The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1886-03-27
STATE NEWS.


Lake Charles is to have $500 Episco-
pal church.
A new Catholic church is to be erected in
New Iberia.
Grant parish has nearly $500 of school
money on hand.
Monroe is to have government building
costing 100000.
:" The Elton levee in East Carroll is very
weak and insecure.
The new government building at Shreve-
port has been completed.
A Grand Coteau Nimrod killed 108 dozen
birds in three days hunt.
The work of building the charity hospi-
tai at Alexandria has begun.
The last term of the Circuit Court at
Farmerville occupied one hour,
Mount Lebanon College, Bienville par
jsh, has been destroyed by fire.
The Iberville Democrat has opened sub
scription list for Mrs. Hancock.
Mr.. Tom Jeffries of Thibodaux has been
painfully injured by runaway horse.
Hon. T. 8. Fontenot of st. Landry has
resigned his position as State Senator.
Cornelius Wheeler of West Baton Rouge
accidentally shot himself while out hunt
ing. =m..u.
Paul Moss of Calcasieu accidentally
shot himself through the foot, while hunt
ing.
Mrs. Larey of Iberia, who was thrown
from buggy, has died Of fracture of the
skull.
Mr.. JAS. Il. Stephenson Of DeSoto parish
shot a Negro on the Dickson place in self
defense.
A German mill hand named Mayors fell
from a skiR into Berwick bay and was
drowned.
Mr.. A. G.. Belden of East Carroll died
from an overdose of morphine, taken by
accident.
Mr.. b. Didisr's son was shot in the foot,
at Pointe Coupee parish, and will lose ono
of his toes.
John Smith shot and killed Robert Scott,
near Alexandria, during dispute about
their wives.
houses destroyed by fire within twelve hours
Of each other.
The Police Jury Of st. Mary have re-
fused to order an election on the question
of prohibition.
The body of John Smith, lately drowned,
was found by the mail boat Ramos in Big
Lake, Calcasieu parish.
Mrs. e. A. Willard Of Grand Coteau has
donated to the Catholic church of that vii
lage bell costing $1,000.
A Concordia parish man recently killed
panther nins feet long, that was swimming
across the Mississippi river.
Not single vote was cast against the
ten mill tax proposed by the Madison
Police jury for leyee purposes.
Ambrose Lejeuno committed suicide at
Frugee Point, st. Landry parish, by blow
ing out his brains with shotgun.
Thomas Walter, colored, WAS shot in the
left shoulder bys colo1ad man named John
Smith, during difficulty at Slidell.
An attempt was made to rob and burn
Mr. John A. Moore's drug store in Monroe.
Clarendon is to have high school.
Henry Young, colored, of Baton Rouge
was asphyxiated by inhaling gas escaping
from street pipe he was at work on.
Negro incarcerated in the st. Martins
vile Jail made good his escape by cutting
through the floor with his pocket knife.
Mr.. Hugh Hayes living few miles west
of Arcadia, was knocked from his horse
and beaten to death by Mr.. John White.
The editor Of the New Iberia Enterprise
paid the Police Jury bonus of $25 to be
allowed the parish printing contract for
1886.
Mr.. P. L. Cox Of Rapoleonyille frac
tured his thigh bone by falling on his bug
gy wheel while removing the vehicle from
the carriage house.
Mr.. W. ". Vance Of Rossier was noni-
mated ct the Senatorial Convention held in
Minden, to fill the vacancy caused By the
resignation of Hon. J. G. VANCE.
A Mrs. Otto Of Monros committed sui
eide because Negro man reported he had
keen criminally intimate with her. Her
aged mother died of grief the same MON
ing.
J. Frank Alien, the assistant manager of the |
plantation, Terrebonne par
;sh, who has been ON trial for killing Albert |
Williams, coiored. has been honorably dis /
charged.