The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1907-01-05
AROUND THE STATE.
Items Of Interest Culled From the
Louisiana Press.
Oyer Seventeen Hundred Convicts in State
Penitentiary-High school at Green's
burg Destroyed by Fire-IElinois
Capitalists Invest In Gas Field.

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Property valued at $40, 900 was de-
stroyed by FIRE at West Monroe.
DR.. ]. E. Newman, a prominent citi-
zen of Monroe, died at his home in
that city.
Marie Cloud, aged pears, was run
down and killed by street car at
alexandria.
The eleventh annual convention of
the Phi Chi fraternity was held at
New Orleans.
Fire destroyed the high school
building at Greensburg, entailing a
loss of several thousand dollars.
Negroes of Alexandria threatened
to lynch Edward Ayles, q fellow-b black,
who brutally murderedsShis wife.
The Illinois Central Railroad will
shortly inaugurate a new special train
service between Chicago and New Or
leans.
William Atkins, formerly of Ohio,
committed suicide by drowning him
self in Bayou Crosse Tete, at Rose
| dale.
V. D. Leieune, aged20 years. was
kicked in the stomach BY wild horse
at Estherwood and died shortly after
wards.
The residence and store of A. NJ.
Baker, at Head-of-Island, were de-
stroyed by fire, entafling a loss of
$1,000.
The state penitentiary begins the
new year with ITO congicts on hand,
the largest number in the history of
the institution.
Pollard sealy, the Is year-old son
of r. @. Sealy, of New Iberia. acei-
dentally shot himself in the right arm
while out hunting.
The citizens of Natchitoches pledged
the sum of $50, 900 in aid of railroad
projected by the Louisiana Long Leaf
Lumber Company.
Mrs. Laura Arnould sued the New
Orleans Railway Company for $40, 900
damages for injuries sustained in a
street car accident.
The Melrose sugar plantation in
Assumption parish, consisting of 1900
acres, of which $50 acres are cultiva-
bic, was sold for $50, ,000,
DR.. E. b. Craighead, president of
Tulane University, delivered an ad-
dress before the Southern Educational
Association at Montgomery, Ala.
Rev. Eli Tharp, an aged Baptist
minister of West Carroll parish, com
mitted suicide by blowing out his
brains with a 41-caliber revolver.
Will Zimmerman, negro charged
with carrying concealed weapons, es-
capped from the parish jail at Floyd
by cutting through the brick wall.
c. E. Tatum. station agent of the
", S. and P. Railroad at w averly,
was seriously injured by the prema.
ture explosion of a giant cannon
cracker.
Lucas Bereaud, well-knoWn farmer
of sardine Point, Iberville parish,
was thrown from his sulky while en-
route home from Plaquemine, break
ing his neck.
A movement is under way for the
building of a system of drainage
canals IN the vicinity of Jennings for
the purpose OF reclaiming something
like Is, 900 acres of land.
Jim Smith, white man who was
arrested at Lecompte on the charge OF
stealing watch, jumped through the
window of a moving train near Alex
andria and made his escape.
7. ]. Richardson cotton gin at
Echo, Rapides parish, was destroyed
by FIRE, together with its contents. The
loss is estimated at $4,000, with in
surance TO the amount OF s3100.
Charles G. Dawes, former comp
troller of the treasury, and his brother,
Rufus Dawes, of Chicago, H., to-
gether with S. S. Hunter, of Shreve-
port, have invested $500, 900 in the
natural gas field near the latter city,
purchasing the Citizens Oil and Pipe
Line Company, which was originally
capitalized at So, ,000. 900,
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