St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1885-10-17

THE Texas convicbs working on a ralI-
road at O'Brien's camp, near Lubkin'
Tex, made break for liberty on the
9th, when twelve were killed and large
number wounded.
WILLIE ROSE, a five-year-old son of
prominent citizen of Evansville, Ind,
whilst playing around a new house IN pro-
cess of construction, on the 9th, fell from
the second story to the ground and was
fatally injured.
The schooner Annie Tomine from Mus
kegon for Chicago, loaded with lumber'
became water-Iogged and capsized the
morning of the 9Th about five miles west
of Grand Haven. Mich. The crew of six
men were saved by the life-saving crew.
A TRAIN was boarded and robbed by four
men near Altoona, Pa, on the Oh.
The steam barge r. g. Ingersoll burned
to the waters edge on the 9Th at Point au
Sable, Lake Michigan.
,CHAs. DAVIDSON, painter, was killed
at Evansville, Ind, on the 9th, by falling
from a scaffold down an elevator way.
AN attempt was made on the Oh to
wreck train on the Air Line Railroad
between Huntingburg and Rose Bank, Ind.
Gro. w. SARGENT, a carpenter was
found hanging to a tree in Kansas City ON
the evening of the 9Th. He left farewell
letters saying life was not worth living
C. D. LESTER, stock dealer, committed
suicide on the 9Th at Burlington Junction
Springs, Ia. He was well known man
and an old friend of President Cleveland,
having been Deputy Sheriff Of Erie Coun-
ty. New York, when Cleveland was Sher-
if. No cause is assigned for the deed.
ON the 7th Patrick Kennedy was muir
| dered at La Crosse, Wis, by James Kelly.
| ON the 7th a cattle train on the North
ern Pacific Railroad caught fire and sever
| al cattle were burned.
DYNAM1TRRs blew up the residences OF
police magistrate and constable at
Orangeville, Ontario, on the night of the
! 9th.
| DIAMONDS valued at $1,000 were stolen
| from the residence of Ex-Governor Claim
of Massachusetts, at Newtonville, that
! State, on the 7th.
| On the 7th collision occurred between
4 a coal and freight train on the Lehigh
Road, near Easton, Pa, and Geo. l. Fran
| sue, brakeman, was killed.
/ a EXPERIMENTATION dollar confagration
! occurred at Charterhouse Square, London,
on the Sth.
AT w oonsocket, Oak, Clarence Ben
nett was tarred and feathered and ordered
to leave the place for an assault on a
| woman.
! s. Fl. CRocKER & Co, Wholesale ste.
tionery and printing, San francisco. CAL,
were burned out on the Sth; loss, $50, 900.
On the 9Th i've white men and two Indi'
ans, who made murderous attack on
Chinese hop-pickers in Squak Valley, Wy.
T., recently, and killed two of their num-
Der, were indicted by the Grand Jury for
murder in the first degree.
On the 9th, during gale, two men were
drowned by the capsizing OF fishing
smack of frankfort, Mich.
On the 9Th George Paxton was struck or
| crossing by Cleveland & Pittsburgh
train near Steubenville, O., and instantly
killed. :
ON the eth the American box and shooE
factory and planning mill, owned by Thorn
as w. Thompson, of WilIiamsport, Pa.
burned, together with a large amount o
stock. Loss, nearly $4,000; insurance
$28,500. q
A ROW BOAT was capsized in Boston
harbor on the 9th. Two men were pickec
up by the crew of tug-boat, but both dice
in short time. There is said to hav,
been third man in the boat named III. S
Cove, whose body was not recovered
One of the dead men is named n. B. Car
rier.
On the 9th a Cleveland & Pittsburgh
passenger train, going east, struck team
Of horses and awagon at Alkana crossing
near Steubenville, O., killing both horses
completely demolishing the wagon ant
fatally injuring George Paxton, the drive
of the team.
On the 9th at the Luke Fiddler breake
at Shamokin, Pa, Polish boy, employs
as slate picker, missed his footing. an
fell headlong into box in which wer
swiftly revolving a pair of ''monkey
rollers used in preparing the smaller size
: Of coal. Before the machinery could b
stopped his body was ground 20 pieces.