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Newspaper
The Progress
Location
Shreveport, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 20, 1894
Page
4
The Progress notes a flurry of topics from European affairs to a Chicago named asteroid, asbestos use spreading through homes and fabrics, and a debate on horse tail docking. It cites veterinary rulings, common people’s schemes, Mexican Central American cautions, Australian climate vastness, and Indiana Hoosier state mental health advances.
In Alexandria and across Louisiana report heavy mishaps and crimes. A brakeman died after attempting to jump a locomotive near Baton Rouge. A mob threatened a Black man at Lafayette, shots fired. In Shreveport and New Orleans freight cars wrecked and a telegraph of violence followed by arrests. convicts moved for a levee contract. Juries, taxes, and police news fill the rest as open court cases and public notices unfold.
Reports from Washington describe delays in modernizing the army with new magazine rifles, protracted labor contracts, and a push to equip the militia. A separate cable from Pekin touches on China Japan war mediation and Triple Alliance dynamics. Treasury notes reveal a gold withdrawal of 500,000, while postal carrier overtime claims and various securities cases unfold across New York, Baltimore, Michigan, and Philadelphia as regulators oppose lotteries and investment schemes.
In Washington the Chinese Pekin tax on all pods, imports, and exports is described as a severe barrier to commerce, levied at every town the goods pass through. The policy is considered more menacing than wartime actions.
Judge McComas of the district supreme court denied Miles Sugar Manufacturing Company of Louisiana a mandamus to force Secretary Carlisle to appoint inspectors to verify sugar production. The ruling holds the sugar bounty repeal a repeal of the inspection clause, leaving licenses and bounty payments unlawful. relief lies only in an appeal to Congress for compensation.
Oct. 16 report from Easurxeron notes a tariff bill complication. Secretary Carlisle cannot implement the law due to lack of appropriation, while experts claim alcohol used in arts and medicine has been free since Aug. 28. Concerns rise over removing revenue stamps from empty bottles and potential penalties for not defacing stamps.
Wasmington Oct 12 William B Smith of New Jersey a laborer in the bureau of engraving and printing was arrested yesterday charged with stealing 59 000 2 cent postage stamps from the government Smith went to New York recently and is alleged to have placed the stamps there It is believed other employees are implicated and the postmaster noted a 60 000 short in his package of stamps
Oct. 15 report from Forged Letterm Wasnixeton states the chairman of the senate committee on mines and mining learned a man using the alias 5. S. Carter claiming to be a colonel and agent for the committee tried to swindle New York cement firms. He offered forged credentials and letters of introduction to secure government cement for western mining towns.
Judge Advocate Lemly of the navy has returned from New Orleans with proof of the purchase of land adjoining the dry dock site at Algiers opposite the city. The price paid was 447,000.
An eccentric proprietor discovers his clerks pilfering lozenges and chocolate from a medical stock. After a playful scare involving a mock poisoning, he advises them with a light touch, and the incident ends with the office boy never returning.
A studio scene shows artist Mr. Hlealy gently correcting Miss Jones who arrived with heavy paint and powder on her face. He asks her to rest and wash, promising a clearer outcome. the next day the faint flush proves only natural.
From Blackwood's Magazine a summary contrasts Sunni and Shiah beliefs about the Mahdi or Messiah. Sunnis expect a new prophet, while Shiahs await an imam who has disappeared and will reappear as the Messiah.
Mildred asks Gordon if she is the first girl he kissed and he replies she is the last. The couple share a playful, tender moment in a Brooklyn Life character sketch.
In verse the speaker laments Bertha's desertion for another and vows despair. He asks a friend for a pretty girl to ease his pain, declaring life may be impossible without such aid. The fragments reveal a melodramatic mood and a lone speaker named Flidgenade Blaettes.
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