St. Landry democrat., 1886-10-23
PERSONAL AND GENERAL,

| rapidly.
JOHN EoTD, the murderer of w. B.
Johnson, a prominent business man of
| Rockford, Mich, August 4. was sentenced
| at Grand Rapids on tie 18th to prison for
| life. The convicted man broke down COM
| pletelv, and sank down with his face to
| the floor.
NErLD, tho Chicago defauter, is in
Montreal, Canada.
Mr.. GLADSTONE is suffering from fever
! and is confined to his room.
| THE American Academy Of Medicine be-
! gan its tenth annual session at Pittsburgh,
Pa, on the 18th.
| AT Bedford, Mass, the quadrennial ses-
sion of the American Christian conference
closed on the 18th.
EXTENSIVE election frauds, involving
! the Province of Quebec.
WILLIAM l.. MAGINNIs, of Ohio, has
been appointed chief justice Of the Su-
preme Court Of Wyoming.
NJ. BAUER, French editor, and Count
| Dion fought duel with swords On the
18th. Bauer was wounded.
LOUIS A. LEVI is in custady at New
| York and will he taken back to Chicago
to answer a charge of embezzlement.
Four leaders of the party engaged in
kidnapping Prince Alexander arrived at St.
Petersburg on the 18th.
JUDGE WALLACE, of the United States
Circuit Court at New York, has decided
that bank shares may be taxed.
ST. PETERsBURG newspapers urge that
decisive action by Russia in regard to
Bulgaria is imperative.
ASSISTANT POSTMASTER BURRIDGE of
Troy, N. Y. is missing and so is $500,
sent from New York to the Troy office
A MORMON meeting at London, on the
18th, denounced the American Govern
ment for its treatment of their co-relig
onists.
The Central Illinois n. e. Conference
at Peoria closed on the 18th after COM
pleting the appointments for the coming
year.
The report is revived at st. Peter sburg
that Prince Waldermir Of Denmark will
be elected ruler Of Bulgaria.
ONE man was killed and another fatally
injured by a collision, on the 18th, on the
Cleveland & Pittsburgh road at East
Liverpool, Q.
A PosEy editor has been sentenced to
two years. Imprisonment for printing q
ibelous article on Prince Bismarck.
GOVERNOR MARMADUKE of Missouri has,
by procla nation, raised the pleuro- pneu-
mona quarantine against the state Of
Ohio and the Province of Quebec.
A NEWSPAPER correspondent, who ac-
companie General Kaulbars to Sofia, has
been expelled by the Bulgarian Govern
ment
TEE Berlin press advises that the Aus
trian Anarchists be treated with merciiess
severity.
BRIGADIER- GENERAL J. Fl. Potter,
commanding the department of the Mis-
souri,, with headquarters at Fort Leaven
worth, was retired on the 18th, having
reached the age Of sixtv-four years.
THE chief of the Bureau of Statistics
reports the total value of the exports of
bread stuffs as follows: September, 1886,
4,25,5S; 1885, 9,oC7,713: nine months
ended September 50, 1886, 110, 82S, 500; 1885,
102, 19o,79S.
II has been arranged that there is to be
public Thanksgiving at Westminster Alb
bev, on the afternoon of Monday, June 20,
1887, on the occasion of the fiftieth ami
versary of Queen Victoria's ascension.
BURGLARS entered the residence of Mrs.
Lawler, wealthy Montreal widow, on
the night of the 18th, chloroformed the in
mates and carried off all the silverware
and jewelry in the house, valued at s., 600. !
OBERNE, HosrCK G. Co.'s soap manu-
factory at Chicago was completely Quilted |
by fire on the night of the 12th, entailing
a loss of $4,000. Ons-fourth of this is on |
stock and materials, and the remainder |
on machinery. The building is owned by |
George Wrisley g. Co., and is damaged |!
$500
An unsuccessful attempt was made on |
the 18th to lynch negro at Newcastle, |
KY.
LORD RANDOLPH CHURCHILL is sojourn-
ing at Vienna.
THE triennial council Of Congregational |
ministers began it's sessions in Chicago on
the 18th.
A MEDICAL expert pronounces King
Otto's disease incurable paranoia.
COLONEL JAMES G. DUANE succeeds Gem
eral Newton as chief of engineers, U
S. A.
THE whole Of the German army is to be
supplied with repeating rifles.
CHEF JUSTICE CHASE's remains were
moved from Washington to Cincinnati on
the Is h.
THE Austrian and French consuls at
Varna on the 18th accepted invitations to
take tea with General Kaulbars, the Rus
sian envoy.
COLONEL ORLANDO B. WILCOX is pro-
NOTED to be Brigadier General, to sue
coed General T. r. Potter retirej
THE Conservatives will attack the Span
ish Ministry on the opening of the Cortes
for their lack of energy in dealing with
the insurgents.
A PHIL DELPHIA & READING train was