St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1886-01-02

VIM. GRAHAM, a bachelor, living i've
miles south of Clinton, Wis, was con-
fronted by pistol held by masked
man on the night of the 21st and COM
PEELED to surrender $4,000 which he had
in his house. Harry Lawson, a neighbor,
has been arrested, accused of the robbery.
J. D. LONG, nigh. Waterman at the Hen
derson cotton mills, at Evansville, Ind,
while making his rounds ON the morning
of the 22d, fell down the stairway, break
ing his arm and receiving what his physl-
clans say are fatal internal injuries.
A FIRE broke out in the Chenango House
at Greene, Chenango County, N. Y, on the
e2d, and destroyed nine buildings. Three
men were injured, one seriously, by all ex-
plosion. Loss, $4,000; insurance, Sl3'0oo.
MURPHY & Dow's saw mill and about
5000 barrels of salt located in sheds ad-
joining on an island in the Saginaw River
near Bay City, Mich, were totally con-
sumed by fire on the 22d. The fire origi-
mated in the engine room. The estimated
loss is $50 900, on which there is an insur-
ance of $4,000.
S. E. Brown, of New York, attorney
for several Eastern railways, was relieved
of 5000 by pickpockets at the Union Depot
at Kansas City on the 22d.
ROBERT SMITH, coal miner of Coal VAL
lev, ILL.,, was run over and killed at that
village on the night Of the 21st by Rock
Island & Peoria train. He had just re-
turned from Rock Island was badly intox-
icated.
Lilly MACK, colored, of La Junta, Col,
has been arrested for the horrible butchery
of her nine year old daughter.
LATEST developments in the Knoch muir
der near Detroit, Mich, show that the vic
TINS heads were split open with an axe.
On the 22d Isaac Stoddard, soldier,
killed Agnes Farrell at Winona, D. T. Jeal-
ousy prompted the deed. Miss Farrell was
known as woman of shady character,
and Stoddard was her lover.
On the 22d a snow slide occurred in the
San Juan Mountains, near Clement Creek,
Col, filling up shaft in the Prodigal Son
mine, and burying Burke Hovey and J. III.
Skates, who were working in the mine.
On the 23d Vincennes, Ind, had terri
BILE visitation of fire, several large business
buildings having been destroyed up to last
accounts and the fire still raging. Tsrre
Haute was appealed to for help and
promptly responded.
On the 23d Frank Ricketts, and his son
Frank were caught under falling wall at
the Blind Asylum at Columbus, o. The
boy was instantly killed and the father Sc
riously injured.
TIE Indianapolis wife-murderer, Phil
lips, was sentenced on the Esd to hang on
the 9Th of April.
A BOILER exploded at the Lochiel Roll
ing Mill, Harrisburg, Pa, on the 23d, and
six persons were injured.
On the 23d the Colonial Cordage Com
pany's Rope works, at st. John, N. F.,
the largest in the world, were destroyed
by fire.
On the night of the 22d burglars at Mil
ton, Ontario, made clean sweep Of every
thing in Ramsey & Co.'s jewelry store,
using cart to carry off the goods.
On the 23d at least fifty mon were killed
and great many more were terrible in
jured by an explosion in q coal mine at
Pont-y-Pridd, Wales, in which 72o men
were at work.
JACOB HAMMERsrEIN, of Indianapolis,
Ind, committed suicide on the oath.
JOHN r. ELMoRE, Baptist minister,
committed suicide on the oath by drowning
near Clayton, Ind.
On the 25th Hugh Sherman, merchant,
shot and fatally wounded his wife at Buff
falo, N. Y.
WIN. SHEEHAN confesses at Dublin to the
murder of his mother, brother and sister.
ON the 24th Richard N. Hotchkiss, a
school-teacher at Prospect, Conn.,, as
saulted scholar SO brutality shat death
was thought probable.
On the 18th, in fight between negroes
and tramps at Johnstown, Pa, one tramp
was fatally and another seriously wound
ed.
FIRE in the hold of the British steamer
Petriana, at Leith, from New Orleans, on
the oath, badly damaged her cargo.
On the 18th six boilers of the San Fran
cisco (Cal.) Water-works exploded, killing
two men and dangerously wounding two
others.
On the 18th John Dennis was shot in the
abdomen and his brother William in the
arm during street fight at Wellsville, O..
On the 25th D. J. BEGGHs, prominent
| merchant at Clinton, O., was robbed and
left for dead in his room with several cuts
in his neck and face.
MISCELLANEOUS.
A DoRsErT Underground Conduit agent
| has sold out to an opposition company in
Milwaukee, Wis, and that city will do
without the Dorsstt patent. The authori-
ties are indignant.
| SIX men have been convicted at Kirk
wai in the Orkney Islands, for assaulting
John Fender, M. p, the telegraph mag
nate, during the recent election excite
| ment.
QUINN BoHANNAN, convicted of murder
at Lincoln, Neb., has been granted writ
| of error by Justice Miller. Of the United