St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1884-07-19
SOUTHERN GLEANINGS.

| Il. L. q =. b. darSFoVeS uaukeTSs hoIuos
Ca, have failed with liabilities of 100000.
2. 4. Young, Madisonville (Ky.) edi-
tor, received fatal injuries recently by
| falling from a window.
William C6x, of Danville, KY, in shoot.
ing at two burglars who were breaking
into his house a few nights ago, killed his
mother.
The wife of a prominent citizen of Dali
las, Tex, was assaulted few nights ago
/ in her bed chamber. A negro was arrested,
| but proved to be the wrong man.
Near Caledonia, Miss, few days ago,
Aleck Leach, colored, was hanged by
BODY of lynchers, and his body riddled
with bullets. Leach had made disparag-
ing remarks about several respe ctable
white ladies.
Blair's bucket-Shop at Dallas, Tex, was
| financially "busted" few days ago and
forced to close. A Hebrew merchant and
dealer in futures tapped the concern for
over SIS, 900 profit.
Mollie Franklin, Dallas (Tex.) girl,
took morphine with suicidal intent few
DAYS ago. The doctor saved her, when she
went down town and got another dose,
which killed her.
William Tanner, a young man OF Vicks-
burg, Miss, while in somnambul1st1c
state few nights ago, walked out OF his
bedroom window, and fell distance of
nearly thirty feet, striking on the top of q
picket fence. He was badly injured.
Miss Fannie Perry, of Atlanta, Ga
driven desperate by the desertton OF her
lover, resorted to morphine. But little
hopes are entertained of her recovery. She
declares that she will repeat the attempt
! If not successful this time.
Fire destroyed three frame buildings on
the plaza at Cleburne, Tex, few days
ago, and five stores were burned. out. The
stocks were badly damaged. The total loss
is estimated at $4,000; insurance, $4,000,
mostly in Eastern companies.
The judiciary committee of the LOUISE
ana House of Representatives has sub
mitted elaborate impeachment articles
against Judge Theodore Fortelcu of the
Twenty-first Judicial District, composed
of the parishes of st, Martin and Iberia,
| charging him with incompetency, NAL.
| feasance, etc.
An iron manufacturing company has
been organized at Rome, Ca, with
capital of $12S, 900. A gold mining COM
| pany, to operate in Towns County, capt.
tai 100000 has also been organized.
Probably the last of the annual reunions
| of the Kentucky soldiers of the war of 1912
was held at Paris, KY, on the 18Th inst
Only four attended. These were 8. NJ
Berry, aged lightweight; DR.. ]. G. Chinn.
aged eighty-seven; Gilead Evans, aged
ninety; r. N. Campbell, aged ninety-one.
The names of eight who had died since
lastyear's meeting at ages ranging from
eighty seven to ninetY-seven, were report
| ed. DR.. C. c. Graham, ninety-nine year,
and eight months old, wrote that he
was too feeble to attend this year,
but hoped to be able to meet any one who
might still be living next year. When
| these reunions were first begun, some
twelve or fifteen years ago, they were at
tended by quite body of white-haired
| but hale and stalwart old soldiers, able to
make the tour of their old battle grounds.
But so few were left this year that the idea
of meeting again was abandoned and the
| four veterans answered their last rolI-call
| on earth.
A. Houston County (Georgia) man made
$3.50 clear profit off seventeen acres of pea
nuts last year, besides fattening drove Of
three hundred hogs.
A painter named Robt. L. Gardner fell
from a house at Austin, Tex, few days
ago distance of thirty-fve feet, landing
on the top of his head. His injuries were
serious, but not necessarily fatal.
In difficulty few days ago over his
false arrest at Wharton, Tex, 81. Gibbs
shot Sheriff W. G. Brooks, of Wharton
! County, and his brother, E. N. Brooks.
Gibbs escaped. The Sheriff was fatally
and his brother severely wounded.
Quarantine has been established against
theismall.pox section of Harris County,
Georgia. DR.. Degraffenreid, physician in
| charge of smallpox patients, insisted on
visiting the city, which brought about this
action.
| Frank Mays, while operating thresh-
| ing machine on the. Lensing farm, six
miles from Austin, Tex, few days since,
had one of his legs so badly mashed that
| amputation was necessary. His injuries
were thought to be fatal.
| Two Texas men report q narrow escape
recently by poisoning from centipede.
Each had drank coffee at breakfast and
soon became violently i'll, recovering for d
| short time, only to be subjected to return
| of their complaint. They finally recovered
from the effects, and upon examination of
the contents of the coffee pot found that
centipede had crept into it and had been
| distilled with the coffee.
The Grand Jury presented five indict-
ments against G. NJ. Klein, late President
of the defunct Mississippi Valley Bank, of
Vieksburg, Miss, charging him with OBJ
tanning money under false pretenses. The
grounds upon which the indictments were
based was his receiving deposits on the
day before the bank closed Its doors.
Fire broke out in st. Joseph's Catholic
| Ornhan evI11rn situated about civ rnilna