St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1884-03-01
SOUTHERN GLEANINGS.


dell Philips were held, few nights ago,
| in Galveston, Tex.
W. Emanuel, broker, of Atlanta,
Ca, is under arrest for alleged crooked
| dealing with his patrons.
The Grand Lodge of the Knights OF
| Pythias, at its recent session, at jackson
| vile, Tenn, gavea banquet, at which nearly
| 500 were present.
Eight counterSeiters were arrested
few days ago in Louisville, KY. They had
| been passing spurious silver dollars and
half dollars.
[. D. Mowry & Son, cotton factors,
Charleston, S. c., have suspended. Liza
| bilities, 100000.
The Rawley family, Of Boyle County,
Kentucky, has wivhin thirty years figured
in ARRAYS in which ten men were killed.
The feud with the Shearins resulted q few
days since in the shooting of one of that
family by George w. Rawley.
Aaron Parrott. faro dealer, while
standing in front of the Crockford Saloon
in Sherman, Tex, a few days ago, was shot
and dangerously wounded by George Bur-
gis, proprietor. Domestic trouble is said
| to be at the bottom of the affair.
DR.. j. w. Drake shot and instantly
killed John A. scarboro, at Clapp's Facto-
ry near Columbus, Ca, few days ago.
The killing appears to have been in self-de-
tense.
Dennis Reed, while trying to cross
Waller Creek, at Austin, Tex, which was
greatly swollen by recent rains, was. with
the horse he was riding, swept down by the
torrent and drowned.
In Brown County, Ala, few days
ago, Fred Plattenburg of Selma shot w. j.
Robinson, a horse drover, from Murfrees.
boro, killing him instantly The men never
met until few minutes before the shoot
ing. Plattenburg refused to lend Robin
sons friend So. All were drinking
Three fenee-cutters have recently
been captured in Edwards County, Tex.
One confessed. He says there were six in
the band. The rangers who made the ar
rests were after the other three.
S. F. Jones, a patient confined at the
Anchorage Insane Asylum, Louisville, KY,
committed suicide a Jew days ago by hang
ing himself with a towel. One end of the
towel was secured to the grating which
barricades a window of his room, and the
other he tied tightly around his neck. He
then stepped off of the sill of the window
and was strangled to death before he was
discovered by the attendant.
Henry Booth was arrested a few
nights ago by the Waterman for attempting
to saw away the piles supporting the new
bridge over Sunfower River at Rolling
Fork, Miss, on the L., n. o. & T. r. r. 1t
bridge timbers in such manner that the
structure would fall when train ran on
it. 1t is said that the man was instigated
by interested parties, who claim that the
bridge obstructs navigation. He was held
to answer.
Frank Fries, for many years in the
employ of the Wells Fargo Express Com
pany at San Antonio, Tex, as money clerk,
has disappeared. His safe has been broken
open and accounts and cash found all right.
He was last seen on the main plaza atnigh6
alone. He was of a retiring disposition, of
temperate habits and very powerful build.
The generally accepted theory is that he
was murdered to obtain possession of his
safe key, which he carried with him. He
was also known to keep large sums of mon
ey on his person. Some papers belonging
to him were found on the bank of the river
and the water was dragged. He was of
fine family, well known in San Antonio,
and one OF the most popular and influential
young men in the city.
The unwilling of the Lee statue in
New Orleans TOOK place on the I'D.
Captain James T. Browning was shot
dead at Hampstead, Tex, few days ago
while trying to stop a fight.
In a hotel at Lexington, Kentucky,
recently, two intoxicated men blew out
the gas in Their room and died in great
agony.
Five cars were wrecked and two
trakemen killed near Longview, Tex, a few
DAYS ago.
In Green County, Tenn, few nights
ago, an assassin shot Mrs. James Hunter,
firing through window of her house.
The State Treasurer of Texas recent
" received $4,000 interest on land notes, to
go to the credit of the school fund.
The Tom Green Land and Cattle
Company, capital $4,000, with office at
San Angela, Tex, has been Incorporated
The Governor of Virginia has vetoed
the Congressional apportionment bill.
Articles Of association were filed few
days ago for the Young Mems Building AS I
ISOLATION Of Lampasas, Tex, with acapital
stock of 100000
Harry Miller, an old Texas & Pacific
freight conductor, Of Dallas, lost, an arm a
few nights ago in an accident near Co1ora-
do, Tex, and received other injuries which
it was thought would prove fatal.
Burglars effec cd anentr1nce into the
store of Bradley & Cook. at Ennis Toy a