The Progress., 1894-11-10
LOUISIANA ITEMS.
Combinations From all Parts az the
Pelican State.

Some time ago the school board OF
Caddo parish brought suit ag alpsC
the CITY of Shreveport, asking for a
Indictment for moneys accumulated IN
the city treasury from 1881 to 1872
said moneys having been set aside by
the city for school purposes IN us
budget, and not used by the schooi
board, amounting in al to several
thousand dollars. The city made the
execution of no cause of action 1or
the reason that the charter does noC
authorize the appropriation OF a TAX
for school purposes. Judge Taylor
sustained the exception and dismissed
the case. The school board Will
probably appeal the case.
w. G. Kenneker, OF New Orleans,
who has taken the contract OF boring
the artesian we'll at Alexandria lor
the contractors of the electric llgh:
and waterworks of that city, has con-
structed 6O-foot tower ard Will COM
mence boring at once. They Will use
for the first 80 feet Pinch pipe, ana
for the next l6 feet lO-inch pipe. FOR
the balance of the 600 feet, the depth,
required, they will use S-inch pipe.
Perry Bell, a negro, drew revolver
on Willie Brown during quarrel re-
Gently at New Orleans, between Green
and Long, but before he could use H.
Brown slashed him across the stom-
ach with butcher knife, infllctlng a
painful wound. Brown surrendered
to the police and the wounded negro
was taken to his home near by, where
he received medical attention.
While on his way to Benton, re-
Gently, to deliver lecture, Sam Jones
was induced to remain in Shreveport
for one hour and address the faithful.
He spoke to crowded audience, pe0-
pie being turned away from the
church. He nailed the proprletors
who rent their houses to saloon men,
calling them all kinds of pet names.
The British steamer Montczuma.
Capt Taylor, cleared from New Or
leans recently for Liverpool by FL
dock, Dempstcr IL Co., with 14,9SS;
bales of cotton, $4,000 bushels Of
wheat and other freight. This is the
largest cargo of cotton ever carried
from that or any other port.
A woman named Davis, aged about
60 years, was seriously injured the
other morning at the corner OF Camp
and St. Joseph streets, New Orleans,I
by being run over by a wagon belong
ing to a brewery company. The in
jured woman was taken in the ambu-
lance to the hospital.
Disappointment in love is alleged
.. as the cause which prompted l6-year-
old ncgress named Celesttne Daucie,
to attempt suicide the other day in
at her home in New Orleans. She
swallowed portion of bluestone cop
per powder. Her condition is dan
gerous.
The New Orleans screwmen's strike
. collapsed almost as soon as it began.
Considering the elements opposed to
each other. that city is to be congratS
, dated on having experienced so little
: disaster from so formidable a disturb
. | opca in itc incantiOn
Near Donaldsonville the other day
: the hywhcel Of the sugar-housc OF the
d Hermitage Planting and Manufacture
}. ing company broke, killing two white
!. laborers and injuring two others, one
q of the latter being negro.
:. At9Shreveport recently white mar
IS named M. Renaud, about 30 years o
g age, was found dead in bed. He hac
:. been in Shreveport about three
h months. The coroner has the case
- under consideration.
Recently there was an unknown
=. white man drowned in Vermilliol
~ river near Abbeville. He was in tn
- employ of j. Henry Putnam. Rosehil
plantation and was thrown from ON
10 of the cane barges.
- The loss by the burning of tn
sugar house on the Sentelles-Leinste
"a plantation, near Bunkie the othe
y night, was $4,000, besides the los
that will result from handling thi
10 years. crop of cane.
p The gin house on the j. B. Slater
place, near Shreveport, was burne
10 one morning recently, with five bale
O, of cotton, The gin house was no
insured. The origin OF the fire
"a unknown.
at The Natchitochos and Red Rive
Valley railroad was sold recently III
w der foreclosure proceeding and wa
On purchased by Gen. j. W. Bchan an
Bertran Beer of New Orleans.
ell The magnificent water tower Of tn
at insane asylum at Jackson, has ju!
been completed. 1t is twelve feet hig
ns and ten feet in diameter. Its capat
lv ity is 10000 gallons.
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