St. Landry democrat., 1886-08-07

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II. l.. GILMER, painter, ON the 2St
identified Spies as the man who lit th
fuse in the Haymarket (Chicago) riot an
Schnaubel as the man who threw til
bomb.
THE Crofters of TREE, Scotland, hav
resolved to offer no resistance to the fore
of marines sent to restore order in tina
island.
The office Of burgomaster of Stras bourg
which has been vacant since 1873, ha
been filled by the appointment thereto O
Herr Bach, president of the district o
Lower Alsace.
THE citizens of Waterford, Ireland, de-
mand the removal from the Council
chamber of the royal portraits and tn
substitution therefor of q portrait o
General Thomas Francis Meagher.
The cholera returns in Italy for the 24tl
we're: Bologna, S new cases, deaths
Brindisi, new case, 9 deaths; Latiano, :
new cases, 2 deaths; Fontano, new
cases, death; other points, - new cases
and deaths.
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The police of Warsaw have discovered 6
widespread revolutionary Socialistic con.
spiracy, having branches at Paris and a,
St Petersburg. Many Polish students are
implicated. The leaders in the plot have
been arrested.
A LARGE meeting of the Conservative
party, held at the Carleton Club building g,
London, on the 9th, was addressed by
Lord Salisbury, the new Premier, who
congratulated them on their success in the
recent elections.
COLONEL D. s. LAMONT left Wash in ton
on the 27th for his home in CORTLAND
County, New York, for few days. It is
believed he has gone to make arrange
ments for the Presidents summer vaca-
tion in the Adirondacks.
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INFORMATION has been received at tn 9
Treasury Department of the death at
= Cambridge, Mass, on the night of the 9th
of Charles F. Conant, who was assistant
Secretary of the Treasury under Secretary
Bristow from 1874 to 1877.
A PORTION of the Simmons monster
hardware establishment in st. Louis col
lapsed on the night of the 18th, the upper
floors falling and crushing those below.
The loss on building and stock will be
heavy, but no person was killed or injured.
Four hundred masons and bricklayers,
who struck at Milwaukee two weeks pre-
viously, causing an entire suspension of
building operations in the city, returned
to work On the Goth. They will work but
eight hours day, for the present,
least.
LEE CHUCK, Chinese highlander, shot
and killed Suen Yuen, another Chinese
highlander of rival organization, at San
Francisco on the 2Sth. On being searched
at the city prison four revolvers were
found on the prisoner. His body was en-
cased in steel chain armor.
FL. /. Fl. PRINCE FUsHIMI, of Japan and
suite, who are travelling in this country
on their way home from Europe, arrived
in Washington on the 9th, and were the
guests of the japanese Minister during |
their stay. The Prince was formally pre-
scented to the President on the 18th.
Mr.. THOMAS ELLISON, one Of the editors |
OF the Liverpool Post, and known in COM
mercial circles in Europe and America as
the great cotton statistician, is in Wash
lngton. He called on the President on the |
9th, in company with Colonel Switzler,
Chief of the Bureau of Statistics.
THE President on the Goth returned to
the Department of Justice the papers in
the case Of VIM. Watts, the captain of a
Maine vessel, undergoing Imprisonment at
San Francisco for ill-treating his crew.
In an accompanying letter the President
ntimates that it is not case for the ex-
'rcfse of clemency.
On application of the Governor of Mis-
'ouri, who furnished evidence that no dis
'ase prevailed among live stock in that
State, Governor Warren of Wyoming, on
he 9th, issued proclamatio relieving
i've stock from Missouri from the provi-
ions of and the restriction of the quaran-
inc in force at Cheyenne.
The chimney and pressed glass factory
It Philadelphia, Pa, which has been
losed down since July for the usual
ummer suspension, will resume opera
ions August 2. The prospects are un-
sually bright, and it is predicted that
he output of the coming year will be the
argest in the history of the trade.
A MYsTERIoU epidemic prevails among t
he Glasg ow Iron Company's employees at
ottstown, Pa. The cases on the 2sth j
umbered seventy-five. Krider Marger,
ged nineteen, died on that day, and Au-
ustus Friedeck, Charles Trace and Jere- !
liah T. Rayer will not recover. The sick !
len all have symptoms of typhoid fever. >
The Tennessee commissioner of. Agri-
allure is preparing the crop reports for