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Newspaper
The Progress
Location
Shreveport, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 14, 1896
Page
2
A jumble of 1890s style clippings covers murder, fashion, law, and social shifts. Notes on a rifle, Roentgen rays, bear hunting by an 83 year old, alimony, marriages, a Joliet septuagenarian wedding, and Vanderbilts versus Astors loom amid humorous quips and world affairs.
A long string of local items from Louisiana recounts incidents across cities like New Orleans Shreveport and Alexandria. Reports include court cases incidents of crime including a fatal pistol shooting, a rescue of drowning children, a pension fraud case, a marriage license dispute charged as perjury, vandalism and burglary with loot from a grocery, and official notes from penitentiary and voter registers.
Washington March 10 A heated senate session over Cuban policies drew a large crowd with diplomats from France Brazil Hawaii Germany and China in attendance. Senator Hale of Maine angrily opposed intervention while objections sparked a brief clash before calm returned. measures postponed until April 6 and requests for full information on Cuba were adopted as part of the day’s business.
Disturbances in Bilbao continue despite warnings as police clash with protesters injuring several dozen. Mob retreats after scuffles, with authorities guarding against harm to US interests. Elsewhere Spain appears calm as Havana reports insurgents in demoralized retreat toward the island’s east.
A man named La Pointe opened fire on March 9 near noon after alighting from the 11:45 train. He shot Peter Moore and Chief Rose fatally or gravely, wounded Constable Tingley, and injured several others before being captured and jailed.
London reports arrangements near completion for an Anglo German syndicate to secure a 16 million pound Chinese loan to be issued in two installments. The loan, set at five percent, runs for thirty six years and is secured on customs receipts. The move disrupts French influence and intersects with Russia's China role, with reconstruction plans in Britain seeking up to 20 million pounds.
Frankfort March 10. For the second time death shapes Kentucky's senatorial contest already drawing national notice. The death of Senator Rosel Weisinger of Louisville removes a leading figure who had defeated Dr. Hunter the Republican nominee and thwarted Blackburn supporters’ efforts to reelect that candidate.
In Delta Colorado on March 10 masked cowmen warned western sheep men to remove their flocks at once or face killing. Sheepmen have long occupied the range with recognized rights. violence is feared if cattlemen act. Other brief items note tar fire deaths at Bayonne and an Indiana man’s mail bomb and a New York suicide. Congress keeps passing pension bills.
The Scientific American reports that milk can be sterilized by passing it through an alternating electric current. A German contractor has secured a concession to build electric railways in the Tehran suburbs. Electrical sewage purification shows promise. one electrical horsepower could purify about 14,000 gallons of sewage in ten hours.
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