The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1906-10-20
AROUND THE STATE.
Items OF Interest Culled From the
Louisiana Press.
wife Murderer Reprieved-Cotton Gin
Burned-yioIator of Poolroom Law
Fined and Sentenced to Three
Months Imprisonment.

Almost %, 900 children are attending
the New Orleans public schools.
Stave workers in New Orleans struch
for higher wages and recognition o.
their union.
The state board of health lifted tbs
quarantine against Central American
ports last Tuesday.
The Southern Pacific Railroad es'
tablished q land and immigration OF.
fee in New Orleans.
The town council Of New Iberia
adopted an ordinance prohibiting
skating on sidewalks.
The grand jury OF Tangipahoa par.
ish recommended that the retail liquor
license be increased to $500.
A fine new motor-boat belonging to
the Pelican Lake Oyster and Packing
Company was destroyed by fire al
Houma.
The liauidators of the#defunct Mer-
chants and Farmers Bank, of Shreve-
port, have declared a dividend of 223
per cent.
The cotton gin on A. Wilbert's
Sons Dunboyne plantation, Iberville
parish, was destroyed by fire, entail.
ing loss of $4,000.
Five hundred cases Of spoiled con-
densed milk were discovered in vari-
Gus New Orleans groceries by officials
of the city board of health.
The first annual convention of the
Louisiana State Firefnen s IA Associ ation
was held at Gretna. Thibodaux was
selected as the next place OF meeting
Covington taxpayers voted in favor
of a proposition to issue bonds to the
amount of s25, 900 for the purpose oi
erecting central high school build
ing.
The ladies of Baton Rouge have in,
augurated a movement to rid thai
city OF negro 1oafers by means of {
stricter enforcement of the vagranc5
laws.
D. B. Hudson will contest the nomi
nation of Fl. e. Estorge for membei
of the state board Of equalization
from the seventh congressional dis
trict.
Congressman Jos. Ransdell, O
Louisiana, delivered an address a
the annual convention of the Missis
sippi River Improvement Association
Ia Minneapolis.
II. d. ("Curley'') Brown was sen
fenced to serve three months in jal
and pay fine of $500 for operating {
poolroom at New Orleans in violation
Of the Hunsicker law.
W. H. Moody, a negro, shot ane
probably fatally wounded his para
nour, Maggie Stevenson, at Monroe
and then, turning the weapon upor
himself, blew out his brains.
Prof. w. S. Lafargue was appointed
uperintendent of public education il
Lafourche parish, succeeding Hon
Thomas A. Badeaux, who resigned a
the request of the parish school board
J. W. Boyett. Jr., secretary ane
treasurer of the Louisiana Farmers
Union, has moved his Office and head
quarters from Tannehill TO Winfield
| The organization is said to have
| &c. 900 mem bers in this state.
Ryan Henderson and w. L. Wo
mack, charged with completely in ths
| murder of Jesse Brown, merchant o
Girard, for which crime Robert T
Rogers was lynched at Tallulah on th'
18th Of last May, were brought te
trial before the district court a
| Monroe.
Upon the recommendation OF tn,
board OF pardons. Gov. Blanchard
has granted a respite to Elius Blaneh
ard, young white man who was e
have been hanged at St. Martinvill
yesterday in legal expiation of tn
crime Of numbering his wife. Th
board of pardons wishes to make
fuller investigation into the merits o
| the case.
|