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

DANIEL WREN, the convicted Chicago
boodler, was taken to the Joliet peniten-
tiary on the 23d to serve his sentence.
The plan Of campaign victory near
Loughrea, Ireland, was celebrated with
bonfires. Sir Henry Bourke has granted
twenty-five per cent reduction to his ten
ants, pays the legal cost, reinstates evlcted
tenants and pays the cost Of their mainten-
ance since eviction.
AT recent session of the Electric Light
convention at Pittsburgh, Pa, paper on
Underground Electric Arc Light Wires"
was read by Wells W. Lggett, of Detroit.
He claimed that while it was entirely
feasible to bury telephone, telegraph or
even incandescent wires, no system had or
probably ever would be adopted which
would solve the question of burying arc
lights underground.
By the will of Seth Wadham, Of Chicago,
$50, coo each is left to the Chicago Nursery
and Half Orphan Asylum and the Old Peo-
ple's Home.
A BLACK, oily substance, the exact nature
of which is unknown, has been struck in
the Chicago water tunnel shaft oa the lake
front.
A FIRE on New Granite street, Pitts
burgh, Pa, recently destroyed two
churches and several business houses.
Loss over 100000.
JUSTICE DENNY, of the Queens Bench
division, Ipswich, Eng, in the case of a
poacher who had severely wounded q
gamekeeper, held that the gamekeeper had
no right to arrest and hunt poachers as he
would wild beasts. The jury acquitted the
poacher on the ground of self-defense.
IT is reported that syndicate of French,
Belgian and Dutch bankers has advanced
to Russia the sum of $50, ,O0O, 600, refusing
to grant larger Loan unless the Bulgarian
question is settled peacefully.
BUSINESS failures (Dun's report) for the
seven days ended February %, numbered
for the United States, 2S7; Canada, 80;
total, 27O, as compared with 273 the pre-
vious week and 2s9 the corresponding week
OF last year.
AT Detroit, Mich, recently Francis Her
bert, aged thirty-three, was sentenced to
Imprisonment for life for the seduction Of
thirteen-year-oldg girl.
THE party arrested near Lebanon, Mo-,
recently for Tascott, the murderer of
millionaire Smell, turned out to be some one
else.
A SEVERE storm visited Gibson County,
Ind, on the night of the oath. Much dam
age was reported, but no lives were
thought to be lost.
A GRAND tie-up on the Burlington sys-
tenn was expected on the 25th, owing to the
refusal of the company to agree to the de-
mands of the Brotherhood Of Locomotive
Engineers.
ASSISTANT CASHIER FRANK M. RIEaEL, Of
the defunct Cincinnati Metropolitan Bank,
has been arrested for using elgnt 81 600 Or
ders of a building association for his pri-
vate ends.
AN Oil still In Buffalo IN. W refinery
exploded recently, instantly killing an
employe and severely injuring the super
intendent.
THE Interstate Commerce Commission
has decided the case of Rice VS.. the Louis.
vile Il Nashville, charging discrimination
in favor Of the Standard Oil Company. The
Commission finds that the tank line system
was deception, the public not really be-
ing allowed to compete with the Standard
Company. Judgment was therefore en-
tered for plaintiff and the railroad ordered
to grade its tank rates with its carload bar
rel rates.