The Progress. (Shreveport, La.) 1892-1900, 1894-11-24
LOUISIANA ITEMS
COMBINATIONS From all Parts OF tho
Pelican State.

of the city council of New Orleans
has reported favorably the ordinance
granting the Illinois Central railroad
the right to build wharves and lay
tracks on the river front, between !
Permission street and Louisiana av- !
enue. Amendments were agreed TO
limiting the tenure of the privilege
sought to twenty-five years, and pre-
venting the use of Louisiana avenue
for belt road purposes at the explra-
ton of the present franchise.
The Texas and Pacific railroad
big cotton wharf opposite New Or
leans caught fire in some mysterious
usnner recently. The entire wharf
800 feet long, was destroyed, and with
it between 20, 600 and 26,OOo bales OF
cotton. Forty or fifty cars loaded
with cotton were also consumed.
making about %, 900 bales lost. Inc
grain elevator had narrow escape,
but was only slightly damaged Inc
loss will reach $1,000, 900.
Governor Foster, upon the recon-
mendation of the full pardoning board,
has committed the sentence OF Patrick
Eagan to Imprisonment at hard LABOR
in the penitentiary for the term OF ten
years from date Of incarceration
without the benefit of act l. Of 1870
Earan was sentenced to life imprlson-
ment from the parish OF Orleans Tor
murder.
y successful attempt at tram
wrecking was perpetrated one night
recently on the branch road four
miles south of Eunice. The obstruc-
ton caused the engine, baggage car
and passenger coach to turn over.
Fireman H. Geiger was killed and
Engineer Joseph Mauldin seriously
injured.
At Chac0nta recently TWO white
men, Eddy Evans and John Bergron,
became involved in a quarrel over a
game of cards, when Evans drew a
gun and mortalIy wounded Bergron.
Then, realizing the enormity OF his
crime, he placed the gun to his breast
and killed himself.
At Bunkie, the suit filed by e. W.
Sentell and others against their pay
ing a five mill tax for ten years in
favor of the St. Louis, Avoyelles and
Southwestern railroad was decided in
the civil court recently in favor of the
railroad company.
Hon. Fred Seip, state senator from
the Alexandria district, is cutting and
shipping his crop of seventy acres OF
cane, and says that the first five acres
J cut would average fifty tons per acre
and that the land had no extra fertil-
ization this year.
The temperance movement, not only
in Monroe but in Ouachita parish,
seems to be going ahead with rush.
The saloon men are apparently panic
stricken and are doing their best to
stem the tide Of prohibition.
. The recent frosts at Sunset killed
! the bud Of sugar cane. The trial
l. planting of cane in this section has
produced very satisfactory results.
- From twenty-five to forty tons per
h acre has been the yield.
y I'VE propose now to make strong,
. vigorous and active fight against Of
fetal corruption" says George W.
Young. president of the Citizens Pro
d tectivo Association q New Orleans
= The firm of Buckner & johnson, o
"a Tallulah, was attached and closed W
n by w. f. Beck e. Co., of Vicksburg
a Miss. for bills past due. The mem
ia bers of the firm are both colored men
es By the burning of Mrs. Carey's res
J. idence on Louisiana avenue, New Or
leans, recently, Maggie Kirsella,
seamstress, lost her life Her charre(
" remains were found in the ruins.
n A committee of fifty responsible
b. citizens Of New Orleans, has been ap
g pointed to assist the Citizens Pro
ID tective Association in fighting cor
70 ruption in city affairs.
lg St. Mary went Republican, Match
On itoches and Union went Populist, an
n. these are the homes of the governor
of attorney general and auditor Of Lot
isiana.
At Kellar recently, while Abraham
IS, Smith and his wife were in the fiel
ps picking cotton their cabin burned
% crematirg their three little children
~ John Howard, drunken garbae
~ cart driver of New Orleans, recent
~, W. fired a shot without effect at negl
,aa with whom he had quarreled.
law The Provident Lumber company
IAN Lake Providence has consummated
.ho deal for 100000 feet of cypress lur
Der to be shipped to Illinois.
The officials are looking after 1
oilt manner of crookedness in New G
lily leans and the district court has
hat searchlight on the officials.
10 In New Orleans the latest decree
all fashion is that evening shoes a
10 stockings shall match the gloves
las stead of the gown.