The Opelousas courier., 1894-03-31
General Notes.

III sNo" Aoin WV
The British army estimates for the
fiscal year show an increase OF
$1,350,000.
An Industrial Army, with an con to
Washington watchword, is organizing
at Los Angeles, Cal.
The Ohio House of Representatives
has defeated the bill granting to women
the right to vote in school elections.
Lightning struck IL buggy in which
Chas. Thomson and his wife were drlv,
them both.
Typhoid fever is raging in Buffalo,
N. Y; no less than ninety-eight new
cases and eighteen deaths being report
ed in one day.
The Chase woollen mills atElmville,
Conn, have resumed operations after a
shut down of six months. Wages, how
ever, were cut twenty per cent.
The St. Louis police were ordered
last week to arrest all saloon Keepers
and others, who have Observation-Disclosures
Roth Goldsmith's corset factory at
Norwalk, Conn, employing 700 hands,
which has been partially closed for
weeks, begun running on full time last
week.
A German law reqeires that all drugs
intended for external use shall be put
up in hexagonal bottles, while those for
bottles.
All bids for the Worlds Fair build
ings have been rejected because too
low, and negotiations will be opened
with private parties for the sale of the
buildings.
The Protestant clergymen OF Sioux
City, Iowa, have made a concerted at
tack on the American Protective AS
ISOLATION, which they denOunce as
wholly un-American.
Railroad men, in Pennsylvania and
elsewhere, report large numbers OF men
stealing rides, who say they are going
to Massillon, Ohio, to join CoXey's In
dustrial Army.
The decree of the Episcopal Synod
aDnulling the divorce of ex-King Milan
and ex-Queen Natalie was published at
Belgrade, March 10. The ex-queen is
expected to 10 join her husband.
Mile. Coralie Branch, a dancer at the
Paris Opera, died a short time ago, leav-
ing $780, 600 earned by dancing. Those
who make their living in this way rare
iy accumulate a competence, much less
a fortune. 9
Otto Wagner, Of Duluth, Mimi, put
some dynamite in the oven ut his cook
ing stove, last Friday, to thaw it. The
usual result followed-one boy is miss
ing. the wife and baby are in a hospital
and the house is a wreck.
An employee of the Eureka Ice Co,
at Pittshurg, Pa, was taken to a hos
pital in that city last week suffering
from the effects of il five-ounce dose of
laudanum and was cured by hypoder-
mic injections of permanganate OF pot
ash.
Inihe House of Commons, March 10,
Mr.. Tlios. G. Bowles, pointed out to the
Admiralty the fact that the British
tank steamer Bakn had made a voyage
across the Atlantic, from Philadelphia
to Avonmouth, with petroleum as her
only fuel.
The police, March Is, entered the Of
fee of Der Socialist. the most extreme
revolutionary newspaper in Germany,
and stopped the presses which were
printing the edition of March II. The
whole issue was seized and the editor
arrested. G
In reply to a question in the House of
ralty stated that England had not
launched any battle ships in 1893, while
France had launched battleships with
an aggregate tonnage of 5000, Russia
2,490 and the United States 10000.
Secretary Gresham, in IL communica-
ton to the Belgian government, says,
that while this Government will not
take the initiative in r~eassembling the
Brussels Monetary Congress, it stands
ready to join in its deliberations upon
invitation from the European Powers.
The city of Monroe is steadily strid-
ing onward in the march of progress
and is fast becoming a city of manu-
factories. 1t is refreshing in these hard
times to witness the push and grit Of a
community that is determined to wrest
success out of adversity.-Shreveport
Times.
Richard Puryea, IA negro murderer,
escaped from the Jail at Stroudsburg,
Pa, last Thursday, but was almost i'm
mediately discovered and pursued by
an angry throDg Of men. He was cap
tured after swimming IA creek, and, be-
lynched by being strung up to a tree.
The Prince of Wales has written a
letter tt Mr.. Gladstone expressing his
sincere friendship and gratitude to the
ex-Premier for his long and valuable
services to the country. The Duke of
York has also written to Mr.. Gladstone,
thanking him for the friendly terms in
which the old Liberal leader has pub
licly referred to him.
In addressing meetings held March
Is, in honor of St. Patrick, John Dillon,
Edward Blake and Michael Davitt *
pressed themselves as perfectly satisfied
with Lord Rosebery's declaration in
Edinburg concerning his attitude to
Home Rule They agreed that the
Premier's utterance proved him to be
an honest Home Ruler.
Last week, the Central Board of Ed
ucation, of Pittsburgh, Pa, by a vote
of 30 to Q, refused to pay any teacher
appearing in the public schools of the
city in the garb of any religious order.
The nuns at the Riverside school ac-
cordingIy notified their Catholic sciiol-
ars that.t they would again open school
in the old ~parochial school building.
At the request of the merchants and
others in England having large East
India and China trade interests, the
London Chamber OF Commerce has re-
presented to the government the urgen-
cy of the reassembling of the In%terna-
tinnal Mnnetarx Cnnfaranca. with q