The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1890-03-15
GENERAL ITEMS.
The Utah Legislature has killed the
Australian ballot box bill.

The Illinois editorial excursionists ar
rived at the City of Mexico Thursda
night.
1t is reported that Archbishop Heiss, o
Milwaukee, who is now at La Crosse, i
dangerously i'll.
The business failures throughout tn
country reported up to Friday numbere'
301, against 271 last week.
The Chicago ChiIdren's Hospital and
Mission for the Destitute secured eDrpo-
ration license at Springfield.
President Harrison sent to the Senate the
name Of Robert N. Pearson to be Appraiser
Of Merchandise at Chicago
The State snti whisky party met al
Providence, r. T. and nominated ticket,
headad hy see fo goysrnor-
yeaF-ol6 child stepped of d rapidly
moving train near Elkshart, Ind, and,
excepting a slight scratch, was uninjured.
Elmer A: Stanton, a welI-known lawyer
of Eau Claire, Wis, sustained severe
injuries by slipping and falling on the
ice.
The Chinese government is mSssing
troops on the Siberian frontier, as an
early attack by the Russian forces is
feared.
A shoe factory at Weissenfels, Saxony,
destroyed by fire. Seven of the en-
pIoyes lost their lives in the burning
building.
There are between 2150 and 216O
students at Ann Arbor University, exceed
ing the number at Harvard College by
nearly 100.
A State ticket was nominated at ProVi-
dence by the Rhode Island Prohibitionists.
The Rev. John Larry, for Governor heads
the list.
The United States steamer Enterprise
arrived at New York. having on board the
remains of George Il. Pendleton, late Min
lister at Berlin.
Veterinary Surgeon Asby, of Columbus,
Ind, ii suffering from hydrophobiR,
caused by bite of horse afflicted with |
the disease,
The North American Aid Society of Chi |
cago, whose object is to furnish medical |
aid to needy persons, secured a corporation |
license at Springfield.
Fire Tuesday morning at Warren, N. H,
destroyed the Merrimac glove factory,
causing loss of $4,000. The insurance
aggregates $4,000.
The Rev. Moses D. Hoge will soon COM
plete the forty eighth year of his pastorate
of the Second Presbyterian Church of
Richmond, Va.
It Is said that the marriage of another
daughter Of the Prince of Wales las been
arranged, and that it will be publicly an
nounced in April.
It is reported at Topeka, Kan, that the
Santa Fe Road is daily 300 cars short of
the number necessary to accommodate the
shippers Of corn.
-E New orR synUIo6SS gUrIHTTug ron \ .
the purchase Of three Indianapolis Qnd.)
gas companies, one furni, hing natural and
the other two artificial gas.
All the through mail for San Francisco,
CAL, on the mail storage car of the west I
bound fast mail train, was destroyed by {
FIRE at Blue Creek, Utah. /
Lord HopetowD, the new Governor of {
Australia, is described as a small delicate {
looking man, but not in the i'll health that
his appearance might imply. {
At meeting OF the colonial congress a
resolution was adopted favoring the imme.
diate declaration of French protectorase
over the kingdom of Dahomey.
DR.. Karolina Wilderstorm is the first :
feminine physician to practice in Sweden !
She has settled in Stockholm and charges /.
the poor nothing for her services.
Farmers in the vicinity of Champaign, :
H., say that winter wheat is looking well i
for this season of the year, and that pas !
lures are in an average condition. I
Bismarck's. retirement from pubic life /
is generally about as effective in its pecu- a
liar way ss Jay Gould's abandonment of
business or PATHS farewell tours.
Representative Reyburn, of PhiIadel-
phia, the successor of William D. Kelley,
has invested, it is said, about 81, 900, 900
in real estate at Leavenworth, Kan.
Petitions to the Legislature are being !
largely circulated throughout northern i
Iowa asking for the reelection of Will. :
liam B. Allison to 10 the National Senate !
Gen. F E. Spinner, ex-United States c
Treasurer, writes that the cancer on his
face is spreading so rapidly that he fears q
that his life cannot be spared much longer q
In the circuit court at Salem, Ill.,, de- Q
cree of foreclosure in the sum of 81, 1O0,- L
900 was granted to the mortgages of the .
Jacksonville and Southeastern Railway
Company.
Petitions are being circulated among
Kansas farmers asking the Railroad Com r
missioners to make a reduction of per !
cent In the local rates on grain and stock !
TO the Missouri river. =
The State encampment of Wisconsin :
Odd Fellows closed at Beloit. Officers 4
were elected for the ensuing year, B. i. Q
Dugdale, of Platteville, being chosen '
Grand Patriarch. b
The affairs of the Midland Accident In. n
surance Company have been placed in the d
hands OF the Missouri commissioner of in a
surance, who win proceed to settle up the il
affairs OF the company. f
John Jacob Astor's will was fled for .
probate at New York. With the exception 8
Of $3.50 600 in charitable and other be- I
quests, the entire estate goes to his son, 0
William Waldorf Astor.
Il is reported that break has been dis :
covered in the Rocky Mountains near :
Mary's Fork, and the Great Northern in :
tends 70 construct line from Anaconda, | 6
Mont, direct to San Francisco.
BY rear end collision on the Milwaukee Il
Road near Elgin, H., Fireman T. A. Og- d
den, Of Chicago, and Charles Alexander l,
md Henry Eggers, of Beloit, Wis, were d
probably fatally injured. 2
Rubber manufacturers met secretly at 4
New York and organized trust, which, r
As stated, will result in an advance in 3
1rlces al round. Il was reported that a
Para rubber is becoming scarce.
II is alleged that w. J. Minnick. Of q
8Taddock, Pa, who was recently sent TO
he Dixmont Insane Asylum, is perfectly
zane, and that his Incarceration is the re- = =
lnlt Of plot BY members of his family. !.
A new and clever smuggling scheme has q
,een discovered in New York bv the in. a