St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1888-10-27
MISCELLANEOUS,

1HE price of coal in London has ad
vanced two shillings per ton owing to tn,
strike of the miners. Efforts to com,
promise the trouble are being t1tades
THE sfos iasters of the Hamilton Brown
| Shoe Company of st. Louis have beer
locked out Four hundred and fifty EN-
ployes are idle.
The directors Of the Baltimore Il Ohio
reilFoad announce that there will be n,
dividend on the common stock for the pas
six months.
THE Inman line steamer City of New
York arrived from Liverpool at Nets NorE
on the 18th, after 3 passage of six days
and twelve hours, the best third trial rec.
ord in shipping annals.
ii. S. BRIGGS, a safe manufacturer and
prominent citizen of Rochester, N. Y, has
fed to Canada, leaving behind fully 800
GOO of forged Paper.
: aHR f11ndation stone Of the mausoleum
81 the Emperor Frederick at Potsdam,
| Germany, was laid on the 18th in the
presence of the Empress, the. Dewages
Empress Victoria and tei; daughters
Meetings il ntetacry of the late Emperor
| wern held in fifteen towns.
GENERAL BADEAU's suit against Mrs U.
|
General Grants memoirs for publication
was again adjourned before Justice Pat
terson, of the Supreme Court at New yort.
until the first Monday in NoHentba1rr.
TIE naen W3ter committee, created bv
tho recent Deep Water convention at Dem
yer. Col, met at Dallas, Tex, on the 18th,
in adjourned session.
GEORGE A. DENHAM & Co., wholesale
shoe dealers of Boston, have gone into in
solvency with $4,000 assets and S172. 900
liabilities.
THE non -cIIti5Sehs fcIIti5 ss Sic Chickasaw Ma
ttioIn wili :ssst at Purcell, 1. t., October 81
20 form an organization for the protection
OF thar interests.
IT is announced that no more subsidies
will be given to railways in Mexico and
that the colonization laws will be reformed
In favor of the smaller colonies.
THn Elefenth, Indiana Regimental AS
sociaticn, General Lew Wallace's old regi-
mont, held a reunion at Indianapolis and
were received by General Harrison, but no
speeches We're made.
The bears made a raid on the ail ,inarke'
at Pittsburgh, Pa, on the tatk, and prices
We're forced a1Wn from 925s to IS, causing
wild excitement.
s. q. REDFIELD, ex-treasurer of Nc
Yiefer's Theater, Chicago, on the train
going east from Bozemaf, M. T., took nj,
overdose of morphine withs fatal effect
the other night. He was somewhat de-
ranged.
TEE assets OF E. a. Allen &, Co., st, Panr
Minfl., dry goods merchants who failed
recently, amount to SS3.5 555a q and the lia-
bilities to 1922 ,0Ga.
TIE Brotherhood Of Locomotive Engin-
eeTs indorsed the action of Chief Arthur in
all matters pertaining to the brotherhood
since the last session. This virtually si5ss
tained his action in the "Q' strike.
The wire that connects the bookmakers'
rooms at Washington with the Gutenberg
race track was tapped during the races
recently and the result delayed until some
'harpers invested enough in Joe Mitchell
tickets to realize about 81 900.
BUSINESS failures Dun's report) for the |
seven days ended October IS numbered
"a as compared with POI the correspond
ng week of last year. /
In Fort Bend County, Tex, the other |
light, Isaac Vandorn was assassinated by
Vat Nathaniel, o negro. Citizens from the |
country assembled and cap |
ured the murderer in the town of Vhar- |
on. He was retaken from them by a mob |
nd lynched while enroute to the Brazoria
all.
THE failure of Nathan Corwith 85 Co., of
'hlcago, has sent the price of lead down
The liabilities OF the firm
re guessed at from s., ,000, 600 to s., 900. 900,
WHILE engaged in conversation with
umber OF friends the other night Captain
Police Hayes was shot and fatally
at Cookston, MINI. The man
ave as the reason for committing the deed
lat Hayes arrested him for being drunk,