St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1890-04-19
GENERAL ITEMS.

GENERAL ITEMS.
Professor William Hyde Appleton has
declined the Presidency of Swarthmore
College.
The golden wedding of DR.. Norvin
Green and his wife was celebrated at Lou
isville, Ky.
Three more victims of explosion at Hut
sonville, H., died, swelling the number
of victims to six.
The lease of the Wisconsin Central was
formally ratified at New York by the
Northern Pacific directors.
The Rev. G. Reimensnyder, brother-in-
law of the Hon. A. G.. Thurman, died at
Lancaster Pa, aged II years.
Business failures for the week number
206, against 243 last week, and 222 In the
corresponding period of 1889
Six boys, ranging in age from II to 10
years were killed by the csving in of q
sand bank near Vernon, Texas.
The strike of the Joliet quarrymen was
settled, the men being conceded an ad-
vance from $1.50 to Sits day.
Reports from 300 Minnesota farmers,
published, were to the effect that the crop
outlook in the State is excellent.
Schweinfurth has preached an alleged
sermon, predicting the speedy and total
destruction of the City of Rockford.
Robert Garrett, it is said, will leave
Baltimore next month for an European
trip. His health is said to be much i'm
proved.
A cyclone Friday night at Garrettville,
Tenn, destroyed Milton College, all the
churches and 200 houses. The victims
need aid.
On account of the recent severe storms,
the wrecking crew at work on the David
at South Chicago abandoned the vessel as
total wreck.
The Cosipuiriachic Reduction Works
fifteen miles from chihuahua, Mexico,
were destroyed by fire on Sunday, the loss
being $4,000, 900.
An explosion in the mine at Nanticoke,
Pa, resulted in the death of three men.
Six others were wounded, four of them in
dangerous manner.
The text book bill, known as the district
purchase and county uniformity measure,
was ordered engrosssd by the Iowa house,
by vote of 55 to 43.
Miss Leila ]. Robinson, the first woman
lawyer admitted to the Massachusetts, bar,
was married Wednesday to Eli B. Sawtelle
Boston business man.
Mrs Carrie Young, aged 40, an invalid,
was slowly roasted to death at Paterson,
N. j., her clothing catching fire from a
lamp she was carrying.
Fifty one kegs and twenty five cases of
IF hoo ia1 "oIn ;~,4<,
streets of Pennington and De Lassus, Mo-,
by the female crusaders.
The directors of the C. C. Washburn
Mill Company, of Minneapolis, Mimi,
have, it is said, decided to sell the mills at
the first favorable opportunity.
The steamer China made her last trip
from Hong Kong in twenty days, includ-
ing the stop at Yokohama, beating the
best previous record by two days.
Formal invitations have b i issued to
citizens and organized bodies TO attend the
dedication of the Garfield memorial at
Cleveland On the Both of May next.
At the opening of the land office at
Chamberlain, 8. d., one-half of the set
tiers were unable to file their claims,
owing to the great number present
LII ~ SlhbOu tuab L ISLll0F OT66h way anu
Attorney General Martin, of Manitoba,
have resigned, and that Col McMillen
will be called to form new cabinet.
The Mackey syndicate has sold to the
big Four" an interest in the Cincinnati,
Wabash and Michigan road, thereby Sc
curing close alliance with Vanderbilt
lines.
Boston capitalists are organizing a syn
dictate to build twenty iron steamships,
which will be put into commission as soon
as the Farquhar tonnage bill passes
congress.
1t Is said that farmers of Woodford
county, Illinois, are much alarmed by the
outbreak of hog cholera. Albert Heinrich
has lost drove of 100 valuable swine by
the disease.
At meeting in Dover the Kent County
(Delaware) Grange appointed committee
to consider what branch of cultivation
shall be substituted the present year for
the peach crop.
Owing to the disaster that has befal.en
Louisville, the meeting of the American
Society of Microscopes has been changed
from that city to Detroit. The date is
August 1916 next.
New York's Grant Monument Associa-
tion has decided to erect structure which
will afford room not only for the sepul-
chre of General Grant and wife, but also |
for memorial hall.
In the District Court at ST. Paul last |
Tuesday Judge Kelly rendered judgment |
for $31 ,444 In favor OF John v. Farwell |
q CO., of Chicago, and against the st. |
Paul Trust Company
Six of the leading white lead manufac-
tciies Of New York have formed combi- |
aation under the name of the National /
Lead and Oil Company, with sn aggregate
capital of 81 600, 600.
! The slab from Mount Calvary, which is
20 TO M the corner stone of DIR. Talmage's
neW tabernacle, has arrived at Brooklyn.
Legend says chat the Savior stepped on it
while on His way to be crucifed.
Adjutant General Vance reported to
Governor Fifer that ON account of the
lanage done by the cyclone of March 27,
contributions will be gladly received at
Metropolis and Grand Tower, Ill
Fifteen passengers were more or less in
ured by the plunging down an en1bank-
nent near St. Charles, Mo-, OF five of the
tx cars of the Wabash fast express train,
,ut 1t Is thought that none will die.
Governor Godell, of New Hampshire.
icing incapacitated by i'll health, the coun.
IL has summoned the President Of the
senate. ID. Arthur Taggart, to discharge
he duties Of the gubernatorial Office.
Articles incorporating the Cass street,
AXE View and Evanston railroad, with .
apital Of &c, 000, 900, were filed at SPRING
ield. Its proposed to begin the line at
Wabash avenue and Madison street. Chi
ago.
Bees as Weather PROPHETS.
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