St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1886-10-30
PERSONAL AND GENERAL,

The London TIaHes reaches across the
| ocean to strike blow at Mr.. Blaine's pro-
lection policy.
| A MAN named Holmes and two sons
| were drowned near Leav worth, Kas,
on the 10Th. ..
HE Pesther Lloyd says England is seek
| ing allies in order to protect her chief in
| terests, which are conferred in Egypt.
| PRINCE NAPOLEON and party arrived at
| Chicago on the 10Th from San Francisco.
| THE Canadian fire underwriters have
decided to enter upon active competition
| with American mutual insurance COM
| panies.
ANDREW CARNEGIE, the millionaire iron
manufacturer, is seriously ill at Cresson,
Pa.
| TEXAS guarantees against Mississippi,
| more especially Biloxi, on account of yell
| low fever.
RUSSIA has been formally assured by
| the Powers, including England, that they
diSapproye of the return of Pr nce Alexan-
der to Bulgaria.
THERE is trouble at Washington be-
tween the KING hts of Labor and the husi-
| clans League.
| made between the Southern Illinois mine
| owners and their operatives.
DR.. SALMON, the Government Veteri-
marian, has made his report on pleuro-
pneumonia at Chicago.
THE liquor manufacturers convention at
Chicago passed resolution earnestly fav-
oring temperance.
AT a meeting of the French cabinet on
| the 10Th it was decided to await fresh
debate and vote in the Chamber of Depu-
ties before taking decisive action regard
ing the defeat Of the government.
1t is possible that the annual pageant in
honor Of the lord mayor of London viii
have to be abandoned if the Social Demo-
cratic federation insist on taking part in
the procession.
JAMES G. BLAINE delivered protection
speeches at Lewiston, Huntington and AL
toona, Pa, on the 10Th.
AN American named Harris, with
numerous aliases, has been arrested at
London, charged with defrauding bank
ers by means of forged letters of credit.
MINISTER Cox ntimates that whether
or not he returns to Turkey depends on
his nomination for Congress.
A CAGE in one of the shafts of the New
York aqueduct fell distance of fifty feet
on the 10Th, killing one man and badly
injuring three others.
w. Fl. M. CoBLEIGH, a wealthy farmer,
aged seventy three, was killed nine miles
south OF East Saginaw, Mich. The wind
blew heavy gate on hirl He struggled
desperately but died befL % help came to
ata He ri
two sons.
C. EUGENE HOWE, who edits the Au-
eusta (Mich.) Weekly Reris,1, was rotten
egged and driven from the village on the
evening of the 18th for improper conduct.
He is married man with family. His
office has been closed up by mortgage
foreclosure.
The Grand Duke Nicholas, heir to the
Russian throne, who is affected with a
pulmonary disease, is in precarious con-
dition. 1t is feared that he will not re.
cover.
PRIVATE advices received at Berlin from
Baden are to the effect that Emperor
William is subject to daily attacks of
syncope and drowsiness, and it is feared
that it will be impossible to preserve his
life for more than few months longer.
THE Congregational Council at Chicago
closed its business and adjourned on the
Goth.
A DECREE has been published conven-
ing the Great Sobranje of Bulgaria on Oc-
tober y.
THE Chicago pork -packers are gradu-
ally resuming work.
CHOLERA continues to rage throughout
Japan with terribly fatal results.
THE royal Japanese visitors arrived at
San F rancisco on the Goth, en- route to
Europe.
ROBERT g. ISGERsoLL's throat trouble
is pronounced by his physicians as incur
able.
ALARM is felt at Sofia over the massing
of troops on the Bulgarian frontier.
ANTONIO CEGNARA, an Italian, was
killed at New York on the Goth by his |
wife.
SEVERE and prolonged shocks of earth
quake were felt in Cashmere on the GOTH |
r. 1lLDEN's will was probated at |
White Plains, n. ", on the Goth, without |
opposition.
CITIZENS of Dallas, Tex, have subscrib-
Ell over pl,Voo IoT tHe relleI OF the soaDlne |
Pass sufferers.
MA!oR-GENERAL MCPHERSON, COM |
mander of the British al my of occupation |
in Burmah, died recently of fever, after
two days illness.
AT New Haven, Conn.,. on the Goth, the |
A merican Missionary Association began
its annual meeting.
The Bulgarian Government has inform
ed Cad ban Effendi that Is viii no more
brook Turkish interference than it will |
that of Russia.
DR.. PRENTICE, of Norwalk, o., has sued
the Lake Shore road for $4,000 for ma