It is
the government's intention to remove all the survivors possible to the various
. iofof Italy.
Tr ,s an instance of this quick grasp of the situation, the king, soon after
I'Airrival at Messina, wired to Premier Giolett: "Send ships and men; above
W s1, ' end ships loaded with quicklime."
i So far as has len possible quicklime is used on the dead; many bodies
::i't. burned and other buried..
One feiture of the disaster at Reggio is the large number of homeless
ohi ldren. In. some eases' little babies were found creeping about in the ruins,
'and it seems impossible to restore them to their parents, even if the parents
were alive. A sailor who went ashore at Reggio relates that during his work
 rescue he was attracted by a sound of infant voices. Looking under a fallen
beaom, be found twins about a year old in a basket.
In mtany cases survivors recovered consciousness to find themselves far away
.p.m the scene' of the disaster. Large numbers of survivors have become insane.
S What has taken place at Reggio has been a repitition of the scenes at
bult they proportioni of the population to perish at the former place is
: .Ttay' to.e conditions at Regglo are worse than at Messina, owing to
r t o_ f `Ib#froam decomposing bodies. P
.t a, been- proposed in small villages where not a house remains standing I
l ; the debri.on fire as a means of purification.
S t =.-'The city is absolutely destroyed. The spectacle is a terrifying a
S: *rn~lnsare nqw the prey of roaring flames. A great conflagration broke
$ stefy' after the earthqtake and devoured all that the earth shocks had ft
s .ea ly the entire population is buried in the debris. The latest calcula- rI
4 . kp)ethe total number of survivors at only 10,000. The dead at Messina a
eieah the stupendous figures of nearly 100,000. 5
51i)p c frmt the outer world is at last. beginning to reach the stricken city. 01
i tlh cleruiser Sutle) steasrhed in Wednesday from Malta and was followed 0
 eRusian battleships Slava and Czarewitch and the cruiser Admiral Maka
1; The' officers and men of the two navies are giving every possible aid, yet
a'4 task I. a fearful one.
S auds the pelting rain, in open air, hospitals are being installed in what were
d~thestreets of the town. The sights on every hand are so moving, so tragic, s
ifti almostImpt lpossible to describe them adequately. The utmost depths of tc
i awl. tferling scem to have been sounded. of
.i e etire" garrison of Mesaina has perished in the ruins, and people who
PtWY jert eanoot ~esee from the vast smouldering tomb in which their s
, wirve., h.usbands; ritc and children lie. The sea is closed to them se
An  of ships, andthey lare suffering the cruel extremities of hunger and th
t Here sad theie they can be seen searching eagerly in the debris and
i rvilii for some morselseb to eat or for water to drink, but the heaps of de
hata debris a yie'd them .nothing. we
<t~e very tun some lamentable scene meets the eyes. Men and women half Fi
sai trriby injured are imploring relief. The hospitals and chemists' in
i'f Ve disappeared, and there are neither drugs nor surgical instruments at
Iamore: than one town the shocks-caused gas.meters to explode, and dis. I
trgs rented. The flames helped from time to time to swell the death
" '. e con pratlon of the straits of Messina Jhas been materially altered. The sp
1 tl st comapleted the destructive work of the earth quake was thirty- cal
GrAtlIc STORY IS TOLD BY WOMAN REFUGOEE, die
the
~d-,RTie :ollwlgraphlistoiry is told by a woman 'who arrived here Ao
tuesdiay mwning, badly injured: 11n
;'.ar fthe caly word thit' will uadequately describe the fearful and
tin eaPl: *t.sh. e said. "Wheh the. first ehoek eame, most of the city was on
i wir w.kaned by the rocking of the house.' Windows swayed and the
",.ad  pes yand glass trashed to the loor. wh
-at.sIw v'a olently thrown out qf my bed to the floor. I was
.&butkln.lew. that the only thing to do was to make my way out sik
tum
a "r e i we llled everybody had rushed out in their night clothes, litt
ih, ri n, which was falling in torrents. Terrifed shrieks arose from
%d e. eard b eartrealng appeals for help from the unfortunate pinned
for
~?i!rAi*wit ttering all. around us, and not one of our little party expected I
tiw -.i K1brotheta sad sistwerswer with me, and in a frenzy of terror ten
#iwy ,throtighi the streets, holding our own against the panic~ the
L, P#lsberg over piles .of ruins until we finally reached a place the
seel
.e.l.. we'. were jostl'ed by scores of Sfleeing people, half-elad rev'
"'5hiU.. seemed to be crashing into the crowd in whatever moi
oliv
di eap poer into the town. It seemed to me that this e
T........  h. e oncoming watga rolled in in a huge wave,.
