St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1886-02-06

of these accounts SO, $50, because the pay
ments were not authorized by law
SECRETARY MANNING on the goth issued
call for $40, 900, 900 three per cent. bonds,
| to mature March next.
! CRIMES AND CAPABILITIES.
EDWIN CoULE, a farmer living eight
miles from Evansville, Ind, while feeding
his team on the 25th in his wagon yard,
was kicked by mule in the breast and
side, sustaining fracture of several ribs
and severe internal injuries, which it was
thought would prove fatal.
On the 2Gth Fred Schmidt, German,
was burned to death at Memphis, Tenn.
On the 26th fire at Opelka, Ala, de-
stroyed several stores, causing loss Oh
$50, 900
On the Goth Charles Howard was brU-
tallv murdered at Marietta, Ca, by I'M
known parties.
ON the Goth construction train ran into
a passenger train Oh the Rock Island road,
fatally injurng the engineer of the
| former.
j. NJ. CHANDLER, freight conductor on
the Mobile & Ohio railroad, was run over
| and killed by his train between Casey and
Moscow, KY, on the Goth.
On the 10Th Jacob LOtzenbliser and his
wife and child, living near Wabash, Ind,
were poisoned with Trough on Rats" the
husband, it was thought, fatally.
HOLDEN DICK and Vicente Olivas were
lynched at Susanville, Col. on the 9th.
| A DISPATCH of the 9th stated that the
bark Surprise, of Boston, Captain Averill,
493 tons, from New York, had been totally
wrecked at Madagascar. No details were
given.
| On the 9th the strikers at an IRON works
establishment in France attacked the man
ayers house, threw him out of the window
and trampled him to death. Troops were
called out and several of the rioters were
killed.
On the night of the 9th the body of
John Fl. Fleming, bookkeeper OF To-
|'ledo, o., was found in the river at that
place. Fleming had been missing since
January /. Whether the case is one of
suicide or accidental drowning is not
! known.
| ON the 2Sth Haskell, the negro who out
ragged a German girl at indianapolis and
was afterward shot in court by the girls
brother, was sentenced to twenty one
| years. Imprisonment.
| JOHN MCMAHON was collector in Ho
| boken, N. j., for ten years. Two years ago
when shortage of $51 900 was discovered
in his accounts, he disappeared. He was
| arrested in New York on the 2Sth and
| taken to Jersey City. There are several
| indictments for enlightenment against him.
ON the 2sth John L. Gideon, clerk in the
/ ooporaf ttaEat off IF tho RJ1rlip c+p r.
Missouri railroad, at Omaha, was arrested
charged with altering and forging railroad
tickets and disposing of them to brokers.
1t is alleged that Gideon is one of a ring of
| bogus ticket operators, the amount of
whose frauds is yet unknown.
| ON the 18th a snow slide in Thavnes
| Canyon, near Park City, Utah, buried four
men with their teams. -Four men were
buried in snow slide on Lake creek, near
Ketchum, Idaho, in their cabin. One man
| is reported buried under sixteen feet of
| snow On Thompson creek, not far from the
scene of the last reported disaster.
| ON the 29th P. Cox, of Buchanan, Mich,
cousin of the murderer and suicide
| CoWles, committed suicide by shooting
himself in the head.
| On the Doth three persons condemned to
death for belonging to revolutionary So
| ciety were executed at Warsaw.
| On the Goth four men, names unknown,
! were drowned in the Ohio river at Evans
| vile, Ind, while trying to cross in skitf.
On the goth collision on the Baltimore
| & Ohio at Chicago Junction, O., killed L.
Vande1ier, fireman, and severely injured
several other persons.
THE prisoners in Jail at Louisville, KY,
| refused to go to their cells on the 29th and
were fred on by the ialer and turnkey.
Two Of them were wounded.
On the 29th an explosion at the Banks
vile coal mine Of Lang 6 Co., near Pitts
burgh, Pa, set fire to the pit and cremated
nine mules. The flames We're extin-
guished. r-F' N
ON the 29th carriage containing Mrs.
Wesley Stanton, her daughter, aged if
teen, and Mrs. Julia A. Hunter, prac-
ticing physician, was struck at the Erie
railway crossing at Carbonate, Pa,
by a passenger train. The occupants
were thrown OUT and Mrs. Hunter was
instantly killed. Mrs. Stanton was
dangerously hurt. ...
MISCELLANEOUS.
A RUMoR was current i'm Constantinople
on the oath that a skirmish has r. kau nlaoe