St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1888-08-04
THE Burlington offer to compromise the

THE Burlington offer to compromise the
strike was rejected by the conference re-
Gently held at st. Joseph, Mo.
NEAR Bentonia, Miss, recently the
daughter of Dolph Miles, colored, poisoned
her father and three brothers. Two Of the
brothers were dead. Family trouble was
the cause.
MAJOR Downs, of New York, who began
the crusade against the bob-tail car by re-
fusing to put his fare in the box, was fined
81. The case was appealed.
A TRAIN on the Alabama Great Southern
railway was ditched near Titusville re-
Gently by the breaking of the driving
wheel of the engine. Two men, fireman
and brakeman, were caught under car
load of steel rails and killed.
JUDGE BREWER has granted temporary
Injunction against the Iowa Railroad Com
missioners. He laid down the law that
unlimited power did not exist in the Legis-
lature or in the Board to fix rates.
THE President has approved the POST
Office Appropriation bill; the act for a
bridge across the Mississippi river at Wa
basha, Minn.: the act to construct road
to the National Cemetery at Baton Rouge,
La; the joint resolution electing managers
of the National Home for Disabled Vol
unteer Soldiers; the act for bridge across
the Arkansas near Cummings Landing,
Ark.
A SPECIAL from Brighton, ninety six
miles east of Buffalo, N. Y, says serious
break has occurred in the threemile level
of the Erie canal. Several boats were
broken in two and all of the east boats
delayed.
FROM evidence in possession of the
Treasury Department it is said that about
$50, 900, 900 worth of Confederate property
is in possession Of parties in England,
and $6,0OO,0O0 worth in the possession Of
parties in the United States.
The United States steamer Juniata,
which went ashore near Cough Island
while on her way to Chemulpo, Corea, to
protect American Consuls from Corean
mobs, got safely off the mud bank with
the tide on the night of July %, and pro-
ceeded again to Seoul.
A VOLCANIC eruption at Bandalsan, fifty
leagues from Yokohama, has destroyed
several villages and killed 1000 persons,
including 100 visitors at the Thermal
springs.
NINETEEN emigration agents were ar
rested at Cracow, Austrian Galicia, re-
Gently, for melting natives of the district
to emigrate to America to avoid military
service. Similar arrests were made at
Brady and Czernomitz.
BUSINESS failures (Dun's report) for the
seven days ended July 26 numbered for
the United States, 199; Canada, %.
THE Texas traffic lines representatives,
who were in New York endeavoring to eff
feet an organization as public carriers, are
reported to have agreed.
H..U. McELRoY, chief clerk of the freight
department of the Mexican Central rail-
way, has been arrested at Vera Cruz
charged with defalcation.
G.. L. PRUDEN, assistant secretary to the
President, has received intelligence that
his son, aged sixteen, was killed in an ac-
cident on farm in Virginia, where he was
spending short vacation.
THERE was report in Los Angeles, Cal,
on the 9th that Henry w. Moore and
Mrs. Norton, the runaway couple, were in
that city.
THE services of volunteers to assist in
putting down the Indian troubles in the
Northwest Territory have been declined
by the Canadian authorities as not needed.