The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1892-04-02

E NJ WILLARD, the English actor. at
present on a tour in the west has sent
check for $500 to the New York
actors fund committee.
THE new'law Of Denmark imposing a
penalty of $50 ore per 100 Kilograms on
wheat meal and rye meal and of 1876
ore on whole wheat and rye has gone
into effect.
Dr. EDMUND J. JAMES, of the Whar-
ton school Of finance and economy, has
decided to refuse the offer of DR.. Will
lam Harper to organize in the new
Chicago university 3 department sim
liar to the Wharton school.
The Kalmia branch of the Philadel-
phia g Reading road extending to
Clarksville, Pa, which was closed by
last weeks storm is only now being
opened. The tracks were covered for
the long distance with from three to
six feet of snow and ice.
TIE committee OF the German reichs-
rath to which was referred the bill
making an extra grant of q 500, 600
marks for the German exhibit at the
Chicago exhibition. has unanimously
approved the credit asked for.
THE Mexican International Co,
which claims title to 1S 900, 600 acres of
land In lower California iust across the
border, according to Charles E. An
thony, reputable civil engineer, is
merely cloak for scheme on the
part Of Great Britain to secure the
harbor of San Quentin, Lower Cali
fornia for coaling station, so that
when the Nicaragua canal has been
completed, England will have base
OF supply between its entrance and her
American possessions.
A RISE in the price of whisky may be
looked for at any time, In accordance,
1t is said, with orders issued by the
whisky trust to further restrict the out
put on all the distilleries owned by it;
all of the Chicago houses in the COM
bine arS running short" Although
the demand for spirits is brisk, the out
put is not nearly as large as last fall
The records of the internal revenue
Office show falling off in the Chicago
distilleries alone OF !, 800 bushels of grain
per day, which means 8, 200 gallons OF
spirits daily.
A TRAIN was derailed the other day
at Sonsonato, fifty miles southwest OF
Salvador, on the Acajuita railroad.
Thirteen persons were killed and thir-
ty-one wounded. It was the most ter
rible railroad disaster that has ever
happened in Central America.
TWEEN CY-THREE bodies of the victims
of the Hill Farm, Dunbar, Pa, mine
horror were buried on the 25th.
The president of the St Louis city
council has been charged with running
a pool room in disguise.
AN imperial decree has been issued
forbidding Russian Jews to cross Ger
man territory.
The house committee on agriculture
have authorized favorable report to
be made on the Paddock pure food bill
which passed the senate.
REPRESENTATIVE GEARY, of Cali.
| fornia, has introduced in the house a
bill to prevent the use of substitutes
for hops or pure extract of hops in the
making of ale or beer.
MRS. FANNIE ScHADE committed
suicide at Cedar Rapids, Ia, on the
25th. She shot herself five times with
a single-barreled 22-caliber revolver,
three times in the right breast once in
the abdomen and the last time in the
right temple,
The offer of silver to the treasury
department on the 25th aggregated
9S9, 900 ounces. The amount purchased
was 10000 ounces, ranging from
so $3.50 to so 1884 The director of the
mint announced that the government
having purchased its quota of silver re
quired by law for the present month
no further offers will be considered un
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