The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1892-03-19

M1cHAEL PURTILL, a Kansas City p0.
lice officer, while of duty shot and
mortally wounded Thomas McGrail, a
saloon porter, on the 10th. The shoot
ing IS claimed to have been done In
self-defense.
MUCH damage was done throughout
Iowa by the recent storm.
ALL the London newspapers APP
proved the verdict in the Osborne case.
SEVERAL school children were lost in
the storm near St. Peter, Mimi.
The Spanish anarchists tried for
riot at Cadiz were acquitted.
The musicians nnion of st Louis is
prepared to take issue with the United
States government in the matter of al.
lowing the Marine band. under Prof.
Souse, to make tour of the country,
thereby coming in at least indirect
competition with local talent
The next Russian military maneu-
vers, the scene of which will be in the
vicinity of Moscow, will be on a Qi-
gantic scale. Six army corps under
Gems. Obrutsehoff and Dragomiroff will
take part besides the guards and other
cavalry, the whole reaching total OF
200, 900 men.
The Russian government, in order to
alleviate as far as possible the distre IS
among the peasants, is employing large
numbers of them at Mini, Novgorood,
Orel Kazan and Tula in clearing off
over 8, 900 acres of forest land.
A SOLID train of twenty-eight cars,
containing 12, 800 bushels of shelled
corn, was made up at Bloomington, Ill,
and dispatched to the seaboard for
shipment to Russia. 1t was all con-
tributed by citizens of Mclean county,
Ill
The blizzard on the 10th did great
damage throughout Minnesota and the
Dakotas. Communication with Mon
tana was cut off.
THE market at Glasg1 ", Scotland.
has been closed against cattle, sheep
and pigs in consequence of the prev.
alence of the foot aad mouth disease,
which, despite the efforts made to
stamp it out. seems TO be spreading in
Scotland A large number of cattle
and swine have been slaughtered at
Paisley by order OF the authorities.
SEVERAL of the Russian ministers
believe that the letters of Count Toll
stol, published in foreign papers, Civ.
ing accounts of the distress prevailing
in Russia, should be stopped, and as a
means to this end they have urged the
czar to place the count under arrest
His majesty refused to listen to the ad-
vice of his ministers.
IT has been decided that no law covers
prize fighting on the high seas
A BULLETIN issued by the superin'
tendent of the census shows that hemp
raising is on the decline.
FIRE damp exploded in a Belgian
colliery on the 1lth in a pit where
nearly 800 men were at work. The
number of the dead is placed at 200.
REPORTS of damage to winter wheat
have been received from Kansas and
Illinois.
ANOTHER American sailor was
stabbed in the streets of Valparaiso.
The Standard oil trust, at its next
meeting, will dissolve and will not or
ganize iu any way, but the company
will not go out of business
THE New York Produce exchange
has stopped dealing in puts and calls.
A coRoNER's jury rendered verdict
to the effect that police officer Purtill
killed Thomas McGrail in self defense
at Kansas City.
A FIERCE blizzard ragged in north
ern New York on the 10th and 11th
The mercury was 85 degrees above a
at Syracuse on the 11th, and the vino
came from the northwest at a sixty
mile an hour gait Business was at {
standstilL Great drifts OF snow were
in the main streets and snow plowI
were running.