St. Landry democrat., 1888-11-03
MISCELLANEOUS,

ALL the right, title and interest In the
New York Graphic, an afternoon illustra-
ted paper, was purchased for 5000 by tie
Southern Trust Company at the sheriff IS
sale of that paper on the oath.
JUDGE SAWYER has allowed ten Chine5e
sailors of an American vessel to land at
San Francisco. They had shipped from
that port on round trip.
THE four small children of Joseph Whit
aker, colored, were burned to death re-
Gently at Blackshear, Ca, while their par
ents were away from home.
BY collision between two freight trains
at Otisville, N. Y, the other day, one man
was killed and three badly hurt. One of
the injured was later run over by another
train.
FOREST fires are reported raging in Santa
Cruz, Alameda and San Juan Counties,
Cal. Much wheat and fruit has been de-
stroyed.
ALREADY inquiries are being made from
various sections of the country in
behalf of organizations for quarters at
Washington during the Presidential in
auguration next March.
SUPERINTENDENT HAMILTON has writ
ten to the Governor OF Florida suggesting
the enactment of law for the establish
ment Of State Board of Health and aux
ilary boards in each Of the counties. He
submitted the draft of bill.
THE Secretary of the Interior has pre-
pared his estimates OF appropriations for
the Interior Department for the fiscal year
ended June !, 1888. They aggregate $94, !
900, ,389. Those for the current year aggre-
gate 1914, 733, 13s.
TEN cases Of smallpox have been re-
ported at Keswick, a small village in the
northern part of York County, Ont. The
place has been quarantined.
DR.. NEIL MITCHELL reported thirty one
cases of yellow fever at Jacksonville on
the Oath. There were four deaths. OF the
new cases twelve were white and nineteen
colored. Total cases, 3.903; total deaths,
337.
GEORGE JOHNSON and William Aiken
were crushed to death by the fall of a
huge rock in quarry at Elliottsville, Ind,
recently.
MISUNDERSTANDING of signals on the
ferryboat Central is now said to have been
the cause of the collision in New York
harbor, in which the British steamship At
las was sunk.
THE passenger depot and dining hall of
the Santa Fe railway OF Temple, Tex, has
been destroyed by fire. Loss, $l5, 600; in
sured.
THE will of the late John Wentworth, Of
Chicago, devides the estate, which is
worth 81, SOC, 600. equally between his daugh-
ter Roxana and his nephew Moses.
A CLUB house in Moscow, Russia, col
lapsed the other day, and large number
OF inmates perished beneath the. ruins.
Sixteen dead bodies were recovered.
GERMAN courts have declared illegal the
embargo on Dr. Mackenzie's book. 1t was
said the Emperor himself was in favor Of
the book circulating in Germany.
PRAIRIE wolves in Northern Montana
have recently killed hundreds Of sheep
and colts and have even attacked trav-
elers.
ARGUMENT on the appeal of the Iowa
Railroad Commissioners from the injunc-
tion issued by Judge Fa!rall to prevent
the putting into force of the new schedule
of freight rates has commenced in the Iowa
Supreme Court.
THE trustees Of Cornell University have
appropriated $4,000 for a new chemical
laboratory.
Two beautiful daughters of a game
keeper have been found in forest near
Leskau, Moravia. The breasts of one Of
the girls was severed, while the other
was pinned to the ground with q spike
driven through the abdomen. The motive
o. the crime was supposed to have been
jealousy.
The colliery owners of Lancashire, Eng,
have begun to yield to the demands of
their men.
The first train through the Wicks tunnel
on the Montana Central road passed
through on the 24th. The tunnelis 6, 200 feet
long.
The Cheyennes living seventy five miles
south OF Fort Buford, OAK, are reported in
starving condition.
AT meeting OF the Brotherhood Of
Locomotive Engineers at Richmond. Va.
/. III. Arthur was re- elected chief and Mr..
Ingraham secretary OF the insurance oe.ler
Of the brotherhood. g. D. Doherty, Of
observation-disclosures elected grand chaplain.
and W. RI Hesky, of Bloomington, ILL.,.
grand guide,