The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1877-06-16
NUMBER 4I.

| Evan Morris beat w m. Scharh In a
boat race for $4,000 and the American
championship.
The steamship Yantic is not so rot
ten as repopted. She will be repaired
and go to sea again.
Musker Perry, aged Is, fell dead
from heart disease in q church at
Fredericksburg, Va.
The flood in Wolf river has caused
| break of over mile on the Memphis
and Louisville railroad.
VIM. Mathews and Leo Patterson,
prominent St. Louis merchants, have
been indicted for forgery.
Two men were fatally hurt by jump
ing from the windows of burning
tenement house in Boston.
In the Upper Lehigh coal region of
Pennsylvania, HOO miners struck
against reduction of wages.
Traffic on all of the five railroads
leading out of Memphis was tempo
rarily suspended by rain floods.
Four of the men who ran a train
off the track west of st. LOUIS, two
weeks since, have been arrested.
The town of Augusta, opposite Lit
lie Rock, is overfowed, caused by
heavy rise in the Arkansas river.
The Florida Central railroad, for
three years in the hands of receivers,
has been returned to the company.
The convention of the Y. NJ. C. A.
which met in Louisville last week,
adjourned to meet in Baltimore next
year.
t. S. Stewart, colored route agent
between Memphis and Paris, Tenn,
was arrested for alleged robbery of
mails.
The locomotive and tender of a
freight train went through an open
awbridge into tie Hudson river at
Albany.
The International Typographical
Union met in Louisville last week.
The next annual session will be held
at Detroit.
A freight train ran into a washed
out culyert on the Mississippi Central
railroad, killing the engineer and two
train hands.
E. w. Barber, third assistant post
master general, has resigned. A. d.
Hezen, chief of the stamp division,
succeeds him.
A canp of Ponck Indians, moving
into the Indian territory. was struck
by q tornado, which killed several.
The camp was FRUSTRATED.
Second Lieutenant Jas. P. Whitten,
10th cavalry, was held in $500 bail
in the Chicago police court, charged
with duplicating his pay account.
A little girl named Mary Marston,
stolen from her parents in Philadel-
phia, was found with an old woman
arrested for vagrancy in st. Louis.
A large hat factory burned at
Bridgeport, CT, and eleven men were
killed by falling walls. Two hundred
hands are deprived of employment.
Chas. Thompson was shot and NOR
tally wounded at Cincinnati, by john
ny Wilson, . bareback rider, formerly
with Robinson's circus. Wilson es-
capped.
Cbas. O. Shepard, consul at Leeds,
was promoted to the consulship ut
Bradford. Mr.. Wilson of Iowa, q
friend of Secretary McCrary, succeeds
at Leeds.
Charles Stringer was arrested at
Philadelphia for placing his grandson
upon hot stove and burning him
badly, for assaulting his wife and an
other grandchild with hatchet and
knife, and for setting fire to his house.
Four bandits boarded train on
the Pennsylvania Central near Jersey
City, robbed passenger and nearly
beat him to death. The conductor
and brakesman locked the car doors
and the train was run at full speed,
but three of the ruffians jumped from
the windows and escaped. The fourth
was captured.