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


at Grand Prairie, last Sunday night,
after a short illness.
The Steamer Idaho sank in Lake
Erie during a gal. last Saturday, aud
n%inen.een men lost their lives by
drowning.
The Dipgley bill is not faring we'll
even in the house of irs friends where
1t is a growing disappointment to
TIL Sc who expected it to not only
yi.ld all the evenn the government
needed but TO shower the country
with prosperity. 1t has failed to do
either Il thing or the other. The
''ihcial report IF the TREASURY depart
nIents shows that the deficit for the
month Of October amounted to S9.323.
O00 and for the four months Of the
fiscal yea ending Saturday last $50,
100000 The New York JearnaI of
Commerce" commenting on the fact
the Dingley bill il 4 failure as a rev
enur producer estimates that the
deficit at the end of the fiscal wear
will not be short Of $3.50. 000, 900, aud
says the % would be much
greater were it nos for the fact that
The internal r+vtnue taxes are Welding
largely. Were it not for this the
Dln.ley bill would be a much greater
failure than appears on the surface,
but nevertheless the deficit for the
present year will br the largest since
The resnmption Of specie payments in
1879.
Conasnl Bartleman, at Malagna,
reports 10 the state department esti-
mates of the amount of sugar produced
II Europe from heets for the year
1898 1T 1900, 900 tons against
i,9l5,749 tous for the previous year.
The States remarks "The German
market has been flooded with Ameri-
bicNcles and the manufacturers of the
wheel ~ the Faaerland have rushed
to Their government for protection
against the pauper labor of America,
aud 1t Is quite piobahle We shall soon
get ii taste of our own tariff medicine
IN tn shape of Il heavy tax on bicy-
cie- in order to keep our wheels ont
OF Germany.
Louisville las recently had a $3.50,
0Go fire.
The Hotel San Marco. one OF the
htest obstetrics in St. Augustine,
Florida, was reduced ID ashes by an
incentiinfr fire. The loss il estimated
at IA quarter million dollars
The trial of Mrs. Augusta Mack and
Martin Thorn for the murder of Will
liam G%aldensnppe began last Monday
in New York.
The murder was a brutal one ana
the trial Will 10 doubt be long and
perhaps, sensational.
The report now obtains that the
Cnbans ale diving like dogs from
starvation, owing to the wholesale
destruction Of crops and property bv
Gen. W+yler.
Chicago, Nov. The Times Her.
aid says:
"ClInrse coal miners are to take
the place If Americans III the North
efn lihois district. An attempt will
be made t" i,reak the strike that e x
lists, and 800 skilled Celestlals have
been picked for the work. They will
bear arms. live inside il Gattling-
gun-eqnipped stnckade and be body
guarded by 100 former Chicago
policemen.
An agent of the Chinese companies
Was III Chicago last week, and made
a contract with the Wilmington Coal
Company 70 deliver the 800 Cinnamon
ut the mines OF the Willington-Braid-
wood district. The first consignment
Will arrive next Tuesday, and the
others will be on hand as soon as the
provisions can be made to take care of
tlitm. Arrangements for an addition
y Chinese miners have been made
take care of the Cinnamon and to
give them ample protection"
The largest telegraph office of the
world is that of the British Mail
Bureau at ST. Ma7tin's-le Grand. Lon
don. Of its 5000 t~elegraphists en-
there about 1000 are women.