St. Landry democrat., 1886-09-04
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Compiled from Various Sources
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
THE Emperor of japan has decorated
the German Minister with the first order
of the Rising Sun.
INDIAN COMMISSIONER ATKINSON is go.
ing on an inspecting tour in the Indian
country.
THE President has rendered Mr.. Thomas
E. Benedict, of Albany, N. Y, the position
of Government Printer.
The Emperor William has had the vault
containing the remains of Frederick the
Great opened and the interior decorated
The Chihuahua Supreme Court has be-
gun the hearing of the Cutting case, and
it is reported that by an agreement be-
tween the lawyers the court will decree
that Cutting has been sufficiently pun
ished, and will order his release.
PRINCE ALEXANDER of Bulgaria has
been forced to abdicate, and was escorted
out of the country.
ARNOLD FORSTER, son of ''Buckshot''
Forster, writes letter making savage
attack on the Land League.
COLONEL SwIrzLER, chief Of the Bureau
OF Statistics, is soon to issue an extensive
report on Southern industries.
The Pennsylvania Republicans are said
to be quite willing that Mr.. Randall shall
be reelected to Congress.
On the 22d w. J. Kendall, Boston po-
liceman, swan Niagara whirlpool rapids
in cork vest, to settle wagers amounting
to $4,000. He makes $4,000 by the feat.
WILLIAM A. WALLACE, lately defeated
for the nomination for Governor of Penn
sylvania, has some idea OF running for
Congress.
ON the 22d Prof. G. e. Stowe, formerly
of Andover Theological Seminary, and
the husband of Harriet Beecher Stowe,
died at Hartford, Conn, aged eighty -four.
He had been i'll many months.
EDITOR CUT NG was released by order
of the Chihuahua Supreme Court on the
3d.
On the 23d j. B. Murphy, Master Work
man of District Assembly "a, K. of L.,
dropped dead at his home in Milwaukee,
Wis.
The deposition of Alexander of Bulgaria
seems to have surprised the whole world.
Fix A. REEVE, of Tennessee, has been
appointed assistant Solicitor of the Treas
ury, vice Robinson, resigned.
ON the 23d Daniel Kerr, of Grundv
County, Iowa, was nominated for Con-
gress by the Cedar Rapids Republican
convention.
On the the 23d Mrs. Cleveland, in the
Adirondack mountains, by touching
button set in motion the machinery of the
Minneapolis Exposition.
In the British House of Commons on the
23d Mr.. Labouchere, in the course of
speech, predicted that Mr.. Chamberlain
would continue his downward career
until he was gazetted Lord Chamber
lain.'u
ISAAC F. MACK died at Chicago on the
2Sd. He was born in 1906 at Springfield,
Mass. He was the principal of the first
free school at Cincinnati for two wears,
and afterwar went to Rochester, N. Y,
where he founded the free schools and was
superintendent for eleven years.
CAsHIE. CALDWELL, Of the CITY Na-
tional Bank Of Willamsport, Pa, who was
arrested on the 22d on charge of embez-
element, falsifying the books, etc., vas
taken before Uni ed States Commissioner
Sohers at Sun ury on the 23d, when bail
was fixed at $4,000.
ON the q b O'Brien, Deasy and Red
mond, the Irish deles ates for Chicago, left
New Y o for home.
Rev. A. P. NEPpEa, Wisconsin Meth
odlst minister, has been expelled for UNI |
christian con luct.
CLIFTON s. SMITH and e. B. Ravens ,
have been suspended for fifteen DAYS by |
the New York Stock Exchange.
ON the -4til Lord May or Sullivan of Dub |
lin presided at a meeting Of the Irish Ma
tional League
SECRETARY BAYARD says the Govern
ment will not initiate proceedings for in |
demnlty for Cutting, claiming that he |
must do SO himself.
The deposition of Prince Alexander of |
Bulgaria is said to have taken place in the
night. The Prince is supposed to be q
state prisoner in Russian hands.
s. cRFTaNT BAYARD, in his negotiations
with Mexico coneernin g the Arresurfs
case, Will treat the matter precisely as il
Enc murdered man had been native born
American.
On the oath Parnell spoke in the House
or Commons and introduced his amend
ment to the reply to the Queens speech.
The ministers decided to oppose it.
CARDINAL JAcoBINI, papal Secretary of
State, has ordered the papal nuncio at
NUM- b to demand o the Bavarian Gov
eminent an explanation OF its ambiguous
ecclesiastical policy.
ON the oath General Ell. p. Ransom.
prominent citizen OF Lexington, XIV. and /
formerly general manager of the Ken
lucky Central railroad, died at that place.
U is supposed he suieided by taking
large amount of morphine. No cause is ,
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
Ar Moth Bloomfield, o., on the 10Th,