St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1888-08-04
LOUISIANA NEWS.

! Barnes, Il white lnatl.
The residence, Of Mr.. Jos. Stafford of
| Grel,la WAS entered and jrwelty taken
| tre,efrom valued at nine hundred
| dollars.
| Morgan Williams. cnlnren, was re-
| Gently killed in East Feliclaua parish
| hy being chopped to pieces with an
AK.
Near Dnnal.lsnnvillp on the Goth ult.,
| while initIling in The river, II negro boy
| aged 12 years was drnW ned.
A few DAYS since, near St. Charles
station, Walter Jackson attacked Jake
Menker, Stabbing him three times Sc
verrly. He has since died.
Musical selections were recently
transmitted over the Shreveport telp-
phone line to Bellevue, Marshall and
other points.
At Monroe on the Goth nit, DR.. A.
D.m,,itr committed suicide by jump,
ing from he railroad bridge across the
OuacIIiIa.
Newly married couples Of Pointp
Cnupre have received as high az two
rharivaiis II week, and still others are
threatened.
On the 23l nit. the first message by
wire WAS sent from Hnnma to the ont
side world The Honma and Thibn-
danx telephone line WAS completed to
Scltriever on that day.
In Ilerville parish on the 22nd ult.,
John Adams, an octogenaran, and a
native of Pennsylvania. died. He
moved totIlat parish in 1888 and has
voted for every Democratic presidential
candidate that has been put forward,
beginning with Andrew jackson.
Plain Dealing. Bossier parish, has at
tracted hundreds 6f visitors from
abroad. 1t Is in the center of the iron
district described by Prof. G.. j. John
son, geolngist, in his recent report to
the United States government. Seve-
raj stores have been built and other
improvements are contemplated in
Guiding furnaces. etc. On the 25th ult,
six hundred aud fifty lots We're sold at
auction ranging from $40 to $500.
Near the town of Lake Charles few
days since F. A. Callegari and Thomas
Npyland got into Il difficulty in which
HE latter was shot and killed by the
former.
Cation worms are said to be in De-
Soto parish.
At Hahnville not long since a cnlored
man and an alligator had desperate
fight.
Regain is The name OF nost-ofiice re-
Gently established in Prairie Hayes,
Acadia parish.
Drsoto Democrat Mr.. r. w. Mel
sou, living near Kingston, DrSat0 par
isI,, has a splendid we'll of Sulphur wa
ter on bis place. Recently in boring u
new we'll, he sfrack water that tastes
exactly like EPSON Salts. What it il,
he has been unable tai learn.
A sneats thief recently stole march
IN Governor Nichols relieving him of
"A g"ii watch, IL vest and an empty peck
ct hook
Judge G.. Fl. Mnutnn has purchased
the ST. Martinsvile Revrille.
The citizans OF NJ ulsfiald and Con-
sliatta propose running u tap railroad
f,nm the first ta the last named place.
THE. wife If l.. r. Mlson, sprrpsarv
nf State, died at Natcll.z on the 27til
nit.
A white man named Arthur Dnbose
employed at the La Case dairy in the
vicinity nf Shreveport. started ont last
Monday morning ON horseback with
lot of COWS for the purpose of div
ing them aernss the l,aynm. At
ahmnt two o'clnek his horse returned
without him. and it is supposed that he
was drowned.
Near Thitodeau on Saturday last jeff
Scott, cnInre., shot and killed Justin
Camnlnll also cn"red. They had had
Il difficulty the day previous.
While ut work in his field in Grant
parisi, peeajtly. B F. Bruce was muir
,fered hy Willis JaGksDH and Perrell
Jeanette, with Il hoe.
Congress inas extended the limits of the
port of New Orleans two miles further
north.
The Catholic Church Mt Lake Charles
is, haFing neY sanctuary and saclisty
added TOR.
The Capit0lian- Advocate ia no more,
The Advocate appeared last We.Ines-
day. issued Ivy the Baton Rouge Pub
fishing CGnpany,
At Harrisburg, Catalonia parish, on
the 30th ulf. DR.. R"bb, the newly
elected sheriff, was SHOT and danger
nDsiy wounded by the Hol0luan Broth
rrs OF that pIaee. Causpi by DR..
Rnhb making Il statement ta the effect
that the Hnlo,nns had allowed $3.50
to he taken from their safe which was
in their keeping.
Near Donalhsnn vile, on the night of
the 2sfh Mt, JEFF Palmer shot ami in
stalliiy killed Glen Washington. A
game of dice was going on at the time.
The American Bar Association will
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