pa- d . a. d . r..eked. I sw one.of the big build
"cjis It . eemed .ttolme that scores of persos were an
SI 0o eaeousnss and Ie remember no more."
to vertsbend, the lng, to go alone
? :SfrsM &w~I& not gife unp hr privlege 9f
l ,Kli ad Qieen left Rod.
- . -+ W . .-a"p-aes "h uen e*
iaIIi+l''ther nlty todo a S
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SE ADDS TO HORROR
NOT A WHOLE HOUSE.
ie Destruction of Messina Terrible and
Complete.
Rome.--It is beginning to be possible
to obtain something of a precise idea
of the extent of the catastrophe caused
by the earthquake. Messina is said to
look like a town that had been bom
barded for hours by a great war fleet.
Not a house remains standing. Of the
n ap- city's 160,000 inhabitants, it is still im
quake possible to say how many perished.
with- There is a possibility that a third sur
vived, a quarter or fewer still. In any
3 the case, it is safe to say that 100,000
persons were buried beneath the wreck
com
age.
mded In thirty seconds Italy lost more of
her children than did Russia in a whole
year of her war with Japan, which was
ount- the most sanguinary in history. It
will seems certain that all the small towns
and villages that dotted the shore and
part hills near Reggio have been annihilated.
evere Without counting the lesser centers of
eggio population, the following have been al
most entirely destroyed.
ships Messina, 160,000; Ieggio, 60,000; Laz
zaro, 3,000; Seilla, 5,000; Gaguara, 10,
nains 000; Villa San Giovanni, 12,000, and
rever Palmi, 14,000. Inland towns and vil
tery. lages, too, have suffered enormously.
-s in CASTROREALE DESTROYED.
edies Survivors of Shock at Catanzaro Are
the Raving Maniacs.
I by Catanzaro, Calabria.-The prefect of
2adeReggio, after the first shock, rushed
rvice about like a mad man, seeking help to
save his wife and children, who were
the buried in the ruins of the prefecture.
im- Two workmen finally reached them and
[t is brought them out, but the two children
ious died in the arms of their father.
A young girl arrived here Friday froml
ifter Reggio after walking 18 miles, prac
bove tically without clothing. Finally, on I
the outskirts of Catanzaro, a monk
odies stripped off his habit and gave it to the
unfortunate. Another young woman of
,less Reggio was a prisoner for 48 hours on 1
ins, the fifth floor of her home. She called I
ents for help, which none dared give her be
rork cause of the unsafe condition of the c
lenwalls. Finally, when a fireman braved
the danger and brought the girl down,
she was found to have gone raving mad.
ray Her mother and father, two brothers
ane. and a sister were lying dead in a room
at beside her.
to Rome.-There is every reason to be
pessimistic over the situation. At a
ling Palmi 425 bodies have already been dis- h
covered. It is said the deaths at Bag- b
nara are 1,000, at Sante Eufemia 1,500 r,
ring and at Seminara 400: ii
'oke Orso, the prefect of Reggi6, sends the r,
had following from Gerace Marina: "As a C
ula- result of the earthquake the town is u
ina almost entirely destroyed. Many thou- a]
sands are killed. The prefecture and v,
ity. other public buildings are in ruins. A
wed Other towns in the province are almost n,
ka- entirely destroyed. Send help at once, S.
especially food and medicine, as the o
town contains nothing." tl
A man who escaped to Catania from t
Mer essina declares it is impossible to de- a
gi, scribe the spectacle presented. The di
of town is in ruins and reduced to a mass
of smoking debris. t
ho: The greater part of the population to
eir suffered. It is necessary at once to ti
em send food and the means of stopping
Lad the conflagration.
md A dispatch from Trinchieri states the
of dead number tens of thousands. The
wounded are dying of hunger and thirst.
alf Fire destroyed all that remained, spread
ts' ing over the town.
