The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1906-08-25
AROUND THE STATE.
Items Of Interest," Gulled From the
Louisiana Press.
Reclamation of vast Maurepas swamps
Prof Observation-Disclosures Fireman
Meets Tragic Death-NeW
State Bank Exami-
ner Appointed.
Fire at Manifest, Catahoula parish,

Fire at Manifest, Catahoula parish,
caused a loss of $4,000.
A bank has been organized at
Madisonyille and will open for busi-
ness Sept. "a.
w. L. Young, Of Shreveport, was
appointed state bank examiner to suo.
ceed L. E. Thomas, Resigned.
The Commercial Bank and Trust
Company was organized at Franklin
with a capital stock. OF 800, 900.
The capital stock Of the Fuqua Hard
ware Company, Of Baton Rouge, was
increased from S25, 600 to $780, 900.
Ruston will tender a forty acre site
for the proposed Methodist orphan
age, and hopes to secure the institu-
tion.
The reclamation of the vast Maure-
pas swamp is projected by a party
of Louisiana lumber men and capital
lists.
The annual convention of the South
ern Florists Association will be held
at New Orleans on the 18th of Novem-
ber
Mrs. L. H. Smith dropped dead at
her home in Jennings when informed
that her son, Wesley, had been killed
in Seattle, W ash.
Major Dawson "A. Blanch ard, dis
tinguished Confederate veteran and
native of New Orleans, died at his
home in that city.
AS the result of competition, the price
of ice at Covington has been reduced
from so cents to as low as Is cents per
hundred pounds.
Hundreds of acres of late rice in the
eastern portion Of Acadia and Ver-
million parishes are being ravaged by
the rice maggot.
The town of Washington voted a
three-mill, tive-year tax for the pur-
pose of improving the public school
building at that place.
While laying a new sidewalk in
front of his residence in Lake Charles,
j. N. Prater unearthed handsome
diamond ring Yaft1ed at $3.50.
Rufus Leblanc, o l9-year-old white
boy weighing 200 pounds, died sud-
denly at his brothers. home in .Houma
from an attack of heart failure.
James Hunter, a disreputable white
man, was shot and Instantly killed by.
Policeman Charles Carpenter, at
Shreveport, while resisting arrest.
Simon Dover merch ant ofZwolle,
Sabine parish, has fled a.petition ii
voluntary bankruptcy, placing his
liabilities at S12, 903.72, with assets to
the amount of 1926.
The boil weevil has made its appear
ance in the vicinity of Ringgold, but
as cotton is already commencing to
open comparatively little damage will
be caused by the destructive pest.
J. G. Trimble, president Of the
Farmerville State Bank, was elected
president of the Union Bank and
Trust Company, recently organized at
Monroe with capital of $10O, 900.
The death sentence of Frank Doug
las, a negro convicted of numbering
colored woman at Natchitoches,
was commuted to life Imprisonment on
the recommend alton of the state board
of pardons.
II. v. Nelly, representing the Baton
Rouge-New Orleans Electric Railway
Company, announced that rights-of
way had been secured through a large
portion of the territory to be traversed
by the proposed line.
Following a quarrel over trivial
matter, G. T. Jones and A. S. Eng
land fought duel in front of Jones
store at Rayyille, which resulted Ia
England being shot in the abdomen.
| There is but little hope of his recovery.
Charles Clark, a fireman on the
Kansas City Southern Railroad,
leaned too far out Of his cab and was
struck on the head by mail crane at
Mccoy, Caddo parish, receiving in
iuries which will probably cause his
death.
Attorney General Walter Guion
called on New Orleans real estate auc.
tioneers to pay to the Charity Hospital
commission of one-half of one per
cent on all private sales of real estate
made by them within the past fourteen
years.
Arthur H. Howell, a biological ex.
pert in the employ Of the federal de-
partment Of agriculture, will conduct
extensive experiments in Louisiana
| and Texas for the purpose of ascer.
tanning what species of birds are IN
strumental in the destruction Of eottor
boil weegils.