The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1883-08-18


OF the magical angel Of beauty,
Whose smile is seen in thy face"
Indianapolis Sentinel.
STATE NEWS.
Stems of Interest Cleaned from the Louisi
ana Press.
Gov. McEnery is the happy father of f
brand new boy.
Mr.. Peter Berger intends building ter
new cottages in Houma.
Jos. p. Macheca d Co., New Orleans fruit
dealers, have failed for 100000.
Richard Stuart, colored, is in Jail a!
Shreveport charged with killing his wife.
The residence ande kitchen of DR.. Pollard,
at Vienna, Lincoln parish were destroyed
by fire.
Harry Johnson, colored, was killed by
lightning while ploughing in a field near
Colfax.
The insurance companies have paid st11,-
92a % for losses by the recent fire at
Monroe.
Noah Jackson, colored, has been convic-
ted of murder for killing his wife in East
Carroll parish.
John Thomas, blind pauper, fell from
his boat into Indian bayou, Avoyelles parish
and was drowned.
Robert Kissack, aged years, died under
anooak tree at New Iberia while under the
influence of liquor.
The people of Minden voted unanimously
IN favor Of five-mills tax to aid the con-
struction of the Minden tap railway.
An armed crowd broke into the Vernon
parish Jail and released two men named
Barnard, charged with murder and arson.
Henry Hardin, colored, was shot by
Orange Benjamin while resisting arrest in
Rapides parish, and died from the wound.
A Shreveport boy named Eddie Morris
overturned a carboy of diluted sulphuric
acid and had his feet quite severely burned.
6-year-old son of Mr.. d. w. Adams of
Webster parish fell into kettle of boiling
soap and was fatally scalded, dying next
day.
There have been two cases of small pox
in st. Francisville, and both were fatal.
Clinton has had ten cases and only one
death.
Mrs. Geo. w. Woodland committed sui
eide at Omega, Madison parish, by shooting
herself. The incentive to the decd is I'M
known.
Paul Knothe, a destitute German, died in |
the New Iberia Jail, where he had been given
lodging and medical attendance by the
town authorities.
Jack Kennedy stabbed and killed E. V.
Brock in Franklin parish and made his es-
cape. The men had been drinking and
quarreled about horse.
Mr.. Landrum, manager of farm near
Campte, Natchitoches parish, fired his pis-
tol at a crow and killed colored man at
work ip an adjacent field.
VIM. Brooks, colored brute, shot and
killed his wife at Moroland station, Rapides
parish, and was lodged in jail at Alexandria.
Brooks was whipping the woman.
Jos. Baham was waylayed and assassina-
ted IN Livingston parish, making the sixth
man thus killed within q radius of twenty
miles during the period OF two months.
Richmond Harris, colored prisoner
under sentence of one years confinement
III the penitentiary, broke out of the Grant
parish jail He was assisted from the out
side.
Ellen Baird, a colored woman living in
Union parish whose mind has been unsound,
cut her throat with her husbands pocket |
knife, lntlicting a serious but not fatal
Henry Davis cut George Rose with a razor !
N quarrel over game of cards at Lis V
more, Concordia parish. The wounds :
hreaten to result fatally. Davis made his
escape.
Misses Lucy and Regina Bernos, aged IS
md Is years, were drowned in the river in S
Plaquemines parish, while wading in the
water. They were from New Orleans and
we're visiting relatives in Plaquemines.
Mrs. Grayle Mclaughlin, an old and re- $.
pectable white lady, was outraged and
'eaten to death at Sinnotts Station on the
Texas and Pacific railroad by Negro who &
committed another crime of
he same nature and was captured near
Shreveport. a.
colored child set fire to an awning at
he residence of its parents in Morgan
lily. The mother, who was nursing her !"
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aby put the infant down on the gallery Fl
nd tore the burning awning from its foot
ags. Unfortunately the awning fell upon >;
ne baby, burning it so badly that it died in n,
xo hours. pc
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