The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1886-04-10
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STATE. NEWS.
c,ibb;asss and Cnliinss FROM the Nswspa
psrs of Louisiana.
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Webster parish had snow, April.
Shreveport il to be lighted by electricity
! 5000 gallon oil tank is to b erected
N Monroe.
A large volt was killed in ward ten, Co
sumbia parish.
4 poss-offise has been established at Pros
pecs, Sabine parish.
Jeannerette ulaims to have q .7eritable
wild man captured at Lake Savage.
Isaac Bird OF Vidalia il in hoe for thu
murder of John Stepheson. Both colorsd
Five prisoners, Of whom three are muir.
derers, have escaped from she Shrevs.
port Jail.
freight train went through 4hs trestle.
work near Mgerville, demolishing two Of
the cars
A Negro named Kendall Clark stabbed
and killed another named Howard, in Ten
sas parish - 50
A movement is on foot in Congress to
extinauish the debt due by the Worlds Ex-
position, ssl.& ~ 4
The Darnsn sugar.1,ouse, in st. Mary
parish, lately destroyed By IRE, will soon
be rebuilt
The dwelling house of Mr.. ]. NJ. Lee. ST.,
Of Farmerville, was recently burelarized Of
over $1,000. ;s'5
Mrs.. Willie A. Hedepeth,. an aged widow
of Jackson parish, committed suicide BY
taking poisson.
4 steamboat lately delivered 100, 600 sacks
OF Missouri corn and $500 boxes Of CHICAGO
lneatsat Monroe.
MI. J. D. Cunningham of TanQipahoa
parish made the FIRST shipment Of straw
bsrriesto Chicago. 49, p 8
Tom aarris, colored, of Shreveport, is
to be tried for the brutal murder Of his Ak.
ycarold nephew. ~ III
Mr. Labat Of Yerrebonne, fell into Bavou
Tsrrebonne, losing valuable horse BY
drowning and 1924 in cash.
The golden spike in the track of the N.
r 4. and I, +. r. has been driven at a
point in Ooncordia parish.
Ths lease Of the ferry across the Missis.
sippi river at Plaqusmine has been. so,d
for $40 for ths current year.. s..a
The little daughter ofMr. Cal. tColyin of
huston fractured her arm in two place. bv
falling from her fathers gallery.
Leonard Hughes OF Amite CITY shot
Lewis Carrier through the abdomen with a
pistol. he didn't know it was loaded,
Mike Johnson, wanted in the parish Of
81 Mary, on charge Of shooting with in
cent to kill, .aas been arrested in Houmas.
Isaac Taylor, colored, residing nine miles
from Shreveport, was bitten ON the little
niger BY rattlesnake while liftinga log.
young man numed Schumway, aged p
years, eloped from Baton Rouge with a
young girl named Chichester, who was only
Ii. II
9udang from present indications. the
oose'rer thinks all the orange trees in
Pointe-a-la.H ache combined will not ho.-
100 oranges.
abraham Lincoln Post. Grand Arm, ~
the Republic, of Denver, Col, has for
VaFoed contribution to the Baton Rouge
Confederate monument.
a'arshail Davis Of Algiers, during a
drunken spell, stabbed his wife. a servant
s,ri' and an interfering stranger, with A
pocket knife, none fatally.
a piece Of plank fell from the steenle ~
the nov government building at shreyeport
striking George Thomas, colored. on the
arm and nearly severing it.
Mr. Adolph ]. Lafargue, editor Of the
MarksviIle Bulletin, has been ANNOUNCED
Clerk OF the Twelfth Judicial District Court
for the parish Of Avoyelles.
Kew John East, Baptist minister "a.
fio'ng IN the fourth ward of East Baton
hoage parish, while at work on the roof NJ
MS house, slipped and fol- to the oround
breaking his neck.
Inc storm OF Marsh 26 blew down a con.
siderable lot Of fencing in Point Coup4e.
andmovsd the purgsry "a Mr.. Loris,s plan
sation ilvs or six Test from ito Foundation.
causing $4,000 worth Of damage.
AN attempt 10 assassinats Henriette Smith
O Shreveport was made BY three colored
men, because she g carried tales tn the
white folks" The woman is lying in 4 crit
zeal condition from aunshot vonnd
posse Of sitisens, including .ava,.,
boys, waylaid n couple OF horse thieye, a
Natchitoohes parish, and general scrim
mage ensued in which ono Of the thieves
ana two OF the stolen horses were killed
ana the other rascal fatally wounded.
recent nFes in tns parishes DESTROYED all
o. the houses and cabins on the Foster
place, 1ensas; gin of Mr.. H. r. Ford. Ayov.
e.ies' and the post-ofics and store Of Mr.
t. K. Mossles, Union psriah, Including the
mall stamps. envelopes and Office fixtures
Inc steamer Mary Lewis sunk in Bavou
Ieche, near Psttersonvilie, drowning the
second engineer and I colored cook. A
few hours latter, almost at the same anot
che steamer E. A. Barmo,e exploded her
boilers, scalding six deck bends and drown
ing four. 7
A New iberia infde; who posted blasphe. !
nous utterances about religion on 4 larra
blackboard. had the satisfaction Of sea;n, /
under his expressions a placard, two bv
three fest in dimensions, which bore the |
following" Christians Of all denom;na- |
tions, boycott that insulter." I
nave pad nasal caisrsl for ton years 90
oso there were great sores in my nose and one
place hnd eaten through 7 cok Elx,. r-..