Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1910-07-08
late news NOTES
FROM ALL LOUISIANA
Grain and Half of Strychnine
Found in Woman's Stomach
LEPER ESCAPES and GOES home
lnterurban Electric Line Projected.
Lightning Strik es Tree And
ScOrches Ladies'. Blood.
Poisoning CAUSED.

DR.. w. r. Dodson, of Louisiana
addressed the Lafayette Farmers
Club.
Republicans will put out a con.
gressionaal candidate In the Sixth
Louisiana District.
Louis X. jolly. Baton Rouge sa.
loonman, was stabbed by James and
l.. Fordney, brothers.
Henry N. Pharr was painfully in.
]ured at New Iberia when his horse
fell on him.
The jury in the trial of Ben Kin
chen at Amite City. returned a ver-
dict of not guilty.
Experts In dairying addressed
meeting Tuesday at Baton Rouge of
advanced milk producers.
The case of Senator Rivet. charg-
ed at Napoleonville with arson, was
indefinitely postponed.
Eugene McGivney was named chair
man OF the commission to probe gas
rates at BATON Rouge.
The Standard Oil Company will
build a second pipe line from the Cad
do field to Baton Rouge.
Archie Smith was appointed by
Governor Sanders supervisor of pub
lie accounts under the new act.
A mosquito plague at Lake Charles
forced several sawmills to close down
employees being driven frantic.
Assessed valuations in St. Tam
many Parish show a decrease OF
ss59.l64, as compared with 1909.
The Lake Charles tLa.) Board Of
Trade indorsed the proposed munich
pal bond issue for civic improve
ments.
A boy from the Warren Compton
place, near Alexandria got lost and
wandered to Boyce, searching for his
home.
Stephen Freeman was indicted at
Rayville for the murder Of Town
Marshal c. c. Chenault and trial be-
gan July 5.
Two negroes imported into Mans
field by the town marshal to spot
blind tigers are charged with high
way robbery.
Congressman Joseph f. Ransdell,
of Louisiana, is at home at Lake
Providence having returned from
Washington.
Wick Frontenot, rice farm manager
was shot and killed by julie Ardoin,
while riding horseback in a field
near Mamou.
The E. X. Jeffries Lumber Com
pany will soon begin to work on five
miles of railroad In Concordia par
ish, Louisiana.
a. ]. Poteet. Texas cattleman. who
disappeared while on a trip to Con-
verse, La, is declared to be alive and
well in Missouri.
The Democratic executive commit
tee of the Fifth Congressional Dis
trict met July at Monroe to ar
ioh6S
Andrew H. Gay paid 100000 for
Reliance and New Hope plantations,
adjoining his Union plantation in
Iberville parish.
A mass meeting at Ferriday con-
demned the shooting Of Strike-break-
er Johnson. Three strikers held on
suspicion we're released.
Prof. Jordon, of l.. S. u. has
been preparing for the first regular
meeting OF the Dixie Dairymen's As
ISOLATION at Baton Rouge.
The Louisiana Board of Agricul-
ture gives the condition Of cotton at
"a Is, rice 80 11-27, corn 1851
and sugar cane go 1-6 per cent.
Mrs. Pearl Dunn, wanted at Tai
lulah on a charge Of conspiracy In
plot to poison her husband was
located in Mobile county. Alabama.
H. v. NELLY. United States inter-
nal revenue officer at Lafayette. was
arrested on the charge of embezzle-
ment of public funds.
A legal test will be made at
Shreveport Of Locations" filed on
land In the Caddo oil field under
the government mineral act.
Colonel Robert Hume Lindsay, 70
years old, Of Shreveport, member Of
the Louisiana Pension Board. died
at Baton Rouge.
One man was fatally and three Sc
riously injured by the premature ex-
plosion Of q blast IN q mine Of the
Union Sulphur Company, at Sulphur.
La.
The trial of four negroes charged
with assault on two bridgekeepers
of Labadieville, last April. is in pro-
gress at Napoleonville.
R. d. Smith, Of Abbeville, has
with the United States
to rid vermilion River
Of the water hyacinth.
Loafers at Baton Rouge must go
to work or enter jail.
The Hooks Oil Company and 9TH
ers have filed suit in the District
COurt of Iake Charles for recOyery