St. Landry democrat., 1889-11-23

Revenue collections at Peoria amounted
to $193 676 As; for the month, -, 248, =
927,05 packages exported, TAI.
At Aurora, Ill, year old son of ]. A.
Freeman, florist, fell into one of his ia
Tiers cisterns and was drowned.
At Newport, R. l., Miss Georgiana Heck
scher was married to Mr.. George B.
Mcclellan, son of the late General McClel-
Ian.
Through the explosion of threshing
machine boiler, near Grafton, D. t., one
man was killed and two probably fatally
injured.
The Chicago, Santa Fe and California
train was derailed near Carrolton, Mo.
Two persons were fatally and five slightly
injured.
President Harrison's proclamation, set
ting apart Thursday, Nov. %, as day of
National Thanksgiving, was iss ued Friday
afternoon
The implement warehouse of G. A.
Eadie at Manson, Iowa, was destroyed by
fire. Loss, about $4,000, with but little
insurance.
1t is reported that John Plankington
the Milwaukee millionaire, was stricken
with paralysis. His recovery is said to be
improbable.
Snow in the vicinity of Colorado Springs,
Col, is said to be from two to three feet
deep. All trains on the mountain roads
were delayed.
Fire at Waldron, ILL.,. destroyed large
ice-house belonging to the Kankakee Crys-
tai Ice Company. Loss $40, 900; insuraB ce
about $4,000.
At Emerald, n. D., fire destroyed the
Minneapolis and Northern Elevator, with
$4,000 bushsls Of wheat Loss, $25, 600;
fully insured.
Failures for the week in the United
States as reported by K. G.. Dun & Co.,
were 229, as against 243 for the correspond
ing week a year ago.
The 4-year-old child of Joseph Barr, ct
Plymouth, Ind, set her clothes on fire at
the stove and was so badly burned that
she died in few hours.
:, The Jumbo gas well at Somerset, Ind,
\ 5hich supplied the town with fuel, gave
out, leaving the citizens freless. Another
well will be sunk at once.
Thousands of horses and eattle in South
ern Colorado have been driven from their
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weaker animals have persisted.
At Ashtabula, Ohio, Jack Holiness alias
f'Texas Jack" was arrested. In his pos
session was found full set Of molds for
making counterfeit silver dollars.
An assignment was made by the wool
firm Of Heston & Erben, of PHILADELPHIA
whose liabilities approximate 100000
The amount of assets is not given.
The Supreme Court of Indiana has rem
dered decision upholding the law pass ed
by the last Legislature fixing the liquor
license in towns and cities at $270.
Pekin, China, is to be lit by electric
lights. The Westinghouse Company, of
Pittsburg, has secured a contract for
large electric light plant for Pekin.
A further advance of per cent in win
dow-glass was made by Chambers, Mckee
& Co, of Jeannettea ea. This makes Is
per cent advance since the 10th OF October.
Fire at Lincoln, ILL.,, destroyed the hoist
ing machinery and tower of the Citizeus
Coal Company. The loss will reach $4,000.
Two hundred men are thrown out Of EN-.
ployment.
A building in the process of erection at
Passaic City, N. j., fell, burying sixteen
workmen In the ruins. Many were Sc
verely injured, and two or three will
hardly recover.
While handling bunch of bananas in a
hotel at Cincinnati, Mary Dormegan,
pantry girl, was severely bitten by ter
antula, causing one of her arms to swell to
large proportions. Il
Word has reached Denver that passen-
ger train, snowbound near Easton, Col,
was run into by freight train, and that a
fireman, an engineer and passenger from
illinois were killed.
compromise has been effected in the |
contest ct New Brunswick, N. j., over the |
will of Millionaire Christopher Meyer, by |
which his widow and his granddaughter
receive large sums each.
By the explosion of the boiler of port
able mill on the farm of Mann Brothers, |
near Hamlet, Ind, Adam Mann was in
stantly killed and several others were
badly bruised and scalded.
Colonel William T. Switzler, OK chief of
The National Bureau of Statistics, is said
20 be dangerously i'll at his home at Column
Dia, Mo. Over application has greatly i'm
paired his mental faculties.
4 AC IOpOIb bHat LILO AILOu IOdu has U66n
purchased by the Union Pacific is denied
positively BY President Charles f. Adams.
He asserts that no purchase of the Alton
has been or will be considered.
The Associated Brewers of st. Louis, it
S said. have completed deal with gym
iicate of Eastern and foreign capitalists
or the transfer of all breweries controlled
~ the association for $12, $50, 900.
At Erie, Pa, the Lake Shore and Michi-
ran Southern Railroad Company tried to
teal street for track purposes. The
mayor had half of the police force on
land, and the tracks were not laid.
The students of the State University at
owa City, Iowa, have raised $40. 900 to-
yard. the proposed $25, 900 7. M. G.. A.
building, and are working hard to secure
he balance.
kilograms received at the City of Mex
co state that the revolution in Gautemala
'nded In favor of the government and that
il of the revolutionists captured were
hot.
Dewey & Defendorf's dry goods store at
)owagiac, Mich, was entered by burglars,
Who stole about two thousand dollars
Solth OF dres, silks and other goods. +
The Rev. DR.. Libertus Van Bokkelan,
ormerly rector of Trinity P. b. Church,
y Buffalo, was found dead in bed In his
'esldence in that city. He was IA ye .rs of
The First National Bank at Woodstock,
n shut down voluntarily, owing to the
u health Of President Murphy, who has
oeen q the head Of the business for twen-
y i've years.