St. Landry democrat., 1890-02-01
GENERAL ITEMS.

Inc VIE OF h6&rs AQInlral ". IL. L. noU
gerf died at Washington.
Natural gas has been discovered at Red
field, Sphinx county 8. d.
The ocean cable between Maranham and
Rio Janeiro has refused to work.
8. f. Covington, prominent business
man of Cincinnati, died recently.
Fl. Deutsch, dry goods and notions at
Davenport, Iowa, has failed for $4,000.
A new comet was discovered by Prof.
Brooks, director of Smith Observatory at
Geneva, n. Z.
George Abbott, breeder of Angus and
Red Polled cattle, residing near Wood
stock, ILL.,, died.
Continued outrages by "White Caps
are exciting the people in the region OF
Concordia, Kan.
The widow of Gen. George 81. Thomas
died suddenly in her home at Washington
on Christmas night.
Horatio E. Swasey, a lawyer, well
known at the Suffolk bar, died at his
home at Boston, Mass.
The business failures throughout the
country for the week, as reported by K.
g. Dun & Co., number 2SS.
Mother Aloysis, mother superior of the
Sisters of Charity, died at St. Joseph's
Academy, Greensburg, Pa.
Three fourths of the inhabitants of
Denver and Cheyenne are said to be suffer
ing from Russian influenza.
James Hardie, Mike Marker and Tug"
Wilson are reported to have persisted in
the snow near Alba, Oregon.
At Reading, Pa, Oliver Hubert, col
ored boy of Is, accidentally shot and killed
his brother Samuel, aged 10.
A boiler in Heff Brothers mill, near Ed
more, Mich, exploded killing one man and
seriously ipjuring two others.
Joseph G. Fox, A. NJ, professor of civil
Typographical engineering at Lafayette
pa. College, died from paralysis.
was sold for $65, 200 to John s. George,
Francis Boyd and Calvin E. Lewis.
During the year about 5000 miles of
main track railways have been built, being
the smallest construction recorded since
1885.
The first term of the South Dakota Su-
preme Court will be held at Pierre on the
first Tuesday in February, D. Consow pre-
siding.
The Nadean winery near Los Angeles.
CAL, was destroyed by the breaking of
levee. Nearly 100000 worth of wine
was destroyed.
The President and the Secretary of the
Intetior of Mexico, are said to be consider
ing plans for the suppression of gamblilg
of every description.
Joe Friend, known as Tourist Joe, the
13-year-old Chicago boy, who has travelled
over nearly the entire country, has again
turned up in New York.
In the vicinity of Los Angeles, Cal, the
late heavy rains have done much damage.
The Ievee has broken in many places and
washouts are numerous.
Miss Mary Miles, of Marion, Ind while
curling her hair, touched one of her eyes
with the hot iron, soaring the iris and de-
stroying the sight of her eye.
After an idleuess of three years the fur
naces of the Chestr ut Hill Iron Ore Com
pany at Columbia, Pa. are being repaired,
and will be put in blast at once.
Steel mill and blast employees of the
Lackawanna Iron and Coal Company were
notified that on the 1st of January their
wages will be increased 10 per cent.
The Navy Department has been mott
fed by the contractors for the new cruiser
Baltimore that the vessel is completed
She has been accepted by the government
Members Of the Salvation Army at Dan
vile, ILL.,, were arrested for disregarding
an order of the authorities that they dis
pense with instrumental music on the
streets.
The wharves of the New Zealand Steam
ship Company at Sydney, New South
Wales, were burned on Christmas day.
together with large quantity Of stored
produce.
The Farmers Alliance of Douglass
county, Kan, adopted resolutions boycott
ting dressed beef men, or butchers, who |
handle the products of the so-called beef
combine.
A freight train on the Wabash railroad
jumped the track at Delphi, Ind. Three
tramps who were stealing ride and who
tried to jump, got badly mixed in barb
wire fence.
An engine and sixteen cars on the Lake
Erie and Western road at Glynwood, Ohio, |
were completely wrecked by one section of |
q freight train crashing into another. No |
lives were lost.
Reports from Fort Sully, In South Da-
kota, are to the effect that the Indians at |
that piace are not satisfied with the treaty, |
and are causing trouble. Several settlers
have been killed.
The Pittsburg syndicate of opera tors.
called the Southern Coal company will be
dissolved at once, and the thirteen firms in
the combination will resume business on |
their own account.
An incorporation license has been Sc
cured by the National League for the pro-
lection Of American Institutions, whose
special object is to guard the common
school system from sectarian interference
Fire in the Casino Museum at Pittsburg,
broke up the performance and CAUSED
panic In the rush for the exits, many
persons were severely squeezed, but no one
was seriously hurt.
Carroll 8. MacGill, of Baltimore, who, on
Nov. %, undertook the task of eating
thirty quail in thirty days, on wager,
has finished his last@quail. He says
that in future quail and himself will be
strangers.
Samuel Beardsley, of Bourbon, ILL.,,
while taking the part Of Santa Claus at
Christmas entertainment was seriously
burned by having his costume take FIRE. A
panic ensued in the audience, but no one
was injured.
At Connellsville, Pa, family of eight
persons father, mother and six children
were discovered in starving condition and
sent to the county house. The parents
had become i'll of fever, and SO were
unable to provide for the little ones.
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