WHOLE REGION IN RUINS. ic
is- Horrors of the Overpowering Catars
th trophe Are Unspeakable. Sc
Naples.-Time only confirms the un
he speakable horrors of the bverpowering of
y- catastrophe. History perhaps never will tei
divulge its supremest individual trage. -
dies, for earth and sea ruthlessly claimed th
thousands of human beings, and the w
re flames mercilessly completed the u rol
finished devastation. sol
id Those who 'have explicit knowledge e
as on the subject agree that the center of dr
Id the cataclysm was the Strait of Messina, me
which also is the center of the vrolcanic
zone, whose highest peak, Etna, is now a
silent. From this base, the Telluric dis- tel
turbance extended, abating ,little by wi
little, northely as far as Cape Vaticano to
m and southerly as far as the Bay of en
d Catania, ravaging the western region of e
Calabria and the eastern coast of Siily ord
for a distance of nearly 100 miles.
S It is impossible to ascertain the ex
>r tent of the movement east and west in
Sthe inland regions, but it i certain that
:e the beauty of one of the most charming Mil
sections of Southern Italy has been ir
d revocably despoiled. Vineyards are no
8r more; waving rows of lemon, orange and d
olive trees have been torn up, and the dry
is elachanting coast line, with its soft and (U
. g t foliage, has been made into a
di Reggio,~ whose gay aspect set Th
.. seerity of the mountains, and $1
i perched jauntily amid orange nn
ev and etrees, have become mere blots reg
' SCORE OF o WN DLow .
lmnmopitgy e e iuater Can ardl wai
f Be Estimati l n 4id
S Rome.-The mienm i'ty of the disaster due
in' southern Italy and iSicily can only is.]
be measured- by the fasit.that it is now mai
a estimate0 0tat 110,000 ple jieohle d ra
'in Me*in& ad RaIgglo alone. A scorer an
6t aother townrs have been deat te
n 1th,"I '. .t i - t 'a.-st i mc. i
ped iafo , ·';rBsah;lr ·~
OR PENSIONS BREAK ALL RECORD
$155,894,049.63 Paid Out-338,341
Names Added to Rolls.
and Washington.-Expenditures by the
United States last year for pensions
issible broke all records since 1893, according
idea to the report of James R. Garfield, see
aused retary of the interior, made public Mon
id to day. To 1,00(3,053 pensioners there was
born- paid $155,894,049.63.
fleet. In consequence of the act of Febru
f the ary 6, 1907, which extended the pension
It im- limit, the pension office has been be
ished. sieged by an army of 413,133 applicants,
I sur- of whom 338,341 succeeded in getting
Sany their names on the pay roll. Death
10,000 wiped off 54,366 names and at the close
'reek- of the year there were 951,687 dependent
upon the government's bounty.
re of Only two names remain on the pen.
whole sion list as a sequel of the Revolution
Swas ary war. They are the two daughters
It of the sole Revolutionary widow, who
owns died November 11, 1906. The last pen
and sioned soldier of the war of 1812 died
lated. May 13, 1905, but the roll still con
rs of tains the names of 471 "1812" widows.
n al
ARE LIVING AS JESUS WOULD
Laz
10- 1,000 Young Clevelanders Have
iand Undertaken the Task.
