The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1906-12-01
AROUND THE STATE.
Items of Interest Gulled From the
Louisiana Press.
Oil in Paying Quantities Struck Near Gov
ington-Hungarian coIonists to Is
sue a Newspaper Printed in
Their Own Language.

Two men, Mexican and negro,
were injured in hand-car collision
at Lake Charles.
Fire in the Italian section Of Lutcher
destroyed eleven buildings, causing a
loss Of about $4,000.
The Lake Charles city council in
creased the minimum liquor license
from $1,000 to $3.50.
The police jury of Bienville parish
adopted an ordinance fixing the liquor
license for 1907 at $4,000.
| Oil in paying quantities was struck
near Covington and property prices
are soaring in consequence.
Made despondent by a lecture from
the mayor for gambling, Louis Stat
ford committed suicide at Abbeville by
swallowing morphine.
Percy Mccain, aged Is, walked of a
fire escape at d Shreveport theater
and sustained injuries from which he
died a few hours later.
Daniel Gillion, an engineer on a
Kansas City Southern train, was blown
/ from his+cab and seriously Injured by
the bursting of a steam pipe.
DIR. G. Il. Irion, president OF the
Louisiana State Board of Health, was
elected president of the tuberculosis
Congress which met at New York.
Togar Jackson, a New iberia negro,
was murdered by his 14-year-old son,
Duke Jackson, because he had COM
PEELED the child to 60 to work.
| A. Wilbert,s Sons, of Plaquemine,
purchased from John Hill 1910 acres
Of timber land in West Baton Rouge
parish, for which they paid $4,000.
A party Of English spinners passed
through north Louisiana on a tour of
ins pection Of cotton. farms on which
| they propose TO raise their own cotton.
Rufus Murf, rice farmer living
near Crowley, committed suicide by
blowing out his brains with a32-calibre
pistol. No cause for his rash act is
known.
Antoine Dominique, negro bearing
an excellent reputation, was murdered
at Carencro by a band of whitecaps
who we're out holding up and robbing
negroes.
j. M. Whiler, a section foreman on
the Louisiana and Arkansas Railroad,
was run over and instantly killed by
a freight engine while measuring the
tracks at Minden.
Mrs. j anie Coyle suicided in a New
Orleans boarding house because her
husband had deserted her, just before
letter was delivered from him seek
ing a reconciliation.
In a free fight between negroes at
Many, Stanton Brewster, white by
stander, was shot and killed. So far
it has been impossible TO determine
who did the shooting.
Columbus Horton. a young white
farmer residing near Coushatta, com
mitted suicide by shooting himself with
shotgun. He left a note saying he
was unable to care for his wife and
children, and requesting his friends TO
do so.
Hungarians composing a colony
near Hammond will issue newspaper
printed in their native language for
the purpose of presenting to theirfellow
countrymen in the large cities and the
old country the advantages offered by
Louisiana to immigrants.
Charles Alexander, a negro des-
perado, shot and instantly killed Cecil
Chatelain. son of a prominent white
planter, near Marksville, while pur-
suing a negro named Lindsay whom
| Alexander had fatally wounded. The
assassin escaped. but posse is in pur-
suit and lynching will probably
take place If he is captured.