The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1883-06-09
DONALDsoNVILLE LOUISIANA, SATURDAY JUNE 9, 1888.
STATE NEWS.

STATE NEWS.
Items of Interest Cleaned from the Louisi-
ana Press.
The only case of small pox in Lafayette
parish has recovered.
Town elections were held in New Iberia
and Farmersyille last Monday.
Mr.. Ell. Mcknight of Colfax was thrown
from his horse and severely hurt.
Morgan City had thirty-two cases of small
pox in April, of which eleven died.
The Police Jury of Terrebonne contribu-
ted $500 to the Charity Hospital fund.
Mr.. Marion Blackmar of Catahoula lost
his smoke-house and q quantity of meat by
fire.
Bishop Galleher Of the Episcopal Church
is travelling over the State on a diocesan
tour.
Unknown parties assassinated Alphonse
Moor, a colored man living at Fausse Pointe,
Iberia parish.
DR.. Thos. s. Jones was thrown from his
buggy at jackson, and painfully but not
dangerously bruised.
Sheriff B. s. Labranche of st. Charles
parish died in New Orleans on May 20, aged
50 years and months.
Mr.. Auguste Soulier of New Iberia has
gone to Central America to engage in the
manufacture of india rubber.
Mr.. George Purves, a leading New Or
leans builder, died there three weeks ago.
He built the st. Charles Hotel.
Two lady Spiritualists from Galveston
have visited New Iberia, where one of them
delivered lecture which excited much in
terest.
The proprietors Of the asphaltum refinery
recently erected i'll New Orleans have already
been compelled to enlarge the capacity of
the establishment.
G. w. Rosenbach, a drug clerk, swindled
a number of people in Alexandria and Pine
vile, then decamped. Some of his victims
hanged him in efigy.
Four members of the family of Mr..
Alexandra Chauff, in ST. John the Baptist
parish, were attacked by small pox, and
twosof the number died.
DR.. A. j. Roberts and wife were thrown
from their buggy at Clinton and very dan
gerously wounded. Later advices announce
the death Of Mrs. Roberts.
James Bruley and Spencer Robinson, both
colored, had quarrel at Jeannerette, and
Robinson was badly wounded on the head
by an ak in Bruley's hands.
Bob Strain, who killed Pierre Allen in a
Negro gambling den at New iberia, last
January, twas recently arrested in Beau
mont, Texas, and is now in the Iberia jail
The gauge Of the railroad between Vicks-
burg and Monroe is being changed, and
trains were to commence running June l..
Track laying beyond Monroe will begin
soon.
The Continental Guards of New Orleans
have received magnificent black marble
French clock as gift from the New Eng
land Mardi Gras excrr4sionists who visited
the city during the last carnival. "a
Red River Planters and Merchants
Transportation Company is the title Of a
corporation just organized at Natehitoches
| with view of putting one or more boats in
Red river and lowering freight charges.
| A swamper named Charles L. Stewart
was drowned in Bayou Courtableau, near
Port Barre, st. Landry parish. He was in
| all intoxicated condition just before his
death and is believed to have drowned ac-
cidentally.
The Texas Pacific Railroad Company is
| building cattle pens in West Baton Rouge,
! opposite the city of Baton Rouge. great
| many head of cattle will be shipped from
there to Texas when through trains COM
mence running again.
| Mr.. Robert Green of Washington parish
accidentally knocked his shotgun from its
rack, and the weapon was discharged upon
striking the floor, lodging eight duck shot
| in the thigh of Mr.. Green's little daughter
The wounds are not dangerous.
Our esteemed contemporary, the Baton
Rouge Truth, inferentally favors the admis-
sion of women as students in the Louisiana
| State University, and cites the alleged ben
! eficial results that have attended the expez.
| iment in Mississippi and elsewhere.
d. G. Hutchins, white desperate whe
killed Will Fl. Lyon, in Bossier parish, was
lynched by a mob of 100 men while being
taken from Shreveport to Bossier for ex
animation. He stabbed himself three times
| in the breast before the mob reached hin
and was probably dead or dying wher
hanged.