St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1886-06-12
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

TURNER, BELUINET q Co. extensive
grain dealers, with headquarters at
Nashua, Ia, havo failed.
Mr. GLADSTONE publicly acknowledges
the receipt of the resolutions passed atthe
Irish Home-R Rule meeting at Chicago.
JUDGE HAWKINS, of Scott County, Mo-,
has been appointed Second Assistant Sec
rotary of the Interior.
THE total exports of produce from the
port of New York during the week ended
the Doth were valued at Sc, 1866.
THE President has vetoed another pen
sion bill upon the ground that 1t Is not
based upon substantial merits.
W. GEORGE, of Duke Centre, Pa. was
arrested on the 1st on charge OF sys-
tematcally robbing the National transit
Pipe Line Company of many thousand
barrels of oil by means of an underground
connection with their pipe.
DR.. LILLY, of O'Connor, Neb., fell from
his room window in the Arcade Hotel, at
Omaha, Neb., on the morning OF the ISL,
to the sidewalk, distance of sixty feet
and was fatally injured. He was in his
night shirt and the accident is mystery
A BROOKLYN dentist claims to have dis
covered new anasthetic which produces
something like natural sleep, without any
danger whatever to the patients.
A CRANK named Gaull made an abrupt
descent on Washington on the LIST, an
nounced himself the President of the
United States, and proposed to run the
wedding, but landed in jail instead.
THE debate on the Home Rule bill was
opened in the House of Commons on the
1st by Joseph Chamberlain in violent at
tack on the measure.
THE Cabinet session on the 1st was de-
voted to consideration Of the Canadian
| fisheries question, the action of Congress
| in regard to the Geneva award and rail-
road matters.
| PRESIDENT CLEVELAND and Miss Folsom
were married at a little after seven O'Clock
| on the evening of the ID, according to pro-
| gramme. After the ceremonies the bridal
couple slipped away to Deer Park, Md.
| HENRY WARD BEECHER is going to Eu-
! rope on q vacation, and will make snort
| lecturing tour as a side issue.
| TWELVE deaths from cholera occurred IN
| Venice on the I'd.
| QUEEN VICTORIA cabled her personal
con eratulations to the President on the
? evening Ol lH5 -us ms HSA 'N0N
wishes for his happiness.
| THE Milwaukee and Chicago Ieand-
iuries are still indicting Anarchists.
| TURKEY is becoming alarmed at the
naval and military activity of Russia.
| The steamer Siberian, seven days over
| due. arrived at Halifax, n. s., on the I'd.
THE Shah of Persia has refused pro-
posal from the Porte to join in universal
| Musselman alliance.
HERR JOHANN Most, the Anarchist, was
sentenced by Recorder Smyth in New
| York on the I'd to one year in the penlten-
tiary and to pay fine of $780, Braunswelg
and Schenck received lighter sentences.
EUGENE DAVIS predicts a storm of VEN
geance and reprsals if coercion is again
tried in ireland.
IT is thought the Parnellites will prolong
the Home-R Rule debate for the purpose OF
giving Gladstone time to better his posi-
ton.
THE French Chamber of Deputies has
agreed to consider the repeal Of the law OF
| 1862 regulating the relations of church and
state.
1T has been decided by the committee oil
the Chamber of Deputies having in charge
the bill for the expulsion of the French
Princes that the measure be compulsory
and not permissive.
WILLIAM MCLEAN, the Monmouth Park
IN. J.) bookmaker who was convicted re-
Gently, was sentenced on the I'd to pay 6
fine of $3.50 and the costs of the prosecu'
ton. Counsel for Mclean presented {
writ of error carrying the case to thu
State Supreme Court
THE Maine Democratic State CO INVENTION
in session at Bangor on the I'd, nominated
Colonel Clark s. Edwards, of Bethel, TO
Governor by reclamation.
RuMoRs are current of the arrest of som
subaltern officers in the south of German,
for high treas on. 1t is stated that one ha
commi tied suicide in prison.
DR.. J. MILTON Brewers, convicted a
! San Francisco of poisoning his wife in or
der to obtain SIT 900 insurance on her life
was sentenced on the ID to be hanged.
+ IT is understood that Secretary and Mrs
4 Manning would leave Washington on tn
9Th for Hot Springs, where they will prob
ably remain about month.
HENRY HAvEMEYER,, the sugar refiner
died suddenly at his home near Babylon
L. L., on the ID. He participated in tn
Decoration Day exercises, acting with th
: Old Guard as an escort to President Cleve
land.
MARCHAND's Opera House, at Alliance
O., four story brick building, S0x90 fee
o the property of Mrs. II. NJ. Marchand an
9 heirs, fell on the I'd with terrible crasl
.. and carried with it VIM. Ewing's two
g story frame building and badly damagin
: the Adam Koch building. The Oper
: House is mass of ruins, and its destrue
Q ton is loss of 100000.
The United Presbyterian General Al