St. Landry democrat., 1884-10-04

II. j., ten families were maze nOHe1esS'
During the fire panic occurred at Sal
walton Army meeting and many women
were injured,
By the burning of the Grand Trunk
shops at London, Ontario, on the 21st'
loss of half million dollars was sustained.
Five hundred men are thrown out OF
work.
On the 21st Cleveland was visited by an
other fire in the same locality, but ON
smaller scale than the conhagration OF two
weeks previously. Circumstances connect
ed with the fire lead to the belief that 1t
was the work Of incendiaries.
On the 21st Theodore Dryer was killed
by James Peterson in a saloon at Butler,
Pa.
In Pesth, Hungary, bomb with lighted
match was found at the door OF crowd
ed synagogue on the goth just IN Time 70
prevent terrible loss of life.
On the Goth Isaac L. Lang, Grand Secre-
tary of the Independent Order OF Chosen
Friends, of California, being $4,000 short
| in his accounts, swallowed vial of lauda-
mum, and at last accounts was at deaths
door.
| ON the Goth a band of Mexicans crossed
| the Rio Grande at Preside Del Norte,
killed three Mexicans and quickly re :
turned into Mexico.
| A YOUNG man named Henry Martin, OF
Youngstown, O., while running with an
| open knife in his hand on the night OF the
Goth, stumbled and fell. The blade pene.
trated his heart, causing instant death.
| Surgeons were called, and upon examlna-
ton it was found the heart was nearly
| cut in two.
On the 22d one Of the finest business
blocks in Portland, Ore, was destroyed by
fire. Eureka, New, was also visited by a
| disastrous confagration.
On the I'D two large buildings of the
Middlesex Bleachery and Dye Works at
Sommerville, Mass, were burned. The
buildings covered two and half acres,
They were filled with valuable fabrics
and the total loss is estimated to be 500,
900, on which there is $6J, 0j0 insurance. 1t
was the oldest and largest establishment
of the kind in the county.
On the 22d Chas. F. Henker, black
smith, hanged himself in the Seventh
| Ward Democratic wigWam at Fort Wayne,
Ind. He leaves a wife and six children.
No cause assigned.
ABOUT half the business part of Bronson.
Mich, was burned on the night of the 2lst.
Eighteen business houses, two dwellings
and several barns were consumed. 1t is
| supposed to have been the work of an in
cendiary.
A LONDON dispatch said the British gun
boat Wasp was wrecked off Tory Island,
northwest coast of Ireland, on the 23d.
Fifty-two men were lost.
AT Hayesville, Tenn, Edwin Henry was
killed on the 23d by E. I. Johnson. This
is sequel to the suicide of Mrs. johnson
at Indianapolis last year.
On the 23d a passenger train on the Chi
cago s. Alton Railroad en- route to ST
Louis, collided with freight train neal
Pontiac, Ill. No one was seriously in
iured, but two Pullman coaches were
burned
BURGLARS dug sixty-foot tunnel under
the vault of the First National Bank o.
Las Vegas, N. NJ. The scheme being dis
covered on the 23d, Mexican went in thu
cellar and meeting one of the excavators
shot him dead without word.
ON the 23d Howard Sullivan, in Jail a
Salem, N. j., charged with the murder
of Ella Watson, made full confession
] He said he killed her to get the money t.
go on an excursion to Atlantic City. h
denied outraging her.
BY an accident on the Brattleboro &
Whitehall Railroad near West Dummer
ston, Vt, on the 23i, nineteen persons
were injured, one fatally.
The Grand Jury Of Rutland County
Vermont, have indicted John B. Page, ex
} President, and j. NJ. Haven, ex-Treasure
of the Rutland Railroad Company, TO
enlightenment of $4,000.
On the 22d the mangled and lifeless bod.
of Gillie Leigh, member of the British
Parliament, was found at the base of
t precipitous cliff in the Big Horn Noun
tains in Wyoming. Leigh was out with
, small English pleasure party. He lefEth
T camp on the 145h inst. for a stroll, ant
f was not heard afterward until an eigh
days' search revealed the dead body. Th
remains will be shipped to England.
MISCELLANEOUS.
A DENIAL is made of the reported reol
ganization of the anthracite coal combina
ton.
> THE Artberg Tunnel through the Rhat
!. tien Mountains, establishing railway con
munication between Austria and Switzel
land, was inaugurated in royal style Q
:, the goth.
AT Davenport, Ia, and Rock Island an
NJ cline, ILL.,, the taiIors all left thei
benches on the 22d and went out on
9 strike.
AT Shanghai panic prevails in COZ
! | sequence Of the Franco Chinese difficulty
I ON the 22d the receipts of wheat {
:, minneapolis, Mimi, were over 10000
Bushels, the largest this season.
A DISPATCH @as Sent by Genera
: Wolseiey to the British War Office on tn
22I to stop sen cngpSo to Egypt for th
:. present.