St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1906-09-29
news FROM ALL
over The STATE.
DIabOlleaI Attempt TO Outrage and Murder
Mrs. Howell BY Negro.
TAXES VOTED FOR SCHOOL HOUSES.
Several Louisiana Towns to be Connected by
Electric RailWays.-IRcrOase Of
Assessments.

Winnsboro has just voted a tax tt
build $4,000 school house.
The Knights of Columbus Of New
Orleans will build a 100000 temple
New Orleans policemen are nc
4 longer allowed to smoke while on duty
Hilton Jackson received life sen.
tence for criminal assault at Marks
vile last Monday.
1t is announced that SO light is the
criminal docket in Lafayette parish
that two weeks term will clear it.
Marshal, Texas, will be supplied
with natural gas from the Louisiana
gas wells near Shreveport.
Mrs. Mary Paletou was fatally
burned in New Orleans by the explo-
sion of gasoline stove.
Lake Providence carried a $4,000
special tax for the erection of a
school building to cost that amount.
Natural gas was found while bor-
ing an artesian well for the new
Atheneaum, in New Orleans.
State Institute Conductor Keeney
has reed teachers institute
for Marksville on November 19.
\ The assessment of st. Martin par
Dish for 1906 is $2,,ao9,5oo, an in
srease Of $184,893 over last year.
The Louisiana State Laid Office at
Baton Rouge has adopted the Sippli-
fed Spelling.
The assessment rolls Of Lafayette,
just filed, are: For 1906, $4. .872, ,260;
\ 1905, $4, 145, 1856, showing an increase
Of $726,274.
4 While coaling at Vidalia, La, last
Monday, a locomotive exploded and
fatally injured three and slightly in
jured three men.
The contract for a two story brick
building for the Alexandria Town
Talk was let last week. 1t is to cost
$500.
Arthur ]. Desmond, the well-known
minute clerk of Section B, of the
Criminal Court of New Orleans, died
on Thursday.
The Battalion Washington Artillery
of New Orleans has decided not to
consider the matter of re-entering the
State service for another year at
least.
A $500,000 company, backed by
New Orleans capital, has been organ
lied to build electric roads connect
ing New iberia, Franklin, Lafayette,
Abbeville and st. Martinville.
Ben H. Bass, a saloon keeper of
Alexandria, committed suicide by
shooting himself through the head.
He was from Texas, and had lived in
Alexandria for the past three years.
The citizens Of Morgan City have
portested against the sale of the
Quarantine Station at the mouth of
Mississippi by the State of Louisiana
to the Federal Government.
Gathering shells for button manu-
facture is a new industry at Bunker
Hill, on the Ouachita River, in Louis
lana. Specially built barges are be-
ling made for the purpose Of bringing
Ahem to market.
Company H., Louisiana State
tional Guard, Of Alexandria, has
n mustered out Of the States
ice, presumably for the lack Of
bers willing to serve as officers.
her organization is contemplated
lat place.
district Attorney Wax, of East
Ton Rouge parish, has filed al
riendly' suit against that parish to
be the police jury to pay his
tomary fee Of $40 for interdictions.
police jury, although it had paid
other district attorneys, refused
lay it to him.
is confidently expected that over
hundred thousand people viii at
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