St. Landry democrat., 1884-11-15

carriage factory. Loss, S00u,uVU.
A FRENCH Canadian weaver named
George Chagnon was killed and several
persons were injured by the bursting of a
fy-wheel Of the engine in the Wauregan
Mills at Providence, R. l., on the 9th.
On the 9th the body of Andrew Marshal,
accountant for the Bank Of British North
America at Montreal, was found floating
in the St. Lawrence River opposite the
city. The affair presented mysterious as
poets.
FIRE destroyed Grohmer's stables in Car
rollton, Ind, early on the morning of the
9th. Thirteen valuable horses were con-
sumed, and several others fatally burned.
The loss is very heavy.
ON the evening of the 9th George Al
bert, a desperate criminal of ShelbyVIlle,
Ind, was shot dead at his house by John
Renner, of Connersville. Renner gave
himself up and pleaded self-defense Al
berts was beating his wife, and Renner IN
terfered. Alberts turned on him and Rem
ner shot him.
THREE railway bridges on the Straitsville
Branch of the Columbus, Hooking Valley
& Toledo Road burned the morning of the
9th. Loss about $4,000. The wires were
cut and communication with the general
offices thus shut off. The bridges
were all in the same neighborhood, be-
tween Straitsville and Jacksonville.
FIRE destroyed E. Bernstein's clothing
store at Minneapolis, Mimi, on the night OF
the 9Th. The stock, said to run as high as
10000, was completely destroyed; insur-
ance light. The building was damaged to
the extent of $1,000.
AT the dynamite works of Stump & Co.,
at Stouchburg, Pa, an explosion occurred
on the 9th, resulting in the instant death OF
three men, the demolition of the build
ing and damage to surrounding struc-
lures.
JOHN TYLER, young lad, was killed at
Ottumwa, Ia, on the 9Th by falling from
a train, which passed over him, crushing
his body.
Four persons were killed and a number
injured by boiler explosion at Stafford,
England, on the 9th.
By the fall of smokestack at Rolesonla
Station, Pa, on the 9th, six men were killed
and several others killed.
1T is reported that the schooner Wild
Gazelle, Captain Lawson, which left San
Francisco October 1st, on cod-hshIng
cruise, was wrecked off the Choumagin
Islands, Okhotsk Sea, and all hands lost.
Silver Plume, near Georgetown, Col,
was almost annihilated by fire on the
morning of the 9th. It was incendiary and
originated in the rear Of Sam DENOTES
saloon and destroyed forty -one buildings,
including the best in the town. The
Georgetown fire department was tele-
graphed for but arrived too late to be of
material service. The loss is estimated at
$4,000.
On the 7th the steamer Fannie Freeze
was burned to the water's edge at Madi-
son, Ind.
The wholesale clothing store of Thomas
Dissen & Co., Syracuse, N. Y, was burned
out the evening of the 7th.
WHILE a salute was being fired in the
City Hall Park, New York, on the 18th, a
wad from one of the guns knocked out a
little boys eye.
On the 7th the store of Hart Bros, deal
ers in general merchandise, burned at Re-
public, Mich. Loss, $4,000; insurance,
81, 600.
AT Baltimore, Md, on the 7th, Judge
Phelps, in the Criminal Court, sentenced
Gilbert w. Hazeltine, convicted of man
slaughter in the killing of Mamie Thorpe,
to eight years in the Penitentiary.
On the It'll boy named Demers, living
on st. Foye Road, Quebec, applied match
to canister of powder. An explosion fol-
lowed, wrecking the house and seriously
injuring himself, mother and three sisters.
A TERRIFIC explosion shook Salt Lake
City, Utah, on the night of the 9th. 1t was
caused by the explosion of over two tons of
powder at the Pascoe lime quarry. It is
claimed that fuse was laid and fire set to
It. Considerable damage was done in the
vicinity, thousands of tons of rock being
thrown down the hill. Considerable rail-
road track was torn up and number of
cars destroyed.
On the 18th two West Shore passenger
trains collided on the Buffalo, New York &
Philadelphia Road, on which the West
Shore trains enter Rochester, N. Y. Both
locomotives and two cars were badly
and several persons injured.
MISCELLANEOUS.
PORTIONS of the Province of Quebec
were swept by fierce snow-storm on the
night of the 9TH. At Revere du Loup
were swept away and other dam
age done. At Rimonski the rapid rise of
the river inundated the town.
ON the 9th the Mayor of New Orleans no
,ified the Street Railway Companies that
hey must resume running on the 7th, or
he City Attorney would be directed to en-
er suits for the forfeiture of their chaters.
The sympathy of the people was with the
striking employees.
THE Council of State of the Celestial
Empire has failed to arrange for the set
lement of the difficulty with France.
NATIVE Egyptian reports assert that the