The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1906-12-15
a, SATURDAY, DECEMBER Is. 1906.
AROUND THE STATE.
Items of Interest Culled From the
Louisiana Press.
Lake Charles Council Establishes Prece
dent in Municipal Legislation in
Louisiana-White Criminal
Assanlter Executed.

A strike OF street railway employees
occurred at Monroe.
The annual state conference of the
Methodist church was held at Shreve.
port.
Small oil mills in Louisiana are
closing down because of scarcity OF
tank cars.
The town council of Lecompte in
creased the retail liquor license from
$1,000 to s2250.
A negro couple were mysteriously
murdered while asleep in their cabin
| at GaryyiIle.
Will Singleton, a negro who killed
a fellow-black at Bougere recently,
was arrested at Vieksburg, Miss.
A very stringent aud comprehensive
nti-gambling ordinance was adopted
by the town council of Abbeville.
Weather experts are OF the opinion
that the pending winter will be a COM
paratively warm one in this section.
The board of curators of the Louisi-
ana state museum organized and took
charge of the property of the museum.
The North Louisiana Cotton Plant
ers' Association, in session at Shreve-
port, decided to boycott the cotton oil
trust.
A Panama merchant declared that
supplies for the isthmus could be pur-
chased much cheaper in New Orleans
than in New York.
Representative A. F. Pujo will in
troduee several bills in the national
congress providing for the improve
ment of Louisiana waterways.
An agricultural expert connected
with the Rock Island Railroad will
tour Louisiana and deliver practical
lectures on diversifcation.
Five arrests were made at Slaughter
in connection with the theft of several
bales of cotton from freight cars on
the Mississippi Valley Railroad.
An attempt was made to wreck a
Southern Pacific passenger train be-
tween Patterson and Berwick by piling
a number Of erossties on the track.
The Georgetown Lumber Company
will shortly remove its plant to Tio-
ga, having exhausted the timber
supply in the vicinity of Georgetown.
The large freight and passenger
depot Of the Louisiana and Arkansas
Railroad at Winfield was destroyed
by fire, causing loss of several
thousand dollars.
"a. o. Sharpe, a veteran bridge
builder, fell from a bridge in course
Of construction at Shreveport and
sustained injuries which caused his
death within few hours.
Thomas Brady, the white man con-
vieted OF criminally assaulting Miss
Laura W Warren near Lecompte, Ra-
pides parish, was hanged at Alexan-
dria Friday of last week.
Owing to the neglect of the Demo-
cratic executive committee. primary
may not be held in Rapides parish for
the purpose of selecting a candidate
for appellate judge.
Ned Ganson, the young son of Mr..
and Mrs. Frank Ganson, was caught
in the machinery of d. P. Veazle's
sawmill and ginnery at Palmetto, re-
ceiving injuries which resulted in his
death.
Mrs. Abraham kaufman, wife of a
well-known merchant of Rosedale, at
tempted to commit suicide by shooting
herself in the breast with revolver.
Mrs. kaufman is native OF Kentucky
and has been married only two months.
The common council of Lake Charles
established a precedent in municipal
legislation in Louisiana by enaeting
an ordinance making it unlawful to
keep woman for immoral purposes
within the city limits, and prescribing
heavy penalties therefor.
A rice farmer of Galcasieu parish
entered suit against the North Ameri-
can Land and Timber Company. owners
Of the Farmers Canal. for damages
amounting to SIC, 1928, alleging that
his crop was almost ruined because OF
the failure OF the defendant company
TO supply the proper amount of water
during the irrigating season.