St. Landry democrat., 1888-09-08

| A NATIONAL assembly Of Knights OF
Labor brass workers will be formed in the
next two weeks. It will have %, 600 mem.
| bers.
BY the explosion of the boiler of port
able engine at Denton, Tex, the other day
one man was killed and another fatally in
jured.
A SHORTAGE of $3.50 has been found In
the accounts of the late City Treasurer
McGeochen, Of Lafayette, Ind, who died
recently.
CA1vERLY's statue of Robert Burns was
unvailed at Albany, N. Y, recently in the
presence of 1000 people.
ADvICEs from Matamoras state that the
Texas authorities having raised the quar-
antine against Mexico, Mexico will raise
| Its quarantine against Texas.
ADvICEs from Lorenzo Marquize, a
| Portuguese town in Africa, say that a
| mutiny had broken out among the soldiers
OF the garrison, and that marines had been
landed from the war ships to quell it.
Fighting was expected.
HORACE BISHOP, aged fifteen, and Charles
McApplebee, aged sixteen, living near New
Haven, Conn, died soon after drinking
soda water at a drug store. Investigation
showed that tincture Of aconite had been
mixed with the soda water instead of
syrup. Robert J. Lama, the clerk who
made the fatal error, was arrested.
AT Tarneberzeg, Galicia, 15O houses
were destroyed bysfire and 200 fam
lilies were rendered homeless recently.
The loss was $2,500,O00 One man was in
jured.
THE Cashgar Chinese have put five per
70 on ol1 RI n1o of
manufacture
Two Russian ex-officers have been ar
rested in Bulgaria on suspicion of being
concerned in the recent acts of brigand-
age.
AT Rinez, Hungary, the other day,
man murdered his five children and then
committed suicide.
PREMIER FLoouEr and Admiral Krantz,
Minister of Marine, witnessed the French
naval evolutions at Toulon on the 31st.
During the movements of the fleet two
torpedo boats came into collision and both
were seriously damaged.
A TERRIBLE rainstorm at Hot Springs.
Ark, on the night Of the 3Oth proved ex-
tremely disastrous to life and property.
One report was that thirteen persons were
drowned, mostly colored.
CHARLES IL. LtTCHAAN, secretary Of the
Knights of Labor, has resigned for politi-
cal reasons.
BUSINESS failures Dun's report) for the
the seven days ended August 80 numbered
for the United States, 202; Canada, "a;
total, 226; compared with 214 the previous
week and l99 the corresponding week last |
year.
A DISPATCH from San Francisco saws:
Three steamship lines, which have been |
for the China trade, have formed |
a pool on flour rates. Their agents have
notified shippers that hereafter the sched-
ule rate would be 81 per ton to China, and
that this figure will be fixture.
The Manitoba Legislature has ratified
jhe agreement with the Northern Pacific
railway by vote of q to 10.
MISS Lillian DEPLEY, of st. Paul, Minn.,
aged about fourteen years, Is reported to
lave eloped with her fathers coachman.
William Stewart, burly negro.
COTTON worms are reported doing much
iamage in various parts of Louisiana and
LAND COMMISSIONER SToCKSLAGER has
lecided, in the case of the Central Pacific
Company against John Geary, of
he Shasta, CAL, land district, that the
and within the thirty miles indemnity
limits of the grant Of July 26, 1866 to the
california & Oregon Railroad Company
vas opened to settlement after withdrawal
nd before selection by the company. This
ecision rests upon the assumption that
he withdrawal was illegal, and follows
he doctrine laid down in the Guilford
[iller case.
FIVE cowboys are reported to have been
rowned by cloudburst just west of
ike's Peak, in Colorado. They were
eeping in the dry bed of stream at the !
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