St. Landry democrat., 1882-12-02
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.

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j. w. BURTON was shot and killed by
W. A. Tharpe, his brother -in-law, at Som
erville, Tenn, the other night. The trouble
grew out ofla misunderstanding about FAM
lily matters, Burton having publicly de-
nounced Tharpe and threatened to kill him.
Tharpe, who is President OF the Someryille
College, armed himself with shot gun, and
happening to meet his brother-in-iaw in u
billiard saloon. discharged both barrels into
his head and face. Burton had been in
tronblefer killing one man and cutting an
other. and his best friends considered him
rather dangerous.
JOHN JoYcE and Timothy Callahan
were crushed to death BY a block OF granite
in the Rogers quarry, near Quincy, Mass. .,on
the 21st.
A SAILOR named Burns, hailing from
Buffalo, N. T., was found pinned to the
track by car-wheel, in Toledo, Ohio, the
other morning. He died while an arm was
being amputated. He had been drinking,
and probably went To sleep on the rail.
SYLVESTER Bonn and Ransom Willis
met horrible fate in the straw board works
at Elkhart, Ind, the other day. A rotten
board precipitated them into vat OF boiling
pulp, and when taken out the flesh dropped
from their bones. George Brdenstein and
Patrick McKenna were fatally scalded by
the bursting Of a lard vat in q rendering
house near Bridgeport. Ohio, on the same
day.
The engine and five cars Of q freight
train on the Richmond, Fredericksburg 4
Potomac Railroad went. over an embank-
me1t near Hamilton, Va, on the 21st, and
was wrecked. James Young, engineer, was
killed.
Al Hico, Texas, on the 21st, Mich olas
O'Brien was killed by his brother in law,
Frank Hyles. Mrs. O'Brien alleged cruel
treatment on the part OF her husband and
fed to her brothers. house for protection.
Her husband followed and was shot dead.
A NIGHT express on the Pittsburg,
Cincinnati q st. Louis road was thrown
down an embankment by train-wreckers,
near Union Station, Ohio. Nov. %. The
passengers escaped with slight bruises.
Four train men were badly hurt.
THE steamship Wearmouth, from
Quebec to London, went to pieces on one OF
the Magdalen Islands and sixteen seamen
were lost.
s VIM. Is. LEWIS was fatally injured by
the explosion Of can Of powder in his faith
er's store at Troy, N. Y, ON the 21st. The
place was completely wrecked.
Four men charged with completely ii
the murder Of the Joyce family, In Ireland,
pleaded guilty and asked mercy from the
court, but were sentenced to death.
THE drug house, OF Gilbert Brothers
& CO., in Baltimore; Md., was destroyed
by frs the other day James Shaw, the
porter. was fatally burned. five fremen
were severely injured by falling timbers,
and party Of girls at work on the third
floor were rescued while the stairway was in
: flames. Z,
FIFTEEN Spanish soldiers were I'M
jured by an explosion Of powder at the barr
racks in Madrid theaother day. The builds
ing was demolished. 4 /,
TEE body of Newton Ashton, aged
"a, was found in the woods near Martin q
Ferry, Ohio, Nov. o, with 4 builet-hole In
the temple. A young lady to whom he-was
engaged had just given him back his ring,
and as he had threatened to take hts life
unless she married him, averdict Of suicide
was rendered.
Two negroes were cremated at the
Sloss furnace In Birmingham, Ala, Nov. %.
They were cleaning the stack, and becom-
ing overpowered BY gas fell into the mass Of
ore.