St. Landry democrat., 1886-04-03

ON the 23d two houses were wrecked and
VIM. Klodenstein, German barber, was
dangerously burned by natural gas ex-
plosion at Pittsburgh, Pa.
ON the 23d Vests cracker bakery and
the Philadelphia Plush Company's build
ing in Chambersburg, N. j., were destroyed
by fire. Loss, 600; insurance, 10000.
MRS. MYERS, of Pittsburgh, Pa, has been
convicted Of perjury for swearing another
woman's child was her own.
THE Illinois Supreme Court decided not
to interfere in the case Of Frank Mulkow-
ski, under sentence of execution for the
murder of Mrs. Kleidziek in Chicago.
ON the 25th Emma Moore shot and killed
her divorced husband, who was shame
fully abusing her, at Port Huron, Mich.
ON the 25th family of four, named San
derson, of Marion County, Ind, were pois-
oned by rough on rats in coffee.
ON the 18th the Windsor Hotel, at Sale
da, Col, was completely destroyed by
fire. The guests lost all their effects.
Twenty seven principal business houses
and over ne-half of their contents were
also destroyed. Loss, 1900; insurance,
$45, 900.
ON the 25th two foreigners entered the
store of diamond merchant named
Tabuk, in Belgrave street. London, beat
him with clubs until he fell unconscious,
then ransacked the store and made off
with $4,000 worth of diamonds. Tabuk's
skull was crushed in, but he was still liv-
ing. His assailants have been arrested.
THE mammoth barn at the Hopkins stock
farm in East Providence, r. l., was totally
destroyed by an incendiary fire on the
25th. Sixty five head of cattle and four
head of horses were burned. The live stock
burned was valued at $4,000; the barn at
$25, 600; insurance $4,000. Two recently
discharged employees are suspected of the
crime.
ON the 25th, while George Sample. clerk
in the drug store of Ball, Warfield & Co.,
at Ironton, O., was making some "blue
Sample into atoms and wrecking the store,
causing damage of $1,000.
IT is affirmed that the strikers at Decaze-
vile, France, have destroyed one of the
mines by fire.
ON the 26th the Argus office at Fargo,
OAK, was burned. Every thing but the
forms on the press was destroyed. Loss,
$4,000; insurance, 5000.
FIVE prisoners, while being sentenced at
Limerick, Ireland, on the 26th, violently
attacked the police, but were overpowered
after desperate struggle.
A MAN named Stevens was run over by q
passenger train near Henderson, KY, on
the 26th. He was crossing the track when
the train struck him. He was badly man
gled and died soon after.
JOHN WELSH, the evangelist, who has
been holding revivals at North Bath, Me-,
is wanted by the police for trying to sell
in Brunswick livery team he had hired.
MISCELLANEOUS.
AN English judge has decided that
divorce obtained in America of a mar
riage performed in England is invalid in
England.
THE Detroit Polish Church troubles have
been settled for time, all concerned hav-
ing agreed to refer the matter to the Pope.
THE London Daily Ne,os says it consiersd
the labor difficulties in the United States
the outcome of the governments system of
protection and of the bolstering up of trade
rings to the detriment of the working
classes. ."....
SINCE the Boston street railway en-
ployes presented their demands to the rail-
roads, conferences were held daily, and on
the 25th an agreement was reached by
which the men get all they ask, including
two dollars a day and twelve hours for a
days work.
EXTENSIVE prairie fires were reported
on the 26th on the Crow reservation in
Montana. St-*
A MOB broke into fire-arm mandatory
at Liege, Belgium, ON the 26th, and carried
away its contents.
THE grand national steeple- chase for 900
sovereigns, at Liverpool, on the Goth, was
won by Old Joe.
A MOB of strikers marched to the palace
of King Leopold Of Belgium on the 56th
and sang the Marseillaise.
The Ohio Legislature on the 26th passed
what is known as the Non Partisan bill for
Cincinnati.
BRANCHES Of the Loyal and Patriotic
Union are being formed in the British col
onies to create opposition to the home-rule
demands.
COLONEL WHITE, an insurance agent of
Tombstone. Ariz., who arrived from Fort
Huachuca on the Goth, reported that just
before he left there a courier arrived from
Lieutenant Maus' camp with the news that
all the Indians had surrendered, except
Mangus and two warriors who have been
off the reservation since 1882.
A COMPANY of United States infantry
passed through Pittsburgh, Pa, on the
Goth from New York, said to be en- route
for st. Louis. 1t was reported that the
company was the advance guard of force
to be concentrated in the quarters threat
ened with riot about st. Louis and west of
that city. The officer in command refused
to talk on the subject.