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| North America:The fifteenth Democratic national convention meets in St. Louis to nominate Grover Cleveland.
The ninth Republican national convention meets in Chicago to nominate Benjamin Harrison. |
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February 1888
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March 1888
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April 1888 Francis T. Nicholls defeats Henry Clay Warmoth and returns to the governor’s office. He has agreed to appoint Samuel McEnery to the Supreme court to avoid a fair count that would have given the Republicans the election. He also sanctions the use of vote fraud against blacks and protesting white farmers and laborers, but cuts Burke from the ticket. Burke absconds to Honduras with $1.2 million he has skimmed from the state treasury. |
May 1888
May 21 Taking office for his second but non-consecutive term, Francis T. Nicholls crusades against the Lottery, criss-crossing the state in an effort to halt its extension by the legislature. Lottery-owned legislators pass joint resolutions to recharter the syndicate and offer more than $1 million to the state treasury, but Nicholls vetos the bill. As president pro tempe of the State Senate Murphy James Foster opposes the constitutional amendment to recharter of the Louisiana Lottery. The State Supreme Court reverses Nicholls’ action. Next the U. S. Congress steps in to forbid lotteries from using U. S. Mails to sell tickets across state lines, severly hobbling the Lottery’s market. Nicholls acquiesces to a gradual reduction of educational funding, which sets the tone for poor public education in the state for the next 100 years. |
June 1888
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November 1888
November 13th the city of Slidell, St. Tammany Parish is incorporated and named for diplomat and U.S. Senator John Slidell of Louisiana by son-in-law Baron Frederic Erlanger, one of the financiers of the New Orleans and Northeastern Railroad. |
December 1888
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| Blues singer Huddie Leadbelly Ledbetter (1888-1949) is born in Mooringsport, La. He will play 12 string Guitar on Shreveport’s Fannin Street, sing his way out of prison, and became a folk hero with songs like Goodnight Irene, Bourgeois Blues and Midnight Special. | Violinist and band leader Armand J. Piron is born. | First Electric street lights. | Howard Memorial Building, Lee Circle at Howard Ave., completed as a public research library and memorial to business man and Louisiana Lottery entrepreneur Charles T. Howard. It is designed in Romanesque Revival by the firm of Shepley, Rutan and Coolidge successors to the late Henry Hobson Richardson who was born in St. James Parish. | The I. L. Lyons and Company Wholesale Drug House is completed at the corner of Camp and Gravier Streets. At eight stories and 115 feet in height it is the tallest commercial building in the South. | |||||||
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