The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1892-04-09
PARISH LOUISIANA SATURDAY, APRIL 1892

1T is positively asserted In dispatches
from north Alabama that a mob of sew
enty-hve men caught and lynched John
Mullins, one of the Madison Cross roads
murderers.
ONE of the murderers of Thomas d.
Edwards, of Huntsville, Ala, has been
shot and the other hanged.
A SMALL British force operating on
the kaukkive river had an engagement
with the natives and were defeated.
AT meeting of the stockholders of
the Standard Oil Co. on the S1st ult it
was decided to increase the capital stock
from S5,0OO,OOO to $1,000, 900, to include
10000 shares of the par value of 500
each. There was no opposition to the
proposition. Ninety per cent. of the
stock was voted.
The steamer Golden Rule was de-
stroyed by fire at the big wharf boat at
Cincinnati on the S1st ult. Only one
life was lost, that of Miss Nellie Ma
loney, who in attempting to jump off
the boat fell between the boat and
barge and was drowned. The Golden
Rule was valued at $4,000 to S25, 900,
while the value of the cargo was esti-
mated at 1000. The wharf boat,
which was destroyed, was insured for
$4,000 and the Golden Rule for SIS. 900.
The claims aggrega ting over $500, 200
filed at Ottawa, Ont, by the sealing
feet for loss owing to exclusion from
Behring sea last year are subject to re-
vision, as it is stated that many are in
fated and fictitious.
THE prospective opening of the Chew
enne and Arapahoe reservation, includ-
ing counties c, D, e, F, G. and H of the
Oklahoma territory, has caused much
activity on the part of the Santa Fe
management in preparing for the ex-
pected rush of settlers. Counties d, E
and f in the northwestern portion of
the reservation are nearer the Pan
handle line of the Santa Fe than any
other railway and the sale of tickets to
Kiowa, Kan, Woodward, 1. T., and Hig-
gins and Canadian, Tex, all of these
points being right upon the border of
the new promised land, has become very
large. Good wagon roads lead directly
from these stations into the reservation.
Deducting the allotments to the Indians
in severalty something more than 90, 900
quarter sections will soon be open to
presumption by homesteaders.
ELEVEN lives were lost by the burn
ing of the Golden Rule at Cincinnati on
the 31st ult.
The City of Mexico has been flooded
with counterfeit silver coin.
WALTER Cook was hanged for murder
at Fairburn, Ga, on the 1st.
JOHN d. HAYNE, one of the oldest
Jockeys on the turf, died at his home in
Camden, of pneumonia recently.
THE Norwegian steamer Louise,
bound for the Loffoden islands, off the
northwest coast of Norway, has been
lost; ten were drowned.
OWING to the prevalence of the foot
and-mouth disease in Belgium the
French government will issue an order
prohibiting the Importation of live
stock from that country.
A wINDsToBM of terrific fury passed
through south-central and eastern Kan
sas on the night of the 31st ult., enter
ing the state at the Barber county line
and following its way ENTHUSIASTICALLY
through the counties of Barber, Sum-
ner, Sedgwick, Butler, Chase and Lyon,
and on the Missouri river, damaging al
most every village in it's path and leav-
ing behind in all the larger cities stories
of wreck and ruin. The town of Tow
anda, in Butler county, was blown
away, four persons were killed, five
fatally and thirty seriously injured.
Augusta in the same county was partly
destroyed and three persons killed. At
Oxford bridge near Wellington five of
family lost their lives Near Strong
City four persons were killed and eleven
injured fatally.