St. Landry democrat., 1883-10-20
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
News from Everywhere.
PERSONAL AND poL1rICAr~

On the 9Th Assemhlyman Sessions of
New York was placed on trial charged
with attempting to bride member during
the Senatorial election which was held af-
ter Conkiing and Platt resigned.
The RIGHT REV. AUGUSTUS SHORT,
Bishop of Adelaide, Australia, is dead. He
was born near Exeter, England, in 1903.
On the 9Th Alfred A. Cohen, a lead
ing member Of the California bar, who has
been visiting in the East for several weeks,
was stricken with paralysis in New York.
THE President and his Cabinet are all
in Washington again.
GENERAL CAMPENoN succeeds Thi-
baudin as French Minister of War.
On the 9th the Ohio and Iowa women
turned out at the polls and worked for the
temperance amendments.
The report of his resignation is de-
MED by United States District Attorney
Milton of North Carolina.
On the 9Th the elections in Ohio and
Iowa were favored with good weather,
and in both States the vote polled was SO
heavy that returns were late. There were
Republican gains in Ohio, but whether
enough to carry the State had not been
learned.
MARQUIS TsENG, the Chinese Ambas-
sador, has decided to ask England's media
ton.
! The new directors in the Western
Union Board are John Hay and Frank
Work.
On the reassembling of the Senate
Mr.. Edmunds will resign the position of
President pro TEN.
On the 10th Moody and sankey sue
cessfully began series of meetings in the
Royal Theater, at Limerick, Ireland. The
building was crowded to its utmost capaci-
ty. The services were singing by Sankey
and two addresses by Moody. The audi
ence appeared spell-bound under Moody's
preaching.
SUPERINTENDENT CHAs. Fl. CRANE,
U. S. A., died on the night Of the 9th.
REV. DIR. EVER, of New York, who
was stricken with paralysis while preaching
at Montreal on the It'll, died on the morn.
ing of the 10th.
The German statesman, Herr Lasker,
reached Galveston, Tex, on the 18th, in his
tour of the country.
On the 18th John B. Nixon, once
widely known as New York halter, drop
ped dead at his mine, near Tucson, Ari-
IONA.
On the 18th John F. Andrew, son of
the famous war Governor, at Portland, Me-,
married Miss Harriet Thayer, daughter of
the late Nathaniel Thayer.
AT Scranton, Pa, Jennie Noon was
reported dead. A friend called recently
and expressed surprise at finding her alive.
The girl fell in swoon and remained un-
conscious until the 18th, when she died.
RETURNS up to the 18th from the cleo
ton in Ohio indicate an increase in the
Democratic majority, and it will probably
be considerably over 10000. The Senate
will be two to one Democratic, and the
House is estimated at forty-three Republi.
cans and sixty-t Democrats.
NEARLY complete returns from the
election in Iowa indicate that Sherman's
majority will reach $4,000. Complete re.
turns from ffty-nine counties, which in
clude heavy Democratic ones, give him 49,
800. Partial returns from the remaining
counties give him $1,000. His plurality
will not be less than 1900. The lower
house is close. The Republicans now have
81; the Opposition, Al. OF the remaining
five the Republicans will get three. The
Senate now stands: Republicans, 81; OPP
position, s; in doubt, s.
AN attempt was made by a man
named Urena recently to assassinate the
President of Santo Domingo at Neyba,
Hayti. The President shot his assailant
dead. The would-be assassin had no ac-
completes.
ON the 18th Attorney General Brew
ster returned to Washington and was on
duty. The President and all the members
of the Cabinet are now at the capital.
PRESIDENT ARTHUR has appointed
ex-Congressman Ben. Butterworth Com.
missioner of Patents, vice E. M. Marble,
resigned.
APPLICATION has been made by Rear
Admiral J. NJ. B. Clitz, U. S: N, to be
placed on the retired list under the forty.
years'-service provision.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
Four men were killed and seven in.
iured at Macedon, N. Y, on the 9Th by the
explosion of an old blast which they were
removing.
On the night of the It'll eleven thous-
and dollars was stolen from the paymastel
of the Mexican National Railway in the
station in the City of Mexico by the pay
masters servant.
The 10th of November has beer
designated by the Governor of Maryland
for the execution Of John Smith, colored, Of
Garrett County, who killed Joseph Harder
on the 18th of May.
On the 9th three passenger cars wert
thrown from the track and burned at Deuz
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