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AROUND THE STATE.
Items of Interest Tulled From the
Louisiana Press.
State University's Proposed Medical De
partment to be Located at New Or
leans-Wagon Maker Mur
dered at Shreveport.
A progressive league was organized
at Alexandria.
Charles Watson, an escaped convict
from California, was arrested at New
Orleans.
Another ice factory will shortly be
established at Alexandria by a com
pany capitalized at $60,000.
The First Methodist Church at New
Iberia was totally destroyed by fire,
inflicting a loss of over $25,000.
An official census of the town of
Lafayette is being compiled with a
view to securing free mail delivery.
The infant son of Paul Durio, of
Breaux Bridge, was seriously injured
by being kicked in the face by a mule.
F. P. Martin was appointed mayor
of Washington to succeed A. J. Mul
ler, who recently removed from the
town.
Joe Fuchs, a well-known wagon
maker of Shreveport, was mysteri
ously murdered near his home in that
city.
A disastrous fire occurred in the
business section of West Monroe,
property valued at $14,000 being de
stroyed..
The firm of H. Kahn Co., Ltd., dom
iciled ia Chamberlain, West Baton
Rouge parish, has gone into the hands
of a receiver.
George Slayter, colored, was shot
and instantly killed by Fabius Dupre,
a white man, in the negro department
of a saloon at Eunice.
The Louisiana and Arkansas Rail
road depot at Winnfield, which was
destroyed by fire last December, is
being rebuilt on a much larger scale.
The captain and crew of the Nor
wegian bark D. H. Morris reached
New Orleans in a launch, having
abandoned their vessel off Chandeleur
Island.
