St. Landry democrat., 1890-03-22

Ope1ousas Louisiana
Herbert Gladstone is Ill.
Stanley will not leave Cairo till April.
The squadron OF evolution is at Naples,
Murad v, the deposed Sultan of Turkey,
liz dead.
A couple of French murderers have been
guillotined.
Three small stores at Calico, CAL, were
burned down.
It is reported that the Dahomey trouble
has been ended.
An auxiliary fire alarm has been put In
the White House.
Another slide checks railroad travel In
Nevada county.
The Montana State printer has brought
suit for his pay.
The schooner Challenger went on the
rocks in Puget Sound.
Germany is preparing for extensive OPP
erations in East Africa.
Chinese troops in Formosa are deserving
and joining the rebels.
All the electric line men in Omaha have
struck for higher wages.
The Idaho Mining Company has sued
the Maryland for trespass.
The accounts of State Treasurer holland,
of Missouri, are short $4,000.
France and England desire postpone
ment of the labor conference.
Secretary Window is reinvesting the
Pacific Railroad Sinking Funds.
The Democrats of Sacramento have nom
mated w. D. Comstock for Mayor.
The Northwestern road has reduced Its
running time to Denver five hours.
The report of restitution among the
Red Lake and White Earth Indians is de-
MED.
The House has passed the bill to com.
nal the attenance of witnesses in Land Of
fee cases.
The German government has decided
not to ask the Reichstag to increase the
army credit.
The Great Northern road has secured 8
controlling interest in the Seattle, Lake
Shore and Eestern line.
Only two counties in Oregon have made
any payments of their State taxes this year.
and these are partial payments.
C. w. Hampstead, of Salt Lake City
wound up spree by shooting himself tt
death. He was only 81 years old.
John Burus, the labor leader, grows in
dignant over the report that he is organ
izing movement against the Jews.
Three burglars dug themselves through
the walls of the police jail in New Orleans
and made their escape on the nth inst.
A saw-mill at Berry Creek, Cal, sixteer
miles above Oroville. Butte county. was
wrecked by landslide last week. No one
was hurt.
The snowfall at Sisson, Cal. up to the I'll
measured 270 inches. The railroad be-
tween Mott and Delta is covered with
snowslides.
The Virginia (Cal J Chronicle says that
there are about 1900 head of beef cattle In
Nevada that are ready to be shipped tt
San Francisco.
The new theatre ut Tacoma, Cal, came
near burning down last week. The scene
painters went to dinner leaving gas jets
unprotected.
On March /, 1890, the treasurer of Hum
boldt county, CAL, had in thevaults $685..
1876 40, the largest amount ever in the
treasury at one time.
A 20O-pound seal was captured nesl
Astoria by some salmon fishers. They are
more numerous in the Columbia river this
season than for many years.
With snow FIVE feet deep at Sehome,
Wash, the people are still obliged to fight
forest fire that has been raging near
town for several weeks.
8. r. Fairchild, of Portland, Or, was
run over by train ct East Portland and
was dangerously injured. He tried to
walk home after the accident, but tainted
and lay all night beside the track.
The Portland Oreqonsaaa says: A jew
eler of Rockford, Wash, recently pre-
scented the public school with clock.
This was followed by o more expensive
one by rival jeweler, and by the time
the enthusiasm had subsidized, every room
In the school had clock.