The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1906-09-08
THE STATE.
Items OF Interest Culled From the
Louisiana Press.
Louisiana Planters to Manufacture Dena'
tured Alcohol from Molasses Resid-
uum-White Man Killed by
Negroes at Powhattan.

A shortage Of at least 20 per cent is
predicted in the Louisiana sugar crop
of 1906 OF.
The police jury OF Pointe Coupee
parish increased the retail liquor IL
cense from 500 to $1,000 per annum.
The French government will estab-
lish a chamber of commerce at New
Orleans for the purpose of facilitating
trade.
New Orleans will be placed upon the
same basis as New York in the matter
Of through freight tariffs from the east
to Colon, Panama.
The store, stock of merch handise and
residence of j. M. Simpson, at Alex
andria, were totally destroyed by fire,
inaicting a loss of $4,000.
The ST. Mary Bank of Franklin IL
quidated its affairs and retired from
business. being succeeded by the ST.
Mary Bank and Trust Company.
The contract was awarded for the
construction of two schoolhonses in
the eastern and western limits OF the
town of New Iberia at a cost of S22,
900.
Approximately $1,000 tons Of sui
phur were shipped from the port OF
New Orleans during the past week, all
OF it being the product OF Louisiana
mines.
The board of commissioners of the
fifth Louisiana levee district has Of
fered reward of SO cents for every
kingfsher killed on or near the public
Ieyees in that district.
The executive committee of the Lou
isiana crop pest commission removed
the quar- antine against cotton-seed
and cotton-seed hulIs shipped from
Weevil-infested districts.
Prominent sugar planters of this
state are behind movement TO estab-
lish plants for the manufacture of de-
natured alcohol from the molasses
residuum Of sugar refineries.
A. B. Wheeler, Of New Orleans, was
elected president of the proposed New
Orleans, Natehez and Pacific Railway
Company, and W. +. Poitevenb, also
OF New Orleans, was chosen vice pres
ident.
z. T. Tinker, president of the Secur-
ity Brewing Co., announced that a
company has been formed for the pur-
pose of establishing at New Orleans
an immense denatured alcohol manu-
factory.
The oil well being bored by the
Guffey Petroleum Company on Oakley
plantation, in the parish of Assump-
tion, has reached depth of 1900 feet.
At last reports the drill was working
through rock.
The municipal waterworks system
at Boyce was tested il the presence Of
Sol. BloodWorth, secretary Of the
Louisiana Fire Prevention Bureau,
and proved sufficiently adequate to
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warrant the placing Of the town in the
third-class list.
DIR. W. q. Dalrymple, head of the
department. of veterinary science at the
Louisiana State University, was re-
quested to ofheiaue as judge of beef
cattle at the Kentucky state fair, but
owing to d stress of other duties, was
compelled to decline the honor.
Stephen Hart, a Well-known eitizer
of Powhattan, Natchitoehes parish.
was shot and fatally wounded by Cole
and Duncan Howard. negro brothers
because he resented an insult which
Cole Howard is alleged to have Of
fered Mrs. Hart. The negroes made
their escape, but Duncan Howard ant
an aecomplice, Sam Green, were sub
sequently arrested and transferred te
Shreveport for safekeeping. Mr.. Har
died from the effects of his wound!
the day after the shooting.