The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1907-01-12
AROUND THE STATE.
Items Of Interest Culled From the
Louisiana Press.
"Pistol Toter" Fined $3.50 and Costs in
District Court at Lake Charles.
Juvenile Court Law
Upheld.

Opnelus
/ There are only three negro voters ir
the parish of Caddo.
/ Charles Fanguy, young white man,
was shot and killed by a negro al
Houma.
In the future all national salutes
will be fred at Baton Rouge, instead
of New Orleans.
The plant of the Shreveport Cotton
Oil Company was damaged by fire to
the extent of $4,000.
Nathan Mack, a negro, was shot
and killed by Laura Jones, also col
ored, in saloon at Garyville.
John Bell was fined $3.50 and costs
in the district court at Lake Charles
for carrying concealed weapons.
Miss Amy Bernardy, a prominent
Italian educator and writer, declared
Louisiana to be ideal for immigrants.
The inmates of the leper's home in
Iberville parish received numerous
presents during the Christmas holi-
days.
All but about twenty-five of the
1900 retail grocers in New Orleans
ceased giving lagniappe on the 1st
| instant.
Andrew Carnegie offered to donate
S75, 900 to Tulane University on condi-
tion that s5o0,o00 be secured from
other sources.
Louisiana and Texas congressman
have secured favorable recommends
tions on sections of the proposed in
tercoastai canal.
The next annual eneampment of the
Louisiana National State Guard may
be held on the grounds of the James.
town exposition.
The school board of Lafayette par
ish will issue bonds to the amount of
$780, for the purpose of building and
repairing schoolhouses.
N. o. Nelson, a ST. Louis philan-
thropist, will reside in New Orleans
for several months and execute va
rious charitable undertakings.
Two men were killed and several in
jnred by the explosion of boiler in
the Wainwright sawmill at Atlanta,
twelve miles south of WINFIELD.
F. Il. Benjamin, of Nashville, was
appointed general inspector of the
Louisville and Nashville Railroad,
with headquarters in New Orleans.
The gross receipts from the sale of
stamps at the Shreveport postofice
amounted to s91, ,s78.12 in 1906, an in
crease of S13, 1928 over the receipts
for 1905.
The steamer Natchez arrived at New
with 1000 bales of cotton, the
largest cargo of the season and the
allowed by insurance COM
panies.
Thirty-eight saloons went out of
business at Shreveport as a result of
high license, yet the city's revenue
from this source jumped from 1000
20 s121, 900.
Emile Hebert, the 16-year-old son of
Sosthene Hebert, farmer residing
near Abbeville, was shot and seriously
injured while attempting to place a
gun in a rack.
According to statistics prepared by
he United States census bureau,
louisiana produces greater quantity
If yellow pine lumber than any other
'tate in the union.
A telegraph cable 1900 feet in length
vas laid across the Mississippi river
1t New Orleans by the Western Union
Telegraph Company, the work being
lone in five minutes.
The war department announced that
lone of the forts in the vicinity of
Iew Orleans will be abandoned. In
tead, they will be reconstructed and
lew barracks erected.
The juvenile court law enacted at
be last sessisn of the Louisiana legis-
ature was tested in the criminal dis
riot court at New Orleans and de-
Jared constitutional.
The United States steamer Ramos,
'hieh has been engaged in the work
f destroying water hyacinths in
'exas streams, is at Abbeville await :
ng orders from the war department,
md the people of that section are in
Il hopes that Bayou Vermilion will '
g the next waterway to receive atten-
ion.