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St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1884-02-16
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

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IN the Senate, on the Sth, Mr.. Rid
dleberger offered q resolution for joint
committee to inquire into the causes of re-
movals of employees of both houses Of Con-
gress. Among new bills introduced was
one by Logan for a commission to inquire
into the condition and progress Of the col
ored race. The land grant titles bill passed.
An effort to call up the Greedy relief mat
ter led to some speech-naking in which the
Navy Department was severely criticised
Adjourned to Monday. In the House, q
resolution inquiring it any United States
! Consuls are behind in their accounts was re-
| ferred; also, resolution inguiring as to the
power of Congressto regulate Importation OF
foreign goods by inspection laws. Mr.. Fin
erty offered a resolution eulogizing Wen
dell Phillips. A bill was introduced, re-
pealing internal taxes on tobacco. Report
of the conference committee on the Greedy
relief bill announcing further disagreement
was adopted. The elections committee re-
port on the Chalmers Manning contest,
recommending that neither be seated, was
ordered printed. The naval appropriation
bill was reported. With various amend
ments, the report Of the committee on rules
was adopted. Adjourned to Monday
The OHIO River was reported falling
on the 8th, as far down as Gallipolis, but
was rising below. The Lower Mississippi
had great volumes of water coming down
and prospects were still dubious. AT
Wheeling, w. Va, the bakeries and gro
ceries were drowned out and all sorts of
provisions were nearly exhausted, except
ing salt meat. Several points in Ohio re-
port the highest water ever known.
THERE is a strike Of 8, 900 ship-build-
ers at Belfast, Ireland.
Four naval cadets at Annapolis, Md,
are to be ecurt-nlartialed for hazing.
GOVERNOR OyERToN of the Chicka-
saw Nation died the night 81 the. 18th.
PARNELL offered his amendment in
the House of Commons on the 8th con.
demning the government policy in Ire.
land.
AssENBLYMAN DoNAHUE of New York
has been arrested IN Canada for completely
in Fenian operations.
The business failures in the United
States and Canada for the week ended the
Sch were 278, nearly 100 less than the week
before.
ELEVEN hundred liquor dealers of
New YORK, convicted of violating the ex-
else law have had their licenses revoked.
The Pope has sent a cornerstone
and an altar slab Tor the O:Connell memo
rial chapel to be erected i'm County Kerry,
Ireland.
DIPLOMATIC correspondence between
England and America, relating TO the sen.
tence of Patrick O'DonneIl, was presented |
to Parliament on the Sth.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1884-02-16
MISCELLANEOUS.

YIN LIE o6n Inc BIIClSl GaEIlanlent
opened. The Queens speech claims an i'm
proved condition of affairs in Ireland
A CHANGE Of venue to Petersburg,
Menard County, has been granted D. A.
Carpenter, charged with the murder OF
zura Burns at Lincoln, Ill.
On the 9Th there was imminent dan
ger Of serious damage by the ice and
freshet at Cleveland, but the gorge
which for time looked threatening was
broken up by tugs and drifted into Lake
Erie.
The Finance Committee of the Senate
has called on the Secretary Of the Treasury
for information as to the effect to be ex.
pected from the passage of the bonded
whisky bill.
f has been demonstrated by the city
electrician OF Chicago that underground
telegraphy is entirely practicable, and forty
miles of the municipal fre-alarm service is
to be Immediately equipped with cables
under the pavement.
In Faris q meeting of mechanics q few
days ago was informed by a speaker, who
had just returned from the United States,
that American wcrkingnen were no better
of than the French and had not so much
freedom in their enployments.
The Navy Department has purchased
the Thetis, said to be the stanchest whaler
that sails from Dundee, for the Greedy re-
lief expedition.
On the 9th tbs high water stopped the
gas works in Cincinnati, and the water was
still rising.
The delegates to the Mississippi Riv-
er Convention called on the President on
the 9th.
FLOODED railroad tracks and wash
outs are reported IN every direction.
TIE great cotton factory strike in
Lancaster, England, has ended in favor Of
the operatives.
ON the6 9th the Stove Manufacturers
Association held its annual meeting at
Cleveland, o.
TIE Coinage Committee Of the House
OF Representatives will report a bill to re-
tire the trade dollar
DISPATCHES received from various
points on the 9Th indicated that there was
reason to fear that the food in the Ohio
River would exceed that of last year.
Great damage had already resulted. The
Mississippi and Missouri were both rising
Rapidly and some Of the larger Southern
rivers were also. on q boom. The prospect
for big water in the Lower Mississippi was
good.
ACCORDING to latest adTiees from
Egypt Baker Pag.,s's defeat was even more
complete than at first reported. It is the
Old story. His Egyptian troops simply
did not fight Rt an, but lay down and beg
ged for mere8 from inferior forces of the
e. IL An attack on Suakem was appre-
hended. "a detachment of 406 men under
Fewtik Bey was cut of and slaughtered be-
tween Sinkat and the coast. Tokar and
sinkat are hopelessly lost.
A COLLISION occurred recently be-
5ween bodies of native troops in Algeria.
! French force was called out to restore
order..
On the 9th the river coal-miners of
he Pittsburgh district held convention
g decide about demanding increased
wages.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1884-02-16
PERSONAL ANp POLITICAL.

