St. Landry democrat., 1883-04-07

Four thousand dollars worth of fan
CIV goods were seized at Montreal, Cana,
few DAYS ago for undervaluation.
Two boys were burned to death On
thes 18th in frame house in Allegheny
City, Pa.
q The Grand Jury of the District of
Columbia returned three additional pre-
sentiments in connection with the star mali
route frauds on the 9th. In one James i.
Brady was charged with unlawfully rece1v-
ing s. 900 from Price, the contractor; IN the
second ex-senator Kellogg, of Louisiana,
and Brady were Jointly accused Of conspir-
ing with Price to defraud the Government
by the expedition Of routes; and in the third
Kellogg, individually, was alleged to nave
unlawfully received from Price $4,000 in
consideration of the exercise of his lnfiu-
ence in securing certain advantages for
Price from the Post-ofice Department.
The indictments were found upon the evil
dence of Price, who claimed to have made
the payments to Brady and Kellogg Ia cash
and post-office drafts.
RUSSELL Brown and Patrick Nc
GIew, accused of the murder of Mrs. Gem
eral Doris, Browns grandmother, at st.
Louis, No., entered plea of guilty OF man
slaughter in the first degree on the 18th,
and were sentenced to ten years in the
penitentiary.
OfPosITIoN of his daughters to his
marriage and the commencement OF
breach of promise suit caused Herman
Newman, a prominent merchant OF St.
Clair, Pa, to kill himself few days ago.
TWENTY-oNE Of the twenty-slx per-
sons arrested at Balinrobe, Ireland, re-
Gently for completely in the murder of Fee
rick in June, 1880, have been released.
ASA r. LEOPOLD, Treasurer OF the
Town Board of Crystal Falls, Mich. charged
with having left that town recently with
S., 900 of the town funds and 81 600 short on
an old account, was arrested the other night
in Chicago, Ill.
JUDGE HI. G. McCoMAs and wife, of
st. Louis, Mo-, were murdered on the 18th
by Apache Indians at Thompson Canyon,
eighteen miles east of Lordsburg, N. III.
Their son was with them and it was sup
posed was captured. A rumor prevailed
that troops and hostiles had an engage
ment in the MILESTONE Mountain and that
the troops were worsted. The citizens We're
urging the Government to adopt vigorous
policy.
AN earthquake in the neighborhood
of Miskalez, Hungary, the other day, dur
ing performance in q theater, caused a
hSnic, in which many persons We're IN
jdred.
SEVERAL important rivers in Hun
gary had overfowed their banks on the
18th, and number of villages were threat
ened.
SEVERAL miners at Querida, Colo,
having been sent to prison for stealing ore,
their friends had organized reign OF ter
ror there on the 29thhs1t They had ordered
about fifty persons to leave town, and
were parading the streets threatening
the lives Of more peaceable citizens. The
| Governoriwas appealed to for troops to re-
store order.
MISCELLANEOUS.
LORD. & MUM, Montreal (Cana.
shippers Of western produce, have failed.
| Liabilities S2Jo, 600.
The prosecution having failed to
| make out case, ext Congressman Thompson
Butler, charged with raising note from
800 to $4,000, has been released by the
| Pittsburgh (Pa.l courts.
IA MEETING of thousand Knights OF
Labor was held at Bloomington, H., rthe
/ other night to insist on the reinstatement OF
] seven employees of the Chicago & Alton
Railroad, discharged for petitioning an il.
crease of pay. The speakers urged all EN-
/ ployes to quit unless reinstatement was
made.
j ABoUTa hundred thousand pounds
of bullion, withdrawn from the Bank Of
England on the 9th, was for shipment tc
New York.
The Board Of Trustees of the Pala.
innate College, Myerstown, Pa, recently
/ deposed President Russell by leasing tbs
entire institution for twelve weeks. The
result was that the students were in rebel
| lion. l
AMERICAN artists in Europe are ex
cited over the clause in the new American
tariff increasing the tax on works of art
and will petition Congress TO repeal thu
same. S
I THE City Council Of Lincoln, Nebr..
proposes to raise the license for dramshops
1 from 81 600 to 50 800 a year.
/ THE Western Nail Association has de
eided to keep the mills running instead q
closing down for two weeks on April Z
Cause, improved trade
IT was charged on the 2Sth that tht
British police allowed mo. i" to escape be
cause his arrest, would weaken Carey's ties
| timony.
e. ABOUT two hundred Mormon fami
/ lies were sent to the forks of the Snake