The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1906-08-11
DoNALDsoNVIIIE, La, SATURDAY AUGUST H. 1906
AROUND THE STATE. E.
Items Of Interest culled From the
Louisiana Press.

Jennings Ice Dealer Fined for Givins
Short sgeight-state Bank Organized
at Jena-New Orleans Mint to
Resume Operations.
Blaeksmiths at Algiers organized {
union.
Affth bank may be established a
Monroe.
The New Orleans mint will shortly
be placed il operation.
Wide devastation is being caused
by the boil weevil in Natehitoches
parish.
Walter S. Berwick shot and wounded
E. D. Martin as the result of an alter.
cation at Franklin.
Negroes in Lafayette parish con.
tracted charbon through skinning
dead animals.
Rev. H. S. Brownlee, OF Jackson,
was elected president Of the Silliman
Female College at Slaughter.
j. f. Ball & Bro. S sawmill at Ball,
Rapides parish, was destroyed by fire,
entailing loss of s35, 900.
Terminals were secured at Winfield
for the fremont and Gulf Railroad,
which will be completed by Jan. ].
The police jury of West F'eliciana
parish fixed the rate Of paroehial tax
alton at mills, with no special levy.
Dan Patch and Cresceus, famous
racing horses, will probably be seen
in New Orleans during the coming
season.
The government engineers report
on the Mermentau dam states that the
embankment is not an obstruction to
navigation.
A state bank, with capital stock OF
$4,000, has been organized at Jena,
Catahoula parish, and will open for
business Oct. 1.
Henry Mcmillan, 13-year-old or
phan newsboy, was struck by a run
away horse at Shreveport and seri-
ously Injured.
Simon shoebriek, aged SO years,
was drowned in Bayou Laeombe, near
Vaudeville, while attempting to swim
across that stream.
"A Jennings ice dealer who gave one
Of his patrons short weight was con-
victed and fined II accord ance with a
municipal ordinance.
G. e. satterlee, president of the
Opelousas and Gulf Railroad, says
Louisiana and Texas will produce
record crops this year.
New Orleans shoe firms furnished a
N ajority of the shoes bought by the
government for the use of laborers in
the Panama Canal Zone.
Three white men who went to sleep
on the Louisiana and Arkansas rail
road track near Minden were struck by
a train and fatally Injured.
The school board of Living par
ish elected Prof. We. Underwood
superintendent of public education to
succeed L. 2. Covers, resigned.
Charles Pecot, town marshal of
Franklin, has arrested and placed in
Jail at that place q negro who is sup
posed to be wanted in Pottstown, Pa, !,
for murder.
The proposition to issue bonds for
the purpose of providing the town of
Opelousas with modern sewerage
system is said to be meeting with con-
siderable opposition.
DR.. L. G. Perkins, a former state
senator and Confederate army sur
geon, and ex-superintendent of the
state insane asylum at ackson, died
at his home at Norwood, aged 10 years.
Two negroes employed on the Hope
we'll plantation, near Columbia, fought
duel with rifles as the result of a
dispute about a debt of 81. One of the
belligerents was killed, and the other
badly wounded.
J. K. Roman, Of Baton Rouge, has
been awarded the eontr act for furnish
ing the badges to be presented to dele.
gates to the annual meeting of the su-
preme lodge, Knights of Pythias,
which will be held at New Orleans
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