St. Landry democrat., 1888-05-26

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Chicago cattle butchers or dressed bee
men. They express themselves willing t.
give the commission all the information
in their possession whenever the Senator
will come to investigate.
On the 18th a caucus of the Republican
Senators was held which lasted four hours
Discussions on the Fisheries treaty, thu
Mills proposition on the Tariff bill ant
general politics, including the Southern
investigation, took place.
On the 18th Queen Natalie Of Servia ant
her son arrived at Weisbaden. Before shs
left Vienna it was practically settled tha
the Queen should go to Belgrade on hel
return to Weisbaden.
On the 18th the Supreme Court Of Michi
gan unanimously declared the Local
Option law unconstitutional.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
On the 10th George Benson, the Patt
ticket swindler, awaiting extradition te
Mexico, killed himself in Ludlow Stree1
Jail, New York City, by throwing himself
over the stair case rail to the stone floor
below.
ON the Denver & Rio Grande railroad
the Leadville express was derailed seven
miles north of Salida, Col, on the 18th,
while running at high rate of speed tx
make up time. More than dozen persons
were injured, few of them severely.
| AT Ft. Reno, I. T., on the 10Th, Sergeant
Porter Webster, of Company A, Twenty.
| fourth Infantry, was shot and instantly
killed by Private Davis Simons, OF the
same company. Simons had threatened
the life of woman, and while attempting
to arrest him Webster was shot.
| AT Wllkesbarre, Pa, Thomas Rhone, q
carpenter employed at the Lehigh 6
Wilkesbarre company's breaker, fell, on
the 10th, down the shaft, six hundred feet
and was instantly killed. nearly every
bone in his body being broken.
| NEAR Lakeside, Mich, on the 10th, 8
| tramp assaulted Mrs. NJ. Gall in her
| home, but after desperate struggle was
beaten off. Later he returned, and after
mailing up all the doors and windows, set
fire to the house and barn The woman
| saved herself and children by crawling
| through a window.
JAMES ORR, a Pittsburgh (Pa.) dentist,
whose mind had become unbalanced by
| domestic troubles, committed suicide, on
| the 18th, by inhalation of artificial gas.
On the 18th news was received from
| Tahiti, Polynesia, that band of natives
had surprised the French patrol and
killed marine officer and two sailors.
NEAR Lancaster, Pa, on the 18th, while
crossing Conestoga creek, at Graeff's
Landing, on a raft used in place of a
bridge that had been swept away, Captain
John B. McCaskey, principal of the Lam
caster High school, and seven pupils were
thrown into the water by the capsizing of
the raft, and Willie Smith, aged seventeen,
was drowned. The other pupils were res
cued by the teacher.
On the 17th the jury in the trial of Pat
rick McGraw for the murder of William
J. Sloan, clerk Of the chief of police of
Pittsburgh, Pa, in August, 1887, brought
in a verdict of voluntary manslaughter.
AT Plattsmouth. Neb., on the 18th, q
Pinkerton detective, assaulted bv a crowd
of Brotherhood engineers, shot twice at
his assailants, fatally wounding one and
seriously injuring two others. He then
made his escape.
AT Dunlap, Ia, on the 18th, Thomas
Jones fatally shot his wife, and being
pursued by mob, sent bullet through
his own head, inficting fatal wound.
The murder was the result Of an old FAM
lily quarrel.
Mich, shortly after midnight, on the 18th,
Fred Hamburg and Charles Sunberg were
killed by an explosion of dynamite. They
were in small powder house, and appear
to have been in the act of running, as the
staple from the door was driven into the
back Of one Of them. The cause Of the ex-
plosion is unknown. Both men leave
families.
MRS. MATILDA LARSON, Of Omaha, Neb.,
was fatally burned, while trying to start
fire with kerosene, on the 18th.
On the 18th Mrs. Scofeld, held for COM
plicity in the death Of Broker Hatch, of
New York, was taken before the Su-
preme Court, on writ Of habeas corpus,
and discharged from custody on the
ground that the court had no authority to
cause her confinement in the house of de-
tention.
The conviction OF Doodle Alderman A.
J. McQuade, who is serving term in
Sing Sing, was sustained by the general
term Of the Supreme Court of New York,
on the 18th.
THE courthouse at Sidney, Ia, was
burned on the 17th, resulting in the dam
age of the records of Fremont County.
On the 18th, rs the west-bound Boston
express due at $40 a. m, was running on
the drawbridge at Norwalk, Conn.,. the
rails spread and the locomotive and five
cars ran the length of the bridge on the
ties. The locomotive stopped within six
inches of the edge of the bridge. The es-
cape from terrible disaster was miracu-
Ious.
AT 1:17 a. M, on the is, William George,
the GAINESVILLE murderer, was hanged at
the Columbus CO., penitentiary.
MISCELLANEOUS
ON the 18th Governor Hill of New York |
issued a proclamation declaring conta- |
gious pleuro- pneumonia prevalent among |
The cattle in New York, Kings, Queens, |
Richmond and part Of Westchester coun-
lies, and proclaiming them quarantined |
under the Federal Animal-Industry act.
On the 18th the following bonds were
offered to the Government: S225, 800 reg
stered As, at 127 to 12s; $4,000 coupon As,
1t 127; S9s,650 registered AIS, at 1867 to
LOS s-tota1, $685., ,550-of which the follow
ing were accepted: S95, 800 registered As,
1t 127; $4,000 coupon As, at 12T; $50, $50
AIS, at 10S, making total of
s195, $50.
ON the 18th the bill abolfshing slavery
vas passed by the Brazilian Parliament
md approved by the Princess Regent.
On the 10th the New York City G. A. r.
memorial committee declined to give
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