The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1876-11-04


John Hill aud John Fallan were
hanged at Mays Landing, N. j., for
the murder of George Chislette.
The President has issued Il procla-
nation appointing November 80 as
day of thanksgiving and prayer.
Twelve persons were injured by
the falling of portico at Reading,
Pa. during Democratic parade.
Thomas Nugent, ex-treasurer and
secretary of the Loan Association of
Newark, is u de efAulteI for $4,000.
The United States surveying
schooner Ernest was wrecked at Isle
au Haut. All on board we're saved.
Publication of the New York illus
trdted Figaro has been enjoined by
the owners of the New York Figaro.
The office of Stern Bros. New York
jewellers, was robbed of 100000 worth
of jewelry. No clue to the robbers.
Allen C. Laross, convicted of poi
soning his father at Easton, Pa. in
May last, was sentenced to be hanged.
MudgeaIe's Knitting Mill, Rome, n.
Y, burned loss $65, 900; 100 oper-
atives are thrown out of employment.
The schooner Thomas Winans sunk
during the late hurricane off Grand
Caymen Island. The crew were res
cued.
Five deaths from yellow fever at
Savannah on Monday. Absentees are
warned to remain away until after u
frost.
Austria is threatened with finan
cial crash. Business is greatly de-
pressed. The same may be said of
Russia.
The Alabama claims court dismissed
the claim OF Catherine Volk of New
Orleans. and awarded Rene Dcmes
tire $659.
The locomotive engineers on the
Jersey Central railroad strnck. but
subsequently made terms with the
company.
Thursday, October 26, was mer-
chants day at the Centennial. Gov
ernor< Hayes and Hartranft delivered
addresses.
Two men and a woman are under
arrest in Philadelphia, accused of
completely with the abduction of
Charlie Ross.
The German brigantine Amer Bush
was abandoned at SEA in the recent
hurricane. The officers and crew
reached land.
A conspiracy against the govern
nirnt was discovered in Spain. Fifty
persons have been arrested, including
two ex- ministers.
A quantity of glycerine in a maga-
zine near Port Colborne, Lake Onta-
rio. exploded. A mau named king
was blown to atoms.
The sentence of Edward S. Stokes,
the Fisk murderer, expired last Sat
urday. and he was released from the
Auburn penitentiary.
The steamer r. E. Lee ran down
q skiff at New Orleans in which We're
two fishermen, VIM. Johnson and sou.
Both men were drowned.
At Grantshurg, Wis, Ole Hanson
and Barney Thollifeson quarreled
about 81, and the latter was fatally
shot, dying next morning.
Jules Grombeleon, Il Frenchman,
aged about fifty years, attempted to
commit suicide hy shooting himself i'll
the mouth, at New Orleans.
New York Democrats had big
procession Friday night OF
last week. 1t is claimed that over
SO, 900 men marched in line.
A peaceful revolution has been ac-
il San Domingo. Presi-
dent Espoillot was depoSed and ex
President Gonzalez installed.
Eighteen companies of United States
troops, aggregatipg 1900 men, have
arrived IN Columbia since the Presi-
1 ent's proclamation was issued.
The register and the receiver of
the government land office ut Salt
Lake City are suspended on suspicion
of irregularity in their accounts.
A freight train on the New Jersey
Midland road jumped the track at
bridge. The engineer,
fireman aud conductor were killed.
The widow Of Richard K. Randolph,
nephew of President Harrison and OF
John Randolph of Virginia, died at
Newport last week, aged 81 years.
Henry Scales. colored, was hanged
IN the Illinois district of the Cherokee
nation for killing colored man.
He had previously killed two men.
John Donovan, Hartford desper-
ado, resisted arrest for wife beating,
and stabbed IA constable. A deputy
Sheriff thereupon shot Donovau dead.
Half a dozen illicit distilIers have
been convicted in l. title Rock and
sentenced 60 vario US terms of impris-
besides being heavily tined.
The Br itish ship Thesus wrecked
on one of the Loo Choo Islands, Pa
citic Ocean. The captain, first mate
and eight of the crew We're drowned.