St. Landry democrat., 1886-08-21
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

000,OOO.
THE famous Busch Zouaves of st. Louis
won fresh laurels at Galveston. The drill
ended on the 10th.
THE British Foreign Office is advised
that number of dynamiters have left the
United States for the purpose of making
attacks on the English Government.
JOHN W. STEVENSON, Ex-Governor of
Kentucky, died on the 10th.
ARBITRATION is talked of in official cir
cles at Washington in connection with the
Mexican trouble.
THE rioting at Belfast has been checked
by the presence of large military force.
A sw1TcH-ENGINE exploded in the Union
Pacific yards at Kansas City. Mo-, on the
10th, seriously injuri ng four men.
JOHN POWERS, a wealthy cattleman, was
killed on the 10th by falling or jumping
from a hotel window at Kansas City, Mo.
A DELEGATION of Irish loyalists will
the Orangemen there.
A YOUNG woman was found dead on the
prairie near jefferson avenue, Chicago,
on the morning of the 10th, with two bullet
wounds in her head.
FIVE persons were instantly killed and
two fatally wounded on the 10th by the
explosion of threshing engine at Lake
Mills, Wis.
I'D. SULLIVAN, M. P, counsels the
Irish people to act according to the law of
self preservation, which, he reminds
them, was the first law of nature.
AS Congress made no appropriation to
pay the superintendent of the Y ellowstone
park, he will probably resign.
RoLLIN M. SQUIRE, Commissioner of
Public Works at New York, and Maurice
B. Flynn were arrested on the 10th on in
dictments found against them by the grand
jury.
MINISTER ROMERO sees no reason why
Mexico and the United States should not
settle all their differences without trouble.
Meantime Rasures is rotting in his grave
and Cutting is doing about the same in
jail.
The striking miners at Scott Haven,
Pa, quietly vacated the companies prem
Uses on the 10th, except in the cases of two
families, who were unable to leave on ac
count of sickness.
A MIDDLE AGED woman, Miss NJ. Cole,
going from Shenandoah, Ia, to Keokuk,
on the 10th, jumped between the cars, and
was instantly killed. She was evidently
insane.
THE American branch of the U UNIVERSAL
Peace Union has decided to hold its an
nual meeting at Mystic, Conn, on the 18th,
10Th and Goth. A large attendance is ex-
pected.
THE executive committee of the Irish
Parliamentary Fund Association has de-
cided to place fifty three thousand dol
lars, that had been collected by the asso-
citation, in the Bank of New York at one
and one-half per cent. interest until it
should be needed by Parnell and his band
Mr.. JAMES BAILIE HAMILTON was mar
ried in Westminster Abbey on the 10th
to Lady Evelyn, daughter of the Duke of
Argyll. Mr.. Hamilton is well known in
New Y ork and Boston.
T.: British ironclad Shannon, during
gunnery practice on the 10th off Donegal,
Ireland, accidently fired one shot ashore,
which smashed an clubhouse attached to a
dwelling. The inmates of the dwelling
and their neighbors fed inland, panic
stricken.
FOWLER Bros, a Chicago stockyards
containing checks amounting to $13,S4:
was stolen from their messenger boy,
Willie Kane, on the It'll. The firm say the
checks were not n egotiable. Detectives
have as yet obtained no clew.
GENERAL Phil SHERIDAN arrived in
Cincinnati on the evening of the 10th on
visit to his mother. He was accompanied
by his brother, Colonel Mike Sheridan.
The day being the occasion of the reunion
of the Thirty first Ohio regiment, a public
reception was accorded the visitors.
WILLIAM JACKSON, colored, aged seven
teen, stole couple of sbuggies at Kansas
City to sell to get money to pay the minis
ter and other incidentals connected with
his proposed marriage, but Justice Wor
then sent the would-b be husband up for six
MINISTER JAcKsoN's resignation has not
been received at the State Department.
A HURRICANE swept over Nancy, France,
on the 18th, doing great damage.
Elk MINISTER j. w. FOSTER says the i'm
portance of the Cutting case has been ex-
aggerated.
MINISTER PENDLEToN has received
furlough from his duties at Berlin and will
visit Switzerland.
SECRETARY BAYARD and Minister Ro-
m ero seem to agree that there is not the
least probability of war.
SURGEON BILLINGS, of the United States
army, lectured at the meeting of the Brit
ish Medical Society on the 18th.
THE condition of the wheat trade in the
Northwest is described as being as dull
as dog days"
MINISTER Cox has protested to the
Porte against the closing of American
mission schools in Syria.