The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1892-04-30

THE Indiana delegation to tbs demo-
cratic national convention viii vote for
Cleveland for president.
JAMES PALMER has been arrested
in New York by a Central Office
detective, charged with the larceny
of $4,000 from the firm of Tiff
any & Co, on Union square. Palmer
was captured at his warerooms, 1S West
Seventeenth street, and when he learned
that his misdeeds had been found out
he exclaimed, 30, my God, wish / had
shot myself" He acknowledged his
guilt to Inspector Steers at police head
quarters
JOHN HARTEUP, the astronomer at the
Mersey harbor observatory, was killed
by falling from the observatory.
EUGENE KAUFMAN, postmaster at
Reisel, Tex, was assassinated by two
negroes. He was investigating noise
near his store when he was confronted
by two negroes, who shot him dead and
then fed.
A DELEGATION of colored men waited
ON the president the other day in regard
to lynchings in the south.
| THE house Judiciary committee have
discussed at some length the resolution
offered by Representative Watson, of
Georgia, for an inquiry as to the methods
followed by the Pinkerton detective
agency. The resolution was recon-
mitted to the subcommittee, consisting
of Messrs Oates, Broderick and VOL
verton.
DIR, ALBERT H. CABLE, a physician of
Dayton, o., who has been addicted 20
the opium habit, committed suicide by
shooting, the other day. He was un-
married and protege of the late Mrs.
Thomas Ster, sister of the late Gen.
George Crook.
JUDGE CLAIBORNE, of st. Louis, says
suit clubs are lotteries.
The government lot sale at Hot
Springs, Ark, is over. The sale real
lied S74,72O
CINCINNATI carpenters and bosses have
settled their difficulties for the coming
two years.
A FIRE in three-story tenement al
ST. Petersburg caused the death oi
twenty-four persons.
MCGUIRE, the murderer of Mrs. Greg
ory, at Newburg, N. Y, has been sen
fenced by Judge Bartlette to suffer
death by electricity in Sing Sing state
| prison some time in the week begin
ming June6.
CHARLES ID. SMITH, a wealthy resident
of New York, was found dead in hi
room in the Palace hotel, San Francisco
having shot himself during the night
1t is supposed he committed suicide OF
account of despondency, from the re
marks which he made at various times
ONE of the Wyoming cattlemen helC
as prisoner wrote letter to frienC
and which was found on his person, il
which he said that it cost over $1,000 t.
kill Champion and Ray, and that hiret
assassins were to receive S6 a day ant
$50 for every man killed.
A GIGANTIC trust of trunk manufact
urers, including the greater establish
ments in Milwaukee, Racine, Chicago
Oshkosh, Cleveland, st. Louis, Cincin
natl, Detroit, Louisville and other cite
in all portions of the United States ha
been effected. The big combine is knnoV
as the National Trunk Co., and it
headquarters are in Chicago.
CHARLES MILLER, the eighteen-yea1
old boy who while tramping across tn
country over year ago in compan
with Ross Fishbaugh and Waldo En-
erson, of st Joseph, Mo-, murdered hi
companions in a box car in Cheyenn
for few dollars, was hanged the othe
day.
The Chicago racing associations sun
: mer meeting commences June an
ends June %. There will be seventee
days racing, with five races on eac
day, including stake event, with th
0 exception of June 81.