St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1883-03-10

was elected United States Senator ON the
eighty first ballet by the Michigan Legisla-
ture on the LIST.
GRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
THE Mississippi River had fallen three
inches at Cairo on the 2Sth, and the news
from below was reassuring. The worst was
thought to be over at Shawneetown, but the |
town presented an awful scene OF deso!ation. !
In one addition four solid blocks of dweil-
ings had entirely disappeared. The Pres
byterian Church floated mile away. Sew
eral mills and business houses were entirely
gone. The principal merchant In Black
burn, KY, had So, 900 stock OF dry goods
on barge tied to q tree. The villages OF
blackburn aud Raleigh had both been near
ly wiped out. Over one hundred houses IN
these places were gone. At Columbus,
Ky.. over ten feet Of water was spread over
the town and filled nearly all the stores.
Belmont, NO., opposite Columbus, was also
a watery waste, every foot OF ground De-
ing under water from ten to Twenty-Five
feet.
NOAH D.. SMITH pleaded guilty at
Memphis, Tenn, the other day to charge
of embezzing 81, 500 from the United states
Collectors Office.
A sLE1GH1Na party of thirty-two per-
sons went over forty-foot bank into the
Delaware and Hudson canal near Hawiey,
Pa, the other day. All were more OF less
injured.
ANOTHER raid upon the Chicago d
Evanston Road was made at Chicago, Ill,
the other night by enraged property owners,
who tore up about five hundred feet OF
track.
JOHN II. GRAHAM, of the firm OF =.
q. Whitney & Co., of Chicago, HI, osten-
sibly started for Wisconsin recently TO make
purchases with IS, 600, but instead went to
New York, where he was oyerhauled BY
Doane Whitney and forced to settle.
AN earthquake startled the citizens OF
Norwich, Conn, the other evening, and was
followed BY brilliant meteor.
AT Rome, Italy, PAT bombs charged
with powder were the other day thrown
into the courtyard Of the residence OF the
Austrian Minister, before the Austrian EN-
bassv. and in front OF the royal palace OF the
Quirinal.
THE brewers Of New York have as
certained recently that SAC, 200 worth OF bar
rels have been annually stolen and sold out
side the city by the collision OF drivers and
coopers.
AT Lawrence, Mass, Charles FL. Cate
fatally shot Mrs. NJ. S. Anderson the other
.s,r aud thor, killed himself.
THREE passengers were killed out
right aud three others badly hurt by the
/ ditchinp of a train on the Oregon Short
| Line. twenty five miles east OF Neosho
Junction, Utah, recently. The cars were
badly wrecked. !.
LOUIS P. CARMAN, ex-Secretary OF
the Manhattan Fire Insurance Company,
had been missing from New York several
DAYS on the 18th, when his accounts were
found to be $4,000 short.
THE last foot of land at Arkansas
CITY, Ark, had disappeared under. water
4 on the 1st. Disastrous crevasses were re-
ported, though planters were still hopefui
/ that the overflow would not be OF great eN-
! tent. At Cairo the danger was thought 10
/ be over.
A PARTY of ranchmen surprised IN
Indian camp near chihuahua. Mex, the
other day and captured twenty five squaws
and killed ten bucks.
ROBERT Z. Cook, the Jersey City IN
IJ.) Savings Bank emblezzler, has beer
sentenced to five years in the States Prison
/ THREE gamblers exchanged about
/ fifteen shots on the streets OF Salt Lake
/ Utah. the other day, in settlement OF some
trouble originating in a gambling house Il
/ that city, and one of the trio was seriously
1 wounded.
i F. j. FRIED, formerly an extensive
1 lumber merchant at Oakland, Nebr., has abb
seconded, leaving unpaid liabilities to tn
amount of S21 600
i E.. "A. SHANNON, who had recent.
cut quite swell in Dallas (Tex.) society
4 has been arrested and taken to Waco, wher
he was wanted on a charge OF theft.
q The five train robbers arrested re
Gently, after desperate battle, for an at
& tempt to rob a Union Pacific train near Sal
Lake, Utah, have been sentenced to tn
Penitentiary, Nay, Hawley and Francis TO
fourteen and Earl and Jackson for twelv
years.
NIsCELLANEOUS.
THE Jeanette Board Of Inquiry ha
adjourned to await the return ofthe suryiv
ors OF the crew from Siberia.
THE last spike in the Clark's For
division OF the Northern Pacific Railroa
has been driven At Wellsyille, Montana.
Lucrps CLARK & Co., proprietors {
! the South Bend lnd.) Paper-mill, called
/ meeting OF their creditors few days. age
{ The seven Clark brothers are interested