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H HE RUrhEO1 ImATý Official Journal of the Parish o West Feliclana and School Board. SLEaE, Jr., Pub. ad Prop ST. FRANCISVILLE, WEST FELICIANA PARIS, LA SATURDAY, NOVEMBER ,1897 --- 39. 7, Powell, John H. Stone, e t Franoisville,. Clinton, La. " pOWELL & STONE, Sttorneys - at - Law, .x St. Francisville, La. . ROBERT SEMPLE, rAttornefy - at - Law, ill practice in the courts of the h and 11th judicial districts. Dur. vacation, will meet clients at the tton House in Bayou Sara whenever ieste 1. (Coupeo Postoffice, La. RICHARD5 PERCY, torney.at-Law & Notary Public, ST, IANCISVILLE, LA. .Wiil practice in the 13th Judicial griet, 4th Circuit; Supreme and eral Courts. Oilice in Bank Build. r; ROBT. C. WICKLIFFE, 4ttorney - at - Lt4w, ST. FRANCISVILLE, LA. Ofice near court house. Will prnc. ifin the 13th Judicial and Federal , DR. A. F. BARROW, qtysician and Surgeon, St. Francisville, La. erjin" Leake building. Telephone iguswered from either Kilbourne's ford's drug stores. NEY POWELL, D.D.S., DENTIST, asnolsville, - Louisiana, Is.prepared to do all work in h line. Office at residence. kT, Gastrell, AIW&E, STOVES, WAGON SOARBIAGE WOOD WORK. Furnishing Coods. Ji*ii , HAT RAIES, cASE, LIND1S, DOORS, ETC. 9JOUEPH STERN, , ....Dealer Ia,... r eral .Meohandi.e. Iithi I Gonnectlo With Stres. 4.f Inses and Mules for sale stIsfaotion Guaranteed. 0:LS, STERN, * ,." t of Hill. PKILBOURNE, SLt. Iranisvlle, La. oh carefully compounded. sleostion of Drgs, Patent e~ne, and Notions, arden Seeu d on Hand awe RAYNHAM, actor -and Builder. and Dressed Lumber kept ,Id on hand at shop, neaPr residence, Suit the Times. . PLITT, . and Confectioner, - ie, Cakes, Cream PLurs b of Fancy Sweets. Home s k Candy. p -! ~Wddings and plenic par LOUISIANA HAPPENINGS. ,- ----.___ 1 PROMINENT MERCHANT ARRESTED FOf MURDER AT VIVIAN. Fatal Affrny in a Gambling House at lay. ile ...-- Sugar Mills Begin Operation .. Negro Preacher Acquitted of Arson . Another Section of the Levee Gone. -- ----_. Mills I)estroyed by Fire. Information has been received at Covington that the saw and planing mills of Heisser & Co., situated at lMadisonville, and one of the largest and best equipped was entirely d stroyed by fire Thursday night. CS& get no account of how it caught.. Lts# iup in the thousands. Noinsurace. Sugar Mills All Starting Utp. All of the sugar' mills..near Plaque mine have been started, and the yield is reported by planters as fairly satis factory. The tonnage is light. For J a while the cry of ."scarcity of labor" f was heard, but the arrival of the Ital ian steamer Montebello eased matters in that direction considbrably. hurt by the Belting. Mr. P. H. Hynsou, a prominent planter and supe.iatondent of the gin of the R~d River Oil Company, of Alexandria, was seriously, though not dangerously, injured Friday morning while attending to his duties at the sin. A portion of the belting became disconnected and fl ;w back and him in the face, cutting a d(loop gash in his cheek anti otherwise bruising him. I)r. Munday Sues for Damages. One of the largest civil suits of re. cent years was filel in the District Court. at Lake Charles Saturday by Dr. J. C. Munday a gainst J. A. & D. J. Landry for damages placed at $50,000. Suit is tntered by Messrs. Andrews & Hackenjos, of Alexandria, and Thos. Kleiupeter, of Lake Charles, attorneys for the plaintiff. This litigation is thr result of the cowhiding which was ad ministered Dr. Munday by the Landry brothers, and which took plach in Dr. Munday's office several weeks ago. Another Section of the Levee Goes Down, The steamship' Montebello finished discharging her human freight at Pla. qremine Friday morning, and weighe, anchor at noon and left for New Or. leans. Large crowds visited the ship Friyday morning&.and were handsomely reeeivet ty 'ier genial commander,. aided by his'gaillatft crew. Th6 elbsion of the-river bank at the head of Plai quemine street, in Plaquemine, con tinues. A good piece of the levee went down Thursday, night, and .there