St. Landry democrat., 1882-05-20

OF Arkansas, while serving as state Treas
urer, are found to be short about $4,000.
BLAINE and Belmont had tiff in the
Foreign Affairs Committee rooms on the
9th.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON is dead.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
THE bridge across the Los Angeles,
on the Texas-Mexican Railway, 100 miles
from Corpus Christi, burned few nights
since, intercepting traffic both ways. A
special train was dispatched from Corpus
Christi 10 free the train from Laredo for the
purpose of making transfer OF passengers
and mails. On the return OF the special,
when within twenty miles of Corpus Christi,
near Banquete, the locomotive jumped the
track, seriously weunding Engineer Parsons
and the fireman.
Gus ROSENBERG, q Louisville (ky.)
policeman, shot and killed A. T. Fielder,
with whom he had quarrel growing out of
a previous arrest. After few words
Fielder struck Rosenberg, who then at
tempted to arrest him. Fielder broke
away, ran into his house, and the officer
started for help. He had gone but a short
distance when he discovered Fielder at his
heels with Ratchet. The officer ran into
the middle of the street, followed by his as
sailant, and then turned and fired two
shots, one OF which passed through Fielder's
head, killing him instantly. Fielder, before
the war, was a prominent river man. He
owned the steamer Diana, and had other
property to the value of 500, 900. In 1861 he
was shot in the head, the effects of which
caused partial loss OF reason. He from this
cause began wild speculations, and soon lost
all his property. Rosenberg gave himself
up, and was admitted to bail.
]. D. ROGER, of Rome, Ashtabula
County, Ohio, committed suicide by shoot
ing himself through the heart with pistol,
April "a. Financial troubles are assigned as
the cause for the act
CALsEA, Secretary to Gen. Pacheco,
Mexican Minister Of Public '@,rks, was
shot and instantly killed by GEL Alvarar-
do, of the Mexican army, the other day.
Alvarardo is under arrest and will be tried
by court martial Calsea was very popular,
and achieved great fame for bravery during
the war in Mexico.
AUSTIN WOODS lost his life by inter-
fering in quarrel between a man and his
wife, in Liberty, Va, the other day. Mr..
and Mrs. John Hendricks were at variance,
and just as the peace maker appeared the
irate husband was about to knock his wife
down. Woods rushed in to save her, where
upon the woman turned upon him, saying
was no business of his, and that they
could settle their own quarrels. and Hen
bricks picked up an ak and crushed in his
skull, iniicting wound from which he died
in a few minutes. The murderer was ar
rested.
CHESTER COUNTY, Pa, has been much
excited by tragedy near Haysville. On
the oath, Mrs. J. .. Andrews, whose hus-
band has manifested a tendency to insanity
for some time, was felled to the floor by a
terrific blow on the head, dealt with roll
ing-pin in the hands of the mailman, who
had been left unguarded for moment in an
adjoining room. She fell to the floor in
sensible, while the attendant, returning just
at this moment, secured Andrews and sum-
moned medical aid. There was no hope,
however, and Mrs. Andrews died without
recovering consciousness. She was about
30 years of age. Prof. Andrews, who is
about 60 years old, accumulated large for
tune by his wonderful skill as mathema.
tician. He is known as the "Lightnipg
Calculator and it is supposed that his
peculiar mental exercise was the prime
cause of his malady.
A DISPATCH from Atlanta, Ca, says
two carloads of convicts stopped at a water
station on the Cherokee Road, on the 25th.
The convicts were chained together, and
number Of them, thinking that they were
expected to get off, stepped to the ground,
while the others remained on the cars, which
moved on, dragging the men on the ground
several hundred feet by their chains, beat
ing their bodies against the cross-ties and
iron. Six were terribly injured and are not
expected to live. The management is loudly
censured for inhumanity in not Enchanting
the unfortunates.
AN express train on the Cincinnati
Southern, going fifteen miles per hour, was
derailed by misplaced switch at Licking
ton, Ohio, April 26. David Driscoll, the en-
gineer, was killed and the fireman slightly
scalded.
AN engine and one car went through
a trestlework near Carbon Hill, Ohio, April
26. The engineer, VIM. Dowland, and fire.
man, Charles Dowland; his son, were killed
James lille, brakeman, was bad
ly sealded and had a leg broken.
AT Lake City, Colo, on the 9th, a
hundred masked men overpowered the
guard and took from jail George Belts and
Jim Brown, charged with the murder of
Sheriff Campbell, and strung them up to a
bridge in the lower part of the town. Both
men died game, Belts asking for chew of
tobacco just before the rope was placed
around his neck.
NELLIE TRENT, little girl living in
st. Joseph, Mo-, was accidentally pushed