The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1885-11-21

Frank Martin, aged q, was run over ant
killed by train on the ", 8. l. P. railroad
! near Delhi. Martin resided ut Gibsland.
One hundred feet of levee in front of th'
town Of Plaquemine has caved into tn
river and new embankment is to be built
An Indignation meeting was held at Oal
Ridge, Morehouse parish, to denounce thu
sale of liquor by druggists on prescription
Mr.. Albert Queen was caught in the cog
wheels of tho McKerall's sugar mill, neal
Verdunville, and was killed almost instant
ly.
Capt. NJ. T. Gordy, OK Sheriff of st. Mary
parish, was thrown from his buggy and
knocked insensible, but is not seriously
hurt.
Chas. H. Dozier, tho Pinevslle Constable
who shot and killed Richard Ga1fney, has
been tried on a charge of murder and &C.
quilted.
Mr.. Robert Rigs of Iberia parish has
raised sweet potato thirty-six inches in
circumference and weighing twenty-four
pounds.
The contract for building wharf and
collecting wharfage dues at Plaquemine has
been awsrded by the Town Council to Mr..
Louis Lozano.
Mrs. Martin, an old lady residing in st.
Francisville, fell from the gallery of her
residence and sustained injuries that result
cd in her death.
Turner Williams, {. colored man, was
killed on the Bodin plantation, 81. Mary
parish. by Israel Allen, also oolored, who
made his escape.
Conductor Pat McClannahan had his
right hand badly crushed while coupling
cars at Slaughter Station, on the Mississip-
pi Valley railroad.
Not satisfied with their pyrotechnical dis.
play, the people of Minden propose to have
a barbecue in celebration of the completion
of their tap railroad.
Sparks from passing train ignited cot
ton lying on the DEPOT platform at Delhi,
and fifteen bales were burned before the
fire could be extinguished.
A young man named Que, while working
in his brothers. sugar-house near Centre
vile, fell into the pit of the Ay-wheel and
was most horribly mangled.
Messrs. Hannah l. Voss, the enterprising
Baton Rooge builders, have secured the
contract for erecting the new charity hos
pital at Alexandria for $500.
A colored man named Jesse Dupree was
caught in the follower of the cotton gin on
the Ashland plantation, West Baton Rouge
parish, and almost decapitated.
Another gin accident is reported from
Midway Station, On the Clinton and Port
Hudson railroad, in which q Mr.. Butter
worth had his hand severely cut.
OF tho $1,000 that will be needed to COM
plete the work of blowing up obstructions
in Bayou Pierre, $500 has already been
subscribed by interested planters.
Louis Hatzeler, white man working at
Mr.. w. 8. Doans,l' gin, near Garland Sta
ton, St. Landry parish, had his arm and
side terribly mangled in the machinery.
H. E. Leapine, white employ6 on the
Gayoso sugar plantation, Lafourche par
ish, had his left arm 80 badly mangled by
the machinery that the limb had.to be an
putated.
A passenger coach and sleeper on the
Texas and Pacific railroad were derailed
and turned upside down into ditch near
Shreveport, severely injuring two lady pas.
sengers.
Mr.. Ohas. G. Kilbourne, young lawyer
of brilliant literary attainments, has sue.
ceeded our esteemed friend Sam. Lambert
Esq, as editor of the East Feliciana Patriot.
Democrat.
An attempt was made to assassinate Mr.
Emanuel Kaufman of Port Allen, West
Baton Rouge parish, by firing at him from
behind the levee as he was returning from
a sugar house at night.
Johnnie Brazier, aged 13, living in Madi-
sou parish, attempted to mount mule
while holding a shotgun in his hand. He
was thrown to the ground and the gun went
OF, killing him instantly.
The cotton gins of Mr.. Samuel Boggs, in
Bossier parish, of Mr.. Duncan Graham, on
Bayou Rapides, OF Mr.. Henry Gunther, in
Concordia parish, ard of DR.. W. 8. Ken.
dali, have been destroyed by fire.
Oh Kears, an escaped lunatic from the
asylum at jackson who had made his way
back to his family in East Baton Rouge
was shot and killed by his brother in law
Mr.. Walter Roberts, in self defense.
Robt. Leahy, New Orleans boy, while
starting the sugar mill on the Leighton
plantation, near Thibodaux, was caught in
the fly wheel and thrown twenty i've feet
receiving internal injuries which may prove
fatal.
An old colored man named Richmond
Watson had his arm badly crushed in the
drum of the baRasse carrier .: the South
Bend plantation, and died from the effects
of the surgical operation rendered neces
sary by the accident.
Henry Battle. an old Negro for man,
years employed on the Mary plantation, La
fourche parish, was found dead in his cabin
and upon his body were secreted notes ant
securities, indorsed by responsible parties
to the amount of 1856.
| During the fireworks exhibition at tn
celebration in Minden in honor of tn
completion of the Minden tap railroad,
rocket fell into the midst of a party of la
dies. striking Mrs. VIM. Sandlin on tn
arm and injuring her severely.
ARue.Stricken Sufferers
! Who resort to Hostetter's Stomach Bitters. ez
perience speedier and more complete relief tha