St. Landry democrat., 1882-08-12
GRIMES AND CASUALTIES.

CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
S. r. PROCTOR, Assistant Adjutant
General Of the Louisiana Militia, sent bull
let through his brain and dropped dead in
the office Of his brother -in-law. Gen. G.
T. Beauregard, at New Orleans, Aug. l..
Col. Proctor had been ill for some time,
and the death of his children and loss Of for
tune preyed on him and drove him to a
settled melancholy. During the civil war
he served on Beauregard's staff, and was
a wealthy and prominent man, descended
from leading South Carolina family, his
father having been Capt ain in the army
in the war of 1872.
VIM. FRAME, a blind man, was
| locked up at Cincinnati the other day for
fatally stabbing an acquaintance who had
started quarrel with some woman.
A NUMBER of persons persisted in the
recent floods in Mason County, Ky. Seven
members of the Boya family, living on Law
renee Creek, near Maysville, were swept
away, and two colored women occupying
cabin on Limestone Creek were whirled in
to the Ohio.
AMELIA Cook, aged "a, daughter of
Shreveport Ia.) merchant, died sudden
ly the other day from the effects of too much
morphine.
ROBERT Rock was killed and John
McLester was seriously injured by the ex-
plosion of a boiler at Gosport, Ind, Aug. 1.
E. B. WHEELER and Walter Preston,
prominent young attorneys at Seymour,
Texas, quarreled about the ownership of a
book the other day. Pistols were resorted
to and Preston was killed.
In a free fight at Mckinney, Texas,
the other night, one negro was shot dead and
two others were wounded. A Cherokee
halfbreed named Joe led the shooters and
managed to escape.
JAMES BROWN, a farmer, was killed
by lightning near Belknap, Iowa, Aug. I.
j. w. GLIDE, the colored route agent
robbing the mails, killed himself the other
night.
In an alteration between Detective
VIM. Walsh and j. Healy, at New Orleans,
Aug. l, the former was fatally shot. Healy
says he acted in self-defense.
FOUR circus elephants escaped from
their keepers in Troy, n. Y, Aug. ..
Patrick Ryan and wife were Knocked down,
the former receiving fatal injuries. Several
other persons were hurt. One of the ami
mails charged bloom of red hot iron in a
rolling mill.
BISHOP EMBERTON and Richard
speakman, who so brutalIy assaulted Mrs.
j. b. Garrett, OF Tompkinsvile, ky., few
days ago, were lynched by a mob, Aug. 1,
while on the way to Glasgow under a guard
of fifteen men.
AS freight train was passing through
Walton, Ky, Aug. 1, John Richly fired two
shots from revolver at the conductor and
two brakemen sitting on the top of the ca
boose. One of the balls struck John r. Car
son, brakeman, in the head, intIicting
fatal wound. Richly was arrested.
THE engine and mail car of a Union
Pacific train went through burned bridge |
spanning Granite Creek, between Glen
Elder and Cawker City, Kans., Aug. 8. /
Britton Craft, engineer, and C. MCGEE. fire.
man, were fatally injured and died soon af-
ter. Mahaffy, express messenger, and !
Wentworth and Chamberlain, mail agents,
were hurt, but not dangerously. The pas
There Is a curve and cut near the .bridge,
and the engineer could not see the fire in
time to stop the train.
MISCELLANEOUS.
A FA1TH-CURE y camp-meeting in
progress at Old Orchard Beach, Me-, is de-