St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1889-01-19

JtpeE BARRrrr, Of the New York su-
prenie Court has decided that the North
Riygr Refining Company has forfeited Its
charter by joining the sugar trust.
BY the explosion OF tank of gas at the
Citizens Gas Company's works, Smith
and Fifth streets, Brooklyn, N. Y; re-
Gently, the Navy Yard barracks were par
tiaiiy shattered and the ruins caught fire
and were destroyed.
MATTHEW FEENEY, an Irish boy who
came to this country a short time ago,
pleaded guilty at Chicago recently to
charge of burglary.
TIE suit Of A Howard Hinkle, the Gin
cinnati music dealer, against Mrs. jean
nette M. Thurber of American opera fame,
for 1900 loaned the American Opera
Company in 1886 has been dismissed in
New York.
The Illinois Federation of Labor has ap-
pointed committee of three to call on
Governor Fifer and ask him to pardon the
imprisoned Anarchists.
THE British steamer Macedonia, Balti-
more for Hull, after sinking the Boston
schooner .Layina Campbell, the other
night, near Bodkn Point, in the Ches-
apeake, went ashore.
MRS. LOUISE HANCOCK, aged eighty
years, was fatally burned at Paris, Tex,
the other day, the result of tbs explosion
of some cartridges she was removing from
the mantelpiece
IT is reported at Needles, Cal, that out
of a party of seven prospectors who left
that place recently in small boat for new
gold fields four were drowned by the cap
sizing of the boat while going through the
rapids of the river below.
THE United States steamer Yantic, from
Port au Prince, Hayti, January /, has ar
rived at quarantine at New York. jan
uary Corporal Rowe died of yellow
fever.
J.J. WEST, proprietor, and j. N. Dunlop,
city editor of the Chicago Times, and Jens
Christanson, editor OF the Chicago Ar
better Zeitung, waived examination on the
charge of criminalIy libelling police Off
ciaIs Bo1field and Schaak. and were bound
over to the criminal court.
THE suspension bridge destroyed by the
| disastrous storm of the 9th was the car
riage bridge between Niagara Falls village
and the Clifton House. 1t was built in
| 1870. It's original cost was s40O,00o and
| fully half as much more has been ex-
pended since in Improvement. 1t was
considered one of the strongest structures
of its kind in the world.
WILLIAM r. FOSTER the father of the
William r. Foster, Jr., who recently
robbed the New York Produce Exchange
| gratuity fund of $19s, 600 and then de-
camped, has sent check for $4,000 for
| the benefit of the gratuity fund.
The next convention of the American
| Newspaper Publishers Association has
| been set for New York, February 13.
FIFTEEN business houses in Leland,
Miss, were destroyed by fire recently.
By the explosion of a boiler in mill at
Pelleton, Wis, the other day three men
were killed. .
| BUSINESS failures Dun's report) for the
seven days ended January 10, numbered
3S1, compared with 3S7 the previous week
and 279 the corresponding week of last
year.
THE "plan" agreed upon by Western
railroad magnates at New York on the
10th, it was thought, would prevent rate
cutting. Railroad men, in interviews,
expressed favorable opinion of it.
+ CORRECTED lists showed eighteen lives
were lost by the destruction of the silk
mill in the recent storm at Reading, Pa,
and about ninety injured, some fatally
At the paint shop five lives were lost.
About twenty deaths were the result Of
the storm at Pittsburgh, with about as
many injured. twill be seen that the ia
talities were far less at Reading and con-
siderably greater at Pittsburgh than ac'
cording to first reports.
Mrs. OLIVE FREUND has brought suit a
Ann GArbor, Mich, for $4,000 ssamage
against President Cotterill and Nelson
Sutherland, the officer who attached her
/ property at Milan, on account of the al
legged electric sugar frauds.