The People's vindicator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1874-1883, 1880-12-04

The loss oiiiie Is variously essimatedat from
10 to %. The building is damaged to the ex.
tent Of $500 900; no insurance.
DANIEL TROUTNAN, q well.tO.do
farmer Of Dauphin County, Pa, was shot
and killed by one OF two burglars who had
effected an entrance into bis house and de.
manded his money at the muzzle OF a re.
volver. Troutman, under pretense Of get.
ting the money, secured doubled.barreled
shotgun, with which he fired at one Of
them, but missed him. The other al the
same time fired 1t Troutman, hitting him
in the breast and inflicting mortal wound.
The robbers then fed. Troutman, before
he died, identified the man who shot him as
Henry Runbergcr, man Of not very good
character, employed on . ncighboring es.
tate OF which Troutman was the executor.
Rumberger was arrested. He denies tho
crime, but the neishbors generally believe
him guilty.
An old colored woman and two young
children were burned to death or suffocated
in St. Louis, on the 18th. The accident was
caused by the falling to pieces Of rickety
old stove, the Goals from which set fire to
their clothing.
A CONSTRUCTION train on the Dallas
aad Wichita Railroad, having on board thir.
teen men, went through the bridge over
Hickory Creek, four miles from Lewiston, on
the 10th. Three men were killed outright,
two MORALLY wounded, and the other eight
more or less wounded.
MISCELLANEOUS.
EXTENSIVE preparations are already
being made in Washington for the Inaugural.
ticn ceremonies to take place on March 4th
next. The principal ceremonies will prob.
ably be held In the new Museum Building
Of the Smithsonian Institution.
ALL the Nihilists tried for being inn
plicated in the plots against the life Of the
Gear have been found guilty. Five were
sentenced to death and eleven to hard labor
in the mines, the terms ranging from life to
fifty years. Three women were sentenced to
fifteen years. penal servitude. The Court
announced that it would intercede for . init.
igation Of the sentences in the cases Of the
women and In the case Of one man condemned
to the mines.
THE Orangemen composing the Boy
colt relief were guarded on their journey
by 80 infantry and a squadron Of hussars. AT
Dublin and oil along the way from CIaremor.
ris to Ball,nrobe they were jeered at and
Kissed, but no actual violence occur.
red. Over 1000 troops are now in
the West Of Ireland. The Channel
fleet has arrived at Queenstown. II
is reported that land agent named Wheel
er has been shot and killed near COLA, Coun.
ty Limerick. Michael Davitt, the Irish agi-
tator, who ssiled from New York on the
steamer Batavia, Is to be arrested by the
Government on his arrival at Queenstown
for alleged violation of his ticket. of-leaye.
The last revised census of St. Louis
will give the city about SO, 900 inhabitants.
SMALLPOX j: said to be sweeping off
BY hundreds the Canadian Indians along the
Gulf Of St. Lawrence. Those not afflicted
flee from the dead and dying.
The population New York City, &C.
cording TO revised official returns, Is 1,2O6,.
ST..
THE work Of revising the New Tesla.
ment is completed. The revision Of the Old
Testament was finished some time ago.
THE population of Dulcigno are quit
ting the city on account Of scarcity Of food.
The international single scull race
for the championship Of the world and Goo
between Edward Hanlan, OF Canada, and
Edward Trickett, Of Australia, came off OF
the Thames, near London, on the 18th
Hanlan won an easy victory by four lengths
The Gillian forces under Command
er Lynch are relent'essly raiding the town,
and valleys Of Northern Peru, levying con
tributioEs right and left. The people seen
to be panic. stricken, and are fleeing to thu
interior towns.
WILLIAM F. MARTIN, under sentenc,
Of death IN Laclede County, NO., on tn,
10th made his escape from the Lebanon Jai
through the romantic infatuation Of niece
Of the jailer, who unbarred the door Of hi
cell, gave him So Of her uncle's money ant
armed him with fine Spencer rife. Sh'
then accompanied him in his flight. Martil
Is said to be young man Of fine address, al
though daring desperate, As his acts
prove. The young lady is pretty, and onl!
about II.
TIE town Of Newport, Ark, was al
most wiped out by fire on the night Of the 18th
Two.thirds Of all the houses are in ashes ant
some 200 families were rendered homeless
and many are In great distress.