St. Landry democrat., 1888-04-28
ON the 10Th it was reported that the mar

| oh deSouuI ol the emperor 5 lll-nedlLU.
On the Goth William B. Dinsmore, presi-
dent of the Adams Express Company
died in New York.
ON the Goth Representative Anderson,
OF Kansas, introduced a bill for the regu-
latlon of inter State railroads, which EN-.
bodies very stringent provisions Among
other things the bill provides tina t if a COM
pany fails to run its regular trains for
seven days, the Attorney General is re-
qulred to commence proceedings for the
appointment of receiver. who may EN-
| ploy the old hands in resuming the busi-
| ness of the road.
On the Goth copies of the official report
of the late speech of Sir Charles Tupper
in the Canadian House of Commons. on
the Fisheries treaty, were received by the
President, the Secretary of State, the
members of the House and Senate, and
other Government officials.
| IT is said that Secretary Whitney has
| decided to modify the court martial SEN
| tence pronounced against Lieutenant
Taunt dismissing him from the service for
| disobedience Of orders SO as to allow him
to resign.
! On the 10th funeral services over the
| remains of Roscoe Conkling were held in
| Trinity Chapel. in West Twenty-ifth
street, New York, after which the body
| was taken to Utica for further appropriate
| ceremonies, and interment in the latter
city.
On the Goth the Ohio State League of
Republican Clubs, which met at Dayton,
passed resolution strongly indorsing
the actions of the Republican State con-
vention, held in the same city on the 18th
and 18th, and promising vigorous sup
port of its nominees.
On the 18th Geo. Fl. Pendleton, Ameri-
can Minister to Germany, suffered slight
stroke of paralysis at Wiesbaden.
ON the 10th it was stated that Mr. Joseph
Chamberlain would shortly accept a posi-
tion in the Salisbury Cabinet, thus effect
ually severing his connection with the
Gladstonians
On the Goth it was stated form Berlin
that the whole story about the pro posed
matrimonial engagement between Prince
Alexander of Battenberg and Princess
Victoria was concocted by court enemies
OF the Empress to infame popular indig-
nation against her, and to prevent Alex
ander from visiting Berlin to re enter the
Prussian army.
1T is said that Mary Doran, who was
supposed to have been the victim of the
celebrated Railway IN. J.) murder, has
been discovered alive and well in Scot
land.
NJ. PoLIKoFF, Russia's great railway
magnate, is dead. His estate is estimated
at s6,oOO,OOO.
IT is reported that the Emperor; of Ger
many has ordered the prosecution of all
newspapers guilty of insulting the En-
press.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
ON the 18th W. w. Reynolds was shot
and instantly killed while attempting to
escape from Jail at Trinidad, Cal.
On the 10Th nearly every business house
in Monmouth Center, Me-, was burned.
On the 10Th William A. Davidson and
James CoABere called at the county Jail in
Columbus, o., and confessed to the mur-
deI in Beaver Falls, Pa, on the 14th, of
nf5M named Doyle.
SENATOR STANFORD lost fine horses of
the aggregate value of 100000 by the
burning of the Pa1o Alto stables in Cali
fornia.
WHILE five Indians were endeavoring to
drag canoe across a raft of logs at
Trempealeau, Wis, the logs parted and
all were drowned.
AT Nebraska City, Neb., Joseph F.
Brown, Burlington engineer, was beaten
nearly to death recently, by unknown par
ties.
AT Sioux City, Ia, a sensation has been
caused by the accidental discovery of a |
dead body in the ice-house of the Arens-
dorf brewery. 1t proved to be Albert |
Hiltz, one of the watchmen who were on |
duty the night the Prohibition minister, |
Haddock, was assassinated. By Hiltz's |
side lay the revolver of John Arensdorf, |
the accused slayer'of Haddock.
AT Embarrass, Wis, man named La
shrop, his wife and three children were /
drowned in the flood on the 10Th.
ON the Goth Christiana Kraft, aged thir-
;y-two, Of New Haven, Conn.,, betrayed
and deserted by her lover, committed sui
tide by drowning.
AT Ft. Wayne, Ind, a depot of the
Standard Oil Company, containing 1900 /,
barrels of oil, was burned on the 10th.
On the Goth dispatch was sent from ,
Ianesville, Wis, to Crow Mountain, Mich,
,rdering the arrest Of C. FL. Wolhaupter
or completely in the sensational Search
murder on the 9th of last July.
AT Denver, Col, on the Goth, Newt. IL
force, the Deer-Trail Terror, was con-
icted of murder in the second degree and IL
entenced to fourteen years in the peni- i
entiary for the killing of Guy Hollings-
Torth while resisting arrest Is
AT Crisfeld, Somerset County, Md, the :
emarkable trial Of Mrs. Emma Farlow, :
Or the murder of her husband, resulted in {
verdict of manslaughter. !,
AT Birmingham, Ala, man giving the
anne of George Perkins, thought by local
ficers to bear resemblance to Tascott, =
le Chicago murderer, was arrested on .
lie 18th.
MISCELLANEOUS.
A MORTGAGE in favor of the New York !.
entral Trust Company for $3.50, 900 has :
zen fled by the Duluth (Minn.) Gas s
later Company with the register Of D
seds, which amount will be expended in r.
Itending gas and water mains this year. "
ON the 18th, owing to the protests Of "
olish Catholics, the Pope discontinued d
sgotiations for an entente between Rus
q and the Vatican. Ic,
ACCORDING TO preliminary estimate Of Ial
. copper production Of the United La
ates, issued by the Geological Survey h,
! the 18th, the output Of copper for 1887 d,
IS 1S1, 10, ,524ipounds, ,and the consumption ot
r the same period 100, ,O00, 900 pounds.
UNDER the Retiring act the gross -
Mount paid to judicial officers Of the -
,vernment up to March 81, last, was =
nm