The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1907-02-02
AROUND THE STATE.
Items of Interest Tulled From the
Louisiana Press.
State University's Proposed Medical De-
partment to be Located at New Or
Ieans-Wagon Maker MUIR
dered at Shreveport.
A progressive league vas ORGANIZED

from California, was arrested at New
Orleans.
Another ice factory will shortly be
established at Alexandria by q com.
pany capitalized at $50, 900.
The First Methodist Church at New
Iberia was totally destroyed by fire,
inaicting loss of over S25, 900.
An official census of the town Of
Lafayette is being compiled with a
view to securing free mail delivery.
The infant son of Paul Durio, OF
Breaux Bridge, was seriously injured
by being kicked in the face by mule.
F. P. Martin was appointed mayor
of Washington to succeed A. J. Null
Ter, who recently removed from the
town.
Joe Fuchs, a well-known wagon
maker of Shreveport, was mysteri-
ously murdered near his home in that
city.
A disastrous fire occurred in the
business section of West Monroe,
property valued at S14, 900 being de-
stroyed.
The firm of q. Kahn Co., Ltd, DOM
iciled at Chamberlain, West Baton
Rouge parish, has gone into the hands
of a receiver.
George slayter, colored, was shot
and instantly killed by Fabius Dupre,
white man, in the negro department
| of saloon at Euniee.
The Louisiana and Arkansas Rail
road depot at WINFIELD, which was
destroyed by fire last December, is
being rebuilt on a much larger scale.
The captain and crew of the Nor
wegian bark D. Ell. Morris reached
New Orleans in a launch, having
abandoned their vessel off Chandelier
Island.
The board of supervisors of the Lou
isiana State University selected New
Orleans as the location for the pro-
posed medical department of the uni
versity.
The residence and store of Mrs.
Thos. P. Sims, Sr., at Tangipahoa,
were completely destroyed by fire dur
ing the temporary absence of Mrs.
Sims.
Caesar Jackson, negro boy who
killed his father, was sentenced to
twenty years imprisonment in the state
penitentiary and fined $1,000 in the dis
trict court at New Iberia.
O. S. Powell, tombstone dealer of
Alexandria, shot and killed P. T.
Melton near Moore Station, Winn
parish, and was in turn killed by the
laHer's brother, W. j.. Melton.
The mortality statistics compiled by
DIR. Ashton Blanchard, health officer
of Shreveport, show that the death
rate of that city for the year 1906 was
I.only 1928 per 1000 inhabitants.
The grading of the fremont and
Gulf Railroad has been completed,
and the track is being laid from Chat
hamville to WINFIELD. The road will
be opened for traffic about April J..
The board of directors of the Louis
lana State Fair Association met at
Shreveport and chose officers for the
ensuing year. W. A. Mosby was
elected secretary, defeating Capt. M.
L. Scovell by majority of one vote,
Mrs. Lila Richard, the young wife
of Night Officer Plais Horn of the Ope-
lousas police force, committed suicide
at her former home near Opelousas by
shooting herself in the head with a
revolver.
Overforty arrests on warrants charg-
ing perjury in connection with home
stead entries have recently been made
in the western district of Louisiana by
deputies from the United States mar
shal's Office at Shreveport.
Fire broke out in the lumber yard
of the Menefee Cypress Company al
Berwick, across the bay from Morgan
City, and destroyed about $4,000
worth of high grade lumber. The loss
is fully covered by insurance.
The Midland rice mill, belonging tc
the Louisiana Irrigation and Mil
Company, was sold to the United
States Rice Milling Company, o.
Crowley, and will heneeferth be ope
rated by the latter concern.
The grand jury of Caleasieu parish
is investigating the charge that frauds
were committed at Jennings and Lake
Charles in the second primary election
to decide between Estorge and Hudson
for member of the state board of equal
ization.
A. NJ. Rivers, of Mansfield, wa'
appointed temporary receiver for th'
w. f. Diehl Lumber Company o
Vernon parish, upon the application
of D. c. Richardson, of Shreveport
and several parties connected with tn,
company.
/ John R. Lyles, a wel1-known timbe
land owner and logging operator Q
| Oakda1e, sold to Louis Lehman, o
Oscaloosa, Mss. 1911 acres of pin
and hardwood timber lands in Cal
casieu parish for cash consideration
Of SIG, 2ae.