Louisiana capitolian. (Baton Rouge, La.) 1879-1881, 1881-01-20
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

Ca, while D. McNewcll aud j. y.
Nixon were riding very rapidly in OPP
posite directions, their horses came in
collision. Mcdowell was killed and
Nixon seriously injured.
KEYsvILLE, Charlotte County, Va,
Jan. IA colored preacher named
Wilson Foulkes, whose jealousy Of
Isaac Goulding had led him to beat
Mrs. Foulkes and to threaten her life
ifGoulding came on his premises again,
was murdered by his wife Sunday morn
ing, and the body thrown in well.
Goulding's arrival led Mrs. Foulkes to
preserve her own life by killing her hns-
band. White people interfered to save
Mrs. Foulkes from lynching, and she
now awaits trial in jail.
CHATAM, Ont, Jan. IA man
named Reganhammer shot man named
Henderson, with whom he had been
given lodging, on Sunday. Roganhaln.
mer afterwards shot himself dead.
Henderson will recover.
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 17.-Gustav
Heinrich, music teacher, who eloped re-
Gently with Anna Weibert, seventeen
years old, a pupil from Forked River,
N. j., leaving wife and family behind,
was arrested here to-day. Miss Wei
bert tells terrible story Of cruelty at
the hands Of her betrayer, and is anxi-
GUS to return home. g
MANCHESTER, January 15.-An at
tempt has been made, it is believed by
Fenians, to blow up the armory Of the
Infantry Barracks, at Sanford, where the
rifles Of the volunteers were deposited.
A meat store near the armory was blown
to atoms. The explosion is believed
to have been effected with dynamite,
which was struggled into the barracks
by some one having business with the
regiment.
LoNDeN, January 15,-The explosion
at Stafford, which, it is supposed, was
causedby aFenian attempt to blow up the
armory Of the infantry barracks, was
heard for distance of mile. The bar
racks are situated in q very populous
district. One woman was desperately,
and boy, it is feared, fatally injured.
There were several thousand stands Of
arms in the armory at the time.
There was a ventilator in the wall be-
tween the she'd Of Stafford Barracks and
the street, and one theory is that ex
plosive materials were dropped through
this ventilator. 1t is also asserted that
the regiment now quartered in the bar
racks contains many Irish, and that Fe-
nianism had been previously suspected
among them.
1t is rumored that a fuse has been
found on the ground near the shed. The
damage is more serious than at first re-
ported. In the outer walls Of the bar
racks a hole was blown large enough to
admit a man.
BERLIN, Jan. 16.--Crown Prince Fred
erick William, speaking at the Institu-
ton Of Invalids, to-day, decidedly con-
demned tho anti-Jewish movement. He
said he felt especially aggrieved because
the movement was invading the schools
and universities. He could not conceive
how intellectual men could support o
movement which was to be condemned
for its tendencies and its aims. He hoped
the movement would soon die out, for it
was impossible that such an unhealthy
condition ofthings should continue.
NATCHEz, Jan. 17.-On the steamer
Natchez, Sunday night, below Natchez,
a shooting ARRAY occurred between two
colored passengers which will result in
the death of one, johnson Eaton by
name. There are several conflicting
stories about the occurrence, but the
most likely one is that Eaton attempted
to ravish the wife Of the shooter. The
wife's screams brought the husband to
her side and he drew his pistol and shot
Eaton in the head, the ball penetrating
his brain. The shooter escaped. 1t is
reported on the streets to-day that the
body of Frank Mallery, the mail-carrier
between Rosefeld and Harrisonburg,
who has been missing since January 6,
has been found riddled with bullets be-
tween the two places The story is dis
credited.
Houston. Jan. Hast night James
S. Grayson met a man on Main Street
and recognized him as the murderer of
his (Grayson's) brother and of two other
men. The mans name is Fergunda. He
was promptly arrested and placed in Jail.
He will be taken to Sherman tomorrow.
The facts are as follows: In 1873 r. l..