The People's vindicator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1874-1883, 1880-12-18

/ 1890
men. John Dine was killed, 10 men badl!
injured and II others slightly. The slid
carried the track over the heads Of the mer
and most Of the wounds are probably caused
BY the iron striking them.
THE house of J. C. Luker, at Summit
CITY. near Bradford, Pa, burned on thu
morning Of the oath. Mr.. and Mrs. Lukel
barely escaped in their night.clothes. Theil
5.year.oid child was rescued, but so badly
burned that he died within few hours.
| A BAND of cattle thieves in Grant
County, Arizona, were pursued by citizens
and oyertaken. A fight ensued. and the
ringleader Of the robbers, named King, and
one Of the band, named Smith, were seri'
ously wounded. Most Of the stock was re-
covered.
| AT Salem, Va, on the 26th, Marcus
do Lafayette HawIey was hanged for the
murder Of Zachariah Hayes in June last.
On the day previous to his execution, Haw-
ley was married in bis cell to woman
named Minnie Hawkins, with whom he had
formerly susustained illicit relations.
DExErRIo DOMINIQUEs, . Mexican,
was hanged at PhGnix, Arizona, on the
26th, for the murder Of Mr.. Thomas year
ago.
THE family carriage Of James John.
son, wealthy resident OF Lakewood, n. j..
was struck by an express train and entirely
demolished, both horses being killed.. The
occupants, Mr.. johnson, his daughter.in.
law and her infant child, were thrown into
. snow. bank twsaty feet distant. Mr.. John.
son and his d6ghter.in.law were both
probably fatally injured; the babe escaped
with few bruises.
Ar Bi!sdeford, Me-, the hook-and-
ladder house burned the other night and
James Welsh PERI shed In the flames.
JOHN FuLMER ard his wife and Mrs.
George Hazel were killed. near Defiance,
o., by being struck by the locomotive OF an
express train while crossing tie track IN =
wagon.
FIVE miners en- route from G. rge-
town, Colo, to North Park, were buried IN
der an avalanche while crossing the divide.
C. H. Eaton and Thomas Gray were killed;
the other three, Frazer, Nelson and Sander,
escaped with some broken bones and bruises.
The party had been out in the storm five days
and were nearly famished when the accident
occurred.
An Italian family in Chicago, five in
number, were taken suddenly and violently
III on the 9th, caused by eating diseased
pork. 1t was thought two Of them would
die.
A BAoGAGE.CAR on the Texas Pacific
Railroad, burned near Sulphur, Tex. on
the night Of the .6th. with nine pieces Of bag.
gage and fifty sacks Of mail. Loss about
~, 100.
THE ship Johanna Heinrich, from
Hamburg for San Francisco, foundered At
sea. The officers and crew abandoned the
sinking vessel in two boats, one Of which,
containing tr.,e Captain and five Others, A.
r...,sd At San Diego, CAL, on the s'ta. Iae
other boat, also containing six persons, Is
thought to be Lost.
The house Of George Mallory, . cot.
ton planter Of Laurinburg, N. c., burned on
the night of the 18th, and his two young
children, left alone in the house, perlshed in
the flames.
The boiler in Andrew Moore's found
~ At Charlotte, Mich, exploded ON the 9th,
demolishing the building. George Moore,
bis son and another man were killed and four
others were seriously injured.
FIVE freight cars aud cabooss were
thrown down an cmbankment % feet high,
on the Buffalo, New York and Philadelphia
Railroad, near Buffalo, on the 9th. The
cars made . complete revolution in going
down the embankment, and rolled right
among crew Of section men who were ut
work, badly injuring five Of the number,
three without doubt fatally. The occupants
Of the caboose escaped with comparatively
slight injuries.
CHARLES WEIGH, . noted desperate,
who Il said to have committed two or three
murders, was shot and killed at Enterprise,
Ark, on the 18th, by an officer, while resist.
ing arrest. ........
The steamer Simcoe has been lost on
Lake Ontario, II 10 believed with oil ON board,
eleven in number.
DICKMAN, engineer, and Mssurette,
fireman, Of the Denver and Rio Grande,
were both killed by the ditching Of their
train, between Pueblo and Colorado Springs,
on the 18Th.
OxE Of the murderers Of Charles
Brown and bis clerk, James Heck, In Haw.
kins County, Tenn, has been captured and
lodged In jail q Rogersville. He bad In his
possession Browns pocket. book containing
$225 and other valuable papers. The muir.
dsrer's name Is Harris. Threats Of lynching
him were freely made.
DURINo the temporary absence Of
james Harris and wife from their homo, At
Elizaville, n.y., the other night, one Of their
children, aged 3 years, was burned TO death.
Ito clothing caught from IN old.fashioned
fireplace.
A SERIOUS accident occurred on the
Georgia Central Railroad, On The 18th, caused
by tho breaking In two Of passenger train,
the rear section OF which va run into by .
freight train, the locomotive crushing half
way through the sleeper. The engineer Of
Tho freight train, Crosby, wss killed At his
post. Several passenger in The sleeper were
Injured, but none fatally.
4lS. LlrTLEFIHLD, an insane woman
Of East Stoughton. Mass, poisoned her hus.
band and son and then shot herself. The
Husband died; the son will recover.
FRAxcIs HorcHxlss, . retired mer.
chant and banker Of New Haven, Conn.,,
died suddenly o. The seth. His wife, upon
being informed that her husband Wa dying,
dspppsd 70 TIE floor dead. sa