St. Landry democrat., 1889-11-09

WalIlng my low VIGIL was puiieu ny
cave-in.
At Ishpeming, Mich the stables of tn,
Lake Superior Iron Company were burned
Loss $4,000.
A cable to New York announced tina
Hippolyte had been unanimously elected
President of Hayti.
It is announced from Boston that Maggie
Mitchell has married Charles Abbott, the
leading man of her company.
Fire at Grants Pass, Ore, destroyed the
factory and stock of the Sugar Pine Dool
& Lumber Co. Loss $50, 200.
j. M. Knight, of Galena, H., recently
sold pearl which he found in clam
taken from the river, for $3.50.
Resolutions favoring Chicago for the
worlds fair were unanimously adopted by
the New Orleans Board of Trade.
The cattle and horses of the North Mon.
tana Cattle Company, which were disposed
OF by Sheriffs sale at Helena, brought
$l72,000.
A natural gas well was struck neal
Salem, s. D., the force being SO strong that
the gas "roars like the escape valve of q
locomotive.
M. d. Hurlburt, superintendent of the
Au Sable and Northwestern Railroad,
died at his home at East Tawas, Mich, of
typhoid fever.
A number of horses were burned in a
fire which destroyed Cousin & Nausel's
feed and livery stable at Council Bluffs.
The insurance is $780,
The American Board of Commissioners
for Foreign Missions, in session at New
York, have decided to hold their next
meeting at Minneapolis.
A drouth in Southern Minnesota is seri-
ously inconveniencing farmers, many OF
whom, should rain not speedily fall, will be
forced to sell their stock.
At Lebanon, Ind, an east bound train
on the Indiana Midland Road was wrecked
Sherman Moon, of Chicago. was killed and
several persons were wounded.
At Fort Dodge. Ia, Mrs George Leaf
was burned to death by the explosion of an
oil stove, which she filed while lighted.
Her flesh was virtually cooked.
A jury at Monticello, Ill, fined William
Goddard, saloon keeper of Bement, $8,-
600 and costs for continued violation of the
law in selling liquor in Platt county.
The legislature of South Dakota met at
Pierre in joint session and elected Messrs.
Moody and Pettigrew United States Sena-
tors, and then adjourned until January.
At Heinlein's sorghum mills at Bucyrus,
Ohio three men were killed by the bursting
of boiler caused by the pumping in of cold
water through mistake of an engineer
Barb wire and wire nail manufacturers,
in session at Pittsburg, Pa, decided to
advance the rate of barb wire per cent,
and the price of wire nails from to per
cent.
MRS. R. B. Anderson, of Madison, Wis,
wiz of the ex-minister to Denmark, has
been adjudged insane and placed in the
Wisconsin Hospital for the Insane for
treatment. q
DIR. Ira Hawley Bartholomew ex-mayor
of Lansing, Mich, and well known in the
medical world rs prominent writer for
leading medical journals, died at his home
Mt Lansing.
A dog on farm near Battle Creek, Mich,
set fire to some burrs which were sticking
in the hair in his tail, and then ran into
wheat stack setting it on fire, and causing
loss of $4,000.
The August earnings of the Union Paci
fic Road, including roads in which half
interest is owned, were /: Gross, $780,
1876 increase, 1851, 5SS: net, 81, sos, 900;
increase, $265,54s.
The Olive bill. aimed particularly at the
West Point Terminal Company, and the
symbol of anti-railroad legislation in
Georgia, has, after a fight of several
months, been killed.
The preferred stockholders of the North
ern Pacific at New YoRsGoted on and APP
proved "tbe Willard plan" authorizing the
issue of $3.50, 100000 new five per cent
bonds payable 100 years hence.
At CINCINNATI, O., Emmet Y. Rhoades,
cashier of the First National Bank at St.
Paris, o., pleaded guilty to misappropriat
ing the banks funds and was sentenced to
i've years in the pvriitentiary.
At Des Moines, Ia, decree Of fcreclos-
nre against the St. Louis, Des Moines and
Northern Railroad was signed by Judge
Shiras in the United States Circuit Court,
III parties agreeing to the decree.
Upon charge of defrauding the govern
nent, United States officers seized the dis
,ilIery of the Freiburg and Workum at /
Lynchburg, o. The amount of whisky
,eized is more than million gallons.
II is thought the 3.year-old daughter of |
George Reilly, living near City Point, Wis,
las been carried away by bear, as num-
rous tracks have been seen lately and the
hid has been missing for three days.
Dun's weekly review.reports the state of
radei to be improving. Clearing house
business was larger than for the week pre-
,ious and the corresponding week year
go. Railroad earnings were reported as
Encouraging.
The Cannon BALI train on the Santa
Fe road was wrecked near Howell, Kan,
wo Pullman coaches, two sleepers and the
baggage car being ditched. No person
vas killed and none had broken limbs,
nut twenty or thirty persons were more or
ess injured.
Reports from Princeton. Mimi, says
hat forest fires between That place and
,ridgeman are destroying thousands of
ollars worth of property. At Greenbush
frs. Hiram Whittier, while helping to
ght the fire. fell exhausted and was
urned TO death.
Owing to disarrangement of the machin-
nv. car on the Mount Auburn Inclined
lane Road, at Cincinnati, dashed down
he hill and was totally wrecked by strik-
,g the bumpers" at the bottom. Of the
inc passengers on board, two were killed
another died in few minutes,
nd FIVE others were fatslly injured. One
ian miraculously escaped.
William Platte Robinson, young man
| Richmond, Ind, who disappeared from
AXE Mills, Mimi, while spending his va
.tion, Sept 6, is supposed to have gone
sane from the effect of sunstroke and
be aimlessly wandering. "A reward has
SEN offered for information concerning