The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1884-11-06
KILLED BY RELLOGGITES.
A LOUISIANA DEMOCRAT SHOT
Aud nioody sequel Fellows. Near New
Iberia -Ihe Trouble started ny Ite-
publioans .-T.rribl. state Of
Affairs Worse Expected.

Ngw ORLEANS, Nov, IA Picayuno
Now iberia special says; At tho Kollo q
meeting at I.areanvilla to-day II seems
some negroes BOT in,o difficulty.
Joo Giliond stepped in To quie.
them, when no was fired on
by n negro, the ball peno, rating his hat.
He returned The fige, but wlthout eject.
liy this time there was n general resort
Ia firearms, and n fu-ilade commenced.
Joe 6iliOnd was the first 10
fail, shot dead. lie was one of the best
citizens and u staunch nemocra,, The
sherin, Thee. Niaiol, was brought In
here wounded, but not dangerously.
The parties who brought him in
say Capt. X. Eell, Democrat, was also
shot dead. Abner Boutte, II negro poll
ticlan, and three other negroes were
killed. Jules Meslier and Judge
Fontenllieu IL reported among the
wounded. A large number of men are
under arms there, aud the excitement
is at fever heat The excitement here IL
very great. Squads of Hrmed men have
left Tor the scene of conflict. The town
Is 10 be plcketcd aud pa,rOlod tonight.
LATEG:-A large number of prisoners
have been brought In hy armed men.
Cannot ascertain the number tO-night.
They are lodged In jail aud guarded.
Judge ThCo Funlcnuiieu,Alb Fonteno-
lien and AlphOnso Fontenlcu are among
the prisoners. The most reliable and
impartial reports, are that the Eepubii-
cans went over there, oSpe citing troubie
and IL commenced among the negroes.
Judge Fontenelieu Is not wounded, as AT
first reported. A. Y. DugRs and ST. Clair
DuGaS, are reported wounded,
Many'othcrs are wounded, but they
got oil. Most rel 'rts agree that 81:
negroes We're killed, but rs they siam
peded alter the first fire, IL IL impossible
10 say positively how many were
wounded.
ANOTHER ACCouNT.
The TimeS-DemocraL's New iberia
specialssays: Judge FOntenelieu and
eight or ten others left hero ,hiS morn
ing for Lareanviile, near Fausso Point,
tins parish. 40 hold y political meeting
in me interest of Kellogg. Alter The
created bv pe:ions Yelling: "Hur,ah for
Gay!' Joe Guuioui rushed TO
the scene Of trouble and was flied
at. the ball passing through
his hat, he returned ,he ire. At thai
moment there was general row, anf
Can't. Bell, prominent 81 gar plantc.
and Democrat, Joe CriliouS, a
leading Gay man, and oliver Boutte,
colorod Kellogg supporters, from New
TIVE Wot SpEp,
as far IA known, are:
Jules Mestayer, Republican candidate
for sherI last spring; thigh broken.
EX-Sherin Il. Niavor shot twice in the
abdomen.
About dozen others were slightly
wounded.
Six negroes were killed as far as
known.
The perpetrators were surrounded and
kept under guard until the sheriff ar
rived to arrest them. A courier was
dispatched to New Iberia and in 4
few moments after he arrived The
town was in the widest excitement.
All the drinking saloons We're closed by
order OF the mayor. Fifty or seventy
five men from here left under orders of
the sheriff for the scene of trouble.
All arc armed with double
barrel shot-guns and rifles.
Thew arrested the Fonteneieus and
Adolph Beinaern and five white men
who are now in the Parish Jail under a
heavy guard. The first ball came from
the Republican ranks. After
this tt. is Pc, said thousand.
shots were fired simultaneously
On the battlefield, it is said, dozen
horses are lying dead. 1t is impossible
to learn how many were wounded, but
it is reliably reported, that great many
Of the wounded left during The excite
ment,