The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1899-04-29
GENERAL NEWS COLUMN.
ALL THE HAPPENINGS TERSELY TOLD IN
COMPREHENSIVE STYLE.
Steamer General whitney senk---Activsap
in the Vicinity Of Manila...Opening OF
vIcksburg's Electric Railway---Cu5an
Crop Prospects.-.Other Items.

Crop Prospects.-.Other Items.
Bishop Bonaoum, of Lincoln, Neb.,
is again experiencing trouble with sew
eral of his priests.
A dispatch from Montivideo says
Sanarelll's yellow fever serum is CIV.
ing good results there.
Congressman S. 7. Baird, Of Louis
lana, died in Washington, Saturday,
after two months illness.
The Cuban tobacco and sugar crops
are larger this year than they were
last. Good yields of both are pre-
dicted.
Col. VIM J, Bryan was given an en-
thusiastic welcome Friday, at Buffalo.
Three thousand people listened to his
speech.
DR.. W. H. Lipscombe, the Missis-
sippi poisoner, died in the State peni-
tentiary Saturday from paralytic
stroke.
San Vincent, Salvador, has been de.
stroyed by an earthquake. No lives
were lost, slight shocks having warned
the people.
Nine thousand regulars have been
selected for transportation to Manila,
and 5000 more will be ready when
needed.
An open boat, containing the bod
les of nine men, dead from starvation
and thirst, has drifted ashore on the
coast of Brazil.
At Q o'clock Saturday afternoon the
Americans operating in the field near
Manila were compelled to desist, ow-
ing to the terrific heat.
Accounts Of the Samoa trouble
printed in the German press from Ger
man correspondents bitterly blame the
BrltlSn Tor the uprising.
Ex-senator Matthew S. Quay has
been declared by jury to be not
guilty of the charge of conspiracy to
defraud brought against him.
Vicksburg, Miss, which was once
designated as the largest American
city without street cars, had a gala
time Monday in the opening of a sys-
tenn of modern electric railways.
The British press comments on
General Lawton's return to Manila
from the Santa Cruz district are most
SOLICITORS. Evidently tie English be-
lieye it was retreat.
The appointment Of Quay to the
senate was widely discussed at Wash
ington. Opinion as to his eligibility
is divided, but all precedents are
against him.
Capt. Coghlan has been asked by
the navy department to say whether
his speech at the Union League cubs
banquet was correctly reported. He
may be censured for his frankness on
that occasion.
General Lawton with his flying col
umn started out in new direction
Saturday, making fast time around
Noyaliches in an effort TO outfank the
rebels and catch him between his OWL
force and that Of Macarthur.
Thomas B. Reed may be following
the example set by Cleveland; from
the white house to New York Law
practice; from New York back to thu
white house. The republican ele.
ments are fighting for the speaker
cast off shoes,
Spain's minister to Washington, the
Duke de ARGOS, was the successful ri
val OF Admiral Dewey for the hand O.
Miss Virginia Lowery, of Washington
about twenty years ago. The two vii
meet soon, probably in the mansion
where both courted the same girl.
A bitter attack was made by tn,
Agrarian wing of the Reichstag, Sat
urday, on American packers ant
American meat products generally
The whole army beef scandal was re-
hashed and American papers quoted
literally.
The gunboat Nashville, the Graf
that fired the first shot of the Spanish
American war, went up the Missis
sippi river to st. Louis this week
Ovations were given the officers, ant
hundreds of people visited the vesse
at Vicksburg and Memphis.
The steamer General Whitney, from
New Orleans to New York, sank OF
Cape Carnaveral, Fla, Saturday
Sixteen of the crew attempted to reac|
the coast, but the boat capsized, an,
twelve out of sixteen were drowned
including Capt. Hawthorne. Anothe
boat with fifteen men aboard has no
been heard from.