St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1884-11-15
STATE ITEMS.

II 10 many JSuAD cAAISS SGtSAA " 4tSAC"
election has been held in the parish of
Iberia as that of last Tuesday. There
was not a single disturbance created at
any of the polls and whites and blacks
all seemed in the best of spirits. Polt-
ical discussions were not even INDUCED
in and all waited quietly and patiently
the result. The cause, we believe, is
readily explained by the fact that the
leaders who have created all distur-
Dances in this parish heretofore are
now in Jail awaiting the result of
preliminary investigation of the Lo-
reauville riot in which these parties
were all implicated. A few Deputy
| United States Marshals were to be seen
here and there, but not very near the
polls, for conscious of the illegality of
their pretended authority, they had
nothing to say.-New Iberia Cotton
Boil.
Jim johnson, cOlored man, is
charged with having assaulted, stabbed
and robbed a German laborer en-
ployed on the Evan Hall place with
whom he had an alteration Wednes-
day evening over game of cards.
johnson made his escape, leaving his
victim lying near the levee in front of
the plantation bleeding profusely from
several knife wounds about the brest
and shoulders. The wounded man was
properly cared for and will doubtless
recover. He was robbed of about $40
by the scoundrel who tried to murder
him. Johnston is still at large.-Don-
aldsOnville Chief.
The lynching of McLane in Bossier
parish, accused of burning clubhouse,
while being conveyed from Shreveport
to Bellevue in charge of a police officer
and a citizen has caused great indigna-
ton, and the people are determined to
put stop to such laWlessness and
bring the parties engaged in the affair
to justice. The committee appointed
| by mass meeting of the citizens of
Shreveport to investigate the matter
expressed their opiniOR that McLane
was innocent of the offense charged,
and called upon the mayor to suspend
the chief of police, who, they allege,
arrested the man without authority and
ordered him conveyed to Bossier parish
by an illegal an inadequate escort. The
committee, of course, Withheld any accu-
sation or suspicion against any person
whom the evidence may have pointed
to as the lynching parties, and have
also properly withheld the evidence ac-
CURED, to be handed to the district at
torneys of Caddo and Bossier parishes.
Times Democrat. s
Two negroes, Andrew Williams and
March Bure, who live on the plantation
Of Messrs. Colomb & Gondofo, in the
eighth ward, got into d difficulty. Fri
day morning, when Williams drew
knife and cut Bure across the right side
below the ribs inhicting wound from
which he died during the evening.
Williams was arrested and committed
to Jail to await an examination of the
case. It is said the difficulty was the
result of an old feud.-Capitolian- Ad-
vocate.
A reporter of this paper has been in
formed that on Thursday, just as the
train on the Mississippi Valley was
nearing Kenner, negro man stepped |
on the track a short distance in front
of the locomotive with the intention
of going across. but as he attempted to
make a second step tripped and fell. |
Before he could rise, and before the
engineer could stop the train, it ran
over his legs and cut them off. He
lived until the afternoon, when he
died. The misfortune was purely ac-
and the man alone was to |
blame for it.-[Capitolian Advocate 8th.
Last Friday morning between and
4 o'clock the steam gin house of Hon.
John G. Vance, of this parish, was
destroyed by fre-supposed to be the
work of an incendiary. There wore
about 80 bales of cotton, new moving |
and wagon in the gin house,
which were consumed by the fire. On |
the gin and machinery there is an in
surance of $20O0.-Bossier Banner, 9Th.