vil
ly. Cleveland, O.-For the next two weeks
11,000 young people of the city will en
deavor to live as they believe Jesus
would live were he on earth. Sunday
Are night at Epworth Memorial Church
1,800 delegates from the Christian En
t of deavor Society and the Baptist Young
shed People's Union gathered, and stirred by
p to impassioned appeal by the Rev. W. B.
were Wallace, leader in the movemnent,
ture, pledged their services and their organiza
and tions to follow in the footsteps of Jesus.
dren In his address Rev. Mr. Wallace point
ed the way for 'the young people to fol
-rodi low. In making the experiment they
?rae- must lead a joyous life. They will quit
on kicking and will go to work in a cheer
ionk ful frame of mind. They will also en
the deavor to be honest in business. They
a of may find this task rather hard, as one
3 on business man already has declared that
iled his clerks, most of whom are members of
be- one of the two societies, will be imme
the diately fired if they try to keep their
ived pledges around his establishment.
iwn,
nad. EARTHQUAKE FOR THE SOUTH
hers
Prediction That Little Rock and Hot
Springs Will Be Hit.
be Oklahoma City, Okla.-Geological re
At searches indicate that portions of Okla
dis- homa, Arkansas and Texas will one day
3ag- be visited by an earthquake more far
,500 reaching in its area and more destructive
in its effects than that from which Italy
the recently has suffered, according to Prof.
a Charles N. Gould, a member of the fac
is ulty of the Oklahompa State University
sou- and director of the State geological sur
and vey. He says that Tishomingo anti
ns. Atkoia, Okla., Denison, Waco and Tex
Lost arkana, Tex., and Little Rock and Hot
ice, Springs, Ark., will be in the center line
the of disturbances. Prof. Gould claims that
the cause of the recent disturbance wad
om the sliding of subterranean layers of rock I
de- accelerated by the tidal wave. He pre
he diets that eventually a series of disturb
ass ances will bring the quake center beneath
Sthe central part of the United States and
on toward the South. He makes no predic
to tion as to the date.
ing
BAPTIZED UNDER ICE.
the
h old Water of Lake Used to Wash
Away Bins.
St. Joseph, Mich.-In the presence of .
1,000 persons grouped on the snow and'
ice-clad shore of Lake Michigan, a class
of Church of God converts were Sunday Ii
afternoon baptized by Rev. August F. F
Schmittz, head of the local church. De- ii
scending into the chilled water by means 5
g of a ladder, through a hole in the ice, S
ill ten persons, ranging in age from a small S
e* child to a frail roman 72 years old, were t
ed thus immersed. A cold, raw wind 0
he swept in from the lake. Clad in the
Srobes of his church, the Rev. Schmittz
solemnly led the religious procession t
g across the ice to the open water a hun
of dred feet from the shore, where the cere
mony was to take place. After offering
Sup a prayer he entered the water, which
came up to his chest. Floating ice in- t
Sterfered somewhat with the rapidity
' with which the pastor apparently desired
0 to work, but each candidate successfully
entered thle lake and quickly afterward P
scrambled out again. They 'ere dclad in
ordinary elothing. Three of ithe women
were barefooted. --. .
l $20,000 LID IN GEOtf(IA. tc
Milledgeville Council Goec . Limit on
"er Seer. h
o Atlanta, Ga.--News of the method al
d adopted by Milledgeville, Ga., to remain hi
e dry reached here Sunday. The town in
d council has just imposed ,a license of pe
a $20,000 upon the sale of "near beer."
It The town has been experimenting with a w
d $10,000 license on loeger luibs, and its
a unqualified success led'to the "near beer" la
a regulation. .L ___ .:. ,
Monument for dc~f$a.te
Washington.-A monunent is to be n
;ereeted to the Confederate prisoners of gt
Swar barled at GCreaen a :emetery, of
Iidianapolis. The work~ t be eon- ha
r ducted under the war ent. Itl
r Is proposed to have this oment of ra
r marble or granite ad r The name, ma
L ranik of other than 4 p tet company etc
,and regen~t 1,6JO0 :rtogether (I
r *ith an appropriate setting tus
i ofrh the Iesting placf l e !eeos and Irae
men of the, Cnfera mho died tI
:- asp~ibSon~ers ·f ~war ait
;issa·Wen 202c
CORE LATEST NEWS
18,341
the IN LOUISIANA
!nions
ording
see- PENITENTIARY ROLLS SHOW IN
Mon- CREASE OF 250 CONVICTS.
