St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1889-11-02
GENERAL ITEMS.

loss of $50 600.
Near Carlisle, Pa, the 12-year, old
daughter of Mr.. Rudabaugh was gored to
death by bull.
During the year, up to Oct. /, sill
miles o. new railroads have been built in
the United States.
Theodore ClGrdent Batalle, who fought
under Napoleon at Waterloo, died in his
home near Opelousas, La. s.
The fertilizer factory of G. Ober, Sons
& Co, at Locust Point. Iud., burned. The
estimated loss is $500 O0O
Pickpockets went through train on
the Panhandle Road near Newark. Ohio,
and obtained nearly $1,000.
The wife of Colonel w. E. Mclean, of
Indiana eX Deputy Commissioner of Pen
sions, died at Washington.
Five more bodies were found at Johns
town, Pa and it is expected that many
more will yet be recovered.
The Woman's Congress, in session a.
Denver, Col, elected Julia Ward Howe,
of Rhode Island, President.
Business failures for the week number
214, compared with 206 last week and 227
in the corresponding week of 1888.
President Harrison appointed John w.
Blackburn, of Utah, to be an Associate
Justice of the Supreme Court of Utah.
Fire at Rocky Mount, franklin county,
Va, destroyed property valued at $50 Co.,
on which there was an insurance of $780,.
900.
DR.. Hugh M. Sutherland, of New York,
died from the effects of a dose of NOR
phine, taken Wednesday in Union Square
Park
A careful estimate made by Commits
sioner Hagerty shows that the yield of
wheat in Dakota this year is A ,009, O92
bushels.
In the Episcopal convention at New
York a committee reported adversely to
the erection of new dioceses in Nebraska
and Michigan.
At Lafayette, Ohio, the saloon of Fred
Romer was visited by citizens, who broke
all the doors and windows, and ordered
Romer to close up.
The Hon. L. D. Whiting, of Tiskilwa
ILL.,, for eighteen years member of the
State Legislature, died at his home a few
days ago, aged SO years.
w. B. Baker, inventor of the new
Baker gun, died recently at Batavia, n.
Y. He was superintendent of the SYRIA
An Epglishman named Parkinson liv-
ing at Grand Forks, n D., has been noti-
fed that he has fallen heir to property
that will net him $45, 900 year.
Five cotton warehouses; two cotton
presses and $500 bales of cotton were
burned at Savannah, Ga. few days ago.
The loss is estimated at 100000.
While picking apples, Judge Robert
Bailey, of the Common Pleas Court of Car
rollton, Ohio, fell from tree and landed
on picket fence, and died from the effects
of his mi uries,
u M. Eitfel, who built the great structure
in Paris, says lower on the same plan, OF
any height, can be constructed in America ;
that it is merely a question of outlay and
of care in the selection of suitable site.
Samuel Rockwell Reed, a noted editorial
writer on Cincinnati paper, died Oct. 6
on board the steamer Lain, en- route for
Europe, on which continent he intended to
make tour for the benefit of his health.
The Carnival Association of st. Paul
have decided to build another ice palace
this winter. The city council will be
asked to appropriate $50 90 for the build
ing and the remaining $4,000 will be
raised by subscription.
Near Bridgeport, Ohio, miners train
and freight train were in collision, both
locomotives, two coaches and eight freight
cars being wrecked. One man was killed,
three were fatally injured and dozen
others badly wounded.
Laborers at Ticonderoga, n Y, I'M
earthed a coffin bearing, according to the
inscription, the remains of Lord Howe
who was killed July s, 1853. The skull
was found to be S-ssact, but the other bones
were considerably decayed.
Representatives of an English syndicate
are at Boston, Mass, negotiating for the
purchase of the gas works at Brooklne,
Cambridge, Charlestown. Chelsea, East
Boston, Jamaica Plains, Maiden. Melrose,
Newton, Watertown and Waltham.
The earnings of Michigan railroads for
July, 1889, were 81, BOZ, 209 81, an increase
over the same month in 1883 of 1854,
1890; total earnings from Jan. to Aug.
/, 1889, $44, 995, 055.23. an increase over
the same period in 1888 of 81, sos, 6O4 ID
A specimen of the crowned crane four
feet in height was brought to New. York
by the steamer Ludgate Hill. The bird
boarded the ship when it was $50 miles
out from Havre, and had evidently been
driven into northern latitudes by a hurri-
cane.
A meeting to form carpet manufac
turers' trust for the support of which for
eign capitalists, as alleged, stand ready to
put up $25 900, 600, was held at New York.
The promoters of the scheme expect to
control about So per cent of the whole pro
duction.
The old directors of the Western Union
Telegraph Company were elected at New
York without opposition. The net earn
Jugs for the year ended June 30 were
So, 21S ,041, an increase over 1853 of
$1,147,4 70. The surplus amounts to
$86l1 ,401.
at South Bend, Ind, was destroyed by fire,
$25, 000 insurance. Mrs Studebaker saved
her little grandson at the risk of her own
life, and sustained burns and wounds of |
q dangerous character.
1t is reported that the son of wealthy I
Chicagoan who entered Harvard Univer-
sity this year, earned membership in one
of the most popular secret societies of the
college by blacking boots and selling
papers in the public square at Cambridge
for the space of one week.
Private Secretary Halford is lying at the
White House. A surgic&I operation was
performed on him by DR.. Sewers. It was
successful, and the Doctor says that with
q few weeks rest he will have entirely
recovered from the tenesmic condition OF
the bowels from which he has suffered at
times for years.
The Northeastern branch of the
Women's FOREIGN Missionary Saciatv