The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1892-03-26

FIRE in Eddyville, N. Y, recently
destroyed thirteen buildings, including
Schuman's hotel and Torrey's hotel.
four dwelling houses and seven barns.
The loss will reach about $50, 600. All
the buildings burned were frame
structures.
AN extractor in Whitney & MOTIFS
indigo works, at Millbury, Mass, ex-
ploded the other day. Willard Rice,
an expressman, had both legs cut off
above the knee and is not expected to
recover. Joseph Perry had his right
leg broken and was otherwise injured.
Joseph Lepardes and Henry Caubaut-
chent were badly bruised.
The New York assembly has passed
the state senate worlds fair bill, APP
propriating $500, 900 by vote of 100 to 5.
The Austrian fiend Franz Schneider
was hanged in. Vienna on the nth. He
exhibited great fear.
UNITED STATES MARSHAL GRIMES, of
Oklahoma, has been indicted for per-
jury.
LIGGETT & MYERS tobacco factory
at St Louis was partially destroyed by
tire on the 18th. Losses over $500, 600.
Thirty thousand head of cattle are
said to have perished in Texas during
the recent storm.
HE treasury department purchased
on the 18th 4S7, 600 ounces of silver at
SO.915 and So 992.
NOTICE has been given by Chairman
Finley that the Western Passenger as
sociation has agreed on arrangements
for the qusdrennial conference of the
Methodist Episcopal church at Omaha,
which begins May and continues four
weeks They consist of one lowest
hrst-class fare for the round trip, the
first sale OF tickets to be made April
% and the limit of extension June 1.
THE agricultural department report
states that two million more bales of
cotton are raised than are used
HEAVY disbursements reduced the
treasury balance on the 18th to S29,-
1926, 900, of which $l2, Gil, ,2O1 are on de-
posit with national banks and SIS, 225,-
600 is in subsidiary and minor coin.
The receipts from internal revenue
during the first eight months of the
fiscal year ended June 80 were $780,
667, 1888, an increase of So, 700, ,O7s over
the receipts during the corresponding
period OF last year
The national bank note circulation
is now $l61, 100000, an increase of near
ly $40, 100000 since July last
THE trunk line passenger agents
have decided to sell one fare tickets to
those people who desire to visit the
battlefields near Washington at the
6. A. R encampment in September
The floods in the south of Spain were
disastrous In the town of Villaverde
10s houses collapsed, one child being
crushed to death.
THE other day about twenty-five
drunken miners engaged in free-for-
all 6ght at Carbon, Ind. During the
wrangie J. D. Bennett drew a large
knife and cut John Jones, Is years old,
fatally.
w. A. Crow, agent of the Illinois
Central at Pulaski, Ill, has been ar
rested on a charge of swindling. It
appears that Crow has been imperson-
ating clergymen and obtaining half
fare permits under assumed names from
various roads and selling the permits.
A COMMITTEE of the Portuguese
chamber of deputies has decided that
there are no grounds for criminal pro-
ceedings against Senior Carvalho, who,
while minister of finance, loaned a
large sum of money to the Royal rail-
road.
GEORGE KIPPLE, a bachelor of Plicors,
Ia, living alone, committed suicide the
other day by hanging himself to a
door-knob with a rope looped around
his neck, passed around his leg, looped
over his foot and fastened to the door
knob, No cause is known, MI