St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1888-08-18


Claud Hamilton, Conservative, resulted
in the return of Mr.. VIM Henry Cross,
the Oldest son Of Lord Cross, who is also
Conservative.
VIENNA newspapers, commenting on
Lord Salisbury's speech at the Mansion
House banquet say that his remarks are
too optimistic, especially regarding
Russia and Bulgaria.
CAREFUL estimates place the number of
participants in the Blaine reception
parade in New York City on the night of
the 9th at 10000.
The bill regulating commerce carried
on by telegraph was passed by the SEN
ate, on the 10th, without discussion, OBJ
lection or division.
ACCORDING to the Rome Diritto King
Humbert will pay visit to Berlin before
Emperor William visits Rome.
Soon after landing, on the 10th, Mr..
Blaine took drive in Central Park, New
York City, in company with Messrs
Quay, Clarkson and other members Of
the National Republican committee.
A LARGE audience, assembled in Cooper
Union, New York City, on the 10th, un der
the auspices of the County Democracy. to
ratify the National ticket, was addressed
by Senator Kenna, of West Virginia.
The trial Of Mr.. Jas. J. O'Kelly, Mem
Der for Parliament for Roscommon,
charged with making speeches in Ireland
inciting to intimidation and boycotting,
ended at Dublin, on the 10th, In con vic
tion, the prisoner being sentenced to four
months imprisonment at hard labor.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
On the 7th Rev. J. w. Hanford, Indian
teacher and missionary at st. Stephens
Mission, Oak, who married Chaska and
Miss Fellows, was thrown from a moving
machine, cutting off his right hand, and
bleeding to death before aid arrived.
ON the night Of the 7th, during a
"norther" at Valpar also, Chill, two large
barks one English and the other French,
sank in the harbor after having been in
collision. The crew of the English ves-
sci, consisting of seventeen hands, and
seven of the French crew were drowned.
Five vessels were blown ashore and
dashed to pieces.
AT Saginaw City, Mich, on the 9Th, fire
broke out in the immense planning mill of
G. Lee, destroying nearly half mile of
solid mill plants and lumber piles along
the river.
Four persons were burned to death in
fire in tenement house in New York, on
the Sth.
On the 8th the south bound Texas Gen.
trail train was wrecked six miles west of
Waco, Tex, by persons placing obstruc-
tions on the track, and the engineer, j. R.
Moses, instantly killed, and Fireman Car
trelle seriously injured.
NEAR Philadelphia, on the 9th, passen-
ger engine on the Ba, timore & Ohio rail-
road plunged through the open draw
bridge at Gray's Ferry. A boy was buried
under the engine at the bottom of Schuyl-
Kill river, and several other persons were
hurt some fatally.
FIRE destroyed large number of blocks
in the business portion of Litch6eld,
Conn.,, on the 9th.
A WRIT of habeas corpus was granted
Dan Lyons, under sentence of death for
she murder of Athlete Quinn, by the Su-
oreme Court of New York City on the 9th.
IT was reported on the 9th that COL
islon had occurred on the Columbus &
Eastern railway between a picnic train
md Columbus & Muskingum Valley
rain on a joint track five miles south of
GAINESVILLE, o. Details could not be OBJ
aimed. The excursion train was heavily
oaded.
HUGH MoTTRAM BROOKS alias W. Fl.
.ennox Maxwell and Henry Landgraff
we're executed in the city jail at ST. Louis
1t 9:02 D. NJ. on the 10tn.
AT Wilkesbarre, Pa, Joseph Richards,
! fourteen year-old boy, employed as a
mule driver in the Murry coal mine, was
titled, on the 9th, by being hit by runa-
vay train of cars. which struck him with
uch force that his head was driven into
he abdomen of the mule, and jammed so
lightly that it required two men to pull it
ut.
fletcher, aged fifty years, at Flushing, L.
), on the 10th, repaid the kindness Of a
olored girl named Maggie Jones, eight
en- years old, who had given her shelter
uring the night, by numbering her in the
lorning.
A TERRIFIC storm, accompanied by hail,
wept across Madison County, Ind, on
ne 9th. A strip of land mile wide was
Aid waste. Timber was broken off, fences |
,veled and the corn crop utterly ruined. |
LATE advices from the flooded districts |
Germany report several deaths. |
ourteen persons were missing in tn e |
auben district alone. Herr Herrfurth, |
linister of the Interior, waslyisitlng the |
istrict and was in constant communica-
on with the Emperor.
WHILE bathing near the Pequot House, |
ew London, Conn.,, on the 10th, Charles
arroll, of Baltimore, aged twenty-th three,
descendeut Of Charles Carroll, OF Car
ol!ton, Md, one Of the signers of the
eclaration Of Independence, was drown
!.
MISCELLANEOUS.
SUPPLEMENTARY reports received from
Il parts of the Province of Ontario show
lat all the crops, with the exception OF
,ring and fall wheat and hay, will be
bove the average in yield and quality.
On the Duluth & Iron Range railroad,
Minnesota, the brakemen, who have
sen getting $55 per month, are on a
rike for $685. stopping the fifteen ore
aims run between the mines and Two
arbors.
AT Birmingham, England, on the sth,
le mile and half-mi1e championship
cycle races were won by Temple, of
merica.
On the sth the National Bar Associa-
on convention assembled in Cleve-
nd, o.
Ar Cleveland, O., the Miners and Mine
abore-s' National District Assembly
o. 135 are holding their third annual
'ssion. Sixty thousand coal miners are
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