St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1886-05-22

FORTY THREE Chicago policemen were
victims of the dynamite assault by the
Socialist mob on the night of the 4th and
the subsequent fighting. Three OF the
officers are dead and three others are NOR
tally wounded, while many more will be
incapacitated for long time. 1t is i'm
possible to ascertain the number of rioters
killed and wounded, as many of them
were carried off and cared for by their COM
rades. The names OF twenty-five are
known, but it is thought this number rep
resents only fraction of the total, as the
firing was at close range, and the police
were for the time being rendered desperate
by the terrible nature of the assault upon
them.
On the 9Th a crowd of Milwaukee rioters
while advancing with threats of violence
on the Bay View Rolling Mills, was fired
upon by the militia defending the place,
and six persons were either killed out
right or fatally wounded, one Of them
young schooi-boy, whose curiosity had
prompted him to join the crowd. The
firing was done at two hundred yards,
and nearly all the wounds were in or near
the abdomen.
On the 9Th George Kades killed his
step daughter, Lizzie Wolff, at Cleveland,
O., as the result of domestic quarrel.
BY the collapse of a five-storv building
at Minneapolis, Mimi, on the 5th,to which
an addition was being built, four men
were killed and many injured.
BURMESE insurgents recently took pos
session of Mandalay and burned over four
thousand houses. The British forces are
powerless, and reinforcments have been
asked for.
On the 5th Gottlieb Fauth, of Sandusky,
O., wounded his divorced wife severely
and himself fatally.
On the 9Th Joseph Weller stabbed and
killed Mrs. Mary J. Lewis, and then cut
his own throat, fatally, in Brooklyn, where
both resided-she as lady of the house and
he as a boarder. Weller is twenty seven
wears old and is believed to have been in
sane.
On the 9Th August Spies, editor of the
Chicago Arbiter Zeitung, the organ of the
Anarchists, was arrested, together with
his brother Chris Spies, Sam Fielder and
Michael Schwab, and on the inquest
touching the death of Officer John Deegan,
the coroner's jury hi.ld them on a charge
of murder. The twA pty four employees of
Spies office were $50 arrested on the
same charge, and a were held without
bail.
A PARTY of natives from Port Stanley
are reported to havq massacred the Off
Gals of the French ew Hebrides Com
pany on Espiritu San y island.
JOHN MURPHY, a gifted States soldier,
was murdered on the 18th by some unknown
person at Fort Sully, b. T.
NICHOLAS HALL, aAbogus detective, of
Grand Rapids, Mich. was sentenced on
the 9th to five years Imprisonment on
charge of counterteitMg.
DR.. HARRIS, who killed Dr. Barton, has
been convicted at Bloomington, ILL.,, of
manslaughter, with punishment fixed at
five years Imprisonment.
THE dwelling Of ira Pixley, home
steader, in Florer . County, Wisconsin,
was totally destroyed by fire on the night
of the 9th. The children and Mrs. Henry
were badly burned, and two-year-old
girl was entirely consumed, only few
charred bones being found. The terrible
affair was the result of a sweeping forest
fire.
Ex-ALDERMEN Miller, Dempsey and
Delacey, of New York, have been indicted
for alleged bribery. The two latter are
fugitives.