The City Council of Brooklyn, N. Y,
has arranged for suitable reception fol-
the remains of De Long and his comrades
On the eveni1g Of the 18th DR.. George
Englemann, Of st. Louis, Mo-, President 81
the St. Louis Academy Of Science, and pos
sessing a worldwide reputation as a
botanistand meteorologist, diedat his resi-.
dence in st. Louis. He was seventy-six
years of age.
O'NEIL, the African explorer, recent
II arrived at Mozambique, having ira.
versed 400 miles of territory hitherto un.
explored.
Ok the 9Th the steamer bearing the
remains of the Jeanette victims sailed
from Hamburg.
MANY Of the Conservative papers in
Germany are making violent attacks on
the memory Of Herr Lasker.
JUDGE HENRY COOPER, formerly
United States Senator from Tennessee, was
recently killed by robbers in chihuahua,
Mexico, where he was interested in a silver
mine.
On the 5th the Democratic Senatorial
caucus in Kentucky succeeded in breaking.
its deadlock and nominated Blackburn for
Senator.
TnE President gave his first public
reception OF the season on the 5th. The at
tendance was very LARGE
IHE cause of Wendell Phillips death
is found TO have been paralysis of the
heart. His funeral took place in Boston on
the 9Th.
IMPRESSIVE funeral services over the
Jeanette victims were held in Hamburg.
and were participated in by members OF
the Geographical Societies of Munich, Ham
burg, Berlin and Vienna.
Ok the 9th Mrs. Mary Sable, aged
seventy, committed suicide by hanging
herself at Toledo, O.
GEO. p. LOVING, representing the
Texas improvements company, sold to a
Scotch syndicate on The 9Th, ii England,
extensive ranch property and cattle for The
round sum of Il, ,0Q0. It's said tGha the
largest sale of this kind ever made.
! BILLY MeGLoRY, the nototGsls Nsw
York dance-house keeper, has been asn-
fenced to the Penitentiary for six MOTHS
for violation OF the excise law.
On the evening of the 9th the
Rev. ]. 3. BruiIlet, rector Of the CATH liz
bureau Of Indian Missionaries, died At
Providence Hospital, Washington, d. ~
He was a missionary among the Indians Of
the Northwest, chiefly Oregon and Van
couver's Island, twenty-five years.
MRs. STRATToN, Tom Thumbs wild
ON, is going to open museum ia New
York.
In the British House of Commons Sir
Stafford Northcote will offer resolution
declaring that events in the soudan are the |
direct result Of the governments vacillat-
Ing policy
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1884-02-16