is ne question of a new levee now. The brick store buildings of Leon Meyer, B. Beyris, Roth & MoWilliams and Charles Cropper, and several frame buildings, including thp' warehouse of Mr. Frank Turner will have to be re moved. Eunice in Trouble With Acadia. Eunice is a small town on the Cal casien and Acadia line, but really sit. uated in the latter parish, the line be ing the western boundary of the mu nicipal corporation. The officials ol Eunice and of Acadia parish are badly at outs over quarantine matters, and it looks as if the case would get into court. The town officials went tc Lake Charles Friday for legal advice. Eunice wants the trains on the South ern Pacific spur to come into their municipality and deliver freight, but the Acadia 1'arish health offilcials say the train must not cross the Caloasieu line. The parish line beina the boun dary or the town, when trains enter Eunice they are in Acadia parish. An attorney assured the committee that the town authorities were supreme within their municipal limits, and ii they wanted the trains they could has e them. The mayor was sired to thiu effect and will act. Killed the Man VWho Threatened His Life Deputy Sheriff Ward arrived it Shreveport, Saturday night, having in charge Mr. 8. P. Harrell, a prominent merchant residing at Vivian, La.,north of Shreveport, on the Kansas City, Pittsburg and Gulf road. Mr. Harrel: had a difiuonlty with a planter named Harmon Roberts and claims that- he killed Roberts in self-defense. As soQD0 as he committed the deed he immediate ly telegraphed the sheriff and asked him to send one of his deputies to Viv. I ian. Deputy Ward,went to Vivia i Saturday morning and returned that night with his prisoner. Mr. Harrel) I was interviewed regarding the killing. ' He stated that he killed Harmon Rob. erts purely in self-defense. Roberts had I repeatedly threatened his life, and I came to the store of which he was pro- I prietor with the avowed purpose of I killing him. The shooting took place -1 at the store door about dark. The I weapon used was a shotgun loaded with I buckshot. One charge entered Roberta' breast and, the other his side, killing him instantly. Roberte had come to Vivian about three years ago and was a farmer in that vicinity. He leaves a tvife and three children. (he deputy sheriff stated that the opiiin of the best citizens he met at Vivian was that Harrell was justiflable in the act. The preliminary trial took place Monday. Negro Preacher Acquitted of Arson. Andrew Young, a negro preacher of lahnville, was put on trial.for his life Saturday for setting fire to hid wife's * house on August 1, 1897, in the night. time. The State was represented by • :. District Attorney B. J. Perkins and J. L. Gaudet; The accused was repre" sented by Mr. P. E. Edrington, who was appointed by the court. Robert y' Pierre, deputy sheriff, said that on August let, at about 9 o'clock p.m., he heard some one cry out "Aunt Lizzie's house is on fire." Then Elizabeth Young (the accused's wife) came out of church and said that her little boy,. .t aged six, was in the house. Pierre and g others ran to the house and found it hI on fire and rescued the boy and put the t fire out about half an hour after. He arrested the accused. Wheh arrested h be was in Rosalie Glasscourt's house~ Sint the act of taking off his " shoes. His trousers were wet with dew, and his shirt was wet with perspiration. He looked as if he had been running. lissy Griff, stepdaughter of the ac. cused, testified that on the night of'the fire she saw the accused in her moth er's yard. She ran to the church and told her mother that the accused was in the yard, and asked her mother to come with her to the house. While she was still in the church some one came and said that her mother's house was on fire. This closed the testimony. The jury retired and returned into court about ha'f an hour later with a verdict of not guilty. 