St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1886-04-10

On the 31st the preliminary examina-
ton at Springfield. Mo. resulted in Cora
Lee being held without bail as accessory
before the fact, and Mrs. Molloy in $1,000
bail as accessory after the fact, in the
murder of Sarah Graham.
ON the 3lst a passenger coach was
thrown down an embankment on the
Louisville, Evansville & st. Louis railroad,
between Huntingburg and Ferdinand,
Ind, and four persons were killed and
eighteen or twenty more or less seriously
injured.
On the a1st the Merchants Hotel burned
at Carver. Mimi. Andrew Swenson, aged
sixty, and an unknown man were cremated
in their beds.
BY an explosion of petroleum on the 3lst
on board of a vessel at Baku, Russia, the
vessel was completely wrecked, and the
entire crew of thirteen persons persisted.
A SHOCKING accident occurred at a thea
ter in Heromal, japanese town, Feb
ruary %. The roof of the theater gave
way under the weight of snow and fell
upon the spectators. One hundred and fifty
were seriously injured and killed.
THE rooms occupied by the Bell Tele-
phone Company at Toronto, Ont, were
burned out on the 1st.
DAVID GRIGsBY and Braden Porter have
been arrested at Keohuk, H., ON charges
of counterfeiting.
In San Luis Ohispo County, Cal, Eu-
gene Walker and his wife were killed by
Peter Hemmi and his son on the LIST, and
the murderers were afterward lynched by
a mob.
C. 8. SEXTON, formerly a New York
stock broker, was accidentally shot and
killed while examining an electric gun at
London on the LIST.
EARLY on the morning of the 1st burg
lars entered the post office at Center Har
bor N. H., blew open the safe and escaped
with $500 in money, securities amounting
to 1900 and a quantity of stamps.
WIN. E. ROBERTSON left Readsboro, VT,
for Searsburg on the 1st with six French
logging laborers. While crossing bridge
it gave way and the men and horses were
precipitated into the river. Mr.. Robert
son and three of the Frenchmen were
drowned.
PHILLIPS, the murderer, is to be
executed on the Sth at indianapolis, Ind.
FIRE in the Fairbank canning estab-
lshment at the town of Lake, suburb of
Chicago, on the I'd, caused loss of $50, 900.
CAPTAIN FARMINCToN POWER was ar
rested at Beatrice, Neb., on the I'd, and
will be returned to Illinois on a charge Of
forgery.
MRS. NATHAN GRIFFITH, living near
London, Ont, while 1aboring under re-
ligious excitement on the I'd, cut her hus-
bands throat with a razor.
THE house of Josh Hobel, in Reno, Mimi,
was burned on the Cd by an incendiary,
and Hobel's two-year-o daughter was
b1rned to death.
THE new tank-house of Swift & Co., at
Chicago, was wrecked on the ID by an ex-
plosion. and the Waterman, David Mere
field, was seriously injured.
A PARTY of Mexican customs officers re-
Gently surprised band of smugglers near
San Fernando, killed their leader and cap
tured large quantity of goods.
The Newhary hominy mills at Terre
Haute, Ind, were destroyed by fire on the
I'd. Total loss, $4,000; insurance, 200,
in Eastern and foreign companies.
JOHN WHITE, who lived few miles
north of Seneca Falls, N. Y, drove in town
on the I'd and became very drunk. When
he returned home at night he, in some
way, set fire to his dwelling and persisted
in the flames.
EIGHTEEN places of business at Port
Rowan, Ont, were burned on the I'd. Loss,
10000: insurance, 1900. The origin of
the fire is unknown.
REV. WIN. HAMMOND. of the Free Win
Baptist Church of Franklin, N. H.. de-
camped on the 1st with $4,000 belonging to
a newly welded bride. He was arrested
in Boston bank the next day as he was
cashing the check.