THh Committee on Agriculture of the
Senate has ordered a favorable report on
the bill to prevent the spread of pleuro-
pneumonia.
/ A NUMBER of the big Texas cattle
| forming the Continental Land and Cattle
! Company, the largest in the world.
/ In Milwaukee, Wis, the two thir-
teen-year.old boys who attempted to rob
and murder a street car-driver have been
convicted.
THE Naval appropriation bill as pre-
pared by the Committee, is completed. It
appropriates 81 ,565,238 less than last year.
The commission investigating Super
intendent French of the railway mail serv-
ice has summoned two hundred postal
clerks to appear at Indianapolis.
On the 9th the Mississippi River Con-
vention held two short sessions but moth
ing of Importance was done owing to the
inability of the Committee on Resolutions
to present their report.
On the 9TH the River Convention
adopted resolutions approving the work of
the River Commission and urging Con-
gress to apply the same system without de-
lay to the Improvement of the Ohio, Mis-
souri, and other navigable rivers; also, de-
claring that Congress in making appropri-
ations should shave regard to the estab-
lishment of free water communication be-
tween the valley of the great river of the
West and tide-water Of the East
On the 9TH the rivers were still rising
-
gloomy enough. A fall in the temperature
on the night # the 9th was not sufficiently
pronounced to diminish the freshets
rapidly.
The newspapers of Paris are joking
England on the results Of the Egyptian
campaign.
THE merchants of Terre Haute, Ind,
are organizing board of trade.
FRANCE will send war material for
six gunboats to Tonquin.
THE damages by flood along the Ohio
River are estimated among the millions.
On the 18th a horse-thief was found
hanging to a post near Bassett, Neb.
An unconfrmed report was circulated
in London on the It'll that General Gordon
had been captured.
The authorities Of Long Island are
satisfied that the negro Rugg was the assail
ant in all the Oyster Bay outrages.
In consequence of the high water
fifteen thousand men are thrown out OF
employment in the vicinity of Pittsburgh,
Pa.
In London, Eng, fffty-two members
Of the Park Club have been fined from el0o
to e5o0 each for gambling in the club roons.
In the recent disastrous engagement
near Tokar in the Soudan, the total number
killed was 2,250. A transport viii sail i'm
mediately from England for suakem with
100 marines.
BRITISH firms are contracting with
the Chinese to construct telegraph lines
from Canton to the places occupied by
them in Tonquin.
THE first passenger train crossed the
new cantileyer bridge at Niagara Falls on
the It'll.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1884-02-16
A DESPERATE COWBOY.
An Exciting Fight on tfe Streets of Mont
rose, COL, with a Cowboy Desperate
Two Prominent Citizens Shot.


/ Two Prominent Citizens Shot.
MoNTRosE, Col, Feb. Z.
| There is great excitement in town tonight
| over the shooting of City Marshal C.. B.
| Murphy and Judge Edwards, Justice of
/ the Peace and Police Judge, by a cowboy
| named Watson, who was bound over in
| July to the District Court for splitting in
| the Judges face. He was fined $40 and
| costs, which amounted to about $115. About
/ dark the Marshal was attacked and shot in
| the ankle or just above. The man being on
his horse, he fired at him, but missed. Sew
eral shots were fired by citizens. Return
ing in about half an hour, the desperate,
drew his pistol on Frank Mason, when
Judge Edwards came up and drew his pis-
| tol on Watson, commanding him to throwup,
his hands. Watson spurred his horse, went
a few feet, refined up took deliberate aim
at the Judge and fired four shots, one ball
entering about three inches below. the left
nipple. The town is in arms after the man
Watson, who has had more than a hundred
shots fired at him. At corner his horse
fell, and persons, thinking he was hurt,ran
to pick him up, but before they could get to
him he was up and on his horse again. The
Marshal, Bob Murphy, started IN pursuit,
but did not overtalle him.
Not only did he threaten to kill the three
men already named, but he swore he would
burn the town, and it is feared by some
persons that he may return here yet to-
night and undertake it. 1t is now nearly
twelve. O'Clock and Sheriff Johnson has Just
called to see your correspondent to give an
account of the first attempt to catch Wat
son tonight. The Sheriff was returning
from CoIorow, a town between here and
Delta, and when about four miles north
west from here he met his deputy. Mr..
LOTUS, with the ether officers. They had
followed Watson across the Uncompaghre
River, but he eluded them. Five armed
and mounted men were sent to Baldwin's
Cowcamp to look out for Watson, and it is
expected that ii he goes there he will be
captured, as there is but one man there.
The camp is twenty five miles to the north
east of here, where he could get fresh
horse and supply of cartridges, for which
purpose it is expected he will go there, as
he has doubtless made up his mind by this
time to fight long hard, and desperate
fight. Watson is probably thirty eight
years old, stout built man with heavy
black whiskers, a determined looking face,
such q man as others would fear.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1884-02-16
i Block of Houses sink into q oollery,

WELKEsBARRE, Pa, Feb. +.
The Borough Of Hazleton, in the lower
end Of this county, a town Of 5000 inllabi-
tants, was this afternoon thrown into a.
fearful state Of excitement by the caving
in of an entire square in the central part
of the borough. The drop was about three
feet, caused by the giving way of the tim
bers in Sugar Loaf Colliery underneath.
Three or four houses, including a hotel,
were entirely wrecked, while numbers
of others were more or less injured. The
residence of Master Mechanic Clark, of the
Lehigh Valley Railroad shop, was utterly
demolished. Fortunately no lives were
sacrificed or anybody injured. It is report
ed here tonight that grave apprehension
exists in Hazleton concerning a further set
Ting of the surface, and much anxiety ex-
lists. This is the first town known to have
suffered from cave-in directly in it, bust
ness center, and it naturally gives rise to
much curiosity among residents of other
undermined towns to know the exact causes
that operated in bringing about the disase
ter of to-day.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1884-02-16
SN0W-BOUND,
a Railway Train Caught in the Mountains
of Southern Colorado-TerribIe Expert
enee of the Passengers-Th San Juan
Country Showed Under.

