St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1888-12-01
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
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PERSONAL AND POLrrrcAr

: PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
3 EFFORTS to unite the federal and orc
gressive Republicans of Spain have failet
THERE was a report in Washington O
, bne 2oth that Colonel Lamont would be an
pointed Judge Advocate General to sue
ceed Swain. Lamont denied the rumor.
} 1T is said successor to Lord Sackvill
Will be appointed by the British Govern
ment before the President goes out O
office.
OFFICIAL returns from the late election
IN ohlo show q total vote of S41.941
hyan.s plurality for Secretary of Stat
was 2l9S8. The total Labor vote wa
5,452 and the Prohibition vote 1920.
IHE duel between NJ Andrieux and M
Guyot, resulting from the charge made BY
the latter in La Lanterne, of Paris, wa.
fought on the GOTH Swords were uset
and NJ. Andrieux received slight wounG
in the chest.
SENATOR VESTS committee investigating
the beef business opened proceedings al
st. Louis on the Goth.
iHE elections at Belgrade, Servia, re.
suited IN serious riot. The troops were
called out to restore order, and collision
occurred between the soldiers and the peo-
pie. Many persons were injured.
THE National Executive Committee of
tne Antl-Saloon Republicans has ap-
pointed subcommittee, among whom is
Albert Griffin, of Kansas.
| THE President elect has tendered T. w
halford managing editor Of the Indianap.
| oils Journal, the position of private secre.
tary. Mr.. Halford is forty-fiye wears of
age and came from England when a child
with his parents who settled in Cincin-
natl.
EDWARD HARRINGTON, who abused the
Parnell Commission in his paper, the
Kerry Sentsnel, was fined f5OO for con-
Tempt OF court. He refused to apologize.
DION BoUcICAULT. the veteran actor.
was reported dangerously sick at New
York ON the 21st.
JUDGE RUcKER on the 21st sent a letter
20 Senator Blackburn, of Kentucky, to
nght duel. The quarrel grew out of
some statements made by Rucker with
reference to the late election, for which
Blackburn said he would like to kick him,
GEORGE 3. KNIGHT, the actor, was re-
ported suffering from brain trouble at
New York.
VERY REV. MAURICE A. WALSH, LII. D.,
pastor OF st. Paul Roman Catholic Church
and Vicar-General of the Archdiocese of
Philadelphia, died on the 22d.
CONGRESSMAN WOODBURY., of Nevada. |
was robbed while asleep in his hotel at |
Washington recently. A colored boy was |
arrested and $l40 Of the money recovered. |
CALL has been issued for Con-
stltutlonal convention to be held at James
town, December 8, to further the early ad- |
mission of the Dakotas into the Union,
REV. ARTHUR Brooks, Episcopal cler-
gyrnan of New York, created somewhat of
. sensation in the Church Congress re-
Gently by vigorously denouncing the sec.
tartan idea advanced in the government
sf colleges. He thought the broader they
we're and the more daring men they
;urned out the better. He believed in
cplscopacy, but not in running colleges.
His remarks were received with consider
sble applause.
LIT was rumored in Boulangist circles on
he I'D that the French Government in
ended to expel General Boulanger on
harge OF conspiring to overthrow the ex-
sting Government. /.
Ex-PREsIDENT HAYES addressed an inn ,
aense audience at Farwell Hall, Chicago,
n the night Of the 22d on "Prison. Re- .
ormH
GENERAL JOHN NJ. PALMER, late Demo-
ratio candidate for Governor Of Illinois.
as Withdrawn from membership in the
t A. r. He was actuated by belief :
nat the organization had been used no.
tically to defeat him.
AN official canvass Of the vote of Michi-
an gives Harrison a plurality of %, 966.
ne total number of votes cast, 475, ,260, an
lcrease OF u 0S6 over four years ago. di-
lded as follows: Harrison, 236, $40;
leyeland, 213 4o4; Fisk, 20,942; Streeter, r
542. =
BRIGADIER-GENERAL NELSON A. MILES IL
ssumed command of the division of the
acific on the 23d, vice General o. O. is
oward. 1,
The Electoral vote in New York State E
as as follows, the highest and lowest
lmber OF votes received by any elector :,
ing given: Electoral-Republican, $780, =
I; Democratic, 635,965; Prohibition, 80, =
|; Socialist, 2,06S; Union Labor, 625;
lited Labor ELECTORS at Large), 2,666. m
MISCELLANEOUS. !"
,. +. ADAMS, city treasurer Of Macon. ~
:, is reported as being about $4,000
ort in his accounts. He has been sus- W
nded from Office ar
HE fourth annual convention OF the dc
tlonai Editorial Association was held in in
Antonio Tex, on the 2lst. Delegates
re preeent from almost every State in -,
Union. President III. B. White, of =.
sst Virginia, delivered the address. 70
,vICTIoNs on the Dos Moines river lands VI
Iowa commenced on the Goth. A farmer an
ned Boyington resisted desperately, we
was overpowered by the Federal off, !
5. To-
HILE running thirty miles an hour the on
q car OF passenger train on the .
omsberg & Sullivan railroad jumped -
track recently near Wilkesbarre, Pa, ~,
ed down the eInhankment and caught
and the twenty five passengers, many
vhom were slightly hurt, were rescued nv
being taken out of the windows. sec
BE Kansas City & Southern has issued $50
,tice that it will be opened for business Z
md after December !. fav
7 fire in a tenement on Eleventh a.
ct, New York. recently Mrs. Mary =
y was burned to death. She was :
Id near = windoyp o,t os which 80 VIII
attempted to escape. Tor
lTRoLEUM exploded an n schoonar :. fro
toll England, recently. Three men $50
. killed. n
IERE were rumors recently that w. B. ina,
ng, president of the Atchison, Topeka ono
Santa Fe, would resign. ~,
E Osceola uowa) Bank closed its -,
S on the 22d. -A9'
u German Reichstag reassembled on =
22d. Emperor William opened the sou
on in person. Hai
VICES from Samoa say that Mataafa's 62,o
wers attacked stronghold held by -four
adherents of Tamasese at Nata, is 4;
smber 8, and succeeded in capturing W
outposts after two days fighting. fact
Z Of the eombatants were killed. oad
think that General r. II. Tsa
n, Of Atlanta, Ga, was first mur- s..n.
In the hotel at Chattanooga, Tenn, aun'
negro, who then set the building on FA
The negro has been arrested with 65 ce
RS money and uroperty In his nosses. rel