St. Landry democrat., 1883-10-27

On the 18th Dietrich Suthoff, a Ger
m, n employed at Havemeyer's Sugar Re-
fnery, at Willamsburgh, N. Y, was
caught in the machinery and reduced to
pulp.
On the afternoon Of the 18th E. Coun-
selbaum, a dry goods peddler, was found
murdered by the roadside near Albany,
N. Y.
NEAR Scottsville, N. Y, a passenger
| and freight train collided on the Rochester
& Pittsburgh Road on the 18th.
A FARMER named VIM. S.. Gray, re-
siding near Dover, N. j.. attemptedto MUIR
der his wife on the 18th, and, failing,
robbed her of $50. Hei is still at large.
ADvIcEs of the 18th say six villages
were destroyed by an earthquake on the
peninsula between Chesms, Asia Minor,
opposite Chios, and Vourla on the southern
coast of the Gulf Of Smyrna. Upward of
| 1000 persons are reported killed and 1000
rendered homeless.
The Grand Jury in Baltimore after
investigating the TivoE disaster in which
sixty-five excursionists lost their lives, in
dicted the proprietor and lessee of the pic
mic grounds.
On the 18th a locomotive exploded
near Oskaleosa, a., killing the engineer,
fatally injuring fireman and brakeman
and wrecking nineteen cars.
The authorities having learned that
an organization of about fifty substantial
men was formed at Oxford, Ind, to lynch
| Melting, Ada Atkinson's murderer, they
| fo tbo I,nfay.
| cite Jail. Oxford people were indignant,
/ and threatened to go to Lafayette and hang
! him. The people fear he will feign insanity
and escape justice. They are determined
he shall hang.
The Postmaster at Minooka. Pa,
/ Ernest Aster, was arrested on the 18th on
charge OF tampering with the mails.
/ On the 18th Christopher Blumende
! was arrested in Chicago for the murder of
Rodney Bows, near New Orleans, two
years ago.
On the 18th Timothy Sullivan, sail
or on the propeller Colorado, lying at Erie,
Pa, fell into the hold of the steamer and
was fatally injured.
A PACKAGE containing $4,000 was
/ stolen on the 18th from the safe of the Elk
press Company's Office at Port Hope, Can
ada.
LATE reports from Altata, Mexico,
state that the population of the
town has been decirnated by yellow fever,
deaths averaging twenty day for the last
two weeks. On the Sd of October Altata
was struck by a hurricane, killing several
people, destroying the greater part of the
town, and inhabitants sought refuge in the
mountains. Several miles of the Smoloa
Durango Railroad track were torn up, and
! a bridge at Guraritus blown down.
MISCELLANEOUS.
In report to the Secretary of the
Interior Governor futile, of Arizona, states
the population is now 10000, and the
taxable property S20,oo0,000. Affairs of the
Territory are generally in an exceedingly
prosperous condition. The value of gold
and silver products of the year ended De-
cember 81, 1882, was S9,29s,267, against
IS, 1875, 766 in 1881. The yield of copper in
1882 was 100000 pounds. The combined
value of the silver and copper product for
1883 will be between SIS, 600, 300 and SIG, 0o0,-
/ 600. The number of sheep in the Territory
is SOC, 900, producing 100000 pounds of wool
yearly. The yield of cereals for 1888 was
14,0o0,O 900 pounds wheat; 100000 pounds
i barley.
i An order was made by the French
I American Claims Commission, which met
1 in Washington on the 18th, requiring the
submission of briefs on both sides in all
cases undisposed Of.
/ AT its meeting on the 18th Colonel
Sidney D. Maxwell was reelected Superin-
tendent of the Cincinnati Chamber of Com
merce.
/ IT is reported that a remarkable bed
Of iron ore has been found in the northern
I part of Minnesota. Tt is said to be the most
4 valuable on the continent.
/ On the 18th the Wall Street National
i Bank went out of existence, and the Wall
Street Bank took its place in New York on
the day following with a capital of 100000.
I ACCORDING to q st. Petersburg dis
/ patch of the 18th the trial of sixty three
members of the Nihilist Red Cross Society
has concluded. All were sentenced to be
sent to Siberia. The testimony of the in
4 formers and others proved that the society
had qualifications in every part Of the en-
pire.
The remains of North Carolina Con-
federate soldiers, recently exhumed at Ar
lington, Va, were on the 18th buried with
impressive ceremonies at Raleigh. An adj
dress was made at the cemetery by Governor
i Jarvis.
/ The National Association of Whole
sale Druggists at its meeting in New York
on the 18th elected w. A. Gelatly, of New
York, President; Arthur Peter, of Louisville,