St. Landry democrat., 1890-02-08
GENERAL ITEMS.

10 De Qylng IrOm catdE1udi pnouLuohla'
Count Andrassy's illness has assumed an
alarming phrase. His condition is critical
The Australian providences on Feb. 8,
will confer as to the formation of confed-
Grafton.
Mrs. Polly Osgood died of the grip Is
Amesbury. Mass. She was 100 years and
II days old.
From ST. Petersburg, comes ruIaor that
German colonization In South Russia is to
be prohibited.
The Remington armory at Illion, n. T.,
is making %, 900 Spanish military rifles on
foreign order.
Judge Maoomber, of Ida Grove, Iowa,
who was reported dead from la grippe, is
alive and is recovering.
ST. PauPs Episcopal Church at Peoria,
Ill, was destroyed by fire. The loss is
from $15, 1000 to $4,000.
James Former, the defaulting treasurer
of Riley county is starving himself In
prison at Manhattan, Kan.
Lieutenant Boreheart. the leader of the
second division of DIR. Peters expedition
has reached Mount Kenya.
The Union school house at Cadillac,
Mich, was destroyed by fire. The loss is
$4,000; insurance, $4,000.
A farmer named Thompson, living in
Mclean comfy, ILL.,, has lost $50 hogs
from cholera and has many more sick.
Clark Adams. wealthy farmer living
near Lima, Ohio, wss swindled out of
tDn
worked the old gold brick game
BY judicial sale st Portsmouth, Ohio,
the Sciota Valley Road was sold to rep
resentative of the New York Trust Com
pany for $3,565, 600.
Murtagh Mcleod has been confined at
Bangor, Me-, for insanity, his principal
mania being the killing of horses, which
animals he butchered with long knife.
It is reported from Para that the con-
cessions granted to mercantile companies
of 20 reis per pound on butter has been
revoked by the provisional government.
The Cologne Gazette Coburg correspon-
dant denies that the Duke of Saxe-Gotha
is the author of the pamphlet referred to
by Prince Won Schoenaich- Caronath in the
Reichstag.
Two purifying receivers at the Sioux
CITY uowa) gas works exploded, breaking
windows and leaving the city in darkness.
A leak in the receiver is thought to have
caused the burst.
A car on the Champaign and Urbana
Railroad left the track and rolled down an
embankment. 1t was full of people, but
fortunately, although several were injured,
no one was killed.
The -four output of the Minneapolis
mills for the week ending Jan. 18 was
118 $50 barrels, against 142, ITO week end
ing Jan. 25, and SO 900 barrels for the cor
responding time in 1889.
In reply to call from the Warren Ave-
nue. Baptist Church, Of Boston, DR.. George
G. Lorimer has written that he cannot &C
cept the invitation to leave Chicago to go
to Boston or any other city.
The lifeless body of Samuel T. McCord
was found in the snow near Lincoln, Neb.
He went hunting and was overcome by the
cold. His gun was near him and over
$500 was found on his person.
Walter Sheridan, an American bank
thief died in Jail at Montreal. His body
was turned over to medical college for dis
section. Under the plate of his false
teeth were found two So bills.
The German steamer Savonia, with
cargo Of $50, 900 worth of corn and 800,
600 worth of cotton, was abandoned at
sea In sinking condition on Jan. 10. Her
crew of thirty men were saved.
J. HI. Carpenter, of Madison, Wis, has
been appointed to fill the jackson profes
sorship OF law, established at the Univer-
s1ty Of Wisconsin, for which the late
Judge M. M. Jackson gave $4,000.
Near Knoble, Ark, a mail car on the
Iron Mountain Railroad was destroyed by
ars -1 Nfgi.-far Texas points, Chicago, st.
Louis and the West, and registered matter
amounting to $4,000, was destroyed.
At the National convention of Marine
In session at Charleston, S. c.,
John a. Galway, of Detroit. was elected
president of the association, and =. w.
Tucker, Of San Francisco, vice president.
DR.. Edward WHY'S Andrews, Jr., of
Chicago, and Miss Alice Scranton, daugh-
ter of Mr.. and Mrs. George Perrin Davis,
of Bloomington, and granddaughter OF the
late David Davis, were married at Bloom
lngton, Ill.
The worlds fair bill was introduced in
the New York Legislature. 1t proposes
40 tax on the people, nor does it make de-
mands on the State treasury, but provides
that New York City shall furnish the
necessary funds.
It is stated that twenty EIGHT freight |
and passenger conductors on the Hannibal
and st. Joe railway are to be discharged at |
the end Of the present month by reason OF |
The revelations made recently in the reports
If the spoilers
A mill operator at Providence, R. l., has
succeeded In cording, spinning and weav-
ing the product of the Chinese ramie |
plant, . feat which has been. thought TO
be impossible by operators who were look
ng for a substitute for wool.
At Middlesborough, KY, a man calling
himself G. L. Peyton, and hailing from
Texas, victimized several banks and real
estate firm out of over $4,000 on forged
iraft. He had played the same game in
Knoxville day or two previous.
Affairs at the penitentiary at Jefferson
City, Mo-, have been investigated by Mrs
Clara Hoffman, State president of the w.
G. T. u, who claims that there are many
,hings at the institution which need
,hange in the interest of morality.
The Midland Theater at Kansas City has
been purchased by G.. w. Henry, of Chi
ago, who recently bought the Warder
Grand Theater and Hotel. Mr. Henry has
purchased theaters at Topeka, Kansas City,
Vt. Joserh, Mo-, and Omaha, Neb.
Who Was Your Great Grandfather
The Detroit Journal desires to receive,
~ postal card, the address Of all living
male and female descendants of Revoln-
ionary officers and soldiers of 1875, and,