St. Landry democrat., 1888-12-08
KILLING frosts are reported from West.
ern Florida and Southern Alabama,

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The dismasted vessel Amanda Morrison
has been towed into Provincetown, Mass
and run aground on the flats. The body O
a man about sixty years Of age has beel
taken from the wreck, and has bee,
identified as Captain Daniel Morrison, o
Jordan's Ferry, Nova Scotia.
MARY CoNNELL, aged forty-two, fell O.
was thrown from fire escape of the tene
ment house, 101 Greenwich street, New
York, and was instantly killed during {
general fight which followed Thanksgiv
ing orge among a number of her relative.
and friends at that place.
AT recent council meeting of the Brit.
ish Medical Society a resolution was passed
deprecatipg the publication of the details
of thaA late Emperor Frederick's sickness
as violation of professional confidence
In consequence of this resolution Sir
Morell Mackenzie sent in his resignation,
The French steamship Panama reports
| an unknown vessel lost one hundred miles
off the Delaware coast during the recent
| gales.
IHE insurance suit against General
Daniel e. Sickles by widow named Cave
| was tried in New York on the 2Sth. The
jury found that under the contract the
| widow was entitled to S2.259 more than
haHbeen paid her, which verdict Sickles
Wfs willing to accept.
FIHE prescription ware and flint bottle
are working to get up
synsfcate or pool similar to that of the
window glass manufacturers.
IHIRTY-FIVE foreign Jews who failed to
leave kleff, Russia, after the general edict
OF expulsion, have been arrested. The
charge against them was that they demor-
allied the townspeople
JAY GOULD recently endeavored to in
duce President Gable, of the Rock Island,
to enter the railroad trust which he was
forming. Mr.. Cable said he was afraid
the trust would fail of the object intended
and possibly might provoke another out.
burst of animosity against the roads He,
however, promised to give the matter
further considerable s.t1.-a
JOHN HENRY MEYER, who robbed and
killed Ranchman John Lowell last March.
was hanged at Placerville, CAL, on the
30th.
A DRUNKEN man recently fired a shot at
the pugilists Kilrain and Mitchell while
they were attending Kiernan's Theater,
w Washington. No one was hurt His OBJ
ject could not be ascertained.
BUSINESS failures Dun's report) for the
seven days ended November 90 numbered
232, compared with 296 the previous week
and PA the corresponding week last year.
GOVERNOR LEE of Virginia has issued a |
proclamation offering $1,000 for the arrest |
Of the masked men who rescued Wayman |
sutton, the condemned murderer from the |
Jail the other night.
THE coal mines along the Mononga hela
liver in Pennsylvania were shut down for
IN indefinite period on the 1st
THE Dayton (O.) Plow Company has as
igned with $4,000 assets and unknown
liabilities.
SELLINGER & Co, dealers in glassware
md owners OF the Mutual Glass Company
Il New York and Pittsburgh, have been
losed up. Their liabilities are said to be
1900
AUGUST LINKE and John Albin, miners,
we're crushed to death in mine at OIney.
H., recently by cave-in.
ONE man was fatally and another badly
urned and the business portion of the
illage of Larabelle, ILL.,, destroyed by
re recently. Loss, $4,000; insurance
mall.
A CARELESS boy caused an explosion o
atural gas in Wabash, Ind, recently
nd was badly hurt. The mains were in
lred and great excitement created in the
)Wn.
ANOTHER disastrous fire broke out in the
alumet and Hecla mine, Michigan, on the
forming of the 30th. Eight miners were
| the part reported on fire, of whose es-
ape no hope existed.
Six men were buried in trench while
orking on sewer recently in Philadel-
hia. One was killed and another fatally ;
jured. The rest escaped. +