The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1901-03-02
HAPPENINGS OF THE WEEK.

The president nominated Louis Des'
marals to be postmaster at Opelousas.
Ten of the thirteen men imprisoned
in the mine near Tuscaloosa, Ala,
were rescued.
A murder, believed to have been
the result of a vendetta, was commit
ted in Chicago.
The Ontario government has an
nounced bill to encourage refining
of beet sugar.
There were 253 business failures in
the United States for the week,
against 2O1 last year.
Pat Grove has written E. A. Cuda-
by that he is innocent Of the kldnap-
ing charge and will prove it.
The North American Trust compa-
ny, of New Jersey, has absorbed
number of other trust companies.
Twenty-one patients lost their lives
in the burning Of the hospital at
tached to the Toxic University.
Charges of attempted bribery IN
connection with the Delaware senate
rial contest are to be Investigated.
A portion of the testimony and ex-
hibits in the Cuban postal investiga-
ton has been reported to the senate.
Rhodney Redmond, arrested in Kan
sas City in connection with the Cuda-
by kidnapping, has proved his inno-
cence.
The house has adopted resolution
to investigate alleged Irregularities
| in connection with the pay of its en-
ployees.
A loving cup was presented to Con-
gresham Catchings, of Mississippi by
the executive committee of the Louis
lana Waterways Association.
Native and American orators ad-
dressed large number of Filiplnos
at Manila, the occasion being the first
celebration of Washington's birthday
there.
The bill providing for a single
headed police commission in New
York city has been signed by Cover
nor Odell and has gone into effect.
The Illinois Manufacturers Asso'
citation decided to send a committee
to Washington to try to have the
countervailing duty on Russian sugar
removed.
President Mckinley has called "a
special session of the senate for ex'
ecutive purposes Immediately upor
the dissolution of the present con
gress, March 4.
According to the best information
available, 1873 lives were lost in thu
City of Rio de Janerio disaster off thu
Golden Gate, including Consul Gen
. eral Wildman and family.
The senate passed the bill releasing
the $5,OOO,OOO appropriation for tn
St. Louis exposition, after amending
to include $3.50, 600 for the Charlestol
exposition.
The pocketbook containing valuabl
papers and railroad passes, which wa
7 stolen from General John B. Gordon
| in Chicago, has been returned to hi1
| through the mails.
D The twenty eighth and Thirty fit
= volunteer regiments will sail fro1
Manila for home March 10 and tn
I'd Twenty-ninth and Thirty second reg
ments will sail on the 25th.
=. The senate passed an amendment
al the postal appropriation bill autho
10. izipg the postmaster general to il
Of yestigate the question Of establishir
m q postal telegraph system and to r
le. port his findings to the next congress
~ Senator Morgan of the committ'
~ on foreign relations has made a m
ed nority report upon the resolution d
v, claring that the ratification Of Il
sh Hay-Pauncefote treaty is not COMO
'ss ton precedent to the construction
70 the Nicaragua canal.
w The Pacific mail steamer City
- Rio de Janerio, from Yokohama, r
~ on hidden rock while entering t
,r- Golden Gate in fog and sunk.
re the 2O1 persons on board 122 are su
M posed to have been lost, includi
sh Housewife Wildman, United Stat
Ith consul at Hong Kong, his wife a
AZ two children.
' ~, A delegation from Moline, ILL.,. h
,n annouced it's intention to visit Dye
40 burg, to investigate the recent lynt
LEV ing there.
% There was race outbreak in N
Nh York which lasted several hours
a ar the neighborhood of Thirty-nil
10 street and Eighth and Ninth avenu
nd Snow and ice were general over
Die south, several coast towns east 6
west of New Orleans reporting b.
snow and ice. Truck produce was
the tensively damaged, fruit a little
so So A negro was frozen to death