St. Landry democrat., 1882-01-28

| wounds OF any SOrenead. MT Joyce moved
to recommit the. report and all pending
| amendments to the Committee ON Rules.
| Agreed to-yeas l59, nays 49,
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
THE President has appointed Elipha-
let Whittlesey, District of Columbia, mem
Der of the Board of Indian Commissioners.
SCovILLE, counsel for Guiteau, has
ordered libel suit to. be commenced
against the Chicago Herald Company, for
recent publications concerning his bank
ruptcy proceedings some years ago.
Ex-Gov. BULLOCK dropped dead on
the sidewalk in Worcester, Mass, 18th.
Apoplexy.
COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY.
THE bill introduced by Representa-
tive Brown, Of Indiana, for the issue and ex-
change of fractional currency authorizes the
Secretary of the Treasury to issue treasury
notes payable to bearer on demand, to be in
denominations of 5, 10, % and 80 cents, and
the aggregate sum to be $4,000, 200, the
notes to be exchangeable at par in sums of
500 or any multiple thereof for treasury
notes, national bank notes, silver certifi-
Gates, or gold or silver coin of the United
States. These fractional treasury notes are
to be legal tender for all debts not exceed
ing S..
w. C. FITzsIMMoNs & Co., proprie-
tors of the Peoples Bank OF Tecumseh,
Mich, have made an assignment to E. B.
Wood. The matter creates great surprise.
Fitzsimmons is in Central America, where
he went last October in the interest of van
derbilt's railroad scheme.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
The new turnpike bridge spanning
Rolling Fork, near Lebanon, KY, was I'M
dermined by a freshet and fell while six men
were working on it. Aloysius Hayden was
instantly killed, John Black had an arm
broken, and man named Mattingly was
severely cut on the head. James Wathen
leaped into the water, a distance Of sixty
feet, and swan out unhurt. E. Perkins
was severely wounded and suffered concus
sion Of the brain, causing delirium. Joseph
Shively had an arm broken.
JAMES R. WILMOTT, a farmer living
near Lancaster, Garrard County, Ky, killed
his wife, mother and two grown daughters
with an ak and then hanged himself. After
cutting his mothers throat, he went into an
adjoining room where his two daughters,
aged II and IA, were sleeping. The younger
WIS killed by blow on the back of the
neck, nearly severing the head from the
body. The elder girl had her throat cut in the
same place that he had cut his mothers.
His, wife got up and met him coming into
the room, ak in hand. She caught hold of
him and in the struggle she was cut in sew
eral places-once in the back, once in the
side of the head, and once in the throat.
Death with her was almost instantaneous.
CHARLES BERRYAGE, of Bradford, Pa,
was torn to pieces by the explosion of two
quarts of nitro glycerine at Bolivar, N. Y.
He was carrying can Of the explosive and
fell.
FERDINAND JUERGENs, Sergeant
bound for his regiment in st. Paul, Mimi,
fell from train at Philadelphia and was
killed. h stu ...
A SEATTLE CIV. T. dispatch says:
James Sullivan and William Howard, ar
rested for the murder of George r. Rey-
n6fds, were taken before magistrate for
preliminary examination, and the evidence
OF their guilt was SO conclusive the Com
mfftee Of Safety forced their way into the
courtroom, took the prisoners short dis
lance, and hanged them. A crowd num-
bering four hundred then proceeded to the
County Jail and, overcoming the guards and
breaking. down the doors of cell, took out
Benjamin Payne, confined for the murder of
Police Officer Sears, and strung him up with
the others.
BUSINESS difficulties between VIM. B.
Simmons and his son-in-law, Albert Bran
son, of Hornitos, Mariposa County, CAL,
were settled with revolver in the hands Of
the former, who killed the latter and then
committed suicide. ta.
A. A. COIN, recently in the service of
the Alaska Commercial Company, took his
life with a pistol in San Francisco. He was
short in his accounts, and gave notes which
it is presumed he could not meet.
w. T. LITTLE had a difficulty with a
negro named Milus Matthews in saloon at
Rayyille, La. Little got shotgun and killed
his adversary.
MRS. VIM. BARLOW, former resi-
dent Of Cincinnati, committed suicide at
Columbus, O., cutting her throat. Tempo
rary insanity is supposed to have been the
cause.
MISCELLANEOUS.
ScovILLE opened the Guiteau case on
the 10Th, saying he was not. familiar with the
modes of practice in criminal cases. ALI the
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