/ q hallway Train Caught in tue Mounta1ns
of Southern CoIorado-TerribIe Expert
ence of the Passengers-The San Juan
Country Showed Under.
DENVER, Cor, Feb 7.
A special from Durango tonight says
that the snow-storm there has abated, but
the country is literally showed under.
Snow-slides between Durango and Silver
ton have completely Frustrated the tele-
graph and telephone wires, and Silverton
and all the upper portion of the San Juan
| country is shut of from the outside world.
| The Rio Grande train due in Durango on
| Sunday arrived there this evening after
| having been tied up for several days. The
train-men made renewed efforts to push
the train through, and by using several en-
gines and snow-plows succeeded in getting
in this evening. The passengers say. they
Jared better than could be expected under
the circumstances.
The train which left Durango on Sunday
evening, bound for Denver, after success
fully crossing the divide, stuck in & bank a
few miles from 0sier, a small station CT
the downward slope of the main divide.
All efforts to free themselves proved futile,
and preparations were made by the pas
sengers to pass the night on the mountains
as best they could. Next day the train
men, assisted by the passengers, put forth
their best efforts to cut way: TIL ough the
banks of snow, but they We're unsuccess-
full. Provisions on the train were then be-
coming low. Up to that time the contents
of the express car had supplied food for
the passengers. Then the fuel gave out,
and some uneasiness began to be telt.
Two of the fr3iuT1un volunteer +0 Mt,
tempt to reach 0sier and get assistance
They started out to weather the storm, with
the chances greatly against them reaching
their destination. They relate their ex-
perfence as being full of the greatest hard
ships and most perilous adventures. They
could not follow any trail and struck out
overland towards Osier. At times the two
men were covered over head with snow,
and had it not been for the assistance one
was capable of rendering the other, both
would have persisted. As it was, after
hours of the greatest fatigue, they reached
the snow-bound settlement Of Osier, and in
formed the citizens of the perilous position
of the passengers of the delayed train. s
relief party was at once organized and men
started out on snoWshoes for the train.
loaded with provisions. These men were
followed by others, and as the first relief
party has returned to 0sier after having
landed their load of food to the distressed
passeag gers there need be no longer any app
prehensions of their safety, as plenty Of
provisions can thus be carried in on STOW
shoes.
Osier is near the famous To1tec Gorge,
romantic place, where Eastern tourists are
won't TO Iinger in summer and drink in the
grandeur of the finest scenery in the Rocky
Mountains. All the available engines in
Denver and along the line of the Rio Grande
have been sent out to assist in the relief Of
the snow-bound passengers.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1884-02-16
CRTMEs AND CAusTALTTEs.

4
On the Sd the floor of Erkson's Hall
at Guilford, n. Y, fell while members of
| the Masonic fraternity were preparing to
attend a funeral. Seventy men were pre-
cipitated to the floor below, many of whom
were quite severely injured, none fatally,
however.
On the morning Of the Sd four prison
ers attacked the Sheriff at Monticello, N.
Y, in an attempt to get free. Two were
secured, one was shot dead and the fourth
escaped.
ANDREW JOHNSON, a dissipated Dane
murdered Bertha Brassman and committed
suicide at Racine, Wis, on the 4th, because
the girl would have nothing TODD with him.
A SERIES of mysterious explosions oc-
Cured on the 9TH in the bar-room Of Swans
restaurant, Detroit, Mich. Flames in
stantly broke out and the building burned.
Swan had recently made an assignment.
On the 5th q German farm laborer
near Marengo, Iowa, shot his sweetheart
and then committed suicide.
On the 9Th five men were killed and
fifteen wounded by an accident on the
Chesapeake 6 Ohio Railway, near More
head KY. Fourteen men were also injured
or the l., N. o. G T. Road near Port Glib
son, Miss. All were railroad construction
hands.
On the night of the 9th Crossman &
Kluenter's furniture factory at Allentown,
Pa, burned. Four men are known to have
been killed by falling walls, a number in
jured, and it was feared there were others
buried in the ruins.
OK the 18th two Baltimore & Ohio
passenger trains coI1ided near Fallsburg, o.
No one was fatally hurt, but several sus-
tanned ugly bruises.
On the night of the 9th Samuel Nor
man, Of Dayton, o., finding two burglars in
his house, shot one dead and secured the
arrest of the other.
OK the 18th gang of young rufisns
at Minneapolis, Mimi, took lad named
Johnny Nolan to neighbours barn and
hanged him, where he was struggling in
the death throes when found and cutdown.
At, Leipsic, Germany, two letter
containing 80, 0otnlarks were stolen
from mail cart on the It'll.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1884-02-16

