St. Landry democrat., 1888-04-14
MISCELLANEOUS

-FOUR boys were drowned in a creek O
the Cedar river near st. Ansgar, Iowa, re
Gently, owing to wagon upsetting while
crossing when the creek was much swollen
. FIRE in Baltimore, Md, the other morn
9 ing destroyed two coal oil storage ware
:. houses and several thousand barrels o
oil doing $40, 600 damage.
TIE British naval training shin Martin
4 manned by boys, went ashore off Ports
:. mouth, Eng, recently and was much
b | damaged
DISPATCHES from Burmah state that .
large fire at Mandalay has burned 5O(
houses to the ground and rendered many
people homeless
, PETER LEININGER. a middle-aged mar
near Reading, Pa, died the other night oil
hydrophobia, caused by recent dog bite
He had suffered horribly.
IT is announced by the State Department
|. that the Venezuelan Government has
placed barbed WIRE on the free list
The steamer General d. H. Rucker was
burned on the Mississippi recently few
miles above New Madrid, Mo.
FIRE in Vassar, Mich, the other morning
destroyed eight stores and several small
buildings, causing total loss of S31, 700.
MURDERER who had been released on
ticket-of-leave, near Temesyar, Hungary.
recently went to the house of the juuge
who condemned him and killed the judges
wife with revolver. Then he went to the
house OF the notary and killed the latter's
deputy. From there he went to his own
home and split the skulls of his wife and
children, after which he fed and has not
yet been captured.
FATHER KENNEDY and sixteen farmers of
County Cork have been convicted of at
tending National League meeting In a
| proclaimed district, and sentenced to three
months imprisonment
The other night Mr.. Mathison and his
sixteen-year.o .old son, Of Oil Springs, Ont,
started to cross the river at Port Huron,
Mich, to Sarnia in row boat. When
| about half way across a sudden squall
drove the boat against cake of ice, the
craft capsized and it's occupants were
| drowned.
JAMES PARso Ns' barn near Centerville.
Mich, was struck by lightning recently
and totally destroyed, Mr.. Parsons and his
little child and Mrs. Yankee being in.
stantly killed at the same time
KENNEDY PORTER, son Of Ex-Governor
Porter, OF Tennessee, was fatally shot at
Paris, KY, on the 9th by Will Edmunds.
The origin of the difficulty was supposed
to be the attention Of young Porter to Ed
munds' sister,
BUSINESS failures Dun's report) for tha
seven days ended April S, numbered for
the United States, 199, Canada, %; total.
227; compared with 223 the previous week
and 223 the corresponding week OF last
year.
REV. MR.. SUTHERLAND, the evangelist,
better known to the theate1 going public
as Senator Bob Hart'' of the minstrel
stage which he quit to preach, was found
dead in bed in the room Of friend at Bar
ney's Hotel, in Chambers street, New
York, the other night. He had recentiv
gone to the bad, and Immediately preced-
ing his death had been drinking heavily.
JUDGE JACKSON, in the United States
Circuit Court, at Louisville, KY, recently
affirmed the decision of the lower court in
the West Virginia habeas corpus case
against the State Of Kentucky for posses
sion of the Hatfield prisoners. This was
the second victory for Kentucky.
ADDITIONAL DIsPATcnEs.
TEE Missouri, Tennessee and Georgia
Railroad that was chartered q year ago
- making Its plans for building the road /
rom point on the Mississippi river
opposite New Madrid to Humboldt, Tenn.
AN organization of veteran soldiers and
sailors, of New York, which terms itself
the Veteran Association Of the Regular
Army and Navy Of the United States, has
recently been agitating the matter of
securing bounty land and means for inn
proving the same from the Government.
The outlook for grain in Kansas is said
% be magnificent.
NEAR Summerset, KY, Abe Clay, a
negro, was fatally shot on the night Of the
,tn, Dy Miss Jasper, wealthy old maid.
Ilay with brother, went to the residence
u Miss Jasper about 12 O'Clock at night
md tried to gain admittance. Miss Jasper
'efused 10 admit them and they ATTEMPTED
Q burst down the door and Miss Jasper |
lred through the door Mt them.
TIE Riverside Creamery Of Macon,
Hiss, has just closed it's first years busi- :
less. In that time it has made and sold 1
o,oOO pounds OF as fine butter as can be
1ade anywhere. The price obtained has {
cen thirty cents per pound and the de-
aand has far exceeded the quantity mada.
SAMUEL w. BROOKS, father OF Hugh M. 4
rooks, alias w. 81. L. Maxwell, has
'rasten long and touching appeal TO the
lmerican people to help him save his how r
'om the gallows. 8
AT Lexington, KY, on the Sth, Tom y
faltz, colored, assaulted white man ).
AIMED Leroy Smith, and cut his head or :
ith q razor or pruning knife. =
SEVERAL hundred thousand feet Of lnm- q
y was burned at McNeill's Mills, Ia
ghteen miles south of Little Rock, Ark. Il
the 8th. The loss win run away up In d
% thousands. p
REV. DR.. PRIDGEos, 81 years old, te
'eached his own funeral ON the Sth In q "
nall country church near Athens, GA. p
had his grave dug and coffin made 9
r the occasion. He and his assistants :.
ng the song, "Shall We Gladly Meet.n -
then gave bis text, second Corithians. q
shth verse, and gave the large crowd a ce
ort talk in very faltering manner. ca
1M POWELL, who Is wanted for making Ol
unterfeit half dollars in Conway county, eli
X, is in Jail at Little Rock. Powell La
wed . two-years' term at Detroit for u
ls crime, and returned last year and
mt at his old business and was found pe
th complete set of counterfeiter,s e =
,ls.
FIVE miners wers taken to Chattanooga, ~