St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1884-11-01

Four hundred men were KILLED in the
three days. fighting recently pc 1ru'
iillo, Peru.
on the 18th Sam Baldwin, teamster'
was found in a gulch near Leadviile,
Col, with his face battered TO jelly. he
leaves wife and children at Galesburg,
Ill.
FIRE was discovered in the hold OF the
steamer Nevada, of the Guion Line, whlcn
left New York October 7th for Liverpool
and she had to stop at Queenstown. Great
excitement existed among the passeh-
gers.
ON the morning of the 18th, by the break
ing of frog on the Lebanon Valley HAIL
road, near Reading, Pa, tasF relgh6
train was derailed and ten cars were
smashed to pieces. The engine was
wrecked and the engineers back injured
The track was blocked for several hours.
FIRE destroyed French's WOODEN mill az
Foster Station, near Ann Arbor. Mich, on
the morning of the Itch. Loss, S4J,OOo;
insurance unknown. 1t had twelve thou
sand pounds of wool on hand, and orders
for six months ahead.
On the night of the 18th the cigar man"
ufactory of Jacoby & Bookman, in New
York, was damaged by fire to the extent
of $4,000. The fire will temporarily
throw out of employment 400 cigar
makers.
NEAR Greenville. Ind, train on the
Louisville, New Albany & Chicago Road
was wrecked on the 18th. the cars took
fire and were consumed. No one seriously
injured.
POLICEMAN GoRMAN, Of Cincinnati, who
was shot in the political riot on election
day, died on the 18Th. On learning OF his
death his sister died
THOMAS KENNEDY was cremated IN a
burning building at Philadelphia, Pa.' on
the 10Th.
A GERMAN theater and several other
buildings in Moscow, Russia were de-
stroyed by fire on the 10Th.
BY boiler explosion in Taylor County,
West Virginia, on the 18th, two men were
killed and five injured.
On the 10Th an insane man named Bull
who was confined in padded room IN his
brothers. house at Erie, Pa, which took
fire and burned, persisted i'll the flames.
He was worth $4,000. His brother was
badly burned in endeavors to rescue him.
AT Porter's Lake, Nova Scotia, Archi-
bald Stewart, hotel-keeper, died on the
10 h from eating a wild parsnip, which he
supposed was sarsaparilla. A boy named
Murphy was in critical condition from
the same cause.
AT Lauterbrunner, Switzerland, the
Grand Hotel burned on the Goth, with a
loss of $100,0O.
WHILE attempting an escape from jail
at Greensburg, Pa, on the 20th, John Fitz.
gerald, horse-thief, was fatally injured.
AN explosion of gas in bank vault at
Elmira, N. Y, occurred on the Goth, by
which Congressman John Arnot, the
cashier, was blown across the room, burn
ing his face and hands, and otherwise
seriously injuring him. The building was
badly wrecked.
AT Carthage, n. Y, a fire on the goth
swept away over two hundred buildings,
involving loss of upward Of million
dollars.
THE New Jersey forest fires in Camden,
Gloucester and Atlandc Counties were
still burning fiercely on the2)th, and great
apprehension was felt for buildings in the
wooded country in the region of the
flames.
THE great fire at Carthage, N. Y, was
more serious than at first reported. I
was the most disastrous confagration tina
ever visited that part of the State. Hun
dreds of people are homeless and des
titute.
On the 21st Miss Jane Ward and J. r
Dorsey, wealthy farmer, were lynchec
in Central Alabama. They. were accused
of completely in the recent murder Of Mrs
Mary H. Davis.
On the 21st the Post Office, telegraph OF
fee, McCambridge's Hotel. the Orang'
Hall and ten stores in the village Of Frank
ford, Ont, were destroyed by fire.