St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1881-09-24

| such Congressional action as will best pro-
mote domestic and foreign commerce, and
afford adequate protection to AmeHcan in
dustry.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
Two freight trains on the Little Mia
mi Railroad colided near Cincinnati on the
10th. James Simon, fireman, was killed,
and the locomotive was badly wrecked.
| RICHARD S. JEFFREYs, one of the
most prominent criminal lawyers of Georgia,
| recently committed suicide at the residence
OF his brother at White Sulphur Springs,
Ala. He had long suffered from distress
ing nervous affection.
AT Hot Springs, Ark, the other day,
colored boy assaulted Mrs. J. W. Parker,
a lady nearly seventy years of age. He was
arrested and lodged in jail. Next morning
party of masked men repaired to the pris-
on with the intention of lynchinS the culprit.
The colored people got the news and We're
hid in the woods. As the masked men APP
preached the colored men fired upon them,
about one hundred shots. A few shots were
fired at random by the white men, who We're
compelled TO withdraw. About one-half of
the colored men broke and ran. One white
man was wounded.
A MOB numbering nearly hundred
men rode into Dardanelle, Ark, the other
day, and, surrounding the Jail, where two
murderers, Taylor and Bruce, We're con-
fined, oyerpowered the guards, secured the
keys OF the prison, and taking the prisoners
out, hanged them to tree.
A TERRIFIC boiler explosion occurred
on the 18th at the dry dock at the foot of Es-
sex Street, Jersey City. Capt. Decker and
James Tammany were instantly killed and
three others fatally injured. The boiler was
blown 600 feet up the street. In its course
it cut down lamppost and fire hydrant.
Two large trees and two wagons standing in
the street were entirely destroyed. The
horse and cart Of John Adams, which his
son, aged eleven, was driving, were struck
by the flying boiler. The vehicle and horse
We're literally cut to pieces, and the boys
right leg was severed from his body. The
cause of the explosion was carelessness.
DR.. II. G.. CANTRELL and his son,
Bud Cantrell, became involved in difficult
ty with j. W. Cox about the renting OF land
in Parker County, Texas. The parties quar-
relied and fought, Cox killing both the Can
trells and being badly wounded.
AT Richmond, Va, three-story
brick building in course of erection for the
Richmond Allegheny Railroad Company
fell, and several workmen were injured, four
seriously. The disaster is attributed to a
badlv-planned roof, which was crushed in
by the weight of the states.
MISCELLANEOUS.
THE poisoning Of the O'Leary family
in Cincinnati is ascribed to the eating Of cam
ned mackerel. 1t is supposed that acetate
OF lead or some other salt Of lead had been
formed in consequence of the mixture Of
lead with tin used in manufacturing the
sheet tin from which the can was made.
A DISPATCH of the 18th in reference
to the late Missouri train robbery says: The
names Of the parties so far arrested are:
Matt and Creed Chapman, John Burger,
William Murray, Andy Ryan, John Land,
James Wilkerson, Chas. Fisk and VIM Still
we'll. Posses are coming in and the general
belief is that the search will be abandoned
tain their innocence, and previous reports of
q confession are contradicted. A later
dispatch says Fisk has proven an alibi |
and been released, and that Sam Bannister,
Of Glendale, has been taken into custody |
under suspicion Of being implicated in the |
robbery.
REPORTS have been received of the
robbery of the village of Bates City, seven
miles east OF Blue Cut, the scene Of the re-
cent train robbery on the Chicago & Alton
Railroad. Two men, heavily armed and
wearing masks, rode into the town, viii
age OF about 150 inhabitants, and drawing
and firing their weapons began an indis-
pillage Of the place. The inhab-
tants, it is said, offered no resistance, and
The robbers after securing their booty re-
;ired.
A HEAVY storm visited Danville, Va,
IN the 18th. Trees and fences were blown
Town, also the Confederate Military Hospi-
al, ln)uring several colored people.
A DISPATCH from Washington says:
Sergeant. Mason, of Battery B, I'd Artillery,
elieving the guard at the Jail on the 18th,
hot at Guiteau through the window of his
ell and came near killing him. The ball
'razed his head and was imbedded in the
ell wall. Mason was promptly arrested,
AIKEN to the Arsenal and incarcerated.
SITTING BULL and his band, number
ng TO persons, have been removed from
tand1ng Rock Agency TO Fort Randall. The
"a Sioux was 10th to 60, and said he would
ather die than submit to the removal, but
v The 1udicious employment Of the militia.