re was
tebru- CONGRESSIONAL ELECTION CALL
n be- More Stringent Oil Inspection Regu
icants, lations and New Health Rules
etting Are Adopted-Other State
Death Events.
close
Baton Rouge.-The Louisiana State
Penitentiary closed the records for
the year 1908 with an increase of
Pen. something like 250 convicts in its
ution- care. Exact figurs will not be ob
;hters tainable for a few days. The books
who of the board of control show that on
pen- December 1, when the report was last
died closed out, the penientiary had 1,928
con- convicts. The reports of the board
dows. for December 1, 1907, show that the
board had 1,783 convicts, making the
ULD net gain for the year 245. It is likely
that the net gain during the month
Have of December may run the total to 250.
NEW HEALTH RULES.
weeks
11 en- More Stringent Oil inspection Regu
Jesus 'ations.
inday Baton Rouge.-Stringent regula
iurch tions for the examination of oil in
En- Louisiana were adopted at a meeting
oung of the state board of health, the new
pd by pure food and drug code was order
-. B. ed put into effect January 1, a board
nent, of embalming examiners was creat
niza- ed, and several amendments to the
sanitary code were tacitly agreed to.
esus. Because of the fact that the pres
ent oil examination system is gener
fol- ally declared to be inadequate, the
they new regulations will become opera
quit tive immediately.
beer- Under them all oil subject to in
) en- spection by the Louisiana State Board
Ihey of Health shall be inspected and
one gauged by the State Board of Health
that the. instant that it is brought into the
rs of state of Louisiana.
nme- The stenciling and inspeption of oil
their packages is abolished. There must
be a paper label attached to the con
tainer with shellac and alcohol. No
ITH container can be refilled with oil un
til the certificate of the board of
health is destroyed and erased.
Hot All dealers in oil are required to
give fuh particulars of every ship
re- ment made into the state of Louis
)kla- lana.
day No oil manufactured in this state
far- shall be sold until inspected.
!tive Aside from fixing the date for its
taly enforcement, the board agreed to the
mrof. manner of the operation of the food
fac- and drug code. As President D. Har
sity vey Dillon intimated several days
ago, members of the board them
selves will act as inspectors in the
anTl different parts of the state in which
they reside, with Dr. C. Milo Brady
as chief inspector. Samples procured I
line will be forwarded to Dr. Hamilton c
that P. Jones, state analyst, for chemical 1
was examination. The board is financial- C
Ok ly unable to employ as yet a corps I
pre- of regular inspectors, but will do so I
urb- as soon as money for that purpose is C
ath available.
and Spitting in street cars, on side
die- walks and generally in public build- 1
ings, a practice largely responsible a
for the alarming spread of tuberculo- :
sis, was declared a violation of the i
health laws of the state.
TO 8UCCEED DAVEY.
of Special Election Called to Elect Con- a
and gressman.
lass Baton Rouge.-Governor Sanders
lay has issued his proclamation fixing b
F. February 19 as the day for the hold- o
De. ing of the special election to elect a 5
ans successor to Robert C. Davey, as con- tl
ice, gressman from the second congres- a
iall sional district comprising part of t
re the parish of Orleans and the parishes
ind of St. James, Jefferson, St. John and
the St. Charles.
ttz The executive committee of the
ion Democratic party for the second dis
trict will name the date for the pri
- mary. There are understood to be
tWO candidates, City Attorney ,Gil
l more, of New Orleans, and Henry C.
ch McCarthy, former private secretary dl
in- to Congredsman Davey.
