The Progress., 1894-10-20
WASHINGTON NEWS
LOUISIANA ITEMS.
Cordensations From all Parts OF INV
Pelican state.
TILE EOlJlPPlNG OF THE ARMY
IS GOING ON

lumD q passing io'o'''"'''''
standing the warnings OF s0'o'|'
friends present, aud missing Ms ' '
fan before the locomotive. OplatcS 0
,voro administered to him, but he dled t
q few minutes aftcrward'
Near Lafayette the Other nigh' "
Marty Of reckless and coWardly men
visited the homo of negro Aloc''
Eourcadc. and demanded entrance W
bia house, The demand was refused,
whcreupon the party dismouh'o" """
triod to force entrance. The negro
seeing their Design and thaV 'hcy
were armed, threw open his door anu
Gred the contents Of his shotgun lh'o
the party with disastrous cncc'' 'noS
beating hasty retreat.
At u fair given at coIorcu cno'u "'
four miles above ThibodauX' reccn''y'
Dan Murray shot and killed t'mmons
Graham. At fai" at st. Maine"
Hall in tho suburbs of lhloooauA'
D,n Green was badly beaten by SOY
aral persons, and at }aecland Ernest
Rroauy shot a woman. NO arrests
have been made, but oNlIceF7 arc u
search of the mu.cfactorS.
The other night at Shreveport
some empty freight cars got lose o''.
observed and ran down the track spine
t distance and stopped. An outgoing
freight for New Orleans ran ln'o 'n ~
and smashed things generally. Inc
0 engineer had one leg broken, ana .n'
il, fireman had both wrists ana one mp
=, broken. They jumped from inc ell
: zine falling 80 feet
t Thornton Taylor and Charles jack
:, con two shrewd negro confluence
s men, who work what is known as the
Q knife trick, at New Orleans, nave
Q been jailed for hcecng two stranger
IS from DonaldSonville out OF Slo. Vhe
s. of the men was arrested some tlm'
10 400 on the Same charge and Is no"
IL ont on bond awaiting trial.
8 An unknown white man was 1ouh'
q dead in the upper part OF inc Guy y
" Alexandria recently. An lhquest re
suited in a verdict that he died iron
at natural causes He was ABOUT D
y" wears old. about 5 feet & inches tai
90, and weighed about l4O pounds.
ed The steamship Professor, whlc
la was reported aground at tho bar al
he rived at her wharf at New Orleans
IN due season. The report was louh
Y to be unfounded and the tug "lAmo
St which was dispatched to her ass's
rth ance. had the trip for nothing.
lao Capt. W. T. Hustled, in charge
ra the convict camp at Alexandria, n
~ left with his force Of lao conV'cts
',lo Lafourche Crossing, where nc mas
9io' levee contract lie has just co
o'' plcted some of the best leveo wo
:" done in the parish
,n,e A runaway horse dragging a wage
rto. ran in the banquette at Elysian ilel
, 70 and St. Claude streets, New Orlea
the recently and demolished a $50 la
3D. in front of Louis Knapp's barroo
dis Albert Levy will pay the damage
ness Fourteen able bodied men we're
par fore Recorder Aucion of New Orle
Of the other morning, charged with be
'ibu- Migrants. They were found lolter
day. on the levee and each was fined III
ana thirty days.
a In Shreveport has just had Jail
,om. livery. The prisoners escaping.
aar Ben Johnson, Joe Reuben, Jim WI
w.. u ), ington, Willie Wilburn, W
" Thomas, Alonzo Rhodes and Al
do Jefferson.
ance A cartridge placed on the rallr
4 at track on Delord street, near baro
elop- New Orleans, recently, was explt
Cen by freight train. Plenty OF ex'
avor" ment, but no damage was the res
ltlous Judge Noise has sentenced job
'iu,e' Callahan, member of the city c
Inc Gil of New Orleans recently cow
. w wa, of blackmail and bribery, to
wv wears in the penitentiary.
army The roll of the state Normal sc
oes at Natchitoches has been finally
IN re- pleted, and shows total enroll
,r;can Of 2sS students, against 256 for
, the same date last year.
". j. Brown, alias Williams,
trouble OF Rayville, having i'm
at ex- on the Masonic fraternity at M
ETY. OF and at Rayville. He was jailed
d con- charge Of forgery.
miles, Gov. Foster has appointed JOB
United Dumisgan commissioner OF Gle
9 parts and b. B. Booty constable 10
e is as Second ward OF Livingston paris
- SoSn Edward Turner, 16 years DID,
' 'a.h on, John A. Geraghty, who was aoe
'lsi.an wears old, while boxing with
!, ,op. .;'h at New Orleans one day recent
Queens Henry Clay, a negro teamste
he soil siding at New Orleans, recent
loaded ceived severe injuries by
sight. cotton falling on him.
ia is as The tax collectors OF Vermllll
capaci- Ascension have settled with 4
fail to uoo,d for the third quarter