The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1910-04-30
AROUND THE STATE
Items Of Interest Culled From the
Louisiana Press.

Million Dollar Fire at Lake charles-Avia-
ton Meet to be Held at Alexandria
Crops Badly Damaged by Cold
Weather-Judse c. B.
Talbot Dead.
A new bank is being organized at
Mansfield
James Polk, Of Workman. was struck
and killed by a train at Slidell.
EtelIien Babineaux attempted to COM
nit suicide at Lafayette because of hard
times.
The Union Bank and Trust Company,
capitalized at 100000, was organized at
Opelousas.
A reward is offeredsfor Ben Thomas, a
negro, who shot and killed James Snow
near Ayres.
The hotel and three other buildings in
Melville were destroyed by fire, the loss
entailed being $4,000.
Estrada Cabrera was reelected presi-
dent Of Guatemala.
Thirty-five men were entombed as the
result Of an explosion in coal mine at
Mulga, Ala.
Several lives were lost and considerable
damage done to property and crops by
foods in Servia.
Troops were ordered to Santa Clara pro-
vince, Cuba, on account of threatened
uprising of negroes.
The potato acreage in East Baton Rouge
parish is said to have been increased
more than 100 per cent?
Eighteen men were killed in mine ex-
plosion at Amsterdam, Ohio.
Jack Fontenot was shot and killed at a
country dance near Church Point by his
brother-in-law, Fedelice Leger.
Jim Flannagin, youth. shot and
killed Emmett Make at Many, after the
latter had attacked him with gun.
Memorial Day last Tuesday was fit
tingly observed in many towns and cities
throughout Louisiana and Mississippi.
Fire at Whitecastle last Saturday de-
stroyed six residences and the negro pub
lie school, + .'sssaFly $4,000.
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won first honors At the DeSoto parish
athletic meet, which was held at Grand
Cane
Police officers at Hammond raided
hobo camp and destroyed their outfit,
driving fifty of the men of leisure out
OF the community.
Three members of railroad construc-
ton gang were killed and eight injured in
wreck at Sanford, Ind, near Terre
Haute.
Six convicts made daring dash for lib
erty from the federal prison at Fort
Leavenworth, Kans., but four of them
were recaptured
Joel F. Johnston. of Jackson, Miss,
pleaded guilty in the federal court at
Monroe to charge of peonage. He will
be sentenced later.
Judge Edward B. Talbot, aged sixty
five years, and nestor of the Iberville bar,
died suddenly Monday morning at his
home near Plaquemine.
An aviation meet will be held ON May
IA and Is at Alexandria, when the pri-
yate bi-pIane of Glenn Curtiss will be nav
igated by Charles F. Willard.
The Sugar Belt Transportation Com
pany has planned to increase its capital
and extend the service between New Or
/ leans and points along the Teche.
An affidavit has been filed at Kentwood
charging A T. Hasbrouck, cashier of a
subsidiary company of the Natalbany
Lumber Company, with embezzling $5OOO
Fire last Saturday destroyed the court
house, city hall, the Catholic church,
rectory and school and completely wiped
out sixteen blocks Of Lake Charles, caus-
ing loss of 81 100000.
Pietro Corrado, charged with the muir
der of Michael Maltiz on Rushmere plan
tation last summer, was convicted at Abb
beville and will be sentenced to a term of
life imprisonment in the penitentiary.
Heavy frost and freeze in many por-
tions of the state have completely de-
moralized the crop conditions. Cotton is
either killed or badly damaged and seed
for replanting is scarce, the price per ton
being S100.
Watch for the Comet.
The red DRAGON of the sky. Watch the