Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 November 1884 — EATER NEWS ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

EATER NEWS ITEMS.

A fire along the wharves of Lubec, Me., destroyed $40,000 worth of property. The Willow Springs distillery property at Omaha was totally destroyed by fire. Loss, 825,000. The National White Lead Works at Willow Grove, Pa’., were ruined by fire. The office of the Montreal Herald is in the hands of its creditors, whoso claims aggregate SBO,OOO. C. H. Ccrdlngly & Co., liquor importers, of that city, have made an ass gnnient. A petition in bankruptcy was filed at Oakland, Cal., by Alexander B. Cooper, a mining speculator, who owes $260,000. The city of Wheeling is in default of the interest on its building loan. A press dispatch from New Iberia, La., gives the following particulars of a bloody affray at a Republican meeting a day or two before the election: “Judge Fontelieu and eight or ten others left hero for Louisville to hold a political meeting in the interest of Kellogg. After the crowd had assembled, a disturbance was created by persons hallooing “Hurrah for Gay.” Joseph Guilfaux rushed to the scene of tho trouble, and was fired at, the ball passing through his hat. Ho returned the fire. At that moment there was a general row, and Capt., Bell, a prominent sugar planter and a Democrat, and Joseph Guilfaux, a leading Gay man, and Oliver Boutte (colored), a Kellogg supporter, from New Iberia, were killed outright. The wounded, as far as known, are: Jules Mostayer, Republican candidate for Sheriff last spring, thigh broken; exSheriffT. Viator, shot twice in the abdomen. About a dozen others were slightly wounded. Six negroes were killed so far as known. The perpetrators were surrounded and kept under guard until the Sheriff arrived to arrest them. A courier was then dispatched to New Iberia, and in u few minutes after he arrived the town was in the wildest excitement. All saloons were closed by order of the Mayor. Fifty or seventy-five men from here loft under order from the Sheriff for the scene of trouble. All were armed with double-barreled shotguns ahd rifles. They arrested Fontelieu and Adolph Bienvenu, and five white men, who are now in tho parish jail under heavy guard. It is said a thousand shots ware fired simultaneously. A Dresden (Tenn.) dispatch says that Taylor, who poisoned five men with cantharides near Pillowville, Weakly County, from which two have died, was taken from jail and lynched. Twenty-five or thirty masked men walked into Dresden, and with sledge hammers broke down the doors of Taylor’s cell. Taking him out, they carried him about half a mile from town and shot him to pieces. Tho mob was sober and orderly. Taylor was a cousin of Andy Taylor, the notorious East Tennessee desperado. The cry of “Fire” was raised in the Star Theater at Glasgow. In tho rush to escape sixteen persons were killed and twenty others were wounded. A gas vein with a flame of fifty feet was struck at Cannonsburg, Pa. The members of the Providence Base-Ball Club, who won the championship, have each been presented by the management with a gold badge and an order for a new suit of clothes. The lumber shipments from Saginaw have been 7,000,090 feet more this year than last. A passenger train on the Baltimore and Ohio Road, while running at full speed, leaped the track near Alta, Ohio. Eighteen persons were injured. Judge Anthony has decided in the Scott law tax cases in Cincinnati that where the suit was not commenced within a year of the time the tax was paid nothing can be recovered. Hamilton County is interested in the decision to the amount of $400,000. In a street duel at New Orleans, John Duffy killed Edward Gardner, Master Methanlo of the City Railway. The Bev. Dr. Paret has been elected to the bishopric of Maryland.