St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1886-06-05

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GENERAL STEPHENSON has been ordered
% withdraw all the British troops in
Egypt to Cairo.
LORD CHARLES BEREsFoRD reiterates
his resolution to resign rather than raise
his hand against Ulster.
THE Indiana Supreme Court has affirmed
Che decision of the lower court sentencing
Samuel Archer to be hanged.
THE House committee on Territories at
Washington have agreed to report adj
versely to the admission of Southern Da-
kota as q State.
THE issue of standard silver dollars from
the minis during the week ended. May q
was s., 1856. The issue during the cor
responding period of last year was 1892, :
z9S.
By direction of the President, Second
Lieutenant Corwin Sage, Seventeenth In
fantry, is dropped from the rolls of the
army for desertion, from February IA,
1886.
HoRsE-owNERs now at Louisville, KY,
are unanimous in the opinion that the en-
forcement Of the law against pool-selling
will prove disastrous to breeders and turf
associations.
The wedding procession at Lisbon on
che 2sd in honor Of the approaching mar
rage of the Princess Amelie d'Orleans
and the Crown Prince Of Portugal was a
very imposing affair.
AN agreement for an armistice has been
arranged between the Greek and Turkish
commanders, and orders have been issued
to the Greek commanders to withdraw
their forces into the interior.
DoE CARLOS has published manifesto
repudating the infant son of Queen Chris
tina as the rightful successor to the throne
of Spain. He declares he will never re-
nounce his own right to the throne.
THE testimony of Police Captain
Setback before the Chicago grand jury is
and shows that deep-laid plan existed
to sack and burn districts in Chicago on
Maya.
THE Government of Holland will prose-
cute for high treason Herr Nieuwenhats,
leader of the Socialists and editor of a
Socialistic organ, because of certain COM
ments which appeared in his paper on the
occasion of the Kings visit to Amster-
dam.
THE Senate Indian affairs committee
will shortly report the result of their in
vestigation of the needs of the Indian Ter
ritory in the way of general legislation
and what is necessary to prevent its being
place of refuge Of defaulters, embezzlers,
ETC., as Canada now is.
THE Grand Lodge of the Brotherhood of
Railway Brakemen, in session at Chicago,
announced on the 35th tho expulsion of
twenty-six members of the order who
originated the strike on the Missouri Pa
cific railway. Thirty others have been
suspended for ninety days for participant
ing.
THERE was rumor current on the 21st
that the Ella Maud, one of the vessels
owned by Lewis, Chase & Whiten, of
Portland, Me-, had been seized for ship
ping two men in one Of the colonial ports.
The firm had heard nothing from the Cap
tain. They say that If he shipped men he
went beyond his instructions.
A MOB held possession OF the streets Of
Toronto, Ont, on the night Of the 25th for
three hours, the occasion being the advent
of omnibuses from Kingston for use Of the
striking street-car men. Every car met
some forty in nunber-was wrecked. Fin
ally the Knights of Labor broke up the
procession and order was restored.
In the Third District Court at Blackfoot,
Idaho, on the oath, Chief Justice Hays sem
fenced twenty-seven prisoners-all Nor
mons except two. The sentences ranged
from three months and 500 fine to twelve
months and $500 fine. One hundred and
forty indictments for unlawful cohabita-
tion were drawn during the present term
of court.
A TORNADO visited Weitzlar, Prussia, on
the 25th, and destroyed the railway sta
tion, unroofed large number of houses
and factories, overturned scores of Chin
neys and lifted barges out Of the River
Lain and carried them in some instances
considerable distances in the air. In the
neighboring country the wind uprooted
entire forests.
THE President pro tempore laid before
che Senate on the 25th letter from the
Governor of Ohio transmitting the resolu-
lions adopted by the Ohio State Senate in
reference to the election of Henry B.
Payne to seat in the United States SEN
ate, claiming that hir title to the seat is
vitiated by corrupt practices and the COR
rupt use of money in procuring his cleo
ton.
GOVERNOR Robe, Of Maine, in an inter-