'Ihe court then ad. journed sine die. Fatal Affray in a Gambling House. Some time between 4 and 5 o'clock Thursday evening Mr. J. M. Griffin shot and mortally wounded Mr. J. S. JMoon at Rayville in a .gamb'ing room in a back part of the old Orr saloon. From all that could be gathered from witnesses of the killine. it seems that Uriffin and Moon were gambling. Bad feeling already existed between the two men; the quarrel was easily renewed, and Griffin drew his pistol, a 45 calibel Col's, and Moon, being unarmed, started for the door. The first shol Griffin fired missed, but the second ball took, effect inMoon'a body, enter ing about two inches to the right of the backbone and near the upper portion of the right hip. The large ball tore its way through the bladder, coming out in the left groin and cutting sei distinct holes in the skin about as many inches down the left thigh, showing that Moon was in the act of raising his left leg. when shot. After being wounded Moon walked some distance to John Jones' store. He was attended : by Drs. Beasley and EvanS, but 'hi injury was Beyond li i r'ft t -ida:' skill, and he died at 7 o'clock. Coroe. ner Beasley, after making necessary official investigations, turned the body over to friends for burial. ' After the shooting Griffin was taken in charge by a the sheriff and placed in jail. TROOPS MAY BE CALLED FOR. Uprising of Indians in Oolorado Becom ing Serious. A courier arrived at Denver, Col., Friday carrying a message from Game t Warden Wilcox to Sheriff Nieman, for a help. The Indians have burned the Son's ranch near Cross mountain and i have killed one Gable, a messenger a sent out by Wilcox, The latter tried to arrest the Indians for violating the game law. They resisted and began to fight. Five Indians were killed and Subchief Stad mortally wounded. The Indians had stacks of green deer hides in their possession and weree slaughtering on all sides,. The fight occurred ninety miles west of Steamboat Springs in Routt county. One hundred determined men are now on their way to the aid of the sheriff. Settlers are gathering on Vaughan's ranch at Day, Col. The Indians are threatening to pillage and murder. Squaws have been sent back to the reservation and reinforcements are coming. State troops may be called for if the sheriff finds that mat ters are as serious as reported. JUDGE VINCENT OUT. lie .VIII Withdraw fr'om the Lueger Case, There is a strong probability that Ex-Judge Vincent will not appear as counsel for Adolph L. Luetgert in his second trial, which is scheduled for next week. Luetgert sent for Ex-As sistant State's Attorney Ramsay Thure day at Chicago to consult with him relative to taking charge of the new trial, A very heated conversation, it is said, took place between the big eau sagemaker and his counsel at the jail Wednesday. Ex-Judge Vincent urged Luetgert to agree to a reasonable con tinuanoe of the case, but he was obdu rate. Mr. Vincent then told Luetgert that he had neglected his own buainess for three months to try the case and he - .now proposed to have a little time for c himself. Luetgert became very angry s and sent for Atto:ney Ramsay Thures- ' day. - Bryan's Fast lRun. I Hon. W. J. 3Bryan started from Jack ' son, O., early Saturday morning and , stopped at Waverly, where.he address. I ed a big meeting. He then took a train 1 into Greenfield where he addressed an enormous meeting. About 2:31 Satarday afternoon' he took a train for Cleveland and made the run of over 8q00 miles at the rate of a mile a minate, arriving at Cleveland in a little over' three hours.' :-~' . HENRY GEORGE 'A EST: THE END WAS PEACEFUL AND HE DIED WITHOUT PAIN. The Labors of a Great Campaign Too Much for His Strength--.He Succumbs With the Applause Ringing in His Ears... His Son Norminated in Succession to Him. Henry George, author of "Progress and Poverty," ond candidate of the Thomas Jefferson Democracy for mayor of Greater New York, died at 4:50 o'clock, Friday morning, at his hotel, at New York City, of apoplexy. In ,is great Cooper Union speech accept ring the nomination for mayor, less than a month ago, said he: "I'll make thia race, if itcotts me my life. This