St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1883-02-10
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.

CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
DURING an entertainment at Brook
lyn, N. Y, few days ago, creaking beam
caused panic, and many persons were Sc.
riously bruised in rushing to the doors.
AT Adrian, Mich, the other day,
number of men were carrying large ladle
of molten iron from one building to another,
when the handle broke, dropping the hot
metal on the snow, causing an explosion
that scattered the hot iron in every direc-
ton. Several men were badly burned, two
OF them fatally.
PROPERTY of the value Of 100000
was destroyed by fire at Philadelphia, Pa,
few days ago.
The managers of the Philadelphia
(Pa.) Olympic Hall were the other day fined
$50 each for allowing an eight-year-old child
to sing in public.
On the charge of arranging prize
fight, r. X. Fox and W. E. Harding were
arrested by the police in New York City the
other day and held to bail.
A DISASTROUS snow-slide occurred
four miles above Crested Butte, Colo, on
the 31st. The slide started on the side OF
the mountain above the Howard +. Smith
coal mine and swept down the mountain,
carrying the mine clearinghouse, with its
| thirty occupants, and all the company's ex-
pensive machinery to the bottom OF the
gulch. Six men were killed and fifteen
wounded, many Of them seriously. The day
before passenger train when within six
hoI Twill d fho
CINE going ahead to clear the track OF snow.
When few miles from where it had left the
coaches the engine was struck by slide
and buried under twenty feet of snow.
Two Mexicans living near Soeorro,
N. NJ, loved the same girl. In order to
settle their claims they lockeh themselves in
d room the other night and fought duel
| with axes. One chopped his rival in hor-
| ribIe manner, severing his head from his
| body, while he was himself terribly cut up,
and was arrested besides.
A SECOND outbreak of the convicts
employed at the Naval works, off Cork
Harbor, Ireland, was reported few days
ago. d
TIE farmhouse Of A. d. Hage, near
Dassel, Mimi, was burned the other night,
and four children persisted in the flames.
Hage, wife and babyc1barely escaped, and
| were nearly frozen to death in the storm
before they could reach the house Of q
neighbor.
In Philadelphia, Pa, the other day,
Catherine Berneson, ANNOYED by children
playing in front Of her house, fatally shot
Maggie Carlette, one of group Of children
| passing.
A TERRIFIC explosion occurred in a
| re-works factory at Amecameca, Mex, the
other day, followed by fyifg rockets and
bombs. The proprietor and five members of
| his family were burned to death, and sew
eral others were badly injured.
I "A FIRE at the Inman line dock, in
| New York, on the 1st inst, destroyed all the
| buildings on the pier and damaged several
| ships and their cargoes. Loss estimated at
| S., o0O, 900.
CHARLES COBB, who shot and killed
Sheriff Schenneman,o of Cowley County, Kans..
| few days ago, and afterWard confessed to
| having killed constable in Jefferson Coun-
ty, was taken from the jail at Winfield on the
| 1st, by mob of masked men, and hanged
from the railroad bridge.
AT Kingsyille, Ont, the other night
masked burglars cleaned out Smart's Bank
| and the Post Office.
HENRY A. Bowen was indicted by
the Grand Jury at W Washington the other day,
on charge of corruptly endeavoring to in
fuence juror (Dickson) in the star-route
cases, it was said upon evidence given by
| Dickson.
SOME medical students at Montreal,
Cana, could not be frightened into giving
| up bodies stolen from a cemetery, but the
| other day accepted $50 for their trouble in
| restoring two corpses to anxious relatives.
NEAR Wilkesbarre, Pa, the other
day, d man and his son were found in bed
starved to death, and his wife and two
| children were dying Of starvation.
| ISAAC III. VINCENT, State Treasurer
| OF Alabama. left Montgomery the other
night, sending back statement that he was
short in his accounts and was going to New
I York to obtain funds which he had loaned.
! IT was afterward learned that he lost heavi-
| " in cotton futures, and his defaleation
would probably amount to $3.50, 200.
NTSCELLANEOUs.
n THE British Government has fur
| nished Irish informers with iron huts for
| their protection.
AT Rutland. Vt, the Supreme Court
the other day. discharged three persons
serving long sentences imposed by Justices
courts for selling liquor, on the ground that
/ the liquor law was unconstitutional when it
| allowed such commitment, not giving the
accused the right of appeal.
TIE Codhty Medical Society held a
special meeting at New York the other even
ing, and, BY a vote Of 147 to go, adopted the
| new medical code, which allows allopaths to
consult in cases Of emergency with regular