The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1907-03-02
AROUND THE STATE.
Items of Interest Gulled From the
Louisiana Press.
Distressing Accident at Bossier City Re-
suits in Death of Two Little Girls.
Farmers Union Erecting Cot
ton Warehouses-Fire
at Morgan City.

roe, wagered $1,000 to $500 that b
would be reelected.
The police jury OF Avoyelles parisl
appropriated $4,000 for the erection
of a new jail at MarksVille.
Justice OF the Peace w. H. Flower
shot and fatally wounded Home
Smith at Forest Hill, Rspides parish
James A. Miller, who was accident
ally shot by j. N. Harvey at Tai
lulah, died from the effects of th,
wound.
| Five cases of smallpox developed a
| White & Dameron's levee camp in thu
lower portion of West Baton Rouge
parish.
Frank Mccoy, white man wanted
at Lufkin, Texas. 90 the charge o
forfeiting bond, was arrested a
Zachary.
New Orleans will probably be Sc,
lected as the market wherein the gov.
ernment will purchase supplies for TIE
soldiers in Cuba.
The Vinson Manufacturing Com.
pany's shingle mill at Morgan City
was totally destroyed by fire, entailinp
a loss of $l5, 200.
Robert McNeal. a negro accused OF
killing white fagman in the railroad
yards at Vicksburg, Miss, was cap
tured at Alexandria.
At a special election held in Lake
Arthur, the proposition to vote four
mill tax in aid of a high school was
carried by large majority.
A negress named Rachel Hutehin-
son was run down and killed by a
passenger train on the Mississippi
Valley Railroad at Kenner.
Radishes are being shipped from
Roseland to Chicago and other north
ern markets in carload lots, and are
said to be bringing good prices.
The Lopg-Bell Lumber Company
proposes to establish at Longville,
Calcasieu parish, a sawmill which will
cut 300, 900 feet of lumber per day.
The French and Italian cruisers
presently visiting the port of New Or
leans fred national salutes on the oc-
casion of ashington's birthday.
Hon. Henry Mccall, collector of
customs at New Orleans, has been in
structed to refuse clearance papers to
ships carrying military stores to MIC
aragua.
The section of the Mermentau dam
at Grand Chenier which was destroyed
with dynamite a little over year ago
has been repaired, and the structure
is now intact.
The requirements Of Franklin hav-.
ing outgrown the present electric light
plant, steps were taken to ascertain
the cost of installing larger and
more modern plant.
F. D. Haas, an itinerant vendor of
patent medicines and nostrums, was
arrested at Abbeyille on warrant
charging him with violating the medi-
cal practice act.
Deputy Sheriff William Butler, of
Beleher, Caddo parish, shot and killed
Larry Armstrong, negro, when the
latter attempted to escape after having
been placed under arrest.
Joseph Billet and his wife were
found dead under mysterious circum-
stances in their home at Billet Land
ing, twelve miles north of Colfax. It
is known that Billet had $15, 900 con-
cealed in his residence.
The case of M. r. Stewart, district
attorney pro tenn, vs.. D. J. Reid, sher-
if of Calcasieu parish, ct ais, re-
suited in a mistrial at Lake Charles,
the jury remaining out for thirty-two
hours without being able to reach an
agreement.
The Farmers Union of West Car
roll parish is building near Floyd a
warehouse which viii have capacity
of 1900 bales of cotton and cost $3.50.
Similar structures are being erected
at Sunset and Echo by local branches
of the union.
The Atlantic, Gulf and Pacific Conn
pany, one of the big contracting firms
OF New York, notified E. A. Pharr,
general manager of the Atchafa1aya
Bay Ship Channel Company, that its
superintendent had made an examina-
ton of the proposed ship channel,
and that it is prepared to quote figures
for the work as soon as the Atchafa-
laya Bay Company has succeeded in
financing the project.
Fannie Lee Colquitt, aged IA years,
was killed outright: Penny Colquitt,
aged IL years, fatally crushed, and
Mary Colauitt, aged Is years, seri-
oasly injured by being run over by
freight train on the Cotton Belt Rail.
road at Bossier City, across the river
from Shreveport. The two white men
and three negroes composing the crew
of the train were arrested on charges
of criminal negligence and will be tried
at Benton.
4 Scientific wonder.