The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1907-03-09
THE STATE.
Items OF Interest CuIled From the
Louisiana Press.
Hon. j. b. Aswen Elected Chancellor of
University of Observation-Disclosures
at Forest 1surglarized-Aus-
trian and Greek Immi-
grants Coming.

The state department OF agriculture
will hold no farmers Institutes this
| summer.
A two-story brick hotel building will
shortly be erected at Bunkie for Mrs.
]. D. Ernest.
Work will shortly be commenced on
new hotel building at Opelousas to
cost S41, 800.
Louisiana began the month of M arch
with S2,647, 074 80 on deposit in her
several fiscal agent banks.
The corner stone OF the new Metho-
dist church building at Homer was laid
with appropriate ceremonies.
Jules Robichaux. a white man, COM
mitted suicide at Thibodaux by drown
ing himself in Bayou Lafourche.
Citizens of Arcadia are planning
the construction of q $4,000 hotel
and $4,000 opera house at that place.
The first shipload of immigrants to
this state from Austria and Greece
will arrive at New Orleans in August.
Nine japanese laborers from Tex as
were given employment on Smithfeld
plantation, West Baton Rouge parish.
The national legislature passed a
bill authorizing the construction of a
bridge across Red river at Shreve-
port.
Six men were injured in collision
between chemical engine and fire
insurance patrol wagon at New Or
leans.
A number of small farmers in the
vicinity of Estherwood will plant
good.sized patches of peanuts as an
experiment.
The Louisiana delegation in con-
gress presented loving cup to Col.
S. M. Robertson, whose term expired
on the 4th inst.
Grain exporters of New Orleans ex-
pressed the opinion that no European
boycott of American cereals could be
made effective.
The board of commissioners of the
state training school met at Monroe
and accepted plans for a two-story
brick building to cost $19, 400.
The town council of Bunkie is adver-
tising for bids for the construction of
thirteen blocks of four-foot brick side
walks in the residence section.
Willie Vaughn, the 13-year-old son
of W. W. Vaughn, of Good Pine, fell
into log pond while en- route home
from school and was drowned.
The police jury OF St. Landry parish
will award a prize of $500 to the town
offering the greatest inducements for
parish fair to be held next fall.
Lee Coleman, the negro who shot
and killed Town Marshal William
Shoemaker at DeQuincy, was con-
victed of murder and sentenced to
death.
A six-story Office building for the
Continental Bank and Trust Company
is under construction at Shreveport
and will cost in the neighborhood of
$40, 900.
Frank Skaggs, white man. was
shot and killed at Carson, Calcasieu
parish, while attempting to force an
entrance into the residence of G. W.
Stubbs.
C. C. Duson, of Crowley, took the
oath of Office as United States marshal
for the western district of Louisiana at
Shreveport, succeeding B. F. O'Neal,
removed.
Hon. J. B. Aswell, state superin-
tendent of education, was elected chan
cellor OF the University of Mississippi,
and will retire from his present posi-
tion July l.
joe Wesley, colored, who shot and
killed Jesse Bolin, white merchant of
Shreveport, in July of last year, was
captured at tie-making camp near
Keithville.
Dates and locations for the summer
normal schools to be held throughout
Louisiana during the coming summer
were announced by the state board OF
institute managers.
Governor Blanchard has appointed
several prominent Louisianians to rep
resent this state at the Congress of
Good Roads Builders, which is to be
held at Pittsburg, Pa, March Il and
Is.
A special election will be held in the
parish of Natehitoehes on Tuesday,
April 80, for the purpose of filing the
vacancy in the Office of clerk OF court
caused by the recent death OF Henry
NJ. Hyams.
W. D. Huber, president OF the In
ternstional Brotherhood of Carpen-
ters, and James Kirby, general presi-
dent of the Structural Building Trades
Alliance, visited New Orleans to in
vestigate labor conditions in that city.
The coroner's jury which investi.
gated the mysterious double tragedy
at Billet Landing, near Colfax,
reached the conclusion that Joseph
Billet murdered his wife and then
committed suicide. No evidence was
adduced that would indicate foul play,