The Progress. (Shreveport, La.) 1892-1900, 1894-08-18
LOUISIANA ITEMS.
CONVERSATIONS From all rart OF tic
Pelican state.


made break for liberty. Mr.. Tatum
cried out for assistance and before the
men had gone a block they were
caught. They made no resistance and
were quickly locked in their cells.
A wcll-dressed man, evidently a
gentleman of standing in the commu-
nifty in which he lived, left New Or
leans the other morning on the North
eastern road and when the train stop
ped at the bridge on that road, a little
out from the city, he stepped off the
train and fell to the ground a dead
man. 1t is presumed that it was
from heart failure. The name OF the
unfortunate could not be learned.
Joseph Eads is in trouble and held
at New Orleans in bonds by Judge
Whitaker on several charges. The
complainants are Mrs. Elizabeth La
brain and Mrs Francis Labran0
They charge him with insult and
abuse, assault and battery, Islander
and one or two other charges.
The State Farmers Alliance met
recently at Natchitoches in annual
session. Hon. John Pickett, presi-
dent delivered an address filled with
wise counsel and recommendations
The reports show that the Alliance
has been growing steadily and is now
established on a sound basis.
Dasylvia Courcler has been SEN
fenced to thirty days in the Parish
prison at New Orleans and also to pay
a fine of $3.50. for refusing to answer
certain questions put to him during
the trial OF the rule for contempt
against l.. A. Gourdain before Judge
Theare. He is lotteryite.
Henry breckenridge, a negro, as
saulted and beat Sarah Forrest about
the body with picket and then cut
her with razor recently during q
quarrel IN New Orleans. Henry es-
capped, and the woman was taken to
her home where she received proper
attention.
John Greary made a very uncom-
plimentary remark about Miss Marie
Gross. On hearing it she interested
her sister and they secured good
cowhide, waylaid him and gave him
a sound thrashing. This is the first
cowhiding in New Orleans for some
time.
Fred Meyers, butcher, who re-
sides at the cOrnOr OF Second street,
near Clinton. New Orleans, was ar
rested recently at the corner OF Wal
mt and Magazine streets, on a war,
rant sworn to by Betsey Forrest.
charging him with assault and bat.
terry.
At New Orleans The other day while
some children were playing on some
gunwales in the river at the head of
Jena street, one of the number, Leon.
ard Behn, aged ), accidentally fell:
overheard and was drowned. The,
body was recovered.
The notorious toughs, Ed Harris,
his brother and Walter alias Skip
Nealy, have again succeeded in
"breaking" into Jail at New Orleans.
for bad conduct. The each got a $50
line.
Jim Murray, the negro desperate
who murdered Private Waterman
Michael Cotter in New Orleans re-
Gently, has been arrested by Sheriff
N. l.. McRea near Waynesborro, Miss.
Frank Gonzales, negro, and Mrs.
Branden, a white woman, were each
fined $25 or 80 days for being drunk
and disturbing the peace recently by
Recorder Aucoin of New Orleans.
The Louisiana Farmers Alliance re-
fused to indorse the Peoples party.
The Alliance is non-sectarian and non
political, and these are the founda-
tions of its perpetuity.
The Citizens Protective Association
of New Orleans are taking active steps
to impeach the corruptionists at the
City hall regardless of the action I'M
the criminal court.
!, Joseph Sweeney, white boy 16
years old, sustained fracture of the
skull recently at New Orleans by the
rope breaking while swinging at his
house.
The Penn Bridge company, of Penn.
sylvania, has commenced the erection
of the fine iron parish bridge across
the Bayou Falaya river at Covington.
The contractors on the federal
building at Alexandria only paid their
laborers 80 cents day. The negroes
quit and went to the cotton patch. ,
William j. Kane and Frank B. Thrift
filley have been jointly indicted in
connection with the court house
frauds at New Orleans.
Mayor Pro lem Janison of New
Orleans has given bond in $4,000 for
his appearance, and says .'it is all q
lie-nothing in it,
Alexandria and Baton Rouge both
have government buildings in course
OF construction.
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