St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1888-12-22
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

| The investigation of Commissioners
| Cooley and Morrison at Chicago led them
| to believe that the Interstate Commerce
law was extensively violated secretly.
| Judge Cooley stated that rigorous pun
ishment would be meted QUIT to those found
guilty of violating the act.
PANAMA canal shares were reported
panicky in Paris. Various schemes were
suggested to prevent a collapse. De
Lesseps wished to make the project an in
ternational one, in which England and
America would be invited to participate.
MRS. B. McAULEY, mother Of the noted
theatrical brothers and of Mrs. Charles r.
Pope, of St Louis, died at Louisville, KY,
on the 10th, aged seventy-two.
SENATOR M. G.. BUTLER has been re-
elected by the South Carolina Legislature
to the United States Senate as his own
successor.
SCHOOL elections took place at Boston on
the 11th. Great excitement prevailed and
heavy vote was polled. It was thought
the ticket indorsed by the committee Of
100 was elected.
THE regular Cabinet meeting was held
at the White House on the 18th. All the
members were present. The session lasted
about two hours, and was mainly devoted
to discussion of the Hayti and Samoan
complications.
A LETTER has been transmitted to the
House from the Public Printer, submitting
an estimate for deficiency appropriation
of $3.50, 900 for the current fiscal year.
The President has received the resigna-
ton of United States District Attorney
Emery B. Sellers, Of the Indiana district,
but has not yet accepted it and does not
wish to do so. The Attorney General has
telegraphed to Mr.. Sellers that the Presi-
dent joins with him in requesting him to
withdraw his resignation.
CoLoRoW, chief Of the Southern Utes,
died recently, aged seventy. He will be
succeeded by the chief of the Uncom-
pahgres. He was the leader in the Meeker
massacre and in the Colorow war of 1856.
The funeral of the late Rear. Admiral
Edgar Lee, who died at the Victoria Hotel
at New York on Monday, took place on
the 18th from the Little Church Around
the Corner.
GENERAL JAMES C. LANE died at mid
night on the 18th at New York.
IT has been officially stated that the
Pope does not intend to leave Rome, nor
had he thought of taking such step.
IT was rumored at London recently that
Stanley, the great explorer, was prisoner
of the Madhi, together with Emin Pasta,
and that England must give up Suakim to
secure their release.
THE public reception at indianapolis,
Ind, rendered to the Vice-President-elect
and Mrs. Morton on the 14th, was the most
brilliant affair OF the kind ever witnessed
in that city. All
IT was reported RECENTLY that the Cam
adams were not at all pleased with Con-
gresham ButterWorth's bill for the an
nexation Of Canada and that they re-
garded it as the greatest rot ever pro-
pounded by statesman.
MAYOR HEWITT, in his testimony on the
14th before the State Senate Committee
investigating city affairs, expressed his
opinion that Colonel Cockerill, of the New
York World, was liar. Colonel Coekerill
has addressed letter to Hewitt declaring
that the latter was a liar, biackguard and
slanderer, and said he could prove il by
MIR. Hewitt's public record.