is a call to duty and as a good citizen I have no right to disregard it on ac count of mere personal consideration." The .heers - of the workers have sudde~ly been changed to sighs, for, true to his word, Henry George, the apostle of the rights of man, died as he wished to die-in harness fighting for the cause-toward the close of the greatest nunicipal political contest the world has ever seen. The end was peaceful and he died without pain. This man of mighty brain and undaunted courage, was physically frail and the strain of an exciting campaign, requiring speech making at points many miles apart, night after night, was more than nature could stand. He kept it up.to the end and only a few homrs before the dread messenger cried halt, Henry George had addressed enthusiastic audiences in three of the towns of the forough of Queens and a still larger assemblage in an up town hall. He spoke at Whitestone at 8 o'clock and made speeches at College Point and Flush ing before returning to New York to speak at the Central Opera House. Mrs. George went with him. All the halls in which he spoke were filled and at College Point and Flushing crowds were turned away. At Whitestone he drove from the railroad station to the meeting hall at a gallop. To the sheering crowds he slid: "I believe that all the needed reforms are sum med up in that philosophy-the right of every man, to eat, to drink, to speak as he sees fit, so long as he does not trench on the rights of any other man. Jbelieve that4Ood, the.Father. gi take bare of his own laiwsthere i:sno need-for :s to get::into.trouble. trying to meddle with God's laws,. to enforce them. If I am elected, and I believe that I will be elected-I will enforce the law upon the rich and poor alike. Mr. George was an Episcopalian, but was not very regular in his attendance at church. His widow is a Catholic, and it was often said her husband in tended to embrace Catholicism. Mrs. George is bearing up well under the strain, -but hei; friends fear that she will soon give way. There is talk of taking her out of town immediately after the funeral. A guard of honor, composed of prominent George men, will watch the dead body until its interment. Robbers Brake Jail. Monday night the four Belle Four dhe robbers overpowered the Lawrence couuty jailor and.his wife, at Dead: wood, S, D., outraged the woman and escaped to the hills, taking with them William Moore, a negro murderer. The robbers are members of the des perate Curry gang of outlaws and were captured only a week or so ago in Montana, after a severe battle. ROUMAIN BROS'. JEWELRY STORE 18 A I'OEM. Now in this hustling little city, There are many things that are pretty, But of all things that are complete is Roumainstra nr'-t_, clean an. neat. 'T'hIIalasst yles can thd.e be found; "They le'd the other fellows" round; They lead in jewelry through and through, iTheTr clookinot only tlick and beat, But makes their rivals quick retreat. Low prices, beauty not surpassed, Thtjqualty ti wiiha_~ .akeR themn last. Watohis that look so title ana nice, Can suit you in both looks and price. They are gold, silver, and some inlaid, The haet d oL..n.n Wth&n made. Speaklng abbtit engagement rings, The boys on the corner have just the thing.; They'll tfi you up so neat, so olever, TrL ~vu. wavlt iiYLerLt. lSitt5i sets, hairpins inld belt buckles too;' Side comb(, belt pins, watelj pockets-for who? The ladies. Why these make. them fair; Make attrautitlt ~ie . and hir, . IFyour watch"li cinullsh anTI wnil notgo, Or if it goes too fast or even too slow, Why take it the Routnman:!ros.; Thc'11 ttzr it ti,'t b ttei~t ln others. Tlie JweTwaers lsthe ~nime they bear, Aud by honest dealing that name they'll weal, If their goods are not just as they say, They'll rejurn ynu thte rno' A.ny day. IrFriadliig thrs 'our eyes stioild tire; Pray tell the boysthat you desire To have your eyes made fresh and new With a flnepair of glasses, which, the handle too. Roaill BROS., - The Jvlaele Cor. 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