St. Landry democrat., 1886-03-13

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to assassinate DR.. B. Lawitz, the CORE.
spondent of the London Times.
TIE preliminary examination of Mrs
Molloy and Cora Lee at Springfield, Mo,
on charge of being accessory to the muir.
der Of Mrs. Graham, has been set for the
18th inst.
A SERIOUS accident occurred on the New
York, Ontario g. Western railway on the
night of the ID A "double header" freigh
train broke through the bridge across the
East branch of the Delaware river at Fish
er's eddy, and five. cars went into the
river. Conductors Raymond and Smith
and two brakemen could not be found, and
it was thought they were in the wreck.
THE London Socialists, Burns, Hynd-
man, Williams and Champion, have been
committed for trial on the charge of incit-
ing subjects of the Queen to riot.
WASHINGTON SIMS, aged fifty years, a
veteran in the late war, while walking
from Ashley, Pa, to his home at Wilkes :
barre on the night of the I'd lost his way
and fell into quarry. He was
found frozen to death.
On the Sd Hugh Mcmahon, who
the dwelling and grocery on the
corner of Second and Green streets,
Philadelphia, and conspiring to defraud
the insurance companies of $4,000, was
sentenced to ten years in the penitentiary
On the 4th wall fell at Philadelphia
and killed Daniel Quinn. Several others
were in ured.
GooDBoDY's tobacco factory in Tula-
more, Ireland burned on the 4th with q
loss of 100000.
On the 18th Samuel Newton was shot to
his wife. He made a full confession.
E. II. MCPHERSON, ex-Colonel in the
United States army and a noted Indian
fighter, committed suicide at Evansville,
Ind, on the 4th, with morphine.
ANNA A. COOLIDGE, who has been in
dicted at Boston for conspiracy in the
Mellen case, will come before the Su-
preme Court i'll a few days, and will then
plead to the charge against her. 1t is un.
derstood that final disposition of the
case will then be made.
FRANK Cooke, station agent at Scott's
Station, Ala, was brutality murdered on
the 9Th by unknown parties.
On the 5th John Darlington, an insane
patient at the Allegheny City (Pa.) Home,
jumped from third.story window and
was killed.
JESSE BILLINGS, prominent farmer
near Washington, Ind, was convicted on
the 9TH of forgery and will go to States
prison for two years.
On the 9th during the trial of John 8.
Dyder, jr., partner of the firm of Eckers.
dorff & Co., for forgery, at Montreal.
Cam, Colonel Dyder, the father of the &C.
cused, fell dead in the witness box.
On the 9TH the lighthouse on Sand Point,
Escanaba, Mich, was destroyed by fire.
Mrs. Mary G. Terry, ht-keeper, persisted
in the flames. The fire is supposed to have
caught from the furnace. Robbery is sug-
gested, as Mrs. Terry was a woman of
means and lived alone.
ABOUT three O'Clock on the morning of
5he 9TH 125 Chinese at work as wood chop
oers and grubbers, near Mount Tabor, three
niles east of Portland, Ore, were driven
'ut by mob of between sixty aud eighty
whites, most of them masked, and marched
% the ferry, whence they were conveyed to
Portland.
CLARENCE GRAY, alias Ishmaen Collins,
vas executed at Winnemucca, New, on the
tn, for the murder of r. III. Scott at Para
lise, on Christmas evening, 1884.
MISCELLANEOUS.
THE striking weavers at Manchester, N.
l., received telegram from the National
Knights of Labor, at Philadel-
hia, on the Sd, saying that the order could !
OF assist them. About three thousand |
wo hundred looms are running.
THE Senate committee on military af- |
airs, in it's majority report ON the Fitz-
ohm Porter bill, adopt the majority re-
ort Of the last Congress and say: "The
have little to add to the re-
orts heretofore made in this case"
hey recommend the passage Of the bill as
simple act of justice to a deserving
fficer.
On the 9th the street car strike in New
ork ended in a complete victory for the
mixers.
AT Montgomery, Ala, on the 9TH, fire de-
royed $500 bales of cotton and caused a
IS Of $4,000.
The Southern Pacific Railway Company
Is made heavy cut in passenger rates
ON Texas points to San Francisco.
AN American has created a sensation in
Gland by bringing suit to dispossess the
older of the Kilkenny estates.
IHE internal revenue collections during |
e hrst seven months of the year ending
Inc 90, 1886, amount to $6S,s-S,117, which
VI ,o35, 157 more than the collections dur
g the corresponding period of last year.
ON the 9th crank created CONSERVATION
the Paris bourse by firing revolver
Id throwing bottle containing an ex-
osive on the floor, at the same time shout
g, "Vive L'Anarchie." s
DURING the month OF February the sec-
Fary OF the Treasury purchased 1,45O, 900