St. Landry democrat., 1889-11-30
GENERAL II E MS.

John Bush, the Oldest settler of St. Paul,
linn died, aged 50 years.
The proclamation admitting Montana as
State was issued by President Harrison.
BUSINESS failures for the week number
against 1914 for the corresponding
of 1885,
Norwegian Plow Works at Du-
due, Iowa, were destroyed by fire. The
soss is not known.
Burglars entered the store of James
Martin at Keokuk, Iowa, and secured
rly $1,000 in cash.
e Australian system of voting is de-
IT, to have been "emphatically sue
I Massachusetts.
ldent Harrison appointed William
w. Bates, of Buffalo, n. Y, to be Com
missioner of Navigation.
IA The Democrats are conceded ma ority
he Maryland Legislature, but not so
rs of previous years.
:. James Mcbride, the wife of
n living near Youngstown, O., was
IN from buggy and killed.
70 at Gloucester, Mass, destroyed
i livery stable and Moore's fish estab
.ment. Loss, $50, 900; insurance, $lS,
40.
Alonzo Sweet, while hunting near Ere
mont, Mich, was fatally shot by Frank
Cole, another hunter, who mistook Sweet
for deer.
The wheat receipts at Duluth and Min
neapolls last week were 3, 200, 400 bushels,
and the shipments from the two places
1901, 40 bushels.
Reports from the City of Mexico say
Chinese in great numbers are arriving at
Msz allan, and are making their way to
California and Arizona overland
= Edward Aires. a tinsmith at Rochester,
Mimi, has been notified that he is the only
heir to an estate in England valued at over
e1O0,lO0. He leaves fer England.
George Hancock has been arrested at
Payson, Utah, charged with murder. He
is Mormon high priest. and the crime is
said to have ben church murder.
Mrs. Evans, widow living at Chaplin,
H., dropped dead from heart disease while
in a magistrates office, where she had gone
to have her will made and witnessed.
In consideration of the Jesuits' total
abandonment of their claims in Canada,
100000 was paid their representative by
the provincial government Of Quebec.
new trial has been ordered in the Til
den will case at New York, decision of
the general term of the Supreme Court
having reversed the previous decision.
Nine families were rendered homeless
by fire at Weston, w. Va. Several bust
ness firms were burned out. The loss will
reach $4,000, with only $1,000 insurance.
At Columbus, Ohio, fire destroyed the
works of the Pioneer Buggy Company,
owned by w. c. Reynolds & Co. The loss
is 1000, on which the insurance is
Sal 900.
The opinion of Judge Barrett, at New
York, ordering dissolution of the North
River Sugar Refining Company, has been
affirms by the general term Of the Su-
preme Court.
At Peoria, Ill, Thomas A. Vaughn, of
Lafay cite, Ind, postal clerk on the Lake
Erie and Western Railway, was arrested,
charged with robbing the mails. He con-
fessed his guilt.
The plurality for Bracket tRep) for
Governor in Massachusetts is 1884. The
Legislative ticket shows loss to the Re-
publicans of three Senators and eighteen
Representatives.
Dairy Commissioner Sherman, of Iowa,
estimates the total dairy product of the
says little or no oleomargarine is sold or
used in the State.
At St. Paul, Mimi, jury in the case of
George NJ. Lyon, of Chicago, against Al
bert Seip brought in a verdict for the
plaintiff in the sum of 1 cent. Mr.. Lyon
sued for $12S,[00.
Miss Carrie E. Barnes, school-teacher
at Providence, R. l., was awarded $780,,
-, he's bo
New England Railway Company for inju-
ries received in 1885. SaJ
Isaac l.. Usher, of Lacrosse, Wis, a
pioneer well known throughout the North
west died suddenly in a railway station at
Boston. He was returning from visit to
bis old home in Maine.
Fire at Petersburg. Va, destroyed prop
erty valued at $4,000. Lieutenant
Crichton, of the police force was in one of
the burning building when the walls fell.
He was burned to death.
c.. A. Pillsbury, the Minneapolis miller,
has been notified from London that the
$S, 00o, 900 necessary to purchase the Pills
bury and Washburn mills has all been
subscribed and the deal closed.
Reports from Duluth are to the effect
that many citizens of Minnesota, Iowa and
Indiana have been taken in by real es-
tate sharks, who laid out cheap lot near
Minneapolis and sold lots at high figure
The thirteen-story Touring mill of the
ST. Paul (Minn Roller Mill Company was
set on fire through the carelessness of
workman, ard was entirely destroyed.
The loss is 500, goo; insurance, $1O5, 900.
Fierce snow, hail and sleet storms are
reported in Texas and Kansas. seriously
impeding railway travel 10 Colorado,
trains are blockaded by drifts and from
New Mexico comes news of the freezing