The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1892-01-23
zTIsCELLANEOUs.

SENATOR STANFORD has sold Arion,
the phenomenal two-year-old stall
lion, record 2:10, to S. NAL
colin Forbes, of Boston, for the
highest price ever paid for horse.
1t is generally understood that it was
$3.50, 600.
MEXICAN rebels made desperate at
tempt to rob a silver mine in Texas,
but were defeated by rangers and three
men killed.
IT is reported that a cook of Prince
Ferdinand, of Bulgaria, has been ar
rested for trying to poison the prince.
Fifty army officers are also in prison.
JAY GOULD denies over his own sig
nature that he preferred charges Of
cutting rates against western roads
He also stated that he had not left the
western passenger association.
HENRY CoRBIN, negro fiend, was
taken from the lookup in Oxford, O.,
and hanged and riddled with bullets.
A CHICAGO street car was struck by
a passenger train the other night and
two women killed and fourteen persons
injured.
A COURIER from Ascension, Mexico,
reports the suppression of the revolt
there and the resumption Of the sway
of civil law. Tuesday the stone mill
was surrounded by troops under Col
Sanquinez, and after feeble resistance
the beleagured force surrendered and
were placed under arrest The total
number of captiyes is 107, but the lead
err Romiii SaiS escaped.
The call for the national prohibition
convention at st. Louis June 20 has
been issued from New York.
CHRISTOPHER FURNEss, member oi
parliament for Hartlepool, Eng, has
invited subscriptions from British shiI
owners to defray the cost of convey
ing to the Russian famine sufferers
1000, 900 pounds of -four contributed
in the United States.
PRESIDENT HARRISON has issued &
proclamation reserving from entry o.
settlement the Pecos river forest re
serve in New Mexico and making it
public forest reservation,
The employees of the Pittsburg, AL
legheny &c Manchester Electric Trac
ton Co., struck the other morning
against an increase in hours of labor
The lines were completely tied up.
THE exports from the United State
in December were millions beyond tht
record The business situation at every
center is reported by Dun & Co. as OK
cellent
The Andrews Opera company's sleep
er was wrecked near Brainerd, MINI.
the other morning and Mrs. Andrew
and her maid burned to death. Othe
members of the company were badl
hurt.
A COAL train of twenty-seven cars
caboose and engine became unmanage
able on the steep grade at Little Hors
Shoe bend, east Of Bainbridge, O., tn
other night and was wrecked Tw
men were killed.
A COMMERCIAL convention has bee
signed between Portugal and Braz
by which special advantages are gran
ed to Portuguese wines and Brazilia
sugar.
FIRE the other night destroyed th
large mill owned by John Stohr, shil
manufacturer, at Pattison, N. j. Th
loss is about S75, 900.
A DISPATCH from ST. Paul, MINI
said that on the night of the 14th IL
mercury went down until it froze. A
through the northern part of Minnesot
in Manitoba, North Dakota and in tt
Canadian northwest the temperatur
ranged from 80 to so below zero, c
spirit thermometers
SHORTLY before midnight of the 15t
fire broke out in the Leader buildiu
at Pittsburgh, Pa, aud destroyed it an
the block adjoining. The total loss
the Leader is 900 900, with $45, 900 il
sJIrance