St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1888-02-18
MISCELLANEOUS.

MANY arrests have been made in South
ern Russia owing to the discovery of an
| extensive agrarian movement.
THE Manitoba railroad bridge across the
Missouri river at Great Falls Oak, has
been completed. 1t is 800 feet long.
A MEETING of the bar was held at Fort
Worth, Tex, recently to take action in re-
gard to the charges against j. W. Wray,
| practicing attorney. It was alleged that
| he had altered court records.
| FIVE cases of trichinosis have occurred
| in the family of William Man, resi-
dent of Toledo, o. All five were IN a dan
gerous condition.
j. G. EVANS, Of Harlem, Mo-, has been
elected treasurer and Parker Earl, of Cob
den, ILL.,, president of the American Horti-
cultural Society.
The blast furnace owners of Western
Pennsylvania and Southern Ohio propose
to unite to secure better freight rates,
lower coke and smaller wages.
THE joint convention Of miners and mine
owners in session in Pittsburgh, Pa, have
referred the wages question to a committee
State.
FIRE in Cleveland, O., the other day,
caused 5000 damage to j. T.. Hudson's
clothing store. Cause electric light wires.
The cotton spinuers of New Bedford,
Mass, have demanded ten per cent. in
crease in wages,
Two men were recently digging up some
dynamite which had been buried to pro-
tect it until wanted to use in gas well
near Bellevue, o., when one of them struck
the explosive material with his pick. The
explosion instantly killed the two men.
In Liberty township, Wabash County,
Ind, recently J. I. Smith and Joel Hale
were killed by the explosion of the boiler
of portable engine The explosion was
caused by pumping cold water into the SUI
perheated boiler.
WOLVES have become dangerously nu-
merous in the vicinity of st. Cloud, MINI.
The other night several made raid on a
pig pen, almost within the city limits, and
destroyed nearly 1900 pounds of live hogs.
BUSINESS failures (Dun's report) tor the
seven days ended February numbered for
the United States, 237; Canada, So; total,
2S9, compared with 279 the previous week
and 267 for the corresponding week of last
year.
A TERRIBLE explosion occurred at the Du-
pont powder works near Wilkesbarre, Pa,
on the 10th. Four men were blown to
pieces and forty other persons injured,
fourteen seriously. Immense damage was
done, several tons of powder being ex-
ploded
MAJOR TEMPLAR, of the British army, was
recently arrested at Chatham, charged
with divulging official secrets.
Gross cruelties are alleged against the
officers OF the British ship Macedon, which
recently arrived IN Japan from Philadel-
phia Five of the crew were said to have
died from their injuries.
The Treasury Department has decided
that Chinese merchant at Portland, Ore,
can not bring his nephew from China to
help him in his business.
EDWARD A. DEAcoNs, of Rochester, N.
Y, has been sentenced to be hanged April
10 for the murder of Mrs. Ada Stone.
The jury in New York City disagreed in
the case of A. Howard Hinkle, OF Cincin-
nati against Mrs Jeanette M. Thurber
for 100000 for the money advanced to the
American Opera Company.
THE next biennial session of the Amer.
ican Horticultural Society will be hsld in
Texas.