The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-12-20
AN INCENDIARY FRUSTRATED.
Thorough Preparations to Fire House.

AN INCENDIARY FRUSTRATED.
Thorough Preparations to Fire House
Preparations the most thorough, and skill
fully and deliberately executed, for firing
building, that have ever been made for ik
purpose, were yesterday discovered in tn
two-story frame house, situated at the corne
Of Magazine and Delachaise streets.
The house is double tenement, but til
two lower front rooms have been thrown int
one, and is occupied by Mr.. Chas Theodor
as grocery store. He also occupies one sid
as residence. The side resting on tn
corner in which the work was performed, ha
been for some time unoccupied. Yeaterday
morning the attention of Mr. Theo
dore was attracted by the dripping of some
liquid from the ceiling Of the store. Suspect
ing that something was wrong, he immediate
ly entered the vacant house by rear door,
and with horror, discovered
THE PREPARATIONS
for terrible crime.
Just inside OF the door, at his very feet,
was a fuse covered with powder, which ran
through the entire house, even up the stairs,
and led.to every from, (there were six in all, J
and in each the fuse connected with box of
coal oil, mixed with powder and covered with
pine, on which were q number OF matches,
the whole being buried beneath a pile of
paper.
The intention was to light. the fuse at the
rear door and in moment the entire build
ing would have been in flames.
Nothing to positively fix the
CONTEMPLATED CRIME
on any one has been discovered but circum-
stances point to the owner Of the place, a
Sicilian, named Antonio Shakatanna, as the
man.
The place is mortgaged to Mr.. r. Pourslow
for $500 and is insured for $500, in the
London, Liverpool and Globe Insurance
Company. The building is worth, at the
most, $500.
1t is supposed that Shakatanna, fearing a
foreclosure of the mortgage, proposed to pay
it, and at the same time, put some money in
his own pocket by burning the place.
He has not been in the city since Wednes-
day. This, however, is no cause for suspi-
cion, as his business frequently calls him out
Of it. but the preparations show evidences of
having been made some days ago.
The oil finding its ways through the floor
and the ceiling would indicate this. It is
that Shakatanna laid the plan and |
performed the work, and left the city to avoid |
having previously made arrange
nents with some one else to apply the match.
Fear or conscience, for opportunities were
plentiful, no doubt deferred this some one
Use from performing his part.
If the scheme had been consummated. the
consequences to Mr. Theodore would have
'een terrible, for even if he had succeeded in
aying the lives of himself and family, he
vould have been ruined, there being no in
urance on his stock in trade.
George Peters, the landlord of hotel near
lebanon, Pa, has voluntarily confessed the
of an unsupported murder nv
i'm sixteen years ago. At that time he had
1st been married, and between him and his
'ife's brother there was bitter feeling The
rother-in-law came to his house on q visit.
nd, against his wishes, Mrs. Peters insisted
pom affording hospitable ente, tainment.
hs went to the barn to catch fowl which
ne intended to cook for dinner. The hus-
and angrily followed, and ordered her to 90
ack to the house. She refused. and he
ruck her with o club, crushing her skull
nd killing her. She fell under horse, and
obody but the guilty husband knew that the
1imal had not kicked her to death. He saws
lat he was so stricken with remorse that he
vice took inefectua. doses Of poison, Eight
'ars ago he resolved to confess, but lacked
le courage. He has now surrendered him.
If to the Sheriff, and as there is no indica-
On Of insanity, his story is believed.
The latest New York fashion, imported
ON Berlin, is that Of early parties. We
ad that the cards for one of the most ]
swell affairs of the season have been re-
ntly issued, with "from to II P. NJ"
graved in one corner. According to this
stem, the blinds are closed and the gas
,hted at o'clock in the afternoon; the
ncing begins by or 6, and the ball is over
II. Still another foreign custom imported
to New York, which is said to have been
Irted by the Prince Of Wales, is for gentle
IN TO appear without gloves on full-dress
casions.
FAIRBANKS scALEs.-5O,OOO scales yearly seems
enormous number for one factory to produce:
!, in this dull year, the Fairbanks Company
Ems likely to exceed that amount.
The principle adopted in the infancy of the
sinese, ana rigidly pursued for more than forty
ars-tO use only the best material, to subject
cry Scale to the most severe tests. to allow
thing inferior to bear the Fairbanks name
counts for the worldwide favor of these cele-
tied weighing machines.
SO largely Exceeding in the az q
sgate the production of all the other Scale Co.
the United States), the Fairbanks Co. can
ord to use expensive machinery, and thus the
It is greatly reduced, the result being that
'se Standard Scales can be produced more
saply than the less finished Scales of smaller
nufacturers
daking the best Scales. and selling them at
ce which their immense sales alone can ex-
in-the business Of Scale Masking for the
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