The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1906-12-29
DoNALDsoNVIILE, LA, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 20 1906
THE STATE.
Items Of Interest Culled From the
Louisiana Press.
Fine Site Secured for Louisiana Building
at jamestown Exposition-Railroad
Depot at Kenner Destroyed by
Fire-Ayoye1les Goes Dry.


The police jury of East Carroll par
ish fixed the retail liquor license 70
1907 at $500.
| The Methodist congreg alton of Alex
andria will erect a fine brick churcl
in that city,
A. E. Mouton's lumber yard at La
fayette was destroyed by fire, entail
ing q loss Of $40, 900.
/ J. P. Flournoy, sr., was elected
sheriff OF Caddo parish to succeed The
late Col. S. j. Ward.
Three negro women were drowned il
| Bayou Teehe, near Baldwin, by the
overturning of skiff.
Cal. Moore, q young negro living Al
| Monroe, committed suicide by shoot.
ing himself in the left breast with q
revolver.
Four shipments of pig iron, aggre.
eating II, 900 tons, are en- route to New
Orleans from Middlesborough and
Glasgow.
Austin Campbell, aged 30 years, was
killed near Bayou Chicot by being
thrown from his buggy, which collided
with tree.
The railroad depot at Kenner, used
jointly by the Illinois Central and Y.
and NJ. Y. Railroads, was completely
destroyed by fire.
By a vote of 963 to 114,s the tax
payers of Ayoyelles parish decided to
prohibit the sale of intoxicating IL
quors after Jan. /, 1907.
Prof. S. S. Thomas, principal of
the Arcadia central high school for
the past three years, rendered his res
ignati and will take up other work.
Beauregard Ragas, a prominent
young citizen of Pointe a Ia Hache,
was run over and killed by cane
train on Myrtle Grove plantation, in
St. Bernard parish.
j. @. and J.. =. Copellar, father and
son. indicted for manslaughter for hav-
ing caused the death of Oscar Jack
son, Of Grapes Bluff. were tried at
Natehitoches and acquitted.
One of the finest sites on the James
town exposition grounds has been Sc
cured for the Louisiana building. and
the work of erecting the structure will
be commenced in the near future.
The capital stock Of the Lake
Charles Ice, Light and Waterworks
Company was increased from Sl00, 900
to sl50, 900, and that of the Lake
Charles Street Railway Company from
$4,000 to $50, 900.
Texarkana capitalists acquired the
Ed. Rand Lumber Company, of Alex
andria, for cash consideration of
S916, 600, the transfer including mill
having daily capacity Of 125, ZOO feet,
and 200, 900, 600 feet of standing timber.
Henry Butler, negro laborer en-
ployed on Poplar Grove plantation,
West Baton Rouge parish, attempted
to disembark from the ferry boat Is
trouma after the vessel had left the
Port Allen landing, but fell into the
river and was drowned.
Sheriff F. G. Movers and Charles
Lavignette, Of Pointe Ia .Hache,
were badly burned about the hands
and face by the explosion OF cannon
with which they were saluting the
battleship Louisiana as the vessel
passed down the river to the sea.
The dead body OF a negro was found
in the public road in the northern
part OF Claiborne parish, about twenty
steps from the Arkansas line. An in
vestigation developed the fact that the
negro had been taken from the au-
thorities at Emerson, Ark, and
whipped to death by mob composed
OF whites and blacks.
George Sullivan and Reuben Mich
oils, negroes, pleaded guilty to the
charge Of numbering Jessie Brown,
prominent merchant of Girard, Rich
land parish, and were sentenced to
Imprisonment for life in the state pen
itentiary. r. T. Rogers, charged with
completely il the crime, was taken out
Of Jail at Tallulah and lynehed several
months ago.