St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1884-10-18

On the night of the Cd wild train on
the Chicago, Minneapolis & Omaha Road
ran through bridge near Bayfield,, Wis.,
and thirteen people were seriously IN
jured.
FROM the shores Of Iceland come reports
of a terrible and disastrous hurricane IN
which much shipping was destroyed.
On the Sd Captain Dave Kenyon, Acting
Fire Chief of Chicago, was fatally injured
bv being thrown from his buggy while 60
ing to a fire.
On the night Of the I'd, Geo. Wood.
farmer living near Sedan, Ia, was sho0
and killed by some unknown person.
j. G. PERCIvAL, his wife and child ana
Hugh Meyer were murdered by unknown
parties near Fullerton, Vance County,
Neb., on the Ord.
ON the night of the I'd BENZ. Thomas, the
Narrangansett Indian, and the last freSl-
dent of the Indian Council in Charles
town. was found dead near Wood River
Junction, r. L, having been struck by
train.
ON the Sd at Morrow, in Warren County,
o., an employe of the Pittsburgh Gin
cinnati g. st. Louis Railroad Company
was fatally injured by the premature
explosion of cannon, being hred IN
honor of Blaine's appearance. Inc man
died soon afterward, and another was
also in critical condition.
THE loss of the steam whaler Borohead
| il reported. the vessel having been crushed
in the ice in the Arctic regions proving
total loss. 1t was owned by the racine
Steam Whaling Arctic Company, and was
| valued, without cargo, at $12o,OOu. Inc
crew was saved.
| On the 4th James Graves and wife were
arrested in New York on the charge OF
smuggling $4,000 worth of unset dia"
monds.
EVIDENCE indicates that the Vance
County (Neb.) butchery was committed
by H. A. G. Baird, young man who lived
| with the PercivaI family. He is missing
and reward of $1,000 is'offered for his ar
| rest. The bodies Of the FIVE victims have
been found.
| On the 4th Frank Manly was arrested
near Henrietta, Tex, on the charge of kid
MAPPING Sadie Barton, a pretty sixteen
| vear.old girl of Kansas. He threatened
| her life if she informed on him, but she
| told Of her treatment when he was away
There was talk Of lynching Manly if the
girls story proved true.
| ON the 5sh Charles Austin, of Council
| Bluffs, Ia, shot his wife three times and
| then killed himself.
| On the 5 b washout caused a wreck on
| the Northern Pacific Railroad near Fond
du.L Lac. Wis. Three lives were lost.
FIRE destroyed large furniture storage
| warehouse and nine dwellings at Phila-
delphia, Pa, on the 9th. Loss half mil
lion dollars.
A NAN named Henry Esgare was found
dead in brothel at Dallas, Tex, on the
18th, Circumstances indicated murder by
| poison for money.
DURING a gale on Georgian Bay, on the
9TH. a schooner loaded with 10000 bushels
of corn from Chicago for Midland, Ont,
sank.
On the 9Th Charles Lally, miner, was
killed by William Vandever at Union
town, Pa. 1t was an unprovoked murder,
and the murderer narrowly escaped lynch
! ing.
FIRE destroyed the extensive Newton
Paper Mills at Holyoke, Mass, on the 9Th.
| AT Esseg, Austria, fourteen children
were drowned on the 9th. They were
playing in boat, which capsized.
FIRE consumed the carpenter shops of the
Minneapolis & st. Louis Railroad, at Mn
neapolis, Mimi, on the Oh, including a
number of cars.
ON the night of the 9th, four masked
men entered the house of John Sherry al
Edinburg, Pa, gagged him and all others
| nod nj
sc, 200. No clew.
The court martial which Investigated
the loss of the British gunboat Wasp
wrecked recently on Tory Island, found
the disaster was due to the absence of care
and to inattention in navigating the yes
sci. The surviving members of the crew
were acquitted of blame.
ON the 7th Harry Patrick, Of Terre
Haute, Ind, was arrested in st. Louis,
Mo-, on telegram, charging him with OBJ
tanning goods on false pretenses.
At Laurel Hill, N. c., Charles McNairy
was killed on the Oh by his wife, who wa
tired of supporting him. He was an in
valid.
| On the 7th Texas mob in pursuit o
thieves killed man named Hayes anC
fatally wounded another named Dunlap
GEORGE FRANK, arrested some time age
in connection with the famous Phoebe
Paulin murder, and afterward released
has been arrested for aggravated assault
on Mrs. Hiltinger, at Newark, N. j.
MISCELLANEOUS.
THIRTY.sIx fresh cases of cholera anG
twenty deaths were reported in Naples OF
the 9th, and twenty two deaths at Genoa
AT Pittsburgh, Pa, gang of laborers
struck for higher wages on the G5h. .Latel