St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1888-11-10

Fl. r. STONE has been appointed second
| vice. president of the Chicago, Burlington
& Quincy system. E. P. Ripley succeeds
Mr.. Stone as general manager of the Chi
cago, Burlington & Quincy east Of the Mis-
souri, river. The changes took effect OH
the 1st.
A DISASTROUS prairie fire swept the
| country east of Gary, OAK, on the 1st, de-
stroying thousands of dollars worth of
property, including horses, barns, grain
and hay.
THERE were fifty.six new cases Of fever
at Jacksonville on the 1st, sixteen white
and forty colored and two deaths-Mrs.
George Wetmore and James Harris.
SOME time since the rectifiers of st.
Louis rebelled against the manipulators
of the whisky trust and formed company
for the purpose of establishing an inde-
pendent distillery there. One hundred
thousand dollars was subscribed and paid
in. Now the project has been abandoned.
THE decrease of the public debt during
the month of October amounted to s., $685.,
619.
M. LIE GRAND, Minister Of Commerce,
has informed the French Cabinet that the
expenses of exhibitors in the Exposition
of 1889 will be less than they were in the
Exposition of 1873 The Eiffel tower, built
in connection with the Exposition will be
finished in January.
ALL search for the three robbers who
held up the Mexican Central train near
San Jose prove futile. 1t was thought
the robbers got about $40, 900.
FRANK HAYES, formerly manager of
John P. Glow. the pugilist, was shot in the
stomach recently by Fisky Barnett, pro-
n,,l l.
rior, MINI. The shooting was the result
of quarrel over woman.
FRED ANscHLAG, now under sentence of
death for double murder near Los An
geles, Cal, has confessed third murder
and implicated George Stenger and Henry
Burder. Stenger has been arrested.
The steam barge Sampson and the
schooner Zach Chandler have not been
heard from since the recent storm in
Saginaw bay.
THE president and the secretary of the
Georgia Board of Health positively deny
that there has been any yellow fever in
any portion of Georgia.
FIVE thousand dollars reward has been
offered for the arrest of William R. Foster,
Jr, late counsel of the gratuity fund of
the New York Produce Exchange, who
disappeared recently with a huge short
age.
Two men were killed and seven injured
by the wrecking of hand-car near Hope
well, Pa, the other day.
DURING a torchlight procession at Bel
grade recently stones were thrown at tn
Austrian Legation and several windows
were broken. A number of arrests were
made. The authorities made apologies to
The Austrian Minister for the outrage.
HERBERT L. CRITCHETT, aged thirty
three, of the firm of Daniels & Critchett,
real estate and auctioneers, Boston, has
disappeared, leaving large deficit in his
accounts with the firm amounting, it is
said, to $25, 900.
BUSINESS failures (Dun's report) for the
seven days ended November l numbered
275, as compared with 254 the previous
week and 245 the corresponding week last
year.
A HUNTING party has returned from the
mountains north of the Grand river in
Colorado and reported the discovery of
wonderful waterfall hitherto unknown.
The imprisoned whalers in the Arctic
sea are reported all safe, a timely gale
having dispersed the ice.
THE boiler of a steam thresher exploded
on the farm of Joseph Spayd, near Read
ing, Pa, the other day. Five persons were
instantly killed and two or three others
shockingly injured.
A TORNADO struck Laporte, Iowa, the
other night demolishing Union Hall and
other buildings. Loss, $4,000.
ROBERT D. FOWLER, the well known
Chicago pork packer, has been held on a
charge of perjury. He had made contra
dictory statements with reference to the
ownership Of his property in two separate
suits