St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1882-07-08
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.

MARY CoNNoRs, residing in New
York, has been placed in the Tombs on a
charge of deliberately starving small boy.
MONTREAL, Cana, lost a million dol
lars by fire, June 10. Texarkana, Ark. ,
| lost 900 the day before.
HARRIS FRENCH, delirious with
smallpox jumped from the window OF the
pest house in Leavenworth, Kans., June Is,
and was killed.
AT Bement, ILL.,, juno -, John Nc
Leash, blacksmith, attempted to murder
his wife because she refused to live with
him. He stabbed her three times with a
butcher knife, twice in the left breast and
once under the left arm. The wounds are
dangerous, but not fatal.
SHERMAN BETz, aged IS, employed
as waiter in indianapolis, Ind, committed
suicide by shooting, June -. The youth
was involved in love scrape and preferred
death to marriage. He prepared for the act
with great care, and left a note saying he
was not happy and wanted to be buried de-
Gently.
A DISPATCH from Virginia City,
New, says John Black and James L. Brown,
We're killed and two others were seriously
injured by the pemature explosion of blast
in the Union Consolidated Mine, June -.
THE four rustlers who bound and
gagged Mason and store keeper near Me-
silIa, New Mex, recently, robbing his store
Of all they could carry, were overtaken by a
Mexican posse and strangled. All were
A h11t bai
They belonged to a gang OF Arizona cow
bows.
DURING fire at Nowson, Mass,
June 10, Mr.. and Mrs. Pendergast We're IA
tally burned.
VIM. BUTLER, a wealthy farmer of
and killed, June II. Earlier in the day
brother had been seriously injured by a
runaway horse. A still more singular coin
cidence occurred in the afternoon, when
John and Thomas Butler, sons of the de-
ceased, were run away with by fractions
team which wrecked the wagon, Thomas
being badly hurt.
FRANK EVANS, of Bloomington, ILL.,,
was killed by lightning on the 18th.
CYRUS CoRRI, a wealthy farmer of
Gratiot County, Michigan, threw himself
before train at Swan Creek, ently, and
was beheaded. .-
GEO. ARNOLD, principal of the Mitch
ell Spring School, Cherokee Nation, 1. r.,
was murdered by Baxter Prather. prom
inent Indian, the other day. Arnold had
chastised Prather's younger brother.
THERE was an explosion in the STAN
ton mines, near Wikesbarre, Pa, June Is.
Five men were descending in the bucket at
the time. James Conroy fell to the bottom
of the shaft and was killed. John Walsh,
Michael Lynch, Henry Hughes and Edward
Finnegan were badly burned, and their re-
covery is doubtful.
A TRAGEDY was enacted at Nenia,
ILL.,, June IA. William johnson killed his
wife and then sent two fatal bullets in
to his own brain. The couple had just
got together after long separation, caused
by family feud. johnson left note say
ing: "Where is the token of love? II me
and my wife can not live together, we can
die and go to heaven-or that is what I
think"
JAMES IRWIN, hard character in the
county Jail at Geneva, Ill.,, was killed by
Adolph Lawson, Deputy Sheriff, the other
night. Twenty -four prisoners were riotous
and mutinous. Lawson went among them.
Irwin threw a bucket of Stops in his face,
and advanced threateningly. Lawson's call
to halt being disregarded, he drew his re-
yOlyer and fired. shooting the prisoner
through the nose into the brain, killing him
The Coroner's jury rendered
verdict of justifiable homicide.