The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1906-09-15
AROUND THE STATE.
Items Of Interest Culled From the
Louisiana Press.
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The board of pension commissioners
will apportion the increased fund on
Sept. 25.
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cabin near Gueydan, killed one negro
and injured several others.
Miss Ida Huguenot, a New Orleans
salesgirl, committed suicide as re-
suit of a quarrel over trivial affairs.
L. E. Young, of Baylor, Calcasieu
parish, killed his housekeeper, Jane
Hudson, by beating her over the head
with a pistol.
The engine and two coaches of a Red
River Valley passenger train plunged
over a sank near Mansura, inluring
two trainmen.
John King, a Shreveport painter,
committed suicide because one OF his
legs was shorter than the other, made
SO by an accident.
The saW-mill employees strike at
Lake Charles was settled in favor of
the men, a ten-hour day and weekly
payday being granted.
President Stephens made official de-
nial that Filipino students have been
or will be entered at the Southwestern
Louisiana Industrial at Lafayette.
Lloyd Swicegood was stabbed to
death in drunken quarrel at New
Orleans, and his alleged wife, Mrs.
May Meyer, is held for the crime.
VIM. Roy, d saloon-keeper, IS in the
Opelousas jail charged with attempting
to eriminally assault Mrs. Edgene De-
zat while a guest in the Dezat home.
The Navy Department promised to
investigate the safety of the Passes,
and will doubtless send the battleship
Louisiana to New Orleans in Decem-
Der.
The killing of negro by a white
man at Cheneyville started a free-for
all fight between whites aud blacks in
which fully thirty shots were fired, but
nobody hurt
Willie Gremillion, young tele-
graph operator, is in jail at Ale1an--
dria charged with abducting Miss Nat
allie Dauzot, aged Is years, from her
home near Echo last December.
About fifty Filipino students, who
have been taking courses in Northern
universities, were refused permission
to enter Louisiana State University
on account of probable race prejudice.
The Webster parish police jury re-
fused a petition to decrease the liquor
license from $1,000 to 81, 500, and the
matter will be carried to the courts on
the ground that the present tax is pro-
hibitive.
Paul Fain, 15-year-old boy, was
stabbed and probably fatally wounded
while returning from a skating rink at
Shreveport. John Williams, a COM
panion charged with the crime, has
disappeared.
The police jury of Pointe Coupee
parish by a vote of three to one in
creased the parochial liquor license
from 5000 to $1,000. Three members OF
the body refr aimed from voting because
they were peeuniarily interested in the
sale of spirituous liquors.
By marrying Eugene Durabb, Miss
Florence Elstoo, of Plaquemines par
ish, sacrificed a fortune left by her
grandmother on condition that the
young lady would not marry Durabb.
The wedding took place on the tugboat
Underwater in the Gulf of Mexico.
Two unknown men attempted TO alb
duet Miss Carmen Gonzales from a
fashionable Coliseum street boarding
house in New Orleans after midnight
Sunday, but were foiled through the
young Iady's bravery and presence of
mind. The reason for the outrage is
unknown, and the police have been
unable to trace the daring crime.
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