St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1881-11-26

ened to kill him ON sight. They met in the
village drugstore and several shots were
exchanged, resulting as stated. A third
party witnessed the afray, but says he does
not know who began it. Ward claims he
shooting, but subsequently delivered him
self up to the authorities at Decatur, where
he is now in jail. DR.. Ward leaves wild
ow and six children. He had an extensive
practice in the southern part of the county,
and was generally respected by all classes.
He was also quite prominent as local DEM
ocratic politician.
NEAR Wilmington, Del, a 4year-old
child Of John Fox, a farmer, was killed by a
large dog belonging to a neighbor. The an
mal seized the child by the throat, man
Cling it horribly and causing almost instant
death.
FORTY persons were killed and forty
one wounded by the explosion of gas in a
sulphur mine at Gessalungo, near Catanicet
ia, Italy.
THE body of a girl named Ellen Hen
nier was found lying near the corner of
Seyenty-seventh street and Wentworth ave-
nue., Chicago, with the head severed from
the trunk. The girl belonged at Blue ISL
and, a suburb fourteen miles distant, and
about two miles from where the body was
found. She had attended the Normal School
at Englewood, and was on her way home
when, it is supposed, she was run over and
killed by passing train.
The body of Emma Peterson, beau
tiful young Swedish girl, was found on the
railroad tracks near Minneapolis, Mimi,
under circumstances that indicated foul
play. The head was completely severed
from the body. She had been employed as
servant in Minneapolis family, and had
left there on the day previous with the in
tention of going to reside with her uncle,
Augustus Smith, Of Verona, Lawrence
County, Mo. The girl is highly spoken OF
by her former employers.
THREE Springfield (Mass. } lads, thor
oughly imbued with dime -novel literature,
were enacting border gambling scene, in
which two of the party fiourished shoe
horns for revolvers and the third was armed
with real pistol Of an antiquated pattern.
which he had picked up in some out of-the-
way place. The play ended in real trage-
dy, one of the boys, James Morrisey, aged
IT, receiving fatal wound at the hands OF
Markham, who had the pistol, but, as usual,
"did not know it was loaded"
4 BARREL of naphtha caught fire and
exploded on the steamer Solway, when
nearing Kingston .Harbor, Ireland. The
burning fluid was scattered broadcast, set
ting the vessel on fire and enveloping in
flames large, number of persons, six Of
whom were burned to a crisp and two others
did not long survive. By hard fighting the
flames were confined to the hold of the
steamer, and after several hours, during
which severe storm prevailed, her signals
of distress were observed by pilot boat,
| which ran out and brought her into port.
THEdwelling of James Laguire, North
Ferrisburgn, VT, burned on the 10Th, and
two children were cremated.
BEN D. HOUSE, formerly editor of the
Indianapolis Weekly Herald and other pa
pers in that city, attempted suicide by cut
ting his throat, but will probably recover.
Mrs. ALDRIDGE, wife of farmer re-
siding near Mount Vernon, Ind, was liter
ally roasted to death by the explosion of Il
kerosene lamp which she was carrying in
her hand s....