The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1907-01-19
AROUND THE STATE.
Items OF Interest CuIled From the
Louisiana Press.
Prominent Young New Iberians Fight Fa
tai Duel with Revolvers-New Wood
DistilIation Process Perfected.
Big Timber Deal.

A progressive league was organized
7 at Natchitoches.
/ The Hammond sanitarium was for
mally opened with appropriate cere
monies.
An important meeting OF the state
board of education was held at Baton
Rouge last week.
/ One or more battleships will visit
the port of New Orleans during the
carnival season.
A wholesale hardware company cap.
ttalized at $3.50, 900 will shortly begin
business at Alexandria.
Several buildings in the business
section of Monroe were destroyed by
fire, entailing a loss of S13, 600.
Lake Charles Presbyterians are con-
templating the erection of q handsome
new church to cost about $40, 900.
The body of an unknown white man
was found floating in Bayou Lafourche
just above the Thibodaux bridge.
Eleven normal schools for teachers
will be conducted at various points
throughout the state during the COM
ing summer.
June Smith and Ian Layfeld were
shot and seriously wounded by Police
man H. v. Smith at Zwolle while re-
sisting arrest.
1t is proposed to construct an addi-
tional schoolhouse in the southern
portion of Opelousas to accommodate
the primary grades.
William Triplett, negro, was fined
S275 for drawing and discharging a
revolver within the corporate limits of
the city of Monroe.
A primary election to select candi-
dates for municipal Offices will be held
at Thibodaux on Tuesday, Feb. 5.
There are two tickets in the field.
Data contained in statements fur
nished by the four banks doing busi-
ness at Shreveport indicate that that
city is the richest in the country
The annual convention of the Louis
lana division, Travellers Protective
Association of America, will be held
at New Iberia May 10, IL and II.
John Tatum, a white man charged
with criminal assault, escaped from a
train near Lake Charles while the
officer in charge of him was asleep.
The Ouachita National Bank and
the Monroe National Bank have been
consolidated and will heneeforth be
opera ated under the name of the former
institution.
S. @. Hollingsworth, of Shreveport,
was appointed assessor of Caddo par.
ish to succeed ]. F. Flournoy, who
was nominated for sheriff at a recent
primary election.
The federal department OF commerce
and labor has indorsed the bill pro-
viding for an appropriation of S75, 900
for the construction of an immigration
station at New Orleans.
The congregation of the First Bap-
tist Church, of Shreveport, obtained
permission to hold regular services
in the courthouse pending the compile
tion of their new place of worship.
George r.. Brigham and Roscoe
sealy, prominent young citizens of
New iberia, fought duel with pistols
on one of the principal streets of that
town, Brigham being killed and Sealy
seriously wounded.
All of the naming timber land in
this state owned by Wright, Blodgett
& Co., of Saginaw, Mich, comprising
90, 900 acres located in Vernon parish,
was sold to the Chicago Coal and
Lumber Co., of Chicago, ILL.,, for a
consideration of 81, 100000.
Lake Charles sawmill men are in
vestigating new wood distillation
process recently perfected, by means
of which turpentine, tar, wood alcohol
and other by-products are extracted
from ordinary mill slabs or refuse,
the wood fiber left being available for
making box boards.
Albert DeBen, a Cuban who was
arrested at Alexandria on a charge of
larceny, attempted to commit suicide
by swallowing an once of digitalis and
stabbing himself in the left breast with
a knife. The poison was pumped from
DeBen s stomach, but physicians ex-
press the opinion that the wound in
the breast will prove fatal.