St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1883-08-25
MISCELLANEOUS.

In prize fight on Long Island on the
14th Dempsey, of Brooklyn, whipped Turn.
bull. of New York, in thirty-three rounds.
William Wagner, of Pittsburgh, Pa, was
/ knocked out by Albert Cannauk, of New
York.
/ A COMMITTEE of striking telegraph
ers called on General Eckert at New York
on the 18th to know upon what terms the
men could go to work. Tfey were referred
to the district superintendent. Later in
the day they sent word that since their at
| tempts to effect reconciliation had proved
futile they proposed to continue the fight
with renewed vigor.
MONTREAL veterinary surgeons de-
clare that foot and mouth disease does not
exist in Canada.
The Italian envoy at Tangiers, Mo-
rocco, lowered his flag ON the 10th because
! the Sultan failed to accede to Italy's ulti-
matum demanding payment of certain
claims. An Italian squadron was in the
| harbor.
L. w. JOHNSON. a telegraph operator,
has been arrested, charged with causing the
| recent accident on the Troy s. Boston Rail.
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A TRAIN was stopped and plundered
by thirty armed men near Barcelona, Spain,
| the other day, the robbers securing booty
of the alleged value of $4,000.
The investigation Of the telegraph
strike by the Senate Committee, in session
at New 7 ork on the 10Th, continued to de-
velop interesting views and statistics.
The cholera as an epidemic was re-
ported diminishing in Egypt on the 10Th.
| There were only 316 deaths in that country
| on the 14th from the disease, forty of which
| occurred at Alexandria and nine at Cairo.
A COPY of the new commercial treaty
between Mexico and Germany has been
published in Galveston. By it's provisions
Germans are to pay no taxes not levied on
Mexicans, and are to be exempt from mill
tary service and forced loans.
The Francklyn cottage at Long
Branch, in which President Garfield ended
his sufferings, was set on fire by defect
i've fiue the other day, but the flames were
speedily extinguished.
JAMES MCDERMoTT, the Irish leader,
of Brooklyn, N. Y, was arraigned in Liv-
erpool, Eng, the other day, and was re-
manded on evidence that he had been seen
examining public buildings in company
with Dillon, a convicted conspirator.
TOPEKA, Kans., has floating debt of
$4,000, with no money in the treasury, and
two Councilmen oppose the borrowing of
funds for current expenses. Mayor Wilson
therefore discharged all but three police
men and all the firemen the other day. and
ordered the electric lights and gas cut off,
DEPosIToRs who could not get their
money the other day wrecked the premises
of savings bank in London, Eng.
ARTHUR w. BLANEY, who embezzled
forty thousand dollars from the American
Loan and Trust Company of Boston, Mass,
while acting as its cashier, has been sent to
the Penitentiary for seven Years.
IT was stated at the Treasury Depart
ment at Washington recently that by rea-
son of the vigorous action of the Govern
ment in prosecuting opium smugglers on
the Pacific coast, duties collected at San
Francisco on opium the last fiscal year were
more than s, 100000 in excess of collections
from that source the previous year.
The one hundred and sixth anniye--
sary of the battle of Remington, Vt, was
celebrated on the 10th by picnics, excur.
sions and addresses by the local clergy.
EIGHT out Of nineteen prisoners con-
fined in the Jail at Council Bluffs, Iowa,
made their escape recently by cutting a |
hole through the floor, but four Of them
were soon recaptured.
J. w. MAcKEY has been elected q
director Of the Postal Telegraph Company. /
Work will commence at once on an extern
sion of the lines. The capital stock has |
been increased to S21.0o0.00o.