St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1881-08-27

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at Jacksonville, Fla, on the 18th, for tt
murder Of Policeman Nelson, also coloret
during riot in June, 1880.
AT Visalia, Cal, Miss Maggie Blaine
g. aged l6, was fatally burned while kindlin
the fire with kerosene.
The Governor of South Carolina OF
fers a reward of $500 for the arrest of tn
murderer of Deputy U. S. Collector Braytor
AN express train on the Grand Trun]
Railway was thrown from the track nea
Prescott, Ont, on the 18th, caused by tn
| locomotive striking COW. The locomotiy
and tender and express car We're overturned
and completely demolished, and four passen
ger coaches We're derailed. The enginee
stuck to his locomotive and met most hor
rible death. The fireman was pitched off b,
the conclusion and badly injured. Two ex.
press messengers and a baggagemaster were
buried beneath the debris OF their car and
rescued in an almost dying condition. Nine
| passengers were injured, six Of them scri
ously.
THOMAS A. CRANDALL, a prominent
Colorado stock dealer, fell from the top of Il
e"'biS II alii tt ~. JDStpN, Mo-, OH Inc lDtl,
and was run over and kill.
AN emigrant train ran into washout
near Las Vegas, n. NJ, on the night Of the
18th, killing engineer Townsend and fireman
Patton.
K. M. MARKS, of Rome, Ga, and c..
NJ. Creswell, of Mebanesville, N. c., stud
ents at Eastman's College, Poughkeepsie,
n. Y, while boating on the Hudson River
were run down by steamer and both were
drowned.
By the sudden falling of an old build
ing in one of the most frequented quarters
Of Vienna, on the 18th, twenty persons were
killed and thirty injured.
CHAREs BOYNTON, q mill hand at
Portland, Me-, attempted to kill his wife.
who had left him and gone to her mothers
at Bar Mills. He fired at her with revolver
but missed, and she saved her life by Jump
Ing from second story window. His wife's
sister, Mrs. Warehouse, then entered the
room, when he fired two shots at her, one OF
which entered her breast intiicting proba-
bly, fatal wound. BoyntoE then shot him.
self through the pit of the stomach, eXpir-
ing instantly.
A BAND of cowboys recently attacked
caravan from Sonora on the way to Aris
IONA, killed four of the party, and carried |
1f 50, 900 and the pack animals. The civil !
authorities in Arizona seem powerless, and |
he MeXicans hold the Americans response
de for the outrages.
THREE negroes lay down on the rail-
Dad track near Tuscumbia, Ala, and fell
Isleep. A freight train came along and |
Tiled two of them and seriously injured the |
bird.
JENNIE CEAMER, a beautiful New
haven Conn. girl, of poor and respectable
'arentage, recently came to her death in a
nysteriods manner, her body being found
he morning on the beach near Kelsey's
wharf. She was not drowned, as ascer-
aimed by the post mortem examination, and
is believed she was drugged. James
1alley, son OF wealthy ry-goods mer-
liant, was her frequent attendant, and was
he last person seen in her company. He
being investigated.
JAMES NUTTER, a young farmer re-
rom wheat-beard lodging in his throat.
AT Newark, N. j., the other evening,
number of children were playing on the =
deWalk, when the son of Leopold Graf, a !
eathy shoe manufacturer, fired off toy
istol. Stella Crane, aged eleven years, who !.
God near him, dropped to the sidewalk y
cad. Investigation showed bullet hole in
lie corner of her right eye, the ball having =
her brain.
WILLIAM LEWELLEN, under arrest at =
orth Vernon, Ind, charged with poison
e his wife, jumped from a second-storv
indow while undergoing examination, and :
ed from his injuries within three hours.
Two men were instantly killed and :,
70 others badly mangled by nitro-glycer- v
e explosion at a mining camp % miles from :,
unnison, Colorado. -
HE Apaches are reported to have p
Tooped down upon small Mexican viii T,
&c, eighteen miles from Rio Purca, a Il
lint on the Atlantic & Pacific Railroad, and a,
ordered twenty-seven out of twenty mine -,
habitants. The two Mexicans who made
cd their escape were nearly exhausted :
hen they reached the railroad, and had :,
cir horses shot from under them before
ting out of reach of the Indians.
INFORMATION has been received of a Ell
sperate duel fought in the Indian Nation 81
tween I. O. Carpenter, Choctaw chief, VI
d Col. Amos Price, a prominent citizen Of n
E Creek Nation. Price was killed and Car
inter- fatally wounded. Considerable feel n;
: exists over the affair, as both were ty
long the most prominent men in the Ma 81
II. &C
Mrs. MORRIS EPLY, wife Of farmer P;
ar South Bend, Ind, aged %, was bitten dl
the ankle by rattlesnake while gather Ell
: corn. She received prompt medical at
ldence, Notwithstanding which she only al
ryived few hours. di
JOHN JENKINS, aged so, wealthy