The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1876-02-19
THE CITY.

STABBNG AFFRAY At 1R STATE HOUSE =
Abont hslf-pa 4 O'Clock yesterday afternoon
. difficulty took place in front Of the State
House between boy named A. Olivera AM
crowd Of other boys employed IS pages j!
the House Of Representatives which termi
mated in T. j. Hamilton, one of the boys
being stabbed and seriously wounded in tn
left side. A. Olivera was arrested and locked
up in the Third Precinct Station, charged
with stabbing and wounding. From VIVA
can be learned of the affair it appears tina
Hamilton and six or seven other boys attacked
Olivera, and during the melee Hamilton wal
cut, and as the difficulty which eliminated
in the stabbing originated between Olivers
and Hamilton. the wounded boy, Olivera, az
above stated, was incarcersted.
| DIED FROM Hrs WOUNDS. Samuel Joseph,
colored who was stabbed in the left breast BY
his wife Laura, about 1880 O'Clock Tuesday
night. 9th inst, at the corner of Cont and
IRENE streets, died yesterday from the effects
| of his wound, at his residence, corner of Vii.
lere and St. Bernard streets Coroner De-
Blanc will hold an inquest.
SNEAK THIEVES .-About o'clock FRIDAY
night three unknown colored men entered
Mr.. J. O. Roberts's dry goods store, No. 2O2
Royal street, while that gentleman was occu-
pied. and stole four pieces of printed calico
shifting valued at $40, and made good their
escape.
ACCIDENTALLY DROWNED About O'Clock
yesterday afternoon a white man named John
Flynn, . native of England. twenty.one years
old, employed as steward on board the Brit
ish ship Angeline, lying at the head OF Wash
ington street, accidentally fell from the stage
into the river, and was drowned. His body
has not been recovered.
AN ATTEMPTED SUIcDE-Sam Slaughter
(colored) tried to drown his many sorrows
by committing suicide Thursday evening, and
chose the Marais street bridge, over the Old
Basin, as the place to die easy. The pro-
Rramme was all arranged, and he started off
for the place, and on arriving stood up on the
railing, bidding last farewell to all around
He delayed long enough to let policeman
run up behind him and pull him down. He
was locked up in the IRENE Station on
charge Of attempting to take his own life.
A CONSTABLE IN TROUBLE Jack Lee, the
irrepressible Constable in Thompsons court,
Algiers, who has distinguished himself of late
driving cattle to the pound from the woods
back Of Algiers, was at last checked in one of
his many doings, for some cause or other,
which he himself knows. He was locked up
in the Eighth Precinct Station at O'Clock
Thursday from Thompson's court room,
charged with assaulting, beating aud ill-treat.
ing prisoner named August Vignon. MIR.
Michael James preferred the charge against
him.
FIRE IN ALG1ERs = About half-past 10
o'clock Thursday a fire broke out in the one
story frame house on Lafayette, between Fifth |
and Sixth streets, Algiers, owned and occu- |
pied by Mrs. Tobias Fried. The fire was |
promptly extinguished by the Fire Depart. !
ment with q damage of about $40; no insur- |
ance. The cause ct the fire is unknown.
HORSE SrEA1NG.-Supernumerary Bower
rom the town of Gretna, at late hour !
Thursday night. charged from information
received with horse stealing.
LARcENY.-A youth named Robert Baptiste
vas hauled into the Eighth Precinct Station
~ Doorman Gabriel. from his domicile. cor
,er of Seguin and Where streets, Algiers, at
he instance of Mrs. Joseph Ramon, who
charges him with having committed lar
eny.
SUDDEN DEATH-A white woman named
Glen, fifty five years old, and native of Ire
and, died suddenly at her residence, No. ITO
delpomene street, at 8 o'clock on Friday
aorning.
FELoNIoUs INTENT.-A carpenter, named
lbert Jones, alias John Albert, languishes in
be Third Precinct Station. He is charged
y Mr.. A. B. Bech with entering honse Is
loyal street, between Bienville and Cont,
nth intent to commit felony.
MINOR NOTES. Heck, forty-fve years
Id. and native of Louisiana, was sent to
he Charity Hospital in a sick and destitute
onditiOn from the Central Station.
The bridge corner Of st Ann and Claiborne
reefs is broken and in dangerous condi- l.
on.