St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1891-04-11
HOME AND FOREIGN.
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Suit The General Rush.
SERIOUS AND SENSATIONAL SORTiNGs.
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News Of National Moment hom
Other Lands
DOMESTIC.

| >N'oh hC"A VIZ w Illtcs IIa.
Columbus Iamine hanged himself al
Macomb, ILL.,, Il few days ago.
There are 2l99 sub-Alliances and sc
county alliances in North Carolina.
! Several large ship nonts of coffee have
been made to the United States from Vera
Cruz.
The wheat crop of Randolph county,
Ark, presents better prospects than fol
years
The office of state librarian in South
| Carolina has been given to Mrs Caroline
LeConte.
Mrs. Nora Lawson is held ut Dalton
City, ILL.,, for having attempted to kill hel
Infant child.
While temporarily insane Mrs. Amelia
Richter drowned herself in Fox river at
burlington, Wis.
death from diptheria occurred a,
Bloomington. ILL.,. recently, AMI other
cases are reported.
Z. W. Henry, Appointment cotton buyer
AMI broker, committed suicide a few days
ago at Charleston. S. c.
Lenard J. Earl WAS arrested at Cellar
kapids few days ago for assaultlng his
ll-year-old step-daughter.
Ten thousand dollars nave been sub
'crlDed toward the establishment of a
Knitting mill at Anderson, s. G.
Henry AVeling, an ;csor, recently COM
hitted suicide by taking poison at the
Stur;eyant House In New YORK.
Three yGun, men were poisoned by
eating wild parsnips near Wllkesbarre,
Ia, recently. OLe may recover.
Henry Wilson, farmer OF Grant
county, Ind, committed suicide few
lays ago by taking rough Oh rats.
AT Benton Harbor. Mich, Roy Cram
lall, lO-year-olL Ia'i, was killed recently
while picking W coal under car
The Nebraska house has passed the bill
placing express companies under control
't the state board of transportation.
AZ Fo,to.la. o., recently Eugene Ritcl-
1rt stopped work, entered his house and
shot himself dead. Cause unknown.
II is reported that 5000 dozen eggs
we're SHIP eli from Boonville, Miss,
turing the year ending January 81, 1891.
Because his bride threatened to leave
him when he was drunk january Write
man, OF Napoleon, O4i", hanged himself.
The Interior department has issued or
iers for the purchase Of a large quantity
If additional beef supplies for the Sioux
Indians.
Ii is proposed to establish 4 naval war
College OH Coasters Island, near New
port, Il. l., under control OF the navy
department..
The Nebraska house has ,ssed the bill
appropriating SO, 90 for the worlds fair.
l. will prob IDLY 20 through the senate
without change.
John Hawk bling awakened by a man
crying to get into his house, near North
K zion, o, recently. se.z,I Il shotgun and
killcd the intruder.
William Wood, aged so, married, was
killed recently by the bur sting
of All Emery wheel ut t.le thresher work,
Al Spring ield. Ohio.
The University Of Maryland school OF
icnlal surgery recently graduated sixty
four YOU men. They represent all parts
If the United s ates.
An enthusiastic Shreveport. La, Dem
@crat sent il rabbits foot to Gen. Palmer,
wrapped in Il Time, extra announcing his
election to the senate.
The state agricultural department has
recently distributed among the farmers Of
i'.orsis 50. 0o0 packages of cotton, corn,
grass and cotton seed.
Mrs. I. NJ. Hawk WAS instantly killed
:ecently at a railroad crossing one mile
west Of l.anark, Ill while attempting 10
Gross in front Of q freight train.
Tne Wisconsin senate has ts,el a b.l
telephone companies to pay an
annual license fee of two ana one quarter
per cent. on their gross earning.
Eva Brannoch, a faith curer of Pitts
ourg, Pa, is sail to have just tinishel
last # forty days, having during that
line consumed nothing but water.
The colored people of Savannah, Ga,
will off.r twenty acres of land near that
lily and $40, 90 In cash to secure col
,red branch of the state university.
Banker S. A. Kean of Chicago, has
,ten indicted by the grand jury for dc
ia ldins his creditors In connection with
lie f.,ilurc Of his bank some months ago.
The Coore Agricultural Relief associ-
ii IL, organized i'll 1887 Oh the plan OF
he Farmers union, has 400 sub-relefs In |
lorth Louisiana aud total Of 1000 men,
,ers.
The turner's of Cherokee county. ALI, |
will contest for II prize to bs awarded for
he best acre OF cotton grown during 1891. |
Iacli contestant is - pay 81 toward the |
r.Ze.
Mrs John Preston of Lexington. KY, |
laughter Of the l,te Robert Wlckliffs OF |
hat city, has donated $34,000 toward
ZONE fer Catholic missionaries in Fayette
ounty.
Tue increase in the death rate the past |
week at Pittsburg, Pa, due to Ia grippe.
vas over so per cent Doctors are greatly
verworked and undertakes are unable to
upply hearscs
Many Hart county, KY. farmers have
cen crippled in their farm operations by
he ravages OF the disease which was cpl
emic this winter among tho stock In