St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1889-10-05
GENERAL ITEMS.

Rev. DR.. Somerville, prominent Scotch
minister, is dead.
The empress Frederick. accompanied by
her daughters, have left Berlin for Copen-
hagen.
Bell Telephone directors voted to increase
the capital stock from $40, 900, 900 to $12,-
100000.
The regular quarterly dividend of p
per cent was declared by the Sugar Trust
managers.
The Democratic State convention of
New Jersey re-nominated Leon Abbot for
governor.
California celebrated on Monday the
thirty ninth anniversary of its admission
into the Union.
A party of Russian, Spanish, Portu-
guese, Brazilian and CHILEAN engineers WIS.,
tied the Eiffel tower.
Lulu Island, British Columbia was de-
vastated by cyclone, but so far as known
no lives were lost.
The next convention of the Supreme
Council Order of Chosen Friends will be
held at Washington,
Captain William B. Lowe, U. S. A. ire
tired) died at Baltimore. His home was
in Junction City, Kan.
The Cincinnati Southern machine shops
at Chattanooga, Tenn, were burned, en-
failing loss of $4,000.
At New Bedford, Mass, Bertha Will
liams Mandell was married to Mr.. Hey
Tiger de Windt, of Chicago.
James H. Merely, one of the oldest aud
most prominent railroad engineers in the
country, died at Windsor, n. Y.
The National Telephone Convention in
session at Minneapolis decided to hold its
next annual convention at Detroit.
President Harrison appointed Henry c.
Warmoth, of Louisiana, collector of GUS
toms for the New Orleans District.
Mr.. Daniel Mclean has been appointed
Provincial Secretary for Manitoba, vice
the Hon. Mr.. Prendergast, resigned.
Governor Hill, of New York, has ap-
pointed T. S. Williams as his private sec
rotary, vice Col. w. G. Rice, resigned.
The Columbus Park Company, of Chi
cago, for amusement purposes, was granted
an incorporation license at Springfield.
A. E. Touzalin, president of the Chi
cago, Burlington and Northern Railroad
died in his residence at Bennington, vt.
William Fl. Cilley, associated with Gen.
eral Meiggs in the construction of the
Oroya Railroad, was buried at Lima, Peru
Mr.. Sexton is preparing speech which
he will deliver before the Parnell com
mission when it resumes it's sessions next
month.
$500, 600 for the Thomas Iron company S
at hoe
accepted.
John 81. Jones, pioneer in. the iron
business, who secured many patents and
built ten rolling mills, died at Youngs-
town, Ohio, aged n.
The Illinois Protective Association, in
session at Peoria, elected Earnest Hum
mel, of Chicago, president, and P. +. Ma
loney, of Chicago, secretary.
Fire at Dandy, N. Y, destroyed nearly
the entire business portion of the town.
The loss is placed DIT $4,000, on which
there is an insurance of $4,000.
Governor Thayer of Nebraska was given
a reception and banquet by the Irish soci-
cites of Milford, Mass. Streets were dec
Grated and houses were Illuminated.
The Paris Petit Journal, referring to the
coming elections, says it believes the coun-
try is tired Of the present chamber of dep
uties and will elect mostly new men.
At Homer, H., two men named Penney
and Kissinger were arrested for passing
counterfeit silver dollars. A search is
being made for their dies and plates.
The Baptist City Missionary Society of
Chicago, and the Tomahawk Club of Chi
cago, to ''reform the ballot and legisla-
oH of afJa al
Water from an abandoned mine burst
into the White Ash Colliery at Golden,
Col, drowning ten miners, whose bodies
cannot be recovered for two or three weeks;
The CentF3. Pacific Railroad bridge at
Upper Cascaues, in the Sierra Nevada
Mountains, was destroyed by forest fires.
One mile of snow sheds were also destroyed
1t is said that the $500" Line has made
rate of $50 to New York and $40 to Bos
ton from st. Paul, and the expectation is
that Chicago rates will be utterly demoral-
lied.
The steamer Theodore Weems caught
fire in the harbor of Baltimore, Md, and
before the flames were gotten under con-
troll $4,000 worth of damage had been
DONE
The Vienna correspondent of the London
Times says that negotiations have been
privately begun for an offensive and de-
fensive alliance between Montenegro and
Servia
The Board of Canal Commissioners has
decided that a new aqueduct is necessary
over the Fox river at Ottawa, H., and
new one will be built this fall at cost OF
$4,000.
"a. J. Clark, Queens counsel at Winni-
peg, died on Canadian Pacific express
train from the bursting of blood vessel.
He was at one time Attorney General of
Manitoba.
Near Tennokoway, Japan, huge noun.
tain mass fell, burying fifty alive, stopping
the course of the river, submerging the
village and drowning nearly all the in
habitants.
Private Secretary Halford will remain
in Washington until entirely recovered
from the effects of his recent attacks of
tenesmus, from which he rallies more
slowly than usual.
An assignment was made by the Auroro,
ILL.,, Watch Company, with liabilities of
about 100000. 1t is alleged that the assets
are ample, and that the embarrassment
will be only temporary.
The Chosen Friends, assembled in con-
vention at Minneapolis, elected II. Fl.
Morse, Of New York City, Supreme Coun-
cilor, and Edward E. Edwards, of Chicago,
Supreme Assistant Councillor.
The Louisville Eoensng Post was pur-
chased by company of gentlemen, most
Of whom are large stockholders in the
Louisville Southern Railroad Company,
the reported price being 100000.
The rlass hackers of the Ohio valley