St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1889-09-28
GENERAL ITEMS.

London DOCK olheAoA8 "ono10 W.
terms.
Mrs. Langtry is starring through Great
Britain.
The steamer Tourist was burned at Ash
land, Wis.
Anumber of cases of cholera are reported
In Athens.
Pennsylvania Day is being celebrated at
Gettysburg.
Legitime, ex president of Hayti, arrived
at New York.
A mysterious upheaval of rocks has oc-
Cured in Wisconsin.
The Paris municipal authorities gave
BANQUET in honor of Edison.
Mail carrier Bridges counts 324 persons
drowned by the Johnstown disaster.
By the Antwerp explosion 100 persons
were killed and seventy mine injured.
L. G.. Asbury, of Louisiana, has been
admitted as Cadet at the Naval Academy.
Sir Edwin Arnold, author of "The Light
of ASIA" has arrived at Toronto, Ontario.
Governor Fifer delivered an address at
the Kendall County Fair at Yorkville, LII.
King Christian has knighted Captain
Kindson, of the abandoned steamer Dan
mark.
James E. Neal was elected chairman of
the Ohio State Democratic Executive Com
mittee.
Many of the finest windows in the Ant
werp Cathedral were destroyed by the ex-
plosion.
The forests of Pentelicus are on fire.
Twenty -seven thousand trees have been
destroyed.
Henry N. Genet Gnown as Prince
Hall during the Tweed regime) died at
New York.
The annual State convention of the
Seventh Day Adventists opened at Bloom
ington, Ill
Work has been resumed at thirty-three
of the London wharves at advanced wages
for the men.
An offer of 100000 for the franchise of
the New York Base Ball Club was refused
by President Day
Mrs. George Coons, of Little Sandusky,
Ohio, died of what physicians pronounced
genuine Asiatic cholera.
Tony Delight, reformed Chicago gamb-
Ter, lately celebrated Y. M. G. A.
Evangelist, died suddenly.
Throwing petards against the Mexican
legation at Guatemala has made bad blood
between the two countries.
The second international fair at Buffalo,
N. Y, opened. The attendance is esti-
mated to have been 60,000.
The towns of Panuco and Temporal,
Mexico are flooded and crops have been
destroyed in the surrounding country.
General r. G. Ward, of Brooklyn, N.
Y, died at the Oak Bluff Club House at
Cottage City, Mass, of heart disease.
The Washington Territory Republicans
nominated John L. Wilson for Congress,
and ex- Governor E. P. Ferry for Governor.
Augustus Dow, a prominent real estate
dealer of Battle Creek, Mich, was kicked
in the neck by a horse and instantly killed.
The material on which the st. Louis
Anarchist organ was printed, was sold by
auction, and brought the muniGcient sum
of $8.75.
A scheme is announced for the construc
ton of ship canal between Edinburgh
and Glasgow. The ca ar is placed at 81
O00,0 900. :"
On Friday, at Nashville, ex-senator
Thomas c. Plat was elected President Of
the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad
Company.
The Northwest wheat movement begar
at Minneapolis, MINI. The kernels are
plump and well developed, but the yield
is unequal.
Vito Antonio Russo, son-in-law of the
Italian Avidios, murdered in East Newark
N. j., was arrested in New York, charged
with the murder.
Forty carloads of sealskins, the entire
catch of the Alaska Fur Company for the
last year, passed over the Union Pacific
bound for England.
The approximate gross earnings of the
Atchison railroad system for August were
$2,317, ST., against 80, $50, 904 for the
same period in 1888.
The Aurora OILY Watch Company ha'
failed with $2a 300 liabilities. OF this
amount $41 900 is owing to the employees
of the establishment.
The town of Shoat Lake, Manitoba, wa'
totally wiped out by fire. Fourteen houses
were burned, aggregating loss of $50, 00O
Very little insurance.
David D. Lloyd, member of the New
York Tribune staff, and well known au'
thor and dramatist, fell dead in the stree
at Weehawken, N. J.
M. Van Hass, director of the Ottoman
Bank of Constantinople, committed
suicide. His death has no connection with
the affairs of the bank.
Nearly 1000 miners signed the contrac
of the various coal companies at Streator
H., to work until May next at the price
agreed upon-723 cents.
Heavy rains, aided by the melting snow
in the mountains, have extinguished thu
forest fires that have been raging for the
past month in Montana
Abraham Tippen, of the Twenty fourth
assembly district, has been elected Crane
sachem Of the Tammany Society. In place
of Sheriff Flack, resigned.
The whole business portion of Linkville
Oregon, was destroyed by fire. Loss abou
$3.50, The town was swept from The
bridge to the telegraph office.
The remains of DR.. A. 4. Darrah, Pas
Grand Master of the Masonic Grand Lodge
of Illinois, were inferred at Evergreen
Cemetery at Bloomington, Ill.
The directors of the ST. Paul road yester
day declared dividend of d per cent OF
the preferred stock, payable out OF the
fiscal year ended June 80, 1889.
Captain William Short and J. T. Rob.
inson were drowned at Ocean City, Md
while trying to launch their Hfeboat, and
their bodies were washed to sea.
Finest livery stable in Wyoming burned
ut Laramie. The horses were saved, but
many costly carriages were destroyed
Loss, $50, 600 partially insured.
The Woman's Club of Decatur, ILL.,, pro
pose to erect an elegant and commodious
clubhouse, to cost moi. less than $4,000
The necessary sum was subscribed.