The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1897-11-13

The New York Herald says: More
than $1,000 persons will directly or
indirectly draw pay from the city il,
the first administration IF the Mayor
of Greater New York. Tie salary Of
$4,000 of these whose names will he
actually ou the city's paw Ioll. will
aggregate $50, 900 900. Part IF this
amount represents the salaries and
patronage of the other officers elected
on Tuesday, Int this il comparatively
small, most OF the total representing
the patronage of Greater NV Yorks
first mayor, Robert \. Van Wyck.
A conservative estimate Of those
who will draw pay Indirectly from the
city, through city contracts aud thu
like is %, 900. Mayar Ss,ong. at the
time the greater city charter was
passed, estimated this force ia equal
to if not exceeding the actual number
of all Office holders.
Second only to the President Of the
United States is the value Of this
patronage. With his colleagues elect
of the same political party as himself.
Mr.. Van Wyek can lead an army of
office holders and those indirectly
employed By the city az great ~ the
Army of the Poromac.n
Gen. Miles wants TO fortifv the
public buildings containing Uncle
Sans treasure. He recommends
Gattling guns where they could be
used at a moments notice to repel
any attacks made on the buildings.
Lieut.. Pesry's six Eskimos. who
were left at the American Museum of
Natural history, in New York City, by
the Arctic explorer, Were sent to
Bellevue Hospital Saturday III a Sc
rions physical condition. One of II en-
has pneumonia, and the five Others
have attacks of bronchitis. Coughs
aud colds are entirely new Affections
fnr Esbimos, as i'll their own country
they are pot subject to the troubles Of
this kind. The only coughs they had
even known anything abont followed
the shaking ont of Il dry Bear skin in
their huts, when the dust would stick
in their ~tlroats.
A dispatch from Golden, H., under
date of the 4th inst. says: eighteen
year old James Sadler, who lived half
a mile north of town, attempted
To shoot his mother last night with
an old mnsket. The woman ran and
he missed her, hut the breach-pin Of
the gun blew out and struck him IN
the forehead, entering the skull and
making a whole from which the brains
are ooziDg. He cannot live. 1t is
said E,a tyao rapttr .1,ntal
A dispatch from Helena, Montana,
dated the 4th. inst says lat 2:3O
O'Clock this morning "A slight earth
quake was felt here, rocking buildings
1t was OF seven seconds duration, but
as yet no damage Is known to have
been caused by it.
The shock was also felt in Butte and
Anaconda. Many people were shaken
out of bed. C1i,Dueys fell. and plate
glass vas broken.
DIR. Charles A. Berry, pastor of the
Queens Street Church, Wolyerbamp-
ton, London, and chairman OF the
Congregational Union of England, has
arrived in New York from England
DR.. Berry will endeavor to influence
the national Senate To ratify the An
glo.Amerlcan arbitration treaty. Ac-
cording to a report, he was invi-
ted to act as Senate chaplain for a
few days during the next session. He
Will conduct a series of mass meetings |
throughout the country in the interest
OF the arbitration movement.
A dispatch from Deming New
Mexico, Nov. 4th. says: Otto Mer-
ganthaler's winter residence was to-
tally destroyed by fire here to day.
Mr.. Mergenthaler lost all his personal
property and many valuable papers
including the drawings for a new
typesetting machine. The property
was valued at $4,000. Mr.. Mergtn-
thaler was spending the winter in
Deming. hoping to DO benefited in
health"
Mr.. M~ergenthaler is the inventor of
the tYpesettlng machine which bears
his name.
BEET SUGAR INDUsTRY-Los An
geies. Cal. Nov. Another impor-
taht enterprise in the beet sugar man
nfacturlng industry is about to be
launched by the 0xnards. proprierors
of the Chino factory. After exami-
ming several different sites in widely
separated localities. they have at last
decided in favor of Hueneme, Ventu-
"a county. The production of beets
on l04 900 acres of land for five con-
secntlye Years has been guaranteed
tor the tactory's use at the price of
SO per ton during the entire term.
One hundred acres for the factory site
nave been donated bv the local neo.