St. Landry democrat., 1886-09-25
PERSONAL AND GENERAL,

of the colliery of the Delaware 6 Hudson
Canal Company at Scranton. Pa, on the
18th, and it is feared that from six to nine
men have lost their lives.
EMPEROR FRANCIS JOSEPH proposed the
health of the Gar at a banquet given by
Austrian army officers, for which courtesy
the Gear telegraphed his the nks.
MRS. ANNA LEACH, wife of John Leach,
of Cleveland, O., attempted to light her
fire with coal oil on the 18th. The fluid
exploded and set fire to the house. Wher
the flames had been subdued Mrs Leach's
dead body was found lying on the fl oor
HEAVY rains rec entity between Socorro
and Albuquerque, N. NJ, washed away
several miles of the Atchison, Topeka &:
Santa Fee track and road. The bridge over
the Salida river is badly damaged, as are
two bridges on the Southern Pacific.
THE MINES ota Democratic State con-
vention met on the 18th at ST. Paul.
M. G1vKoFF has been elected president
of the Bulgarian Sobranje.
CHARLIE Fl. SAWYER is the nominee OF
New Hampshire Republicans for Con-
gress.
PITTSBURGH labor organizations are ex-
ercised over prospective influx of for
eign workmen.
TURKEY has notified Bulgaria that she
accepts Alexander's abdicaton.
ONLY STSS,000 of three per cent. bonds
have been presented for redemption under
the call for voluntary sure nder.
THE English fishing boats seized by the
French authorities at Havre have been re-
leased
JUDGE BREWER, in decision at Tope-
ka, Kas., sustains the power of the Atchi-
son, Topeka & Santa Fe road to acquire
lines in other States than Kansas.
MINISTER Cox and wife left CONSTANT
nople on the 14th for New York.
AN excursion train coiIided with a
freight train on the Nickel-Plate road near
Silver Greek, n. Y. on the 18th. Twelve
passen gers were killed and a large num-
Der injured.
THE Powers in reply to the Porte's cir
cular agree that there shall be no military
occupation of Bulgaria.
A TROOPER named Mellcw, of Company
G, Ninth United States infantry, gar
dener at Fort Robinson, Neb., was found
murdered at his post on the 18th. No clew
to the murderer.
THE RepubHque Fidacdise states that the
Sultan demands the evacuation of Egypt
by the English, and that Russia supports
the Turkish demands.
TIE Treasury receipts up to the 18th of
September exceeded $l5000,00o, and the
expenditures are not likely to be very
large. The treasury had not lost any
gold during the month.
Mr.. OHREN, formerly connected with
the st. Louis press, but more recently on
Chicago Inter- Ocean, has been appointed
a stenographer at 81 900 per year in the
Pension Office, and has entered upon his
duties. The appointment is credited to
Chicago.
THE Women's National Temperance
Union has drawn up petition to Con-
gress urging that in view of the alarming
increase Of assaults upon women and
young girls, the legal age of consent be
raised, as is proposed in the bill now be-
fore the Senate, to eighteen years.
THE acting Secretary of the Treasury
has received through the collector of in
terna1 revenue of the Second district of
New York, from an unknown person,
contribution of 1867, which the
sender says is the amount Of a recently
discovered error in payment of internal
revenue tax.
SEVERAL German spies, disguised as
priests, have been arrested near Cher
bourg, France.
THE cholera returns from Italy on the
I4th were: Tore del Annunziata, 10 new
cases, deaths; San Marco in Lamis, y
lew cases, s deaths; all other infected dis
riots, 90 new cases, % deaths.
THE Dubois Opera house block at Elgin,
ILL.,, burned on the 10Th. George NJ. Peck,
Try goods and groceries, sustained loss
If $45, 900; insurance, S35 900; Allen Bros,
hats and caps, loss $4,000; insurance not
given; loss on building, $4,000; insur-
ance, $4,000 There were other minor
losses.
Mr.. RIcALToN, the adventurous explorer
Who was sent to the Arctic ocean in May
~ Outing in order to make a journey on
hree- wheeled machine from Archangel
strait through Russia to the Crimea, has
not been heard from since leaving New
Z ork, and it is feared that the Russians
nay have treated him as they did Thomas
Stevens on his bicycle, only a little more
GURDoN S. HUBBARD, the oldest resi-
lent of Chicago and one of the first white
pioneers to visit the present site of the
icy, died there on the 14th. He first
anded there in 1918, and has resided in
he city almost continuously ever since.
lie established the first line of lake YES
els from the port, and was active in nu-
nerous public enterprises.
EMPEROR WILLIAM was unable to attend |
he German military maneuvers at Stras-
'urg on the 18th, owing to exhaustion.
GILBERT A. WooD, Of Lacrosse was
nominated for Governor by the Wisconsin |
State convention on the 18th. |