St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1889-01-05

a DYNAMITE magazine on the Wheelin
q Lake Erie railroad at Mount Pleasant
u, seventeen miles west of Wheeling. w
Va, exploded on the 23d, wrecking win
dows and injuring buildings. It was re
ported that several persons were killed.
HE boiler Of Hastings sawmill, at Golt
Hill, near Boulder, COL, exploded the othe
day. Four men were killed.
| THREE men named Shaw, Taylor anf
Piessner have been arrested in Chicago
charged with swindling. The arrests wer.
due to admissions made by Lawyer Cut.
ting in regard to bonds stolen from Kel.
| logg, johnson & Bliss last spring.
| AN epiZootic was reported SPREADING
among horses at Columbus. o. The street
| car company has forty sick. The disease
Is new to the veterinary surgeons. 1t ap-
parently affects the glands OF the throat.
causing swelling which makes breathing Q
and eating difficult.
HE steamer Mendocine, which went
ashore at Eureka, Cal, was total loss.
Little May Brogg, daughter OF the engi-
neer, was the only person drowned. The
vessel and cargo were valued at $50, 200.
CREAM puffs poisoned Mrs. r. Sorenson.
ker three children and her father. Nels
Marcus, recently at Chicago, three proba-
bly, fatally. The puffs were poisoned by
the tin dish in which they were made.
JOHN FRAME and Nicholas Hammond
nineteen years Old, were drowned while
skating on the Calumet river, near Ham.
mond. Ind, recently.
IHE Methodists ministers of Columbus
O., have passed resolutions deprecatinp
the proposed pageantry at the President
1al inauguration, which they condemn a.
aping the follies and pomp of European
Two men We're crushed to death upder
six hundred tons of hard coal at CIeve.
land, O., recently by the breaking of a
bin.
BECAUSE her husband danced with an.
other woman at ball in Duluth. Mimi
The other night, Mrs. Zeus, aged twenty.
look strychnine.
BAUEREIsEN, the alleged 90" dynamiter.
vas convicted at Geneva, ILL.,. on the 24th !
ina sentenced to two years. imprison-
nent.
In the live bird shooting match at
5incinnatl the other day, between Captain
'ogardus and AL Bandle, the score re.
ulted; Bandie, 100; Bogardus, 95.
IHE overland eastbound Central Pa
Inc train was held up by robbers near
Upper Gap, in the Sierras, on the 25tb
nd robbed of a large amount of money.
aid to be $4,000.
FIVE men were killed and two badly
urt by the falling of earth in an excaya-
on at Denver, COL, on the 26th. The ac-
ldent was due to carelessness on the part
the gas company in laying pipe.
A BROKEN switch at Helena. Mont. on
le 18th, caused the death of a fireman ,
amed Moore and serious injury Of pas
niger. The engine and one coach were {
returned. ,
WILLIAM WEsTERNBERGER died Of hy-
'ophobia at Logan, O., recently. The
ght prior to his death the physicians put t
m IN q straight-jacket which he soon g
re to pieces. It took four or five strong
en- to hold him when attacked by q con- &
llsion. =
Ex-JuDGE ROBERT A. JOHNSON commit
d suicide at Avondale, near Cincinnati. i.
Gently. About two months ago Mrs.. s
hnston died, and the Judge was unable
withstand his grief. a
GROCERY store on South State street 81
icago, was destroyed by. an incendiary
early the other morning, and an un- r
own man, supposed to have been burg fl
;, was burned to death A barrel OF oil
ploded during the fire and Frank Polo, a,
70 was standing outside the store. was L
ally burned. &