The Progress., 1896-11-28
LOUISIANA NEWS NOTES.

of seed. The property was not in
sured.
At the annual meeting of the board
of directors Of the Donaldsonville Bot.
thing Works Company few days ago
profit of 10 per cent on the years
business was announced.
II. G. Wizard, conductor of Car No
4S of the Carollton line, New Orleans
YES caught between two cars the Other
day at the head of Canal street and
was severely hurt about the right leg
A bid for sixteen electric lights fol
the clock in the new court building In
Algiers was submitted to Engineer
Bell, recently, agreeing teinstall the
sixteen lights necessary for that pur'
pose for the sum of s122.
Thomas Kaumell, who resides on
Enghein street, New Orleans was
struck on the head with a beam and
slightly hurt the other day, while at
work on the mship Istria, lying at
the head of Fourth street.
A few nights ago, the police Of AL.
giers succeeded in arresting August
Beverly, the boy who threw the brick
and seriously injured Aloysurs Ken
nedy. He was arrais5led and placed
under a bond of $500 to appear for
trial
Mabel Wilcox, living in New Orleans,
made an attempt to commit suicide ia
short time ago, but the students sue
ceeded in saving her life. She had
taken morphine Ill health is the
cause assigned for the attempt at self.
destruction.
The prisoners incarcerated in the
| parish Jail at Donaldsonville were re-
moved the other day to the lookup in
the parish of Assumption. The change
was necessiatated by the repairs an0
rebuilding now going on in the Jail al
Donaldsonville.
John Arba and a negro. man named
Nose Robertson, arrived in New Or.
leans several days ago from Davis
plantation, in st. James parish, suffer
ing from burns about the face, neck
and hands. They were injured by thu
explosion of a boiler.
Sidney Stovall, the young negro who
was arrested about a month ago il
Algiers for stealing milk and bread
from the residences in Algiers, wal
again before the Recorder few d;y'
ago, charged with being vagrant. H
was again sent to the police Jail TO-
thirty days.
Eddie Henry, a negro, received
wound six inches in length on tn
right side of the face several morning
ago in New Orleans, at the hands
Robert Johnson, also negro who ha
knife. The negroes had been in
row at the Independent Oil Mills. Bot
were arrested
Governor Foster, upon recommen
dation OF the full board Of pardons, ha
committed to six months imprison
ment in the parish Jail at New Orleans
the punishment Of Alex Beri, who wa
: convicted of larceny in New Orlean
some time back, and sentenced to 81
months in the penitentiary at har
labor.
A general cutting ARRAY took plac
in Algiers the other morning ON Tech
street, in which several negroes of bot
sexes took part. The cause of the a.
: fair was said to have been case
4 jealousy on account of dusky dud
: named Jim Breaux. Two of the wome
| received cuts, all were taken to- tn
police station.
An old man known simply as Ja'
cues who was accustomed to pick u
= the pieces of coal dropped by trair
: along the river front in New Orlean
. was struck by freight cars a few da.
, ago which were being moved by
!. switch engine of the Southern Pacif
+ road and was fatally hurt about IL
i head and body. Death was almost II
y Simultaneous.
9 Sylvester Y. Mendoza, local agent
e the Singer Sewing Machine Compan
l. at Crowley, was stabbed several NOR
> ings ago by John Wooten, a painte
Wooten is a hard drinker and was
3 one Of his usual sprees. Some tin
: ago Mendoza says Wooten became
=. Tended at him, and took out his ang
y, y by stabbing Mendoza just to the le
of the heart.
Several evenings ago, at the corn
n of Basin and Canal streets, New q
" leans, an aged negro named Jol
Strickland, was struck over the left e
st and knocked down with an IN
knuckle by man named William DO
j. oyan. who halls from Mobile. Don
q van was arrested and locked up
assault and battery and : carrying