The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1892-05-07
surPHAup, Busny was hanged a Fsrt

SHEFHAHD' BUeBt WAS lAdok cu ~ a t3Aa i
Smith, Ark, the other day, for murder.
THE projecbof M. Brinet, manager Of
vignaux's academy at Paris, for an I'M
ternational contest between Schaefer,
Ives and Slosson and the most promi-
nent French professional billiardists
has fallen through.
FORTY families were rendered home
less in the village Of Hudson, o., BY
fire recently.
THERE has been great excitement in
Paris over the verdict in the case Of
Ravachol, the anarchist.
The Melbourne, Australia, Standard
saws that Deening has confessed TO his
lawyer and the doctors who examined
him that he committed the majority Of
| Jack the Ripper crimes in the White
chapel district of London.
EVERY lumber mill in the Lacrosse,
| Wis, district has closed down to re-
main so until the labor troubles are set
tied Two thousand men are out OF en-
/ pIoyment in consequences.
i INDIANS at the Grow Creek agency re-
fuse government money because they
distrust their agent
1 w. 7. SHARNAN, the only witness in
an important murder case at Denison,
Tex. was shot to death by an unknown
assassin while in bed. The case in
which he was witness grew out of an
old feud and he is the twentieth victim
He had received number Of warnings
that his life was in danger.
BRENDoN and Burlington, Ia, have
been excited over several mysterious
disappearances
BY the burning of the Central theater
at Philadelphia six actors lost their
lives.
: at Nashville, Tenn, four men. charged
S with assaulting two young ladies, tbs
Misses Bruce. After determined stand
the crowd was dispersed
G PLATINUM has been discovered in thC
I hills at point about twenty-five miles
: west of Rapid City, S. D. Among som'
: specimens of ore recently brought to thu
city DIR. Whitney found piece of whit
r quartz carrying what appeared to b.
I horn silver He at once pronounced i
/ platinum and confirmed his opinion b!
:, the usual acid tests.
y S. S. LoEwENBERG and his wife wer
> found lying dead in room at st. Paul
Mimi, having evidently been suffocate'
/ by gas. Investigation of the premise
'r showed that the key in the gas jet di'
L not work properly and that IN turning
II off the gas it was very easy to turn
g on again.
of SECRETARY FOSTER has sent to tn
r; house estimates for deficiency apprc
L priations aggregating $19l,052 on ac
v count of the postal service submitte
by the sixth auditor February IA, 1891
as and not heretofore transmitted to cor
b gress.
Or GOLD coin to the amount of 5000, ,OG
was recently ordered at the New Yor
,nd sub-treasury for shipment to Europe.
r. THE reporters of the New York pi
pers have begun the organization of
u branch of the Typographical union
by secure better wages and less hours fl
IN themselves.
LITTLE Rock had a S55,0OO fire Il
1l- other day The blaze was discovers
M in Richard Fletcher's cotton shed, al
ng before the flames could be quenche
half block of cotton warehouses al
n sheds had been burned.
er- THE number of divorce cases no
xt pending in Oklahoma is stupendous,
single counties the number runniI
ng well up toward hundred, and tn
Ia form large part of the business in q
ng the courts of the territory, This is n
to due to any particular infelicity of Il
" people of the territory, but to the ia
ras that the divorce law there is very l
led and scores of people have come in frc
ers other states to get rid of burdeRsol
So martial ties