St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1888-09-15
A SHORTAGE of $4,000 or more h,

| A SHORTAGE Of $4,000 or more has beel
found in the accounts of Secretary List, O
the Duckworth Building Association o
Cincinnati. He attempted suicide
THE telegraph operators of the Lab
Shore & Michigan Southern Railway Com
pany have been ordered to leave the orde
of railway telegraphers or their positions
EIGHT men were terribly injured, som,
fatally, by the explosion of the boiler of {
threshing machine at Glendale, Oak, re-
Gently.
THE spinners in the Nafragansett mills
Fall River, Mass, have struck because
compelled to work overtime to make up fol-
time lost.
JUDGE NEY, Of Waterloo, under the towa
Prohibitory law; decides that a man car
not lawfully manufacture cider for use in
his own family, and ihstructs the grand
jury to indict if they find that sncf thing
has been done.
By the explosion Of steam thresher neal
Seymour, Ind, the other day, one man was
killed and three fatally injured,
ALMOST the entire business portion of the
village Uf Jennings, La, has been de-
stroyed by fire, causing $4,000 loss.
FROST, which did much damage to crops:
was reported in New England oh the 5th.
THE spinners iii the cotton mills at Boil
ton, England have struck against a new
system of weighing cotton.
MAYOR HEWITT, Of New York City, has
issued an appeal for aid for the yellow
fever sufferers at jacksonville, Fla.
AT Milbrook, Ark, election day, it is
claimed, the negroes attempted to steal
the ballot box, and finding the whites on
guard gave them a volley and fed. The
fire was returned by the whites, but with.
out effect. The wounded ineh We're John
McMaith, shot in temple; J. B. Kinton,
James Jones; Robert Ragsdale, J. M. Mas
sey, George Williams and B. +. Ho3d.
THf Forthcoming report of the Post
master.General will show that the number
of Presidential post-oftices July l, 1888, was
2,5O2-an increase during the year of 1866; to-
tai amount Of salaries paid te Presidential
postmasters, s., ,e02 ,S0O-an increase under
the ace IF March B, 1888, of 1922, 500, or s
per cent; total gross receipts from Presi-
Dental post offices for the year, $3s, 49s-
9SS, an increase of $3, 322 ,826. or per cent
AN attempt to rob the grave Of murderer
Maxwell at st. Louis was recently frus-
trated by a private watchman.
LoNGsHoREMEN ON strike at Fernandina,
Fla, became riotous recently and fifty of
them We're arrested.
INTELLIGENCE has been received that
the Hatfelds, of Logan County, who We're
charged with the murder of old man Nc
Coy and his family near Pikevile, KY,
have had their trial at jackson and been
acquitted.
N. H. R. DAWSON, Commissioner of Edu-
cation, In his annual report, says that
more than twelve millions of children at
tended the public schools some part of the
last fiscal year, and Of these nearly 6,OoO,-
900 were iii average daily attendance. In
both respects the Southern States, once so
backward, have made greater progress
than other parts of the country.
THREE persons were killed at Matanzas,
Cuba, by the recent cyclone,
BUSINESS failures tDun's report) num-
bered 254 for the seven days ended Sep
tember 6.
The French Government has ordered an
investigation of the report that dhows
carrying the French flag are engaged in
the slave trade in Madagascar.
THE National Marine Underwriters AS
sociatton has decided not to refuse to in
sure cotton when well covered, even if
jute bagging be not used.
JOHN c. GRAVES, ex-county treasurer of
Corydon, Ind, has been found to be $14, 900
short in his accounts.
THE new iron railway bridge at Grand
View, W. Va, has been carried away by
q flood, causing 1000 loss.
CHARLES VoGr Co., importers Of china
and fancy articles, New York City. have
failed, with 100000 liabilities and $4,000
nominal assets:
BY collision between an engine and a
freight train near Louisville, KY, the
other day several cars were wrecked and
IN unknown tramp was killed.