The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1907-02-09
AROUND THE STATE.
Items OF Interest CuIled From the
Louisiana Press.
Catholic Church at Brusly Landing De-
stroyed by Fire-HI Mortality Statistics
of Covington Show Remarkably
Low Death Rate-Aged
Negress Cremated.

A business league was organized a
Covington.
Louisiana acquired 134 immigrant
during the past month.
Dinah Harris, an aged negress, wa
burned to death in her cabin at Che
neyville.
Traffic was inaugurated over th,
Opelousas, Gulf and Northeastern
Railroad.
A plant for the manufacture of ar
tifcial teeth will shortly be established
at New Orleans.
State Senator C. H. Teal suggests
caterpillars as a remedy for the cottor
boil weeYil.
i The Catholic church at Brusly Land.
| ing was destroyed by fire, entailing q
loss of S25, 900.
] A stock company will be organized
at Monroe for the purpose of erecting
a modern hotel.
James Ford, negro, was struck by
an electric street car at Shreveport
and instantly killed.
The receipts OF the state OF Louisi-
ana for the month OF January, 1907,
totalled s., ,o84, ,O89. so.
Five hundred crates of Louisiana
strawberries have been received at
Chicago so far this season.
Principals of high schools located
in the southwestern part OF the state
met in annual conference at Lafayette.
David Devall purchased John P.
Hogan's Cypress Hall plantation near
Port Allen, West Baton Rouge parish,
for s33, 600.
Three Norwegian brides elect ar
rived at New Orleans on the steam
ship Fl. T. Inge and will be welded ia
this country.
Assignment of salaries by municipal
employees was declared BY the state
supreme court to be against public
policy and illegal.
The corner stone of the Odd Fellows
Home in course OF erection at Crowley
will be laid with appropriate cere-
monies on March IS.
In shooting affray at Ulysses Hi
mel's store near Labadievllle, Ozeme
Henry killed Frank White and
wounded two other negroes.
The annual meeting of the Inter-
scholastic Athletic and Oratorical As
soeiation of Southwest Louisiana will
be held at Lafayette Saturday, April
20.
George Mobiles, native OF London,
England, aged 45 years, was run over
and killed by switch engine on the
Mississippi Valley Railroad at Will
son.
The North Louisiana Cotton Plant
ers' Association, in session at Shreve-
port, resolved to never again submit |
to the other fellow pricing our pro-
ducts
Fire at Minden destroyed the old |
Methodist church aud damaged the |
handsome new brick church now near i
ing completion. The loss will not
exceed $4,000.
DIR. G. 2. Williams, health officer of
Coyington, is authority for the state
ment that the death rate of that town
for the year 1905 was only 9.33 per
1000 inhabitants.
Work on the canning factory pres
emily in course OF construction at Ken
ner is progressing favorably, and it is
expected that the plant will be in oper-
alton by April l.
The Hammond Real Estate and In
vestment Company has sold It's large
tract of timber land in Livingston
parish to syndicate of Chicago and
Memphis capitalists.
The Central Louisiana Oil and Min
eral Development Company, which Is
boring for oil near Pineville. reports
that at q depth OF 1860 feet the drill
struck vein OF iron ore OF fine quality.
Three white boys who had been ex-
PEELED from the public school at Lut-
cher by order OF the parish superin-
tendent grossly insulted the lady
teachers of the school and murder
ously assaulted Prof. j. G. Cole.
j. J. Shook, prominent banker of
Jackson, Miss, visited Shreveport
for the purpose of conferring with the
mayor and other citizens relative to a
proposition to establish at that place
q bank capitalized at $500, 900.
Senator Murphy J. Foster intro
duced an amendment to the national
rivers and harbors bill providing for
The construction of that section OF the
proposed intercoastal canal extending
from the Mermentau river to~the sa-
bine.
The case of the state vs.. Douglas
Thigpen, charged with the murder of
Williams, was nolle pressed
By the district attorney after a motion
for ehSpge OF venue had been argued
and ovefNuled in the district court at
Mans6elS
4 shcHting ARRAY occurred at a
lance at Yhe home of Ernest Frnge, in
st. Landry parish, during the course
Of which Meas Fontenot was Instantly
killed, Levy Fonsenot, his brother,
probably fatally wounded, and Sos
theme Brown, 8 bystander, slightly
lniuret5.