The People's vindicator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1874-1883, 1881-03-05

'tin.ti,n exploded her uohk'! V""e' '"
New Or cat. IN tho 18th. killing negro ,
l,borer aud seriously iniuring several other
pS.on,.
Or u crew Of eighteen men Of the snip
Neoman,or, los, on tho coast OF New'o"nd.
land. only the Chief Mate. McCreecny' anu
Seaman Dcnlcy were saved.
Ar Lee Mines, Colo, q glant'powder
cartridge laid under the stove exploded.
Four men were injured.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Two Chicago retail dealers have been
fined $40 each for selling bogus butter.
FULLER details regarding the battle
between the British forces and the Beers In
South Africa show that Gen. Co'lcy suffered
a defeat and only succeeded In getting BACK
10 camp under cover OF darkness, leaving Ms
wounded on the field Of battle.
TIE Chicago Board oi Health's report
for January gives go deaths for the month";
against ~ deaths for the same month In
1880, and IA In 1879. !
CH,Ir DOUGLAS has been released
sftcr wears confinement ut Fort Leaven.
worth for participation in the MeeIer Mas.
sacre. he has gone back to his old hunting
grounds. nr .l- rr..
LONDON was excited on the 18th by
the reported discovery Of plot to blow up
Windsor Castle. Precautions were taken,
and the Queen DELAYED her return from Os'
borne.
7 The fine stone Baptist Church on
Michigan Avenue. between Twenty third
and Twenty fourth Streets, Chicago, Was
DESTROYED BY 6re on the night OF the 18th,
only the walls remaining standing. The
churci, cost $4,000, and the damage ID esti'
mated 1t about $4,000, with $4,000 insur.
ancc. Incendiarism Is suspected, and a
,. young man Il held In custody on suspicion.
: The Scoyile Manufacturing Compa.
. ny's button shop, ut Waterbury, Conn,
4 burned on the 18th. Loss, $2OO, 900; insur.
!. ance, $l.5,OOO. Over 200 hands are thrown
). out Of work.
|. THERE was an immense anti-cocrcior
a meeting held In Hyde Park, London, OF
n Sunday, the 18th, which was addressed b!
" several prominent Home. Rulers.
TOLEDO, d., suffered from m inunda
ton on the 18th, causing at least half mil!
ION dollars worth Of damage. The railro
d cou.panics we're tao heaviest losers, the.
10 tracks being ali submerged and the waite
III standing from seven 10 nine feet deep at III
Of Union Depot. People had TO be remove
from their houses in boats In some case
ct 4 similar inundation occurred at Washing
10 ton. d. G., the water being four feet dee
he on the lower part Of Pennsylvania Avenue
G. causing an entire suspension Of business
Long Bridge was swept away.
a THE snow blockade throughout Il
y. Northwest, caused by the storms Of Il
he 10th and nth. was the worst Of the seaso
Az causing an almost complete suspension
on railway traffic. The storm extended a
south a Illinois, Missouri and Kansas,
II. heavy fall Of snow being accompanied
- high winds which driited II into almost II
=. passable barriers. ,.....
~. "DAlsY DEANE,"a variety actress
'-' Kansas City, wandered from her room wh
insane from fever, on the night Of the u
and died from exposure during tho mig
. her lifeless body being found by her frien
tn0 after IN all.night search. She was the "
~, Of Billy Dcane, song. and.dance man.
10Y. THE number Of immigrants arriving
~ thi. country during January was 1924.
49, THE headquarters Of the Land Leal
|, IN. arc to be removed to Paris. 1t Is said {
- ~ mail communications have been tampe
,.n% with by Government officials, and all
- portant communications will hencefortl
10y. dispatched by special courier. In the Ho
' OF Commons, In response 70 an inquiry,
Home Secretary said the power to open
= !" tiers In transit through the post Is reserve
no.s the Home Secretary for exercise In exc
lsl'' tional cases. He declined to make any ST
asn' ment as to whether 1t had been recently
-! ercised. .G .a -'...l
me HAxLoN easily beat Laycock on
. 'S Thames course for the chamionship Of T
49, land.
} I'd THREE steamers have been chartt
'8sH to convey British troops to South Africa
mo THIRTEEN more Socialists have
CUM dergone trial at Vienna. One was convi
Of high treason and sentenced to four y
letgn imprisonment, another to six months
IS the fnement, and eleven were acquitted.
HEAD The smallpox is said to be sprea
Irsln' badly in Chicago. -