The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1907-06-15
AROUND THE STATE.
Items of Interest Gulled From the
Louisiana Press.
Judge J.. S. Bossier Killed by Falling from
aTrain Title to Chalmette Monument
Transferred to Federal Government.
Oil Company Organized at ABB
beviIie to Exploit New Field.

The title to Chalmette monument was
transferred to the federal government
by the state of Louisiana.
Patrolman Charles Dayton dropped
dead while marching two prisoners to
a police station in New Orleans.
John r. Fell, a gallant Confederate
veteran and prominent insurance man,
died at his home in New Orleans.
The Lindsay Wagon Wheel Com
pany of Laurel. Miss, may establish
a branch factory at Shreveport.
The New Iberia camp of Woodmen
OF the World is planning the con-
struction OF modern meeting hall.
The Vandorn Portland Cement and
Coal Company, capitalized at 81, $780,
900, was incorporated at Shreveport.
B. H. Leigh, deputy clerk of court
of Ouaehita parish. was drowned while
bathing in the Ouachita river at Mon
roe.
Frank Bereaud, a well-known citizen
of Plaquemine, committed suicide by
shooting himself in, the mouth with a
revolver.
Aey Bell, a negro wanted in Arkan-
sas on charge OF grand larceny, was
arrested at Pinevil4e by Marshal j.
M. Rembert.
Bids for the construction of sea
wall at Fort St. Philip, below New
Orleans, will be called for by the
federal government.
The annual encampment of the Lou
isiana State National Guard will be
held at Camp Stafford, near Alexan-
| dria, Aug. 5 to Il, inclusive.
While suffering from an epileptic
fit, Miss Alma Arnold. aged 80 years,
fell into a creek near her home in
Bienyille parish and was drowned.
The Farmers Union of West Car
roll parish awarded the contract for
the erection of a cotton warehouse at
Forest with a capacity of 1900 bales.
After suspension of several weeks,
caused by the excessive rains, work
was resumed on the new s45, 900 hotel
building in course of construction at
Opelousas.
The Vicksburg, Shreveport and Pa
cifc Railroad donated strip of land
to the town of Arcadia for a public
park, and will assist in beautifyinp
the premises.
At a special election held in the
sixth ward of Terrebonne parish, the
proposition to levy 5.mill, ten-year
tax for school purposes was carried
by large majority.
The common council of PIaquemine
adopted an amendment to the town
charter changing the terms of Office of
the mayor, councilmen and marshal
from two to four years.
The work of ballasting the road bed
of the Louisiana Railway and Navi-
CATION Company's line between New
Orleans and Angola will be COM
menced in the near future.
Charles Bell and William Shepherd
were shot and killed and IdeIl Brooks
and Tom Cash seriously wounded il
free-for-all fight among negroes at
Bushy Bayou, Caddo parish.
Judge ]. S. Bossier, prominent
citizen OF New Orleans, was killed by
falling from train in South Caro-
lima while on his way home from the
Confederate reunion at Richmond, Va.
Captain Lewis S. Sorley, Fourteenth
Infantry, q. S. A., was detailed as
commandant of cadets at the Louisi-
ana State University to succeed Cap
tain Alvan G. Read, who will reioin
his regiment.
The grand jury of Jackson parish
returned 460 true bills against persons
who failed to pay their per capita road
tax for 1905. It is not likely that
more than 25 per cent of those indicted
will be apprehended.
Arthur Cormier, assistant principal
of the ST. Martinville high school,
was appointed superintendent OF pub
lie education OF the parish of ST.
Martin to dll the vacancy cansed by
the resignation of Justin G. Daspit.
After conducting hardware es-
Establishment at Alexandria for forty
two consecutive years, /. g. Miller re-
tired from business on June / and
celebrated the occasion by entertain
ing his employees at sumptuous din
ner.
The Abbeville Oil aud Fuel Com
pany, Limited, was organized with a
capital stock Of 500, 900 for the pur-
pose OF exploiting what is said to be q
particularly promising oil field, the
exact location Of which has not been
divulged.
Deeds showing the transfer in trust
OF the Long Bell Lumber Company 's
holdings in Louisiana and Texas to
the Central Trust Company Of Illinois,
to secure al issue of bonds to the
amount Of s9, 900, 900. were aled st
Lake Charles
Lafayette was selected as the Ioea-
ton Tor the cotton warehouse 10 be