St. Landry democrat., 1890-03-08
GENERAL ITEMS.

GENERAL ITEMS.
The Senate at Olympia, Wash, passed
an Australian ballot bill.
By vote of 81 to the North Dakota
Senate adopted the Australian system.
Over 500 converts were secured during
q five weeks revival conducted in Wabash,
Ind.
Business failures for the week number
271, against 270 III the corresponding week
of last year.
Scores of converts have been secured in
series of revival meetings held in Deca-
tur, Ill, and vicinity.
A dividend of 1 per cent on the pre-
ferred stock has been declared by the Nor
thern Pacific directors.
The South Dakota House passed bill
providing for the assessing and taxation OF
railroad companies.
The American Cotton Seed Oil Company
has increased it's capital stock from $50,
0OO, 900 to $50, 092 600.
Hundreds of Japanese fishermen are re-
ported to have been drowned in the recent
storms in the Pacific ocean.
The Southwestern Michigan Fair asso-
citation will hold its spring meeting at
Three Rivers from June IL to June %.
For the twelve months ending Dec. 81
last, the net earnings of the Atchison road
were So, 163, $50, an increase of 81 500. 5o4.
The Coldwater Cart Company, of Cold
water, Mich, mortgaged it's plant on FIJI
day for the benefit of creditors for $37,
500
Rumors prevail at Buffalo, N. Y, that
Senator Wolcott, of Colorado, is to marry
the widow of Congressman Lyman K.
Bass.
The journeymen tailors of Peoria struck
ON Friday because of disagreement with
their employers regarding the scale Of
prices.
For cutting" the Latin recitation,
twelve students of the Washington and
Jefferson College at Washington, Pa, were
expelled.
The bill providing for the inspection of
fresh meat slaughtered over 100 miles
from the State has been approved by the
Governor Of Virginia.
In an accident near Suisun, Cal, large
number of railroad employees were reported
to have been killed and three to have
been seriously injured.
1t is reported that Texas stockmen will
lose hundreds of thousands of dollars by
the Presidents proclamation ousting them
from the Cherokee strip.
Ex-State Senator Sumner and ex-Posts
master Waterman, both of Rockford, ILL.,,
have applied for a charter for a new ma
tional baLk at that place.
In the North Dakota Senate and House
the State Attorney General was criticised
for rendering decision said to be at vari-
ance with the constitution.
Colonel j. A. Schaffer, inspector of rife
practice for the Illinois National Guard,
reports that unusual proficiency was at
tanned by the troops during 1889.
The two-headed baby which has been
on exhibition at Buffalo, N. Y, died, one
half expiring forty-fve minutes before
the whole bady became inanimate.
It is stated that the Northwestern Road
will buy the Missouri, Kansas and Texas,
and thereby secure through line from
St. Paul, via Chicago, to Denison.
Samuel Bayless. who went twenty one
days without food or liquids, owing to his
inability to swallow because of consump-
tion vf the throat, died at Fort Wayne,
Ind.
G. e Winans, of Chicago, who has been
giving spiritualistic manifestations in Ell
gin, ILL.,, has been exposed By Mrs. Mareau,
of Chicago, who went there for that pur-
pose.
In an accident near Columbus. Ind
Scott Henry, conductor of gravel train,
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badly injured.
Recently at Kansas City, Mo-, Miss Ida
Coons was sandbagged by two women,
who were cutting off her hair when neigh
bors came to her rescue. It is said to be a
case of jealousy.
The Ohio, Indiana and Western Rail-
road was sold at Indianapolis for $3, ,000,-
900 by Master in~Chancery Fishback to
Samuel Spencer, representing the reorgan-
ization committee.
A purse Of SIC, 900 for foals of 1889, for
race to be trotted In 1e92-the largest
prize ever given by any association for
young horses-has been offered by the
Charter Oak Park directors.
Edward Edgett, aged so, who, when re-
leased from the Brockfeld Conn Jail,
refused some clothing saying he was 60
ing to die, was burned to death since at
his home in Danbury, Conn.
It is reported that Armour & Co., of Chi
cago, are negotiating for 400 acres of
land near the Retsof salt shaft in Living
ston county, New York, intending to be-
gin the mining of that commodity.
Articles incorporating the Peoria and
Eastern Railway, to extend from Peoria to
Indianapolis, with the principal Office at
Danville, H., were fled at Springfield.
The capital stock is SO, 100000.
At the fourth annual encampment Of the
Union Veteran Legion, held at Newark,
Ohio, officers were elected and installed
Tor the ensuing year. DR.. j. 8. Reade, of
St. Louis, was chosen commander.
r. Hines and F. P. Fuller, president and
OF the defunct insurance company
at Topeka, Kan, were held in $1,000 bail
to the District Court on q charge Of making
q false reDcrt 10 the Commissioner of In
suranee.
Mrs. Burritt, of Racine, Wis, on Wed
nesday finished a fast of twenty one days
as cure for dyspepsia. She is in an ex-
hausted condition, but was willing to con-
tinue the treatment several weeks longer |
If necessary.
The vote on the French language bill |
was taken in the Dominion Parliament, /
the government being sustained by ma
iority of 80 in their proposal to leave the |
abolition of French in the Northwest to
the local Legislature.
Fire at Helena. Mont, destroyed the
Granite Block and all the records and |
journals of the Legislature. 1t is believed |
that the fire. works display of the legisla-
tors, In celebration OF the close of the ses- |