St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1906-12-08
NEWS FROM ALL
OVER THE STATE.
Sad Death of Jack kbbe--Ladies Progressive League
at Hammond--Monroe Hotel Goes on A
''White Basis"--Other News.

exercises throughout the State las
Sunday.
/ A Presbyterian church was organ
lied at Welsh, with a membership O
twenty-six.
/ The custom of giving lagniappe vii
| be abolished in New Orleans after
January lst.
The Elks of New Orleans distri.
buted 1900 baskets to the poor OF
Thanksgiving.
Archbishop Blenk has declared that
all Catholics are bound to favor high
license for saloons.
Lafayette parish recently purchased
two blood hounds, and sent them to
the State penitentiary to be trained.
A movement for S35, 900 school
building is well ON foot at Gueydan.
The population Of the town is under
1900.
R. A. Murff, a prominent citizen
living near Crowley, committed sui
eide by blowing his brains out with a
pistol.
Bookmakers are said to have lost a
hundred thousand dollars the first
week of the. winter racing in New
Orleans.
Frank Gotch, the champion wrest-
ler of America, was defeated by Fred
Beell, of Wisconsin, at New Orleans
last Friday.
The population of the Louisiana
State penitentiary, at the close Of the
month of November, numbered exactly
seventeen hundred.
1t is proposed for the town of Nat
chitoches to buy the parish court
house and convert it into city hall,
the parish to build a new edifee.
The Baton Rouge Sugar Refinery
has gone into the hands of areceiver,
with liabilities Of $4,000. Poor
crops for the season are blamed.
A party of English spinners made
tour of Louisiana last week, with
the object of inspecting cotton farms
on which they propose to raise their
own cotton.
The Pioneer, at Napoleonville, is
responsible for the statement that
Donaldsonyille, Napoleonville and Thi-
bodaux viii soon be connected by an
electric railway.
The ladies of Hammond have or
ganized an Improvement League, with
the object in view of helping the men
folk boom the country. No wonder
Hammond is prosperous.
Curley Brown, the man who was
recently convicted of conducting
pool room in the guise of brokers'
Office in New Orleans, paid his fine
and was released from Jail.
A Baton Rouge paper started the
agitation for new State capitol, and
this has been joined in by other papers
in the State, who advocate at the
same time a change Of capital.
A Bank, with a capital stock of
$4,000, has been organized at Boga-
lusa, the new town where walks were
paved and contract for sewerage
given out before house was built.
Disguised with the worry over the
unreliability Of negro servants, the
manager of the Hotel Monroe, at Mon
roe, La. discharged them all and in
stalled exclusively white servants,
from chef down.
Police Officer Otis Poirier, Of Baton
Rouge, had both legs broken over the
ankle Sunday, in jumping from his
buggy, his horse having become un-
manageable 1t is feared amputation
viii be necessary.
The Lafayette Gazette says that
the Baton Rouge-Lafayette branch Of
the Southern Pacific will not be COM
pleted until next September, but that
trains will be running on both ends
to the swamp within four months.
The National Guard Of Louisiana
viii have three rife ranges under the
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