The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1892-02-13
JorEs BRorHrns prominent cotton


JONES BRoTHEHs prominept cotton
brokers OF Memphis, Tenn, have dis
appeared. Shady deals are reported
AT a recent meeting of the New York
State Medical society a special commit
tee reported In favor of sbolishiug the
death penalty for the reason that 10
might be enforced ON some criminals
who through q perversion Of Judgment
and will from physical cougenitiveness
or hereditary causes were irresponsible
for their act
G Wo0D DAVIS, the Kansas allianco
crop expert, spoke at length before the
house committee on agriculture in favor
OF regulating option trading in grain.
IT was reported that tho federal
grand jury at Boston has indicted the
officers Of the whisky trust
THE Paris bourse was excited on the
4th by rumors of trouble in q large
banking house and the arrest Of two
directors
LEADING western board of trade men
were heard by the house committe on
agriculture in opposition to the pro-
posed sweeping anti-option bills.
CAPT HUGGINs, United States army,
reports that the Indians In the terri
tory implicitly believe In the coming
OF a Messiah, but are quiet and peace
able.
THREE men-one q cousin-have been
arrested for kidnapping Ward Water
bury, son of a wealthy New York
farmer. Sensational testimony was
given against the cousin.
The silver brick coinage case was
argued before the District of Columbia
supreme court on the 4th.
PRICES are rising rapidly in France
as a result of the new tariff bill Pork
and mutton have advanced 2 cents per
pound. Italian and Dutch cheese have
risen 100 per cent. and foreign soap 200
per cent The extra cost to workmen
for necessities Of life is estimated at /
franc daily.
covered in the London market among
animals from Denmark, a country
which had hitherto been regarded as
one of the few free from that disease.
The price of grain is falling in the
distressed provinces of Russia, owing
to increased railway facilities, which
allow of more rapid delivery Of cere-
ais from the more favored provinces.
The grain dealers who have been spec
ulating for rise in values have sus.
tanned heavy losses through the decline.
THIRTY barges were torn from their
moorings by drift ice at Breslau, Ger
many. Several Of the barges sank and
it is reported that forty persons were
drowned, including many women and
children.
BUSINESS failures (Dun's review) for
the seven days ended February num-
bered 319, compared with 297 the previ-
ous week and SO6 the corresponding
week of last year
Two Apache Indians are reported to
have stolen a white girl from near
Flagstaff, Ariz.
GENERAL MANAGER ROBERTSON, Of
the Monterey & Mexican Gulf railroad,
denies that there are any signs of revo-
luton in Mexico.
ONLY two of the first twenty busi-
ness centers of America show decreases
in clearings for the week ended the
4th.
The business situation is reported by
Dun q Co, as brighter because of
heavy demands from the west.
CONSIDERABLE damage was recently
done by revolt of the students in one
of the principal schools in Paris.
EMIN PAsHA, writing from Msua,
Africa, confirms theatories Of cruelties
practiced by slave hunters. He says
that he pursued one hunter for six
days, during which he counted fifty
one bodies Of slaves recently killed.
They were worn to skeletons and the
skulls of thirty.nine had been beaten