The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1892-03-12

7. ". PoWDERLY has written letter
of 1880 words to Attorney General
Hensel to say that he Is surprised at
being summoned to Harrisburg Ito re-
peat the complaint he had already
made.
BURGLARs blew open two steel safes
in the national bank in Coldwater,
Mich, on the night Of the I'd and Sc
cured 1900 ia money and $40, O00 in
bonds
A RELIGIOUS revival with unusual
features had its elimination on the End
in the service at Music hall, Cincinnati,
morning, afternoon and night at which
that great structure was each time filed
to overHowing. Three thousand busi-
ness houses all over the city closed
during the hours Of service. The move
ment was arranged for early last fall
and all the churches Of the city united
in carrying out the plans suggested BY
the evangelist, Rev. B. Fay Mills.
TIE vatican, desiring to reform
church music with the view Of elimi-
naing the profane element the congre-
CATION Of rites has addressed circular
to the principal musicians and compos-
ers of Europe and America soliciting
their views on the subject.
TIE only depressing business feat
ures are dullness in cotton and iron
due to over production.
A guillotine twice failed to decapi-
tate murderer in Stade. Germany, on
the 4th, and the executioner had to
tear and slash at the neck before he
could complete his work.
HUNDREDS of starving unemployed
workmen of Dantzic, Germany, looted
bakeries and butcher shops on the 9Th.
The police had hard fight to quell the
disorder.
SPANISH anarchists badly wrecked q
church in Valencia on the Sd. French
anarchists tried to blowup police bar
racks in suburb of Paris
The condition of the poor in Vienna
is said to be pitifuL
RECENTLY, at Richland, ten miles
from Lockport, Ind. man named
Williams shot his wife, killing her in
stantly, and then shot himself dying
shortly after.
THE searching parties sent out by
the government from various parts OF
Trinity bay to search for the missing
seal hunters returned on the 4th. No
tidings of the missing men could be
learned, and it.was believed that they
have persisted.
IT is charged in Chicago that Kate
Reilly, noted dressmal5er, has evaded
customs officers by sending over En-
giish women with goods.
IT is said that Banker Collins, who
committed suicide in San Francisco, on
the Sd, ruined his best friend in Chey-
enue, Wyo
MARCUS and Abraham Cohen. who
tried to set FIRE to their store in St
Louis to obtain 81, 500 insurance, per-
ished in the flames.
Ex- LIEUT.. Coz. john S. PERKINS, of
the Third regiment. Missouri militia, at
Kansas City, has again been placed un-
der arrest He is charged with obtain
ing money by false pretenses from
Actor Fitzgerald.
THERE were violent snow storms in
Venice and Trieste on the 4th. In the
latter city the snow was nearly tive
feet deep and the roads were blocked
in consequence. The mountains fall
of snow was much greater and the
ground was covered to depth of foul
feet.
GEORGE r. RAYMOND, ex-deputy city
auditor and James A. Hadley, deputy
city treasurer of Denver. charged with
forgery and conspiring to defraud tn,
city in raising warrant from So so t.
! $SO3 50 during their term Of office
which expired IN April last, were fount
guilty with recommendation TO mer
cy. Thirteen other indictments agains
:. these men remain to be tried.