The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1890-04-19
VOL. MI.
GENERAL ITEMS

Green and his wife was celebrated at Lou
isville, Ky.
Three more victims of explosion at H at
sonviIle, Ill, 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 c. Reimensnyder, brother-n-
law of the Hon. A. &. 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 1859
Six boys, ranging in age from II to 19
years were killed by the caving ia of a.
,-5=sand bank near lseruous e'.e,
The strike of the Joliet quarrymen was
settled, the men being conceded an ad-
vance from 81. so to S175 a 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 sDsedy and total
destruction of the City of Rockf ri.
Robert Garrett, it is said, will leave
Baltimore next month for an European
trip. His health is said to be much i'm
proved.
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
d total wreck.
The Cosipuiriachic Reduction Works
fifteen miles from chihuahua, Mexico,
were destroyed by fire on Sunday, the loss
being 81. 0O0,O0O.
An explosion in the mine at Nanticoke,
Pa, resulted in the death of three men.
Six others were wounded, four of them in
a dangerous manner.
The text book bill, known as the district
purchase and county uniformity measure,
was ordered engrossed by the Iowa house,
by vote of 55 to 49,
Miss Leila j. Robinson, the first woman
lawyer admitted to the Massachusetts bar,
was married Wednesday to Eli B. Sawtelle
q Boston business man.
Mrs Carrie Young, aged 40, an invalid,
was slowly roasted to death at Paterson,
N. j., her clothing catching fire from
lamp she was carrying
Fifty lone kegs and twenty five cases of
of beer were emptied Wednesday into the
streets of Pennington and Do Lassus, Mo,
by the female crusaders.
The directors of the c.. G. 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 att Yokohama, beating the |
beat previous record 10y two days. TsF.s-=s.7.st
P6rfIlaf Ia uitati1aa been issued to
citizens AID 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, s. D., one half of the set
tiers were unable to file their claims,
owing to the great number present.
1t is stated that Premier Greer way and
Attorney General Martin, of Manitoba,
have resigned, and that Col. McMillen
will be called TO form a new cabinet.
The Mackey syndicate has sold to the
"Big Four" an interest in the Cincinnati,
Wabash and Michigan road. thereby Sc
curing a close alliance with Vanderbilt
lines.
Boston capitalists are organizing a syn
dicste 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
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 a committee
to consider what branch of cultivation
shall be substituted the present year for
the peach crop.
Owing to the disaster that has befallen
Louisville, the meeting of the American
Society of Microscopists has been changed
from that city to Detroit. The date is
August 1915 next.
New York's Grant Monument Associa-
ton has decided to erect structure which
will afford room not only for the sepul
chre of General Grant and wife, but also
for a memorial hall.
In the District Court at St. Paul last
Tue sday Judge Kelly rendered judgment
for $31 444 in favor of John '. Farwell
& Co, of Chicago, and against the st.
Paul Trust Company.
Six of the leading white, lead manufaC-
tories of New York have formed combi-
nation under the name of the National
Lead and Oil Company, with an aggregate
capital of 81 600, 900.
The slab from Mount Calvary, which is
to fO m the corner r-stone of DR.. TAimsge's
new tabernacle, has arrived at Brooklyn
Legend says that the Savior stepped on it
while on His way to be crucifed.
Adiutant General Vance reported to
Governor Fifer that on account of the
damage done by the cyclone of March o.
will be gladly received at
and Grand Tower, Ill.
Fifteen passengers were more or less in
iured by the plunging down an embank-
ment near st. Charles, Mo-, of five of the
six cars of the Wabash fast express train
but it is thought that none will die I
Governor Godell, of New Hampshire,
being incapacitated by i'll health, the coun.
Gil has summoned the President of the
Senate, D. Arthur TsggRrt, to discharge
the duties of the gubernatoriSl Office.
Articles Incorporating the Cass street, )
Lake View and Evanston railroad, with a :
capital of 5000, 900, were fled at SPRING =
field. 1t is proposed to begin the line at :,
Wabash avenue and Madison street, Chi ..
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