St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1886-01-23

been missing since January I'd, was FOUND
hanging to tree in the woods in Orange
Mountains. The body was greatly dis
colored and frozen as hard as marble. 1t
is supposed that Mr.. Heller hanged himself
in a fit Of insanity brought ON by disease.
He leaves wife and four children.
On the 18th VIM. McLoney, aged sixty, a
wealthy farmer, was found dead in his
sleigh by the roadside near Akron, o. The
body was frozen stiff. and it is supposed
McLoney was overcome by cold while
driving.
A HALFMILLION-Do DOLLAR fre occurred at
Montreal, Can, on the 18th.
A BOILER exploded in the basement OF
st. Mary's Catholic Church at Fort Wayne,
Ind, on the 18th, killing the engineer and
z li.. it'll s s;1k
JOSEPH D5EscH, of Lancaster, Pa, at
tempted to assassinate Judge J. B. Liv-
ingston at that place on the 18th, but for
tunately failed.
On the night Of the 18th the fourstor
brick establishment of Sevey & Co., man
ufacturers of stamped tin and ironware,
at Cambridgsport, Mass, burned. The
loss will reach $50 900 on stock and ma
chnery and $50 900 on building; insurance,
$25, 900 on building and $4,000 on machin
cry and stock.
ON the 18th James Shaffert and Frank
Eek, while working in slope 200 feet deep,
excavating ore, near the Catasaugua and
Fogelsville Railroad at Reading, Pa,
were crushed to death by rock, weighing
about ten tons, falling on them.
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Mccartney, sixty years of age, was burned
to death.
The schooner Mabel Dilloway, of Glou-
cester, Mass, with crew of sixteen men,
is reported as lost.
On the 14th M. Barrim, Project of the
Department OF Eure, in France, was muir
dered and thrown from railway train.
MoRMoNs in Arizona are creating some
alarm by asking arms Of the Governor to
protect themselves, as they say, from In
dians.
IT is officially announced at Berlin that
the German Government has no intention
of annexing the Samoan Islands.
Ar Nashville, Tenn, on the t4th, Wiley
B. Bryan was convicted of sending OBJ
scene matter through the mails and gets
three years in the Penitentiary.
THE Kentucky Court of Appeals sus-
Gained the conviction and sentence of Rob-
ert Fowler, who murdered his niece near
Henderson, and he will have to hang.
On the 18th Connecticut woman placed
her child in an oven to keep it warm. Her
husband returning in her absence and not
knowing She fact, made hot fire, and the
child was roasted to death.
ON the night Of the f4th mail driver IN
Kerry, Ireland, was stopped by masked
men, and the mail searched for writs of
ejectuHent.
On the 18th Samuel Robinson was as.
saulted and brutality beaten by masked
robbers near Ligonier, Pa.
THE battle of Yorktown was comm en-
GRATED at Paris ON the 18th by banquet at
the Hotel Continental
TIE Fulton Market New York; fishing
smack Eliza Baker and crew are missing,
supposed to be lost in the recent gale.
ON the 18th, fourteen miners were killed
by an explosion in the Almy coal mines,
near Evanston, Wy. T. Seven bodies
have been recovered.
Or the 10th fire at Lexington, KY, de-
seroyed 1nnes & Sons grocery store, the
Opera house and the Adams Express
Company's Office and stables.
THE jury in the case of Enoch Cook at
louisville, KY, charged with killing James
Prewitt, sentenced the prisoner to two
years in the Penitentiary. Cook and
Prewitt quarreled last July, and Prewitt
was kicked end beaten to death.
On the 18th 'tenement house on the
premises of Captain Bell at Kings Noun
tain, N. c., was destroyed by fire, and
three colored persons, Gertrude Bendle-
man, Julian Earle and Julia, child eigh-
teen months old, persisted in the flames.
On the 10Th a.large fly wheel burst at
darper's rolling mill at Newport, KY, a
oiece of which struck the boiler, causing it
10 explode. Several of the employees were
injured, some seriously, and the building
was badly wrecked.
MISCELLANEOUS,
The total value ST the exports of domes-
lie cattle and hogs and of beef, pork and
[dfi'v products fay tho fwolvo yoopfhe |