St. Landry democrat., 1886-12-04

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AN attempt at wholesale poisoning wa!
made in Springfield, Mass, on the odd
thirteen persons being made severely
sick by drinking tea with which "rougl
on rats" had been mixed.
| A FREIGHT train on the Baltimore &
Ohio railroad broke in two near Barnes.
vile, O., on the ODD AS result thir-
teen cars were wrecked, causing loss o.
$4,000. The track was blocked for sew.
eral hours.
About m idnight of the night of the Goth
Elias Simmons, a good, law abiding aud
| peaceable negro, was most foully murder
ed in his own house two miles from Min.
den. La. A party of masked men broke
open his door and shot him to death while
he was sleeping in his bed.
A FAMILY Of -four persons living near
Breslau, Germany, were killed on the
night of the 22d by peasant, who entered
the house to rob it and, being discov cred,
attacked the inmates with Ratchet.
THE steamer Barnard Castle, in the coal
trade between Puget Sound and San Fran
cisco, ran on the rocks near Race Rocks
| light on the 21st, and stove large hole in
her bottom. The steamer was beached
and will prove total loss. The crew
were saved. Loss, 100000; well insured.
ON the evening of the 22i the main
| building AMI three annex buildings of the
Newburgh wooden mills, at West New
burgh, N. Y, were destroyed by fire.
| One hundred and twenty five persons are
| thrown out of employment. Loss esti-
| mated at 100000; partly insured.
PATRICK MCADAMs, an old miner, and
| ever since its organization prominent
member of the order of Knights of Labor,
was instantly killed while at work in the
Nelson Coal Company's mines at Mont
gomery, Ind, on the 22d, by toe premature
discharge of a blast placed by another
miner.
NEWS off horrible affair comes from Cat
lettsburg, north of Chattanooga. Tenn. A
farmer named Thrower, while driving
some hogs, was attacked by a boar and
torn to pieces. The Infatuated animal
knocked the man down and seized him in
the abdomen, tearing his body almost in
twain.
WIN. REED, treasurer of a horse railroad
company at Boston, has been arrested on
charge of embezzling cash and stock
amounting to 100000.
REV. JOSEPH PARKER, D. D., of London,
strongly opposes the inclusion in the Lib
eral party platform of plank favoring
church disesta blishment
THos. SMITH was convicted at Bovine
City, Mich, on the 23l, of murder in the
first degree. The location of road
through the farm of Niles Anderson
caused dispute, and resulted in the
shooting of Anderson by Smith
FoR killing his wife Chandler 8. Wells
was convicted of murder in the first de-
gree at Ann Arbor, Mich, on the 23d, and
was Immediately sentenced to State
prison for life.
OLE ANDERSON, arrested near Bassett,
Neb., last week for numbering his wife
and throwing the remains in a well, con-
fessed the crime on the 23d. He SAYS he
quarreled with her because she would not
consent to the sale of stock to pay debts. !
LEVI STAG KPooL, aged nine years, was
killed by calf at Auburn, N. Y, on the
25d. He was holding the animal by a rope
which, in play he had tied around his
neck. The calf started off, threw the boy
down and dragged him until death re-
suiteu lTOIn StranS ulatlOn.
WHILE T. K. Stevens and son, twenty |
years OF age, were filling drill hole in |
the Plutis mine, near Idaho Springs, Col, !
with giant powder on the Esd, the charge |
exploded, killing the son ms family. The |
father was so badly injured that he died |
subsequently,
LIE New York Court of Appeals has
confirmed the judgment Of the court be- !
low IN the case of Buddensiek, the New
ork builder, convicted Of manslaughter,
having been declared responsible for the
death OF workman employed on row
of buildings which fell while in course of
erection under his super vision
A SLIGHT fire occurred in the interior of
the statue of Liberty Enlightening the
World on the 25th.
CLEMENT SNYDER, proprietor of a beer
garden, committed suicide by shooting. at
Tiffin, O., on the 18th.
Two children named Meisal were cauobt
in the recent blizzard near Mandan, Dak.
and were frozen to death.
FIVE men were instantly killed Nv tho
explosion of the boiler of the tugboat Sun.
beam, at New York. on the 25th. l.
THE body of William Gaul, of Indian.
apolis, Ind, who was lost in the woods
near Ashland, Wis, on the 21st, was found
On the 25th. .-- .---,,. --.
HARRY BUHKsHAw, a fireman, was
killed in collision on the Cleveland &,
Pittsburgh road, twenty four miles from
Pitts burgh, on the 25th, several other per.
sons being injured at the same time.
MISCELLANEOUS:
CANADIAN statistics show shrinkape
II only sixteen per cent. in fish exports,
nding the heavv dutx, in,nosod |