The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1906-10-27
THE STATE.
Items Of Interest Culled From the
Louisiana Press.
steamer II. NJ. Carter, Loaded with Cotton,
Sinks in Red River-Fast Train ON
Southern Pacific Railroad
Wrecked at Boutte.

| Ike Bergman, a negro, was legally
executed at Shreveport for murder.
Because of lack of funds, the re-
search work of the Gulf Biologic
Station will be curtailed.
James Gebert, president of the Peo-
ple,s National Bank of New Iberia,
died at the age Of 53 years.
James Little, a locomotive engineer
Of McDonoghville, was murdered at
Ferriday by unknown parties.
Emma Williams, a negress. is in
jail at Lake Charles, charged with
numbering her two young children.
Miss Annie Evans, Of Trenton.
Ouachita parish, shot and fatally
wounded herself with suicidal intent.
A site for Centenary College was
selected at Shreveport by the Metho-
dist committee appointed for that pur-
pose.
A steamship line connecting New
Orleans with South and Central Amer
erican ports will probably be estab-
lished.
Mrs. Mary Jane Hickey was burned
to death at her home in New Orleans
as the result of the explosion of an
oil lamp.
John Byers, a white man suspected
OF being an escaped convict from the
Tennessee state penitentiary, was ar
rested at Cheneyville.
William Brown, well-known young
citizen of New Iberia, accidentally
shot and killed himself while toying
with an "unloaded" revolver.
Bud Caron and Hines Hughes, con-
victed of numbering E. H. MeClendon
at Amite City, were sentenced to life
Imprisonment in the state penitentiary.
James and John Bryant were placed
in jail at Natchitoches on the charge
Of shooting and dangerously wounding
their brother-in-law John NJ. Dennis.
A. J. Hadnot was instantly killed
and Robert NJ. Moore fatally wounded
in pistol duel following a poker
game at Hadnot's place of business in
Colfax.
Fire at Winfield destroyed a res
taurant, lodging house and three
other buildings. Several volunteer
fremen were injured while fighting
the flames.
G. T. Miller, supposed to be plum
Der from Tulsa, I. T., fell beneath the
wheels while stealing a ride on .
freight train near Lake Charles and
was cut to fragments.
A north bound passenger train on
the Texas and Pacific Railroad was
wrecked at Dixie Station, Caddo par
ish, by running into an open switch.
One passenger and two trainmen were
seriously injured.
Charles Kern, o white man, was
shot and probably fatally wounded in
a house OF ill-fame at Lake Charles
during an altercation with 3 negress.
The woman made her escape and has
not yet been appFehended.
The steamer II. NJ. Carter, with
cargo of cotton, struck a a snag and
sunk in the Red River at Saline Point,
near Marksville. The vessel went
down in about six feet of water, and
can probably be raised with little diff
feulty.
The Sunset Limited, y fast passen-
ger train on the Southern Pacific
was wrecked at Boutte
while running at rate of fifty miles
an hour. No lives were lost, but moro
than a score OF passengers were in
iured, some Of them seriously.
Galley Nelson, a negro charged with
assaulting young colored
girl living at Mer Rouge, was re-
moved to Monroe for safe keeping.
A determined attempt to lynch Nelson
was made by mob composed OF
members of his own race, and the
prisoner was rescued with dficulby.