ity tt
red AFTER LABOR AGENTS. 1
Ily it
ird Planters and Business Men Unite to ot
in Check Raid. ri
Len Lecompte.-A mass meeting of the
planters and bustiiness men of this
town and vicinity was held at the
town hall for the purpose of taking gi
action against the labor agents who
have been coming here and carrying
away labor to Oklahoma and Missis
d sippi. Resolutions were adopted pro
an hibiting any labor agent from entic
a ing labor to leave under strenuous
of penalties. e
r." Committees were appointed to keep
a watch at the railroad stations.
its A similar meeting producing simnt
r" lar results was held at ZacharY, as
well as other points. bu
In furtherance of the campaign for
Sincreasing the cnsumption of cotton,
of it was announced that the directorate thi
Y, of the New Orleans Cotton exchange ne
i has adopted strong resolutions favor
It lug the substitution of cotton fora
of various imported products used in the
ie, manufacture of bagging, twine, rope, c
iy etc., and also- suggested that the
en United States department of agricul
ig ture make an investigation into the
id varion uses of raw cotton and publish ha
d z report thereon.
TWO KILLED IN WRECK.
Engineer William L. Sargent, One of
the Victims.
Breaux BDridge.-A most disastrous
Wreck occurred in the suburbs of
Brecaux Bridge on the Baton Rouge
extension resulting in the killing of
I IN- Engineer William C. Sargent, of Al
viers, and ('onductor ('harles Robie
haux, of Lafaye:te. The three men
were in the cab of locomotive No.
240, which was going to Atchafalaya
river with twelve cars of dirt, and
jegu- just after passing over Breaux Bridge
es bayou trestle draw bridge, the en
gine tender left the rails and pounded
along for some' distance before turn
State ing over. W\hen she did go over it
for was a complete wreck, the engine on
of the east side of the track and the
its tender on the west side, and the two
ob- unfortunates dead when taken out,
ooks which was immediately.
it on
last FISCAL AGENTS CHOSEN.
1,928
oard Board of Liquidation's Program Goes
the Through.
the Baton Rouge.-Without a hitch the
[kely board of liquidation's program for the
onth selection of state fiscal agents went
250. through. The rate of interest will
be 3 1-2 per cent; the period of the
contract will be until April 1, 1910,
and the distribution will be one-half
egu- of the state's funds in New Orleans
and one-tenth in each of the five ru
rula- ral congressional districts.
1 in In Baton Rouge the Louisiana State
sting Bank and the Bank of Baton Rouge
new are the fortunate institutions, the
-der- First National being eliminated.
Dard In New Orleans the New Orleans
,eat- National, the Hibernia National and
the the Whitney-Central were selected.
Ito. President Charles Godchaux filed
ºres- with the board a vigorous protest
ner- against the interest rate, giving fig
the ures to prove that the deposits were
era- really costing the banks 5.16 per cent
on the amount available for daily bal
in- ances.
)ard
and Governor Makes Appointments.
alth Governor Sanders announced the
the following appointments:
Board of Trustees, Louisiana School
foil for the Blind-Charles H. Jolly, East
lust Baton Rouge; Laz Blum, East Baton
con- Rouge; James Slayton, East Baton
No Rouge; Oscar Landry, Livingston; r
un- Dewitt Bouanchaud, Pointe Coupee; i
of Dr. M. D. Lewis, St. Landry; Paul l
J. Orchard, Orleans. a
to Board of Trustees, Louisiana School 0
hip- for the Deaf-Henry Jastremski, East t
uis- Baton Rouge; A. S. Redenberg, East
Baton Rouge; Thomas W. Atkinson, fi
tate East Baton Rouge; John F. Irvine, e
West Feliciana; W.' C. Carruth, a
Its Pointe Coupee; G. A. Scott, East Fe- tl
the liciana; Emile Well, Orleans. a
ood
[ar- MRS. MILLER FREE.
ays
em. Exonerated for Killing Husband on
the Plea of Self-Defense.
