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Show The, Oltut Murilor, New Orleans, 25. Particulars of the (.hooting ol democratic ex-Senator Oilut, St. Landy parish, was as follows: fol-lows: Oflut, while making a visit to relatives in Washington, La., waa shot through the rear of a buggy in the head. A negro named Augustan, Aug-ustan, arm oil with a shot gun, shortly afterwards informed somo colored womim that Oflut had been hurt. Augustan was Biispectcd, and a crowd went up to his cabin, when he run out from under the cabin, about 200 yjirds in advance of his pursuers. Two hundred men surrounded the swamp in which he refuged. Oflutt died on Sunday. |