Louisiana capitolian. (Baton Rouge, La.) 1879-1881, 1881-07-21
STATE NEWS GLEANINGS.

Railroad, met with an accident I'D west
Baton Rouge parish on the lst instant.
While in the act of jumping from one Of
the cars of u construction train, his
right foot caught in an iron casting Oh
the side of the car and was broken in
two places. He is undergoing treatment
at Piaquemine.
Greensburg Gazette; Isaac Payne
Cotton, aged 18th years, was drowned
on the 18th inst, at ten O'Clock,
while bathing in the Amite River near
the residence of his mother. He was
the last surviving child of Mrs. c. I.
Cotton, widow of the late j. j. Cotton,
of Livingston parish, in the neighbor-
hood of Live Oak store, The body was
not recovered until ten o'clock the fol-
lowing night.
Donaldsonville Chief: Eugene Bap-
tiste was shot in the right arm and Sc
verelv beaten over the head with the
butt of revolver by Frank Miller, near
Brands saw.mill, Wednesday morning
Both men are colored. Baptiste is a
resident of Donaldsonville and Miller
was employed as n lahorer on Jacob
Stella plantation. They had previously
had some words about MillerS wife,
who left him and was staying at Bap-
tiste's house. Miller made his escape
and is still at large. Baptiste's arm was
broken, but the most serious wounds
are those on his head two of which
penetrated to the skull
DeSoto Democrat The town lookup
was burned on last Friday night by a
prisoner who occupied it, The prisoner
made narrow escape for his life, as he
would have burned had it not been for
an old negro who lived near by and
reached the place in time to break the
door open with an AK. While at work
with this purpose his Ak came off and
he came near not finding it in time to
save the prisoner, as the roof fell in just
as he stepped ont.
Donaldsonville Chief: On Tuesday,
the 9Th inst, Mathi!de Green. a colored
girl about fourteen years of age, dangh-
ter of Manuel Green, resident of Leu
annviIle. in the lower portion of this
parish, was drowned in the Mississippi
river while shrimpng The only per
son who witnessed the drowning was u
little girl nine years old, cousin of the
deceased, and all tho particulars she can
give are that she saw Mathilde fall into
the water while in the act Of drawing
up a shrimp BAG. The water is about
fifteen feet deep at the spot where the
accident occurred, ana although the UNI
fortunate girls grandmother ran quickly
TO the bank, summoned by the cries of
the llttle couSin' no tface oi MaVhl 'i'
conId be seen excepting het s'r"W MAJ
floating on the water Inc river was
thoroughly dragged in the vicinity,
cannon SHOTS We're hfeo over VI" water
and watch mas peen kept mp az Ia'
down as the homan e0dH' III d. Jane
parish, but the ho"N mas not FeI peer
recovered
\ dispatch from ShreycPorJ, dated
July 18th, says: NJ. Judd Scott, a
prominent merchant OF hlngstDn, ID
Soto parish, twenty-elght miles from
here, was murdered saturday nlght and
his store robbed. tie was murdered
about 3 p NJ, between MS boarding
house and store, Two negroes nave
been arrested on suspicion, The body
was not discovered until Sunday morn
ing, when the store was found to have
been entered and robbed,
Minden Domocrat Last Saturday
evening Messrs, Frank EIl,ins and Webb
Gamble had violent quarrel in which