ich Floyd.-Charley Miller, from Lake a
idy Village, Ark., who was working at
red the Oakes tie camp, six miles west w
ton of here, was shot Christmas night by g
cal his wife, and died from the effects ti
lal- of the wound early Saturday morning, a
rps Miller was taking Christmas and had tl
so imbibed freely, and was trying to si
Sis cut his wife's throat with a razor
when she pulled a 38-caliber pistolr
de- and fired the fatal shot. Mrs. Miller
Ild- was exonerated by the coroner's jury; 0
ble and will leave for her parents' home
lo- In Mississippi in a few days. She
the has two children, a boy and a girl. t
Electric Road Almost Complete. f
Mandeville.-The electric railroad t
between Mandeville, .Abita Springs P
n. and Covington is now completed al- "
most to the corporate limits of t
!rs Mandeville, and the pile driver has
ng been put in position on Main streeqt, J
Id- only a thousand feet from the lake di
a shore. Some piling will be driven Si
,n- there to bridge a small natural drain, @it
es- and work will then be started on tb
of the slip for the boat landing. br
Les th
ad Shreveport is Dry.
Shreveport.-For the first time in
he more than a decade, even long before tb
is- Shreveport was recognized as a city,
ri- there has not been a ricensed saloon
be in Shreveport since 12 o'clock New
a Years Eve. All of the saloon men,re
c proprietors, bartenders, beer wagonl
drivers and brewery representatives pr
do not look at the pohibitlon law in i
the same light. Some of them be- th
lieve the law will be repealed before l
it has been in effect two years, while T
to others seem to think a year's expe
rience will cause it to be voted back. sul
Cupid at Teachers' Institute. in
Is Amite City.-A feature of the Tan
e 'gigahos Parish Teachers' Institute,
now in session, has been the mar
riage of three of the enrolled teachers
since the beginning of the institute.
Monday Miss Goldie Holden was mar- ol
ried to Arthur Story; Tuesday, Miss E
Quin, of the Roseland school, mar- pe
Sried L. M. Hendry, and Tuesday af- Br
ternoon Miss Lydia Warner was wed- the
ded to Thomas Morrinson. hot
tai
S Forty-five saloons in Lake Charles to
s and Calsacleu parish went out of in
business New Year's Day. che
r ,· Oil City to New Orleans,
*, Shreveport.-It was reported from
.e the oil field that the Richardson well, wi
e near Oil City, had been brought in gr
r-and that the Producers' well, on the T
SHomestead tract, in the same vicini
ty, also came in. It was also dis- de
' closed that the workmen who will
build the oil pipe line to New Orleans of
.will arrive early this month nd
e that thirty engines, costing $100,006,
have been ordered for handling the p
pipe line deal. unt
rP ter
dal
.NOTABLE NEW YEAR CROWD
nro of
Representatives of All Powers En
trous tertained by the President.
s of WVa.ºshington.-Piresident Roosevelt and
ougt' over six thlouisand people, repri'senting
g of every lahnd and every State and terri
f Al- tory in the IUnion, Friday exchanged
obie- happy New Year greetings at the White
men ,louie. For three and a half hours the
No. president stood receiving his guests, and
tlaya v hen the reception was ended last year's
and record of attendance had been broken
ridge by over 700. Many men and women
en- distinguished in the official and social
nded life of Washington were p esent.
tun- ho brilliant court dress of miembert.;
S of the diplonmatic corps g ire a piCtllu:
e 01 esique aspect to the annual function,
the which throughout was marked by an
two absence of formality. The number of
out, small children who were brought by
their parents to shake hands with the
president was unprecedented.
MILLIONS GO TO AID SICILY-.
Goes -
Succor for Distressed, National
the Movement in America.
the New York. - Spontaneous action 4
ven throughout the country to succor the
theill distress of Italy has assumed the char
acter of a national movement. Reports
half fromn all sections of the country show
ans cities, individufls, societies, religious
ru- bodies, Red Cross organizations, private
corporations, comnunercial bodies and all
tate branches of public and private life join
muge ing in the humnane and practical expres,
the sion of the American people in behalf
of the afflicted nation.
pans With the appropriation which the
and American congress is expected to make,
ted. the aggregate front the United States
lied and Canada will run into millions.
test Contributions for tuoe earthquake suf
fig- ferers continue to arrive at the Ameri
rere can Red Cross headquarters.
