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| North America:The ninteenth Democratic national convention meets in St. Louis, Missouri to nominate Alton B. Parker.
The thirteenth Republican national convention meets in Chicago to nominate Theodore Roosevelt. |
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| Newton Crain Blanchard becomes Governor of Louisiana. Jared Y. Sanders is lieutenant governor. Martin Behrman becomes Mayor. His Regular Democratic Organization would wield its power for the next 40 years, building actively and producing deals with the legislature and gubernatorial candidates that helped the city. | Galatoire s Restaurant opens on Bourbon Street. Grace King moves to the house at 1749 Coliseum St. and lives there until 1932. This Greek Revival building was built in 1849 and extensively remodeled in 1871. |
A comprehensive drainage plan is finished with a design by Baldwin Wood. Huge 12 foot screw pumps, still in use today, and 120 miles of canals, most of them under ground today, combine to drain the equivalent of a ten square mile lake , 11 feet deep in 24 hours. The Dutch are so impressed that they copied Wood s System to help drain the Zuyder Zee. | Loyola University, 6363 St. Charles Avenue, founded and Marquette Hall built is a 20th Century blend of Gothic and Tudor. High school classes are begun by Father Albert Biever, pastor of Holy Name of Jesus Church. | In the Spring of 1904 Haruji Matsue and Sanderford Jarman were members of the LSU Student body numbering 438. From there the paths of these men took vastly different directions. Matsue graduated in June of 1905 with a masters degree in sugar chemistry. He returns to his native Japan and, serves as a delegate in the World War I peace conference and returned to build a sugar empire in Siapan which Japan received from Germany in the peace settlement. Jarman, a native of Boatner in Jackson Parish, resigned from LSU to accept an appointment to West Point, took various posts in the Army including commandant of cadets at LSU and as a Major General conducted the invasion of Saipan in June 1944. After weeks of fighting he came face-to-face with a statue, erected in 1934, dedicated to his old classmate Haruji Matsue. | Judge John Fogarty was a political figure of legend and song. He dispensed justice in the first ward mostly on his whims. One music hall jingle went, ³I dreamed I heard Judge Fogarty say, Twenty-five dollars or thirty days or Please judge Fogarty turn me loose, I got no money but a good excuse ³The Bible that witnesses swore on in his court was really a world almanac. He loved to play poker and also owned a popular saloon on the 300 block of St. Charles. | ||||||
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