Ir mas been discovered by Congress
sional investigating committee that Paul
strobridge, deputy United States Marshal
in Alabama, made hundreds of arrests on
frivolous charges in order to get the fees
and use the money in his canvass for Con-
gress. He was defeated and then went to
Washington and contested the seat.
On the 18th James Gordon Bennett, OF
the New York Herald, was elected Commo-
dore of the New York Yacht Club.
Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1884-04-17
why they Gail mim..oIa Man,,

Eyes. that's sadly So" said Jenkins.
my hair is turning gray and falling ont
before its time. Use something?
would, but most hair restOrers are dan
gerOus." "True," answered his friend.
but Parker's Hair Balsam is as harm
less as it is effective. I've tried it and
know. Give the Balsam a show and the
boys will soon stop calling you old Man
Jenkins" 1t never fails to restore the
original color to gray or faded hair. Rich
oy perfumed, an elegant dressing.
augl1
Never Give Up.
II you are suffering with low or de-
tressed spirits, loss of appetite. general
pebillty, disordered blood, weak consti-
tuition, headache, or a bilious nature. by
all means procure a bottle of Electric
Bitters. You will be surprised to see
the rapid improvement that will follow:
you will be inspired with new life:
strength and activity will return; pain
and misery will cease, and henceforth
you will rejoice in the praise of Electric
Bitters. Sold at fifty cents a bottle by
Kenburg & Cooper.
An Editors Tribute.
Theron P. Keator, Editor of TT. Wavne
Ind, Gazette" writes: "FOr the past five
years have always used DIR. Kings New
Discovery, for coughs of the most severe
character, as well as those of a mildar
type. 1t never fails to effect a sDeedv
cure. My friends to whom | have recon-.
mended it speak of it In the same HIGH
terms. Having been cured by il of every
cough have had for five years, | consid-
er 1t the only reliable and sure cure for
Coughs. Colds ETC." Call at l. s. COoper's
Drug Store and get a Free Trial Bottle.
Large Size $1.0O.
Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1884-04-17

THE Detroit Evening News Indirectly
attacks Robert Lincoln In connection
with the law declaring s hours a legal
DAYS work. This straw indicates the
growing demand for Lincoln. and the
utter absence OF any vulnerable point
In the man, for II any Individual on
earth IL the true friend and representa-
tive Of the lajorer II Is the worthy son
of the immortal rail splitter. There IL
. gathering opposition" but 1t comes
from Politicians aai this Is an of year
Tor machine mel.
Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1884-04-17

FRANCE has accomplished her purpose
in China with a minimum expense and
in double quick time.
Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1884-04-17

OCINCINNATI now puts her best man on
the jury, a new departure, the result of
their disgrace. p.
Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1884-04-17

The United States including Alaska
measures 2, $4,000 square miles every
inch Of viii CHI is worth protection.
Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1884-04-17

FOR the week ending April 5th the
eight trunk lines from Chicago to the
seabOrd took ont from Chicago 80, 1893
tons or 2.259.933 bushels of grain. Ship.
ments by Chicago & Atlantic were the
largest being 1886 tons.
Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1884-04-17

AMAN stole a night shirt, and a Gin
cinnati jury called it murder in the
first degree, in order to prevent riot and
a move out of the state,
Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1884-04-17

MISSIONER, the great French artist
painted a portrait of Mrs. Mackay, an
American lady, who, not liking the pic
tura burnt it. All France is ablazs over
the insult. Let him do better next time
and let Mrs. Mackay do as she plsases
with her OwR.
Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1884-04-17

HARD times appear all over the conn
try and has steadily increased since Jan.
l., 1881, as a result of the Democrats tim
kering with the tariff. If the Morrison
bill should pass we would be fortunate
ii the country escaped a panic.
Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1884-04-17

II free trade man says the Ameri
can manufacturer has gnt rich under
tho tariff system. That is true. and not
only trna but good, for while the manu-
factnrer has got rich the farmer has got
rich. and further, the Americas labOrer
and mechanic have enjoyed more advan-
tages than any other country in the world
has afforded to labor.