The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1906-11-24
THE STATE.
Items Of Interest Gulled From the
Louisiana Press.
Rural Free Delivery Mail Carriers to Or
ganize an Observation-Disclosures
No. IL Turned Down Hard-Many
schoolhouses Built in 1905.

The annual meeting of the Presby-
terian Synod of Louisiana was held
at Baton Rouge.
Officials Of the New Orleans board
of health destroyed 34o8 cans OF con-
demaed condensed milk.
The old courthouse site and build
| ing at Plaquemine was purchased by
the municipality for $4,000.
New Iberia Eiks have concluded ne
EQUATIONS for the erection OF $50, 600
opera house and Elks' Club.
The cotton crop in the vicinity OF
East Point was considerably damaged
by q heavy wind and rain storm.
Dec. 8 will probably be selected as
the date for the presentation OF the
silver service to the battleship Louisi-
ana.
E. T. Eldridge, well-known citizen
of LoreauviIle, committed suicide by
blowing of the top of his head with
shotgun.
Luke Patterson, aged years, was
accidentally shot and killed by COM
panion while hunting rabbits near
Patterson.
The police jury of Terrebonne par
ish and the town council of Houma
fixed the wholesale and retail liquor
license for the year 1907 at $1,000.
A meeting of the rural free delivery
mail carriers Of Louisiana will be
held at Winfield Jan. /, 1907, for the
purpose of organizing an association.
Work on the Southern Drainage
Canal in the vicinity of New Iberia is
progressing at the rate OF 250 feet
day. The canal is expected to be
navigable.
Three negroes were injured, two
probably fatally, in collision be-
tween locomotive and q work train
on the Southern Pacific Railroad at
Lafayette.
Eleus Leblanc, the young white man
who was to have been hanged at ST.
Martinville last Friday, was granted
respite by Governor Blanchard
upon the recommendation of the board
of pardons.
A white man giving his name as
William Smith attempted to assault a
4-year-old white girl at Morgan City
and would probably have been lynched
had not the authorities promised to
give him an early trial.
Two hundred and eight new school
houses were erected in Louisiana dur
ing the year 1906 at a cost of over half
a million dollars, and something like
1884 900 was raised By local taxation
for school purposes.
The official returns from the recent
congressional election show that all
of the proposed amendments TO the
state constitution were adopted with
tie exception of No. u, which was de-
feated by majority OF over 20, 900.
The corps OF cadets Of the South
western Louisiana Industrial Institute,
at Lafayette, signed a pledge to abol-
| ish smoking and in token of their sin
cerity amade bonfire of their pipes,
tobacco, cigarettes and other smoking
material.
A poll tax association was organ
lied recently in the eighth ward Of Ib-
erville parish, over sixty males be-
tween the ages of q and so becoming
members and pledging themselves to
see that every man in the ward pays
his poll tax.
/ Amos N. Beebe, Jr., son of a prom
inent merchant of Boyce, was placed
in jail at Alexandria on charge o1
abducting and having earnal knowi-
edge of Mary Powell, the 14year-old
daughter of John Powell, OF Hinston,
Rapides parish.
Thos. Brady, or Braden. who is te
be hanged at Alexandria on the 7th oi
December, confessed that he is pa.
rolled prisoner from the Illinois peni-
tentia ary, where he was serving tern
Of fourteen years for assaulting q
white girl, a crime similar to the one
for which he is to pay the extreme
penalty next month.