St. Landry democrat., 1888-05-05
Az exnlosion chat pitched seventy people

AN explosion that pltcneo seventy people
into the air, throwing one man fifty feet,
wrecked seventeen large plate glass win
dows, ruined $35, 600 worth of clothing, dam
aged building SIS, 900 and caused STAN.
pede of hundreds of people from the upper
stories of tall buildings, occurred in base
ment on State and jackson streets, Chi
cago, the other night. The explosion was
caused by two workmen, who had broken
a gas main without knowing it. No one
| was killed.
A DISPATCH from Nancy says riot broke
out there on the 26th, a mob of Boulanger-
lists attacking the students clubs with
stones and other missiles. A number of
policemen were injured before quiet was
| restored.
AN immense forest fire was reported
raging at Big Nose along the liue of the
New York Central railroad, licking up trees
and shrubbery. Farmers were fighting
for their homes with doubtful success. The
fire was started by sparks from passing
| locomotive.
TIE cannon ball train on the Burlington
& Missouri River railroad was wrecked
near Alma, Neo., on the 9th. Two pas
sengers were killed and quite number in
jured. The mail and express cars with
their contents we're consumed.
The sawmills of the Ft. Madison (Iowa)
Lumber Company were destroyed hy hre
on the 9th. Loss, SIS, 900.
The American flint glassworks strike
has been settled in a conference at New
York.
TWENTY survivors Of the great Sultsna
explosion Of April %, 1865, in which LOO
Union soldiers lost their lives, held re-
| union at Hillsdale, Mich, on the a6th-
The Pope has issued a decree condemn
| ing the plan OF campaign and boycotting in
Ireland. The Nationalists declared they.
would treat it with contempt.
| THERE was an unusually large attend
ance at the Presidents reception on the
9th. Included in the throng were dele
gates to religious convention, the Boston
| baseball team, many Of the ballet of q
theatrical troupe and most Of the chorus of
an opera company. A religious crank who
| informed the ushers that he was 'sowned
| by God and the Bible" was denied admit
| tance.
SIX murderers were executed on the
| 9th, all for separate crlmes-three at Fort
| Smith, Ark, one at Anderson, 8. c., one at
Orangeburg, Il c., and one at Leonard
town, Md. Five Of the culprits were Me-
groes.
ANARCHIST PARSONS OH paper, CuS
alarm, of Chicago, has suspended publica-
ton.
BUSINESS failures (Dun's report) for the
| seven days ended April 26 numbered for
| the United States, 1893; Canada, 30; total,
223; compared with 1876 the previous week
| and 1871 the corresponding week OF last
year.
NEAR Richmond, KY, the other day
| Arch Stolta, farmer. committed suicide
| by taking '.Rough on Rats" His brother
| William, seeing the corpse, took the re-
| mainder Of the poison, leaving note say
| ing he wished both to be buried in the
same coffin.
Two convicts in the penitentiary at JEFF
| fersonville, Ind, were terribly burned by
molten iron recently while attending to a
| cupola-
WHITLEY, a notorious desperate and
train robber, has been captured near
Libertyville, Tex, by officers after brief
| fight.
Two cistern cleaners of st. Louis were
| found dead in cistern recently, having
| been suffocated by choke damp.