St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1883-05-05
MISCELLANEOUS.

IHE Judges OF the ClnclnHatl W.
Superior Court refuse to appoint health
officer as authorized by the law which
abolished the Board of Health. They say
it is contrary to public policy for courts to
make such appointments.
g AGENT Wilcox reported the Rangers
towering nea she San Carlos Agency on
the 24th watching chance to surprise the
Indians. He was afraid that his Indians
could not be persuaded to remain on the de-
fensive and await an attack. Secretary
Teller had notified the War Department
and troops were to be sent to preserve the
peace.
JANNER, the director of he Ring
Theater, at Vienna, Austria, at tic time of
the disaster by which hundreds of lives
were lost, has been pardoned, after serv-
ing half the term for which he was SEN
fenced.
IT has been officially announced that
the British Government is in favor Of as
sisting emigrants from Ireland.
FIFTEEN witnesses testified in Dublin,
Ireland, on the oath in support of Timothy
Kelly's alibi plea in the Phoenix Park case.
Two THOUSAND workmen have pro-
tested against the sick fund bill introduced
in the German Reichstag by the Govern
ment.
In Berlin, Germany, the other day
two thousand five hundred cabmen struck
for an increase of wages.
HENRY T. WRIGHT, Assistant POST
master at Racine, Wis, was arrested and
taken to Milwaukee the other night owing
to shortage of over 5000 in his accounts,
which he had confessed. The prisoners
friends said they believed he was insane.
The first and second mates of the
steamer Tropic, running between Philadel
phia and the West Indies, in the fruit car
rying trade, were arrested by the United
States Marshal upon the arrival of the yes
sci at Philadelphia few days ago upon
the charge of violating the neutrality laws
in transporting arms and ammunition to
Miragoane for the Haytian rebels. The YES
sci, it was also alleged, conveyed the COM
pany of rebels who captured Miragoane,
the latter part of March, from Inagua to
the port named.
The jury again disagreed in the trial
| of Timothy Kelly, at Dublin, Ireland, on
the 18th, for the Phoenix Park murder.
Michael Fagin, who is charged with the
| killing of Burke, was placed on trial. The
court fined seventy five persons 500 each
| for nonattendance as jurors.
A DISPATCH from Kaiserlautern, in
Rheinish Bavavia, on the 18th, reported an
explosion in the mail train ola package of
dynamite. The Conductor was seriously
| wounded.
The prospect at the San Carlos Res
ervation on the 18th was more peaceful.
The Rangers were going to their homes and
the Indians to their farms.
The London (Eng.) Times says it is
understood the evidence against Peter Ty-
| nan, mo. ~ from independent witnesses
as well as from informers,is such as to jus.
| tify decisive action by the Government in
| asking for his extradition.
The Ohio State Forestry Convention
began session at. Cincinnati on the 18th.
The attendance was very light.
| WILLIAM PACK was publicly logged
in Annapolis, Md, the other day, under the
new law Furnishing wife-h6aters.
| The Canada Pacific Railway and GER
tain land companies propose to become Sc
| curity for 81 ,o00, 900, to be advanced by the
British Government toward setting up 5000
families on Government lands in the North.
western British possessions. s@
ELIZA PINKsToN, who gained promi.
hence as witness during the Presidential
| controversy in 1875 and 1876, died in the
Canton lMiss.) Jail on the 18th and was
buried as pauper