The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1905-01-14
DoNALDsoNyILLE LA, SATURDAY JANUARY 1906.
AROUND THE STATE.
Items Of Interest Gulled From the
Louisiana Press,
lost Hunters Live on Raw Duck Flesh,
Sailing Trip Ends In Tragedy-Pen-
ltentiary Board Acquires An
other Plantation.

| The National League of Commission
Merchants held its annual convention
in New Orleans.
A New York capitalist is visitin,
/ Alexandria with a view Of interesting
the citizens in furniture factory.
The French cruiser Duplex, with
Admiral Lapeyrere on board, arrived
at New Orleans for a months stay.
| John T. Lawrence, who killed Thos
E. David at Pineville on Dec. 80, was
| admitted to bail in the sum of $500.
Rev. DR.. Dacus, minister seventy
years old, was struck by a passenger
train at Abbeville and instantly killed
The planning mill of the Fred Dubach
Lumber Co., at Dubach, was totally
destroyed by fire, infiicting a loss OF
$50, 900.
Fire destroyed ]. NJ. Bergeron's
store in the upper part OF Ibervil1e
parish. The loss is fixed at $4,000, with
S25O0 insurance.
"A 1lO1Shs hLOSh OSCuEAGo Ou Tile
Texas and Pacific road at Luling and
two cars loaded with sugar were com
pletely demolished.
Monch Robinson, a negro, was shot
and killed by j. A. Montgomery, a
merchant of Benton as the result Of a
dispute over settlement.
Emile Volringer. Carl Schum acker
and Michael Klein we're drowned in
Lake Pontchartrain by the capsizing
of their sailing boat of Spanish Fort.
Lake Charles is considering the
question of municipal ownership of
an electric light and waterWorks plant
and may spend $4,000 in installing a
system.
John Marks, of Assumption, was
elected attorney Of the Atchafa1ya
levee board to fill the vacancy caused
by the death of Louis Lozano, OF Iber-
vile.
Carlo Archie, an aged Italian Ia
borer on the plantation of N. S..
Dougherty, in East Baton Rouge par
ish, committed suicide by shooting
himself in the head.
The Lake Charles Ice, Light and
W aterWorks Company purchased the
street railway in that city for the sum
of S20,o 900 and will convert it into an
electric line in the near future.
Only two saloons took out licenses
at Boyce for the year 1905, owing to
the increase of the liquor tax to $4,000.
Last year the license was 800 and
eight saloons were in operation.
The board Of control OF the state
penitentiary has purch ased the Oakley
in the parish of Ibervil1e,
and part of the states convict labor
will be employed in the cultivation of
5he tr act.
L. sokolosky & Co.'s cotton gin at
Vermilion parish, was de-
stroyed by fire, together with large
amount OF unginned cotton. The loss
IS estimated at $4,000, with insurance
10 the amount OF S2500.
The artesian we'll bored on the |
grounds of the state insane asylum as |
Pineville reached a depth of 2027 feet |
and commenced to hoW salt water, gas
and Oil. A gallon of the water was
and yielded one-fourth of |
q pound of salt.
Three citizens of Crowley visited |
Grand Lake on duck hunt and lost |
heir bearings, remaining In the |
marshes for nearly a week. During this |
lime they subsisted on the raw flesh OF |
TWO ducks. When rescued the party |
we're on the verge of exhaustion and |
1ad abandoned all hope Of ever being |
sound.