St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1888-01-07

| FREDERICK, Md, was visited By & severe
storm On the morning ofthe 22th, unroofiny
many houses.
TOMMY WARREN, the featherweight pu-
gilist, was honoraby acquitted OF the theft
Of watch for which he had been arrested
at Chicago.
| CAPTAIN PAINTER and his second mate,
Fischer, have been arrested in Sunderland,
| England, charged with gross cruelty to
| their crew, causing three to commit sui
| eide and another to die from his injuries.
The vessel was the British bark Embleton
| from San Francisco.
MANY persons were knocked down and
stabbed indiscrlminately during race
| troubles at LawrencevIlle, Ga, recently.
| Five men were taken home on stretchers.
NEWS reached Burnett, Tex, the other
day that four men who were camped ON
| the Llama river, aud in sight of the town of
| LLAMA, had been fired upon by parties un-
| known. Two were reported dead and two
| in very critical condition. The whole
affair was myste.y to the citizens of
Llama
THE high school bnilding at Fergus Falls,
Mimi, was destroyed by fire recently.
Loss, So, 600; insurance, $50, 600.
SEARCHING parties recently found four
teen dead bodies on the premises of Sioux
half breed named Lablant, near the old
Daadwood stage road on the Sioux reserya-
tion in the Black Hills. Lablant was
wanted for cattle stealing and had fed to
the Indian camps on the Upper Cheyenne.
The dead bodies were supposed to be re-
mains of victims whom he had robbed and
murdered.
DISTRICT ATTORNEY MARITIME, OF New
York, reported to the grand jury on the
3Oth that Jay Gould aud Russell Sage were
liable to Indictment for grand larceny in
defrauding the old bondholders of the
Kansas Pacific railway.
The men employed on the Reading rail
road were again ordered to strike on the
30th by the executive committee. The
company refused to have any communca-
tion with delegates from the Knights of
Labor.
Two little girls were seriously hurt in
panic which broke out at an entertainment
in Seaman's Hall, Lake and Desplaines
streets, Chicago, the other night, caused
by some one overturning the stove and
fool superintendent yelling fire. The
superintendent was arrested
SENATOR CHASE spoke before the w. C.
T. u, at Providence, r. l., recently in
favor Of the abolition of the whisky tax,
arguing that it was Ineffective in restrict
ing and inconsistent with prohibitory doc
trines.
LAST years failures Dun's report) show
decrease Of two hundred in number, buta
large increase Of S53, 600, 600 in liabilities as
follows 1887, number, 9,643; liabilities,
S167, SEC. 944, average, $17, 392; 1886, number,
1854; liabilities, 4,6A, 119; average, SILL
651. The returns for the Dominion of Can
ada show 1852 failures with SIG, 81, 745 liza
bilities; average $11, 1858.
Four coal barges broke from their moor
lngs at Seventy sixth street, North river,
New York, the other night, and three of
them were reported floating out on the ebb-
tide, with presumably about dozen men
on board. The fourth was caught off As
toria, Long Island.
SEVERAL persons were badly injured by
mixed train on the Pittsburgh & West
ern going through trestie near st. Peters
burg, Pa. recently.
JOHN F. FULLEN, a mechanic, attempted
to walk out from Chicago to his home in
Lakeview the other night during the bliz.
card and was frozen stiff.