St. Landry democrat., 1882-09-02

flowers, lasted from 4 O'Clock until !. ant
was graced by the presence of many distin
guished persons.
GRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
A BROKEN rail wrecked a Wabash
freight train, near Logansport, Ind, the
other night. j. A. Depler and Harris Lin
ker, brakemen, were seriously injured.
AT Newton, Ind, the other night
Mrs. John Miley quarreled with her sister
in-law, knocked her downstairs with
Ratchet, and, after gashing her throat, rar
into The street and reported that her victim
had committed suicide.
A BOILER explosion demolished 8
saw-mill at Sullivan, Ind, the other after
noon. Irwin Bailey, George Morris, and
George Inglehart were fatally injured.
PETER SToNER was accidentally shot
in the breast by his son Ernest, near
Sharpsburg, Ky, the other day. The
wound is a serious one, and may result IA
tally.
JAMES SUMMERS, a brakeman on the
Kentucky Central, was instantly killed while
coupling cars near Paris on the 23d. The
cause was a projecting timber, crushing his
head against a box-car.
GEORGE P. KING was killed and his
sister, Ella, probably fatally injured by a
runaway horse near Freeman, ILL.,, on the
22d.
Two children of Henry Butler, of
Bonneville, KY, quarreled about an apple
the other day. Hayes, aged six years,
savagely attacked his sister Retta, aged S,
with a knife, inflicting wounds which will
probably cause her death.
BEN HARRIS, a negro living near Vi
salia, Cal, killed his wife and one step
daughter and seriously injured another,
Aug. %. A party of lynchers went after the
murderer.
A DISPATCH from Henrietta, Texas,
says Bessie Gordon and Jennie Smith, young
the other evening.
PROF. G. BROWN, of Ell Paso, Texas,
was fatally stabbed in an encounter with a
man named Bostwick, father OF a pupil
whom he had punished.
ROBERT AIKEN, a clerk, was fatally
shot by a hunter named Gibbon, at Rock
Creek, Albany County, Wyo., the other
evening. The murderer was Informally
hanged.
JOHN SHARKEY, a c%ompositor, was
stabbed In the breast by j. j. Mcbride, a
prominent lawyer of st. Louis, the other
day.
THE body of Miss Ella Walker, Of
St. Louis, was found in Lake Minnetonka,
Mimi, on the 22d. There were some marks
upon the face, head and neck, which were
at first thought to indicate that she had met
her death by violence, but physicians say
they were caused by the movement of the
water.
A. c. CASTILLO, a wealthy farmer;
was shot and dubbed to death by his
nephew, Robert CASTILLO, Jr., at Amos
Ark, the other day. A family
quarrel was at the bottom Of the affair.
AT Newport, R. l., the other day,
Quartermaster Kratz, of the United
steamer T~allapooss, lost his life by
an accident in a lifeboat.
GEORGE RoGERMAN, IA years old,
or fell from the fourth floor of a
printing office in Cincinnati the other morn
ing, and lived but a few hours.
j. M. SCOTT, of Tarrant County,
Texas, was fatally injured by lightning the
other night.
EDWARD KILROY, an aged trackman,
run down and literally ground to pieces
BY a train near Albany, N. Y, on the 23d.
THOMAS STACKHoUsE, aged IA, was
fatally injured by the explosion Of a gun at
Columbus, Ohio, on the Esd.
In a desperate encounter at Milwau-
zee, Wis, or the 23d, Michael Hogan was
fatally wounded by 1eter Montague without
orovocation. Montague seized Hogan on the.
street, choked and kicked him, and deliber-
.tely plunged a huge knife several times in
% the head of his victim.
OKLAHOMA PAYNE writes to friends
n Kansas that he is encamped on Dry
Creek, in Indian Territory, and that his
men are erecting buildings.
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