The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1906-12-08
DoNALDsoNyILLE, La, SATURDAY, DECEMBER s. 1906
AROUND THE STATE.
Items Of Interest Gulled From the
Louisiana Press.
Negro Farmer Arrested on a Charge of
Peonage-Carencro Whitecappers
Released on Bond : Bank
Organized at Boualousa.

W. p. Brown, OF New Orleans, es-
| Inmates the 1906 cotton crop at y, 340,-
900 bales.
Seventeen carloads of compressed
cotton were shipped from Opelousas
last Saturday.
The thirteenth annual conference of
the A. Nj. E. Church OF Louisiana was
held at Lake Charles.
Col. S. J. W ard, sheriff of the par
ish Of Caddo, died al his home in
Shreveport, aged Y years.
Retail grocers of New Orleans will
discontinue the custom of giving
lagniappe after Jan. 1, 1907.
Joseph w. Kibbe accidentally shot
and killed himself while hunting ducks
in the vicinity of Abbeville.
The town council of Slidell adopted
an ordinance increasing the retail IL
quor license from 5000 to $3.50.
A bank was organized at Bogalusa
and will begin business about Ian. Is
with capital stock of $50, 600.
The Consolidated Cigar and To-
baceo Company was organized at New
Orleans with capital stock OF $780,
600.
While working in the garden of his
home at Alexandria, B. NJ. Grissom
dug UP a pot containing sl358.5o in
gold.
Captain Theodore E. Ca1vit, a prom
inent citizen of Concordia parish,
died at Natehez. Miss, at the age of
Il years.
The new Southern Pacific depot at
Jennings is nearing completion and
will probably be ready for occupancy
by Jan. i.
Work on the handsome new high
school building to be erected at Lake
Providence at a cost of $50, 1000 will be-
gin in the near future.
Daniel Lowden, a native of Belgium
committed suicide at the home of his
son-in-law in. Alexandra by cutting
his throat with razor.
Harry Thomas, a negro farmer of
Taylortown, Caddo parish, was ar
rested by a deputy United States mar
shal on a charge Of peonage.
John Roth, the 19-yearold son of
j. N. Roth of Plaquemine. accidentally
shot himself while out hunting, death
resulting few hours later.
A bill providing for the erection of
a monument to Gen. John. Coffee, one
of the heroes of the battle of New Or
leans, will shortly be introduced in
the national legislature.
A mistrial resulted at Lake Charles
in the case of j, Ell. Hoffman, accused
Of asserting to the reception of bank
deposits after having knowledge OF
the, insolvency of the institution.
At a special election held in the first
ward of Pointe Coupee parish the
proposition to abolish the sale of Ii
quor was carried by a decided major
ity, and seventeen saloons will shortly
60 out Of business.
The preliminary examin alton OF the
six white men charged with numbering
negro at Carencro the night of
Saturday, Nov. "a, was held at La
fayette, the accused being released
upon furnishing bond to the amount
OF $500 each.
The charter of the Winfield Ice
Company, capitalized al $4,000, was
fled for record at Winfield. Aside
from manufacturing ice and operating
bottling works, the company will do
a general cold storage business and
will handle fuel in wholesale guam
titles.
The grand jury of Grant parish and
all petit jurors drawn to serve at the
pending session Of district court were
discharged by the presiding judge ow-
ingto the fact that two OF the commis-
sioners who drew the jury hold com
missions from the governor for other
Offices, one as clerk of registration
and deputy assessor, and the other as
councilman of the town of Mont
gomery. Some forty indictments were
auashed, and the district attorney was