The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1909-05-15
AROUND THE STATE
Items of Interest Culled From the
Louisiana Press.
New school Building at Breaux Bridge.
Covington to supply New Orleans
with 1900 Gallons of Milk
Daily sidewalks at
Crowley.

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Crowley.
Free mail delivery will be installed
shortly at Ruston.
A Chinaman at Franklin committed
suicide by hanging.
The boil weeviI laboratory at Tai
1ulah win be opened on July 1.
A new school building will be
erected at Breapx Bridge at a cost OF
sl2, 994
Alexander Mutt has been appointed
mayor of Abita Springs by Governor
Sanders.
The Calcasieu Trust and Savings
Bank, capitalized at 500, ,oo0, was in
eorporated at Lake Charles.
Capt. lack Anderson, one of the old
est river pilots on the Mississippi
river, died in New Orleans Tuesday.
| e. r, McMichael, a planter 58 years
of age, and his wife died at their home
near Grand Cane just nine hours
apart
Kentwood has voted a special five
mill school tax for five years to pro-
vide funds to build a new school
house.
A handsome monument to the mem
ory of the late United States Senator
Donelson Cafery was unveiled at
Franklin.
The general passenger agents of all
the lines oflrailroad doing business in
Louisiana met in executive session at
Alexandria.
Contracts have teen signed by Gov
ington dairymen for supplying 15oe
gallons Of milk daily to consumers in
New Orleans.
Frank N. Jones, of Plaquemine,
was killed in wreck on the Natchito-
ches branch OF the Texas and Pacific
Railroad near Cypress.
M. J. McGrail, a painter, while
working on the Planters Oil Mill at
Monroe, was struck by falling tims
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Four hundred thousand square feet
of cement sidewalks will be constructed
at Crowley at a cost#of $4,000, prop
erty owners bearing the expense.
The case of f. f. Bouvy, charged
with the murder OF Prof. r. S. Van
Ingen, will be tried at Piaquemine
during the last week of the May dis
trict court term.
The Merryyille public school, in
Calcasieu parish, will have its own
waterWorks for FIRE protection aud an
irrigation system for a miniature farm
to be cultivated by the pupils.
A material reduction in the cotton
acreage of Louisiana and a CORE.
spending Increase in corn acreage is
shown by the first quarterly report of
the state board Of agriculture.
Bankers, lumber manufacturers and
other business men met at Mansfield
and launched a systematic campaign
for improving the business and in
dustrial interests of Desoto parish.
John McCabe, white section hand
on the ST. Louis, Watkins & Gulf rail-
road, was killed near Lake Charles
by being run over by freight train.
An empty whiskey bottle was found by
his side.
j. A. Schlessenger, a. former justice
of the peace and notary public of Alb.
beville, who disappeared last summer
after being charged with embezzle-
ment, has returned and surrendered TO
the sheriff.
Nicolina Gebbia, who was convicted
Of completely in the murder of little
Walter Lamana, has been sent to the
Angola penitentfary farm, where the
other Italians convicted OF this same
murder are serving a life sentence.
The supreme court has handed down
decision as to the right OF old par
ish boards to select superintendent,
in which the opinion of the attorney
general is sustained, to the effect that
selections made by old boards are
legal and binding. The case came up
from Caldwell parish.