The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1906-10-13
THE STATE.
Items Of interest Culled From the
Louisiana Press.
Four-day-old Boy Baby Abandoned by
Neutrality-suspicious. Increase in
Louisiana Assessments-Fa-
tai Freight Wreck.

The Houma board of aldermen in
creased the liquor license from SlOO to
$500.
The Terrebonne parish grand jury
recommended that the police jury
adopt high liquor license.
w. A. Davis and E. G. Wiley were
instantly killed by the bursting OF a
fy-wheel in a saw-mill at Kingston,
DeSoto parish.
The Winfield town council adopted
an ordinance prohibiting the opera
ton of skating Kinks and billiard and
pool halls.
Frank sveeney, the negro proprietor
of a gambling dive at Bogalusa, was
killed while resisting arrest by Deputy
Sheriff Wood.
In freight wreck on the Red River
Valley Railroad near MoreauVille one
trainman was killed and three others
injured, one seriously.
The second trial of Thomas Brady,
charged with raping Miss Laura B.
Warren, will be held at Alexandria
next Wednesday, Oct. II.
The manager of the Alexandria the
atre has announced that in future ne
gro companies will be debarred from
appearing in that playhouse.
Henry Gnssman and Arsene Sallier
were arrested at Lake Charles on a
charge of setting fire to Sbout's saw
mill, which was burned last week.
SBunkie negroes have formed law
and order league to drive from their
midst worthless men and women and
to strictly enforce the marriage laws.
Anatole Broussard, dangerous ne
gro, was shot and killed near Opelou-
sas by Elijah Fisher white farmer,
as result of an attempt at bulldozing.
The planning mill and storage sheds
Of the Benoit Lumber Company at
Watizit, Ouachita parish, were de-
stroyed by fire, entailing loss OF
S14 900.
Thomas P. Doty, assistant secretary
OF the Central Elevator and Ware
house Company, was arrested at New
Orleans on a charge OF embezzling
81 ,o37. 70.
Oscar Brunei, white farmer, COM
mitted suicide at Opelousas because he
had gambled away money derived from
the sale of a bale of cotton belonging
to widow.
B. J. Pellerin, ex-seeretary of the
Lafayette Building and Loan Associa-
tion, was convicted of embezzling $500
OF tie associations funds after q hard
legal fight.
A damage suit for s3o, 900 for alleged
defamation of character was fled by
E. F. Millard, proprietor of the Iber-
ian, against the Enterprise-Leader Co.
of New Iberia.
Well No. II of the Haywood Syndi-
cate in the Jennings field was brought
in with great gas pressure and is run
ming wild. Oil men believe a new
strata has been struck.
Members of the Avoyelles Parish
Medical Society have offered TO teach
preventive medicine in the parish pub
lie schools, and the offer is hailed
with delight by large number oi
| educators.
The total assessment of the state as
shown by the recently completed roll
lis s45e, ,271, ,270, compared with $780,
821, ,157 in 1905, an increase of s62.
450, ,l13. Three parishes Cameron,
Concordia and Tensas-shoW 9 de,
| crease.
4 lusty four -day-old boy baby, to.
gether with suit case filed with fins
baby clothing, were found on the gal.
lery Of her house by an old colored
woman living in the suburbs of Lafay.
ette. The sheriff has begun an inves
tigation, but so far no clew to the
identity Of the heartless parents has
been discovered.
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