The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1892-02-20
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

The editor of the Financial Observer,
of London, has been sentenced to two
months imprisonment for libel.
COUNSEL for Lille johnson, who is
charged with the murder of Freda Ward
in Memphis, Tenn, in conjunction with
Alice Mitchell. applied to Judge Dubose,
on the 18th, for a writ of habeas corpus,
with view to having their client adj
mitted to bail. The writ was granted
and made returnable on the 18th.
JAMES O'FALLoN, of Leavenworth,
Kas, was recently robbed of 81, 900 in
gold, which he had buried in the floor
of the cellar underneath his riclSety
dwelling. John O'Fallon, his son, and
an accomplice named Peter Gillick were
arrested in Kansas City for stealing the
money, and 1915 of it was found in
young O'Fallon's clothes.
THE Moorehead (Minn.) Merchants
bank, private concern, closed its
doors on the 9Th. The deposits and
claims held by other banks amount to
$175, 900 and the nominal assets are
$500, 900, but it is believed 80 cents on
the dollar is the most the bank can pay.
IT is reported that marble has been
found in large quantities and of the
finest quality near Bonaparte, I a. Mis-
souri, parties have secured the privilege
of developing the quarries,
GEORGE E.. CABANIs, a pioneer settler
and prominent man in southwestern
Wisconsin, died at Georgetown, north
of Galena, Ill, on the sth. He was a
captain in the Black Hawk war in 1882,
and forty years later represented his
district in the Wisconsin legislature.
In his boyhood, which was spent in
Sangamon county, Ill, he was COM
panion of Abraham Lincoln.
On the 9th the New York court of
appeals decided that jeremiah Cotto,
the Italian now awaiting death at Sing
Sing by electrocution, must die as or
desed by the lower court. He was
found guilty of numbering Luigi Fran
catoza on July "a. 1891.
TIE British Indian troop ship Eu-
pirates, bound to Bombay, came in
collision with the German steamer
Gutenfels in the Suez canal The latter
steamer had several plates bent and
broken and her bulwarl1s, rails and
decks damaged.
The president, on the 9th, sent to the
senate the nomination of w. NJ. Grim
nell, of New York, to be third assist
ant secretary of State, vice ]. B.
Moore, resigned.
Hon. JOHN JAY KNOX, ex-United
States comptroller, who had been i'll
with pneumonia at his residence in New
York city, died on the 9th.
HAwLEY CHAPMAN, the actor, was
pronounced insane by Brooklyn jury,
on the 9th, and committed to the White
stone Insane asylum.
Mr.. REID, United States minister to
France, who was recently i'll with In
fuenza, has had relapse and is again
confined to his room.
/ JOHN HUGHES, the pioneer ship
builder of New Orleans, died in that
city on the Sth, 81 years of age. He
built the confederate ram Manassas.
The trial of the case of William F.
Jordan and X. j. McLaufin, editors
| and proprietors of the Harrisburg (Pa.
Call, charged by Gov. Pattison with
publishing libel upon him during his
campaign for governor, was begun at
| Philadelphia on the 10th.
THE city jail at Moorhead, Mimi,
was burned, on the 10th, and ]. Caring,
confined for drunkenness, was burned
TO death.
SIR JAMES CARD, K. G. B., +. R. s.,
the noted English agricultprist, died on
the 10th