St. Landry democrat., 1888-10-13
SERIOUS storms prevailed in the North

SERIOUS storms prevailed in the North
ern Lake regions on the night Of the 1st
Many barges and schooners were reported
wrecked and missing and serious loss OF
life was feared.
| AN appeal has been received by Mayor
Smith, Of st, Paul, Mimi, from the settlers
Of Ramsey County, Oak, who are In great
distress because of the ruin caused by
premature frosts.
SCHUMACHER & ETTINGER, cigar manu-
faeturers of New York, are to be prose-
cuted for using limitations of customs
stamps on inferior boxes of cigars in order
to deceive the public,
PoL1CE 5NsbECToR BoNFIELD, of Chicago.
mas been awarded S. 900 damages for libel
against DR.. George B. Cunningham in con-
nection with the shooting of DR.. Thomas
Waugh in September, 1885.
JAMES B. CURTIS, aged fifty.five years,
of Salamanca, N. Y, shot himself throitg
the head recently III New York hotei:
He left note stating that he was crazy.
| The Steamboat bilsts Wh6, Recently
Joined the knights of Labor at Pittsburgh,
Pa, have presented a scale Of wages tG
the river coal men. The scale rros idos Tor
| yearly salary -f $3.50, with 5000 for
| captsih and pilot combined.
FIRE broke out the other night in the j.
2. Quinn dry goods store at Little ReCk.
Ark, and the entire stock and building
were BURIED. The stock was valued at
$4,000 and insured for $4,000. The fire
was the work of an incendiary.
SINCE oyster planting and the leasing
of oyster beds has been regulated by the
Government the industry has grow,,
rapidly In impoft tance, Until toss; il NoN
York State; about 1000 neri and $S, 900. U0O
capital are employed in it,.
MISS ELLA BAKER, an English woman.
the author of several successful stories for
young people, was RECENTLY st,ing under
the eye by a bee and applied some simple
remedy. The swelling did not go down.
and in short time she awoke from sleep
in convulsive fit and died within q
minute.
AT the Rsmaii chariot races at the fair
grounds, Kutztown, Pa, on the 5tb, the
horses became unmanageable and dashed
among the spectators. Quite a number of
persons were seriously injured, two ia
tally.
THERE were 80 new cases of yellow fever
and six deaths at Jacksonville on the 9Th.
The weather was warm but the eases ware
generally mild,
THOMAS PHILLIPs, a wealthy landowner
of Mississippi County; Ark, WIS Killed |
recently by one Of his tenants III a busi- |
ness difficulty.
i. M. RAGsDALE, hardware and imple- |
ment dealer of GreenviIle, Tex, has been |
closed up by his creditors. His liabilities
are S55, 900, and his assets $4,000.
EHE Washington monument is ready for |
the public.
SMALLPOX was reported spreading at
Toronto, Ont.
The twelfth annual congress of the
American Secular Association opened at
Pittsburgh, Pa, on the 9Th.
A GOOD authority of the crops in the
Northwest says that the Minnesota and
Dakota yield will be between 10000, 900 and
l5, ,000, 900 bushels, and that nirie-t tenths of
t will be. delivered out of the farmers
hands by November 80.
BUSINESS failures (Dun's report) for the
seven days ended October 4 numbered 211.
rs compared with 22o the previous week
ind 2l2 the corresponding week. of last
Tear.
MUCH damage to fishing vessels and con-
equent loss of life have occurred in the
North sea as result of violent storms.
BY collision between wild train and
passenger train in a deep cut near Han
libal, N. Y, the other morning, an engin-
er was killed and five train men hurt.
Soth engines were completely wrecked and
much other damage was deue5
AT d, wake at Hacine, Wis, the other
light three persons drank embalming fluid
y mistake for beer. One will die
w. s. KING, bookkeeper for the Bruns- l
7ick- Bake Billiard Company, Chicago,
as been arrested for embezzlng So 0cO. I
ames Hilger, the firms collector is also
yanted, but has fed {