:ent
bal- WHAT IS GAMBLING?
Living Church Bays It Is Not Getting
Something for Nothing. ,
Chicago.--Apropos of the crusade
tool against card playing for prizes being
last conducted by Reformer Arthur Burrage'
Lton Farwell, "the essence of gambling is
Lton not, as is sometimes said, the fact of
on; receiving 'something for nothing.' If
ee; it were, the recipet of every gift made
'aul in the true spirit of giving would Ti an
act of gambling," says the Living Church,
cool one of the most prominent organs of
ast the Episcopal Church.
ast "A prize for attendance or for pro._.
on, ficiency at Sunday or day school rests
[ne, ethically upon precisely the same plane
ith, as a prize for the winner at cards. If
Fe- the government intends to penalize one
sort of prize giving it must logier' .
penalize every other sort.. The essence "
of gambling is in the attempt, through
on covetousness, to secure from another
that which the other does not offer as
tke a free gift."
at "The free gift of Jesus Christ to the *;
est world is the pattern which impels us to
by give gifts to each other, and Christmas A
cts time is a poor time to suggest that the l
ng. act of giving, which necessarily invol. i.
iad the act of receiving the gift, is intri la*
to sically wrong._____
%' FATAL FIGHT WITH FEUDIST 'I
ler
ry; Outbreak of Watson-Smith 0las a
ne Bellevue, Ky. . -
Cincinnati.-Bellevue and Dayton,, tl
two Kentucky towns across the rivet -
from this city, were the scenes this af-,
ad ternoon of a running fight between ai -i
gs pair of feudists and a posse of officers :
al- and citizens. The encounter resulted ii
o the killing of Harry Smith, a young :i
man aged 20, the shooting of Eugene
t, Jolly, a policeman, who will probably.
ke die, serious wounding of Mrs; Lucy.lones
en and the stabbing of Henry Sobult~, a
In, oitizen, who assisted in the, capture
on the feudists, John and Major Watsc.
brothers. After the killing of S8nup
the Watsons, pursued by officers and!
mob of citizens, fled to Dayton, .
where they found refuge at the homr
e their sister, Mrs. Lucr Jones. Off!, j
made an assault on the buildliig, I
Patrolman Jolly, who led the att
areceived three loads of shot in the
Ssustaining wounds that 'will prob
e prove fatal. The police forted their
in into the hOuse, Afiring their revolve
,. they did so. Mrs. Jones was
re twice, but her brothers escaped ia
1e Their weapons emptied, the
engaged in a desperate 11 do.
e struggle with their capts, and d
k. submit until overpowered by ove
ing numbers.
. Thomuas Perkins Epltea ter d
e. New York.-Thoom, Perkins, 09 y
r old, a member of th ew York Co
, Exchange, died suddenly Friday, i
- pew in the First Presbyterian ,Ckure
4. Brooklyn, just after making a spechk a
. the New Year's services, For half
hour the aged broker had spoken ente
tainingly and feelingly, on interestin
Stopics of theyday. When he sat do
Sin his pew his head sank forward on
chest, his eyes closed and he was di!
Beach Hargis Gets Bail.
n Irvine, Ky.-Beach Hargis, "
i, with the murder of his father;
a granted bail Friday in the sum of$2 35
e The young man will not return to I
I- son or Breathitt county, where the -
der occurred, and where his far
friends still bitterly resent the m l
of the cieftain's death, but will 
Hot Springs, Ark., for treatment
rheumatism, after which he will -
t9 Irvine and attept one of a mmne
Spositions tlhat have been oBffere'
until his case comns to trial at a
term of court, the second or third
day in April n"eo4t ,