St. Landry democrat., 1888-10-20

IHE committee OF iriSnmen collecting
| money for Parnell's litigation with the
| London Times have secured $50, 900 so far.
| but need much more and appeal especially
| to Americans.
JUDGE SAWYER, of the United States
| Circuit Court at San Francisco has issued
two writs of habeas corpus designed to
test some of the questions to be raised over
the right to land of Chinese arriving here
| after the Exclusion act went into effect.
One writ was for a Chinaman arriving by
the steamship Belgic who had return
certificate and the question raised Is
whether Congress can constitutionally
deprive Chinese holding custom house
certificates of the right to return.
A MOTION was made In the Supreme
Court at Buffalo; N. Y, ON the 18th for d
commission to take the testimony Of
President Cleveland in a suit of Rev. Dr..
George HI. Ball against the New York
EUening Post for libel. The motion was
denied. The suit grows out of Rev. Balls
scandal charges in the last Presidential
election.
A FIRE which broke out on the steamer
Harris at Greenpoint, L. l., the other
morning spread to adjoining vessels and
to the Standard Oil shipping department,
causing a loss of 100000. Five firemen
were severely burned.
A NoRTHBoUND passenger train Oh the
Cleveland, Lorraine & Wheeling road and
a freight train collided near Massillon, O.,
on the 18th, and both engines, two passen-
ger coaches and several freight cars were
completely wrecked. A brakeman and
passenger were fatally injured and anoth-
er man had both legs broken. Loss, $780,
0Oe.
G. c. DEAN, private secretary of Major
John A. Adams, of Little Rock, Ark, has
gone to Canada because of defalcatiors for
an unknown a,ncnnt. T1e recen5ly failed
ID an attempt to kill himself.
The bottom of the Robert B. Carson, an
Ohio river cattle steamboat, collapsed the
other night aid the vessel sank near
Evansville, Ind. The crew escaped.
ONE hundred persons were killed in re-
cent disorders at Port au Prince, Hayti.
A MADRID dispatch says there has been
o reneha. Of tine conflicts between Morocco
and the United States. The latter de-
mands that the authorities at Fez be pun
ished for the arrest of the American
ConsuPs protege and that indemnity be
paid.
HE Vandalia freight depot at East St.
Louis, H., was burned the other night.
Loss, $4,000.
The President has vetoed Semitic bill
granting restoration of pension to Sarah
A. Woodbridge on the grounds that the
precedent ought not to be established of
granting a pension to a soldiers widow
after remarriage, when the second hus-
bind still survived.
Two men gagged the night clerk in charge
Of the post-otfice at Houston, Tex, on the
morning of the 18th and robbed the mail
pouches, of how much was unknown
AN oil well has been struck near Find
ay, o., which eclipses any thing in the
history of the Ohio field. 1t is estimated
20 flow e,000 barrels pes day.
IOWA had two bank failures on the 1ith. |
The Boyer Valley Bank, of Woodbine, and |
he Caldwell Bank, at Logan, closed their |
loors.
AT the intersection of the Walnut Hills |
able road and the Park avenue line of |
lorse cars, Cincinnati, recently, collision |
between cable car 1a9 end Park |
venue car Ne. 10, cau1ed by the inability |
G vtTk the track brake on the cable car. |
there were about 120 passengers on both
ars, but no one was seriously injured.
Two bogus notes, one for Slo,00 and an
ther for $4,000, issued by absconding |
reasurer Bosworth, of tie Stafford mills, |
t Fall River, Mass, have been found,
ringing up his defalcation to $45, 900.
"A REPORT of yellow fever at Green Cove
prings, Fla, has been received at the
1arine Hospital Bureau.
The President has vetoed the bill author
ling the Secretary of the Treasury to SET
le the claim of James NJ. Wilbur for ex-
"a work in laying the tiling in the New
,ork post-office building in 1874. The
laim amounted to about $t5, 900