St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1883-03-17
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.

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Regent of the University.
8.5 CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
AT Cleveland, o., scaffold on which
some men were at work fell the other morn
ing and John Lube was fatally injured.
Ar Wilmot, o., sparks from Lucinda
Balcom's pipe set her clothing on fire the
other day and she was burned to death.
IT was reported en- the 9th that the
imprisoned Spanish Socialists were receiving
aid from mysterious sources.
The dead body of Frank Hunter was
found in a Water-tank near Massiiion, o.,
the other day and his wife, her father and
several relatives had been arrested on sus-
picion of having murdered him.
F.. Fl. PITT, Secretary Of the Peninsu-
lar Mutual Benefit Association OF Flint,
Mich, has been arrested on charge Of
making assessments upon members on ac-
count of fictitious deaths.
AN old farmer named A. j. Wing,
living near Someryille, o.. was frightened
to death the other night by some boys who
fired pistol near him in sport.
JOHN VoUGT rushed back into the
burning Wabash House, in Defiance, o.,
recently. to save his property, and persisted
in the flames.
AFTER serving twenty-eight years
under life sentence for murder. Samuel
Ulman was the other, day pardoned out of
the Michigan Penitentiary, his innocence OF
he charge. against him having been fully
established.
EHE police seized q number Of rifles
and bayonets on the premises OF a shop.
Keeper at Liverpool, Eng, on the 9Th. The
discovery was made while the officers were
making inquiries concerning the doings of
Fenians. Fi4,es tss43 ss
Two alleged ,counterfeiters were ar
rested at Dallas, Tex, q few days ago and a
large amount OF counterfeit coin. besides
plaster, dies and material( aere secured. 1t
was thought there was gang OF them in
that vicinity and people were on the alert.
DIR. NJ, A. RANDALL, q prominent
physician OF Roseyille, o., was called from
his home the other night and had not been
heard from to a,recent date. His hat was
Ii
was supposed he was thrown in the creek.
Two children of A. Evans, of Law
renee, o., were burned to death q few days
ago in stable, where they had been play
ing with matches.
AT Somerset, Ky, in a recent quarrel
over the wife Of Peter Golf, Henry Thomp-=
son was shot dead by Golf, who in turn
was killed by james spiney, Thompson's
friend.
A PREMATURE explosion at the Even
dale Coal Mine, near Canton, O., the other
morning, fatally Injured Justin Ferrett and
Louis langley, miners.
In endeavoring to make their escape
from fire in the Cambridge Flats in New
York City the other day Mrs. Abram Wake
man and her daughter were suffocated. A
number Of other persons had narrow es-
capes.
The Courthouse at Texarkana, Tex,
was the scene OF a sensational affair on the
7th, eliminating in the killing of A. L.
johnson by c. 4. Dixon, Sheriff of Miller
County. The trouble, it was said, was
caused by Dixon making war on gambling
house in which johnson was silently in
URIAH MOVER was hanged at Mid
Pa, on the It'll for. the murder
OF Gretchen Kintzler in 1877.
GEORGE CARSON, alias Haywood, an
alleged notorious bank sneak-thief, was
arrested In New York City the other day,
charged with the larceny Of $4,000.
An attempt was made by four desper-
ADDE'S on the 9TH to rob mail train on the
Little Rock & Fort Smith Railroad near Van
Buren,, Ark. They failed in the attempt,
but killed Conductor John Cain and brake
man Milton Lester, who gave the alarm.
The railroad company has offered a reward
81 So, 600 and Crawford County one of 81 900
Tor the capture OF the villains.
TIE jury in the case of Colonel Thee
1ore Hyatt, President of the Pennsylvania
Military Academy, charged with an aggra-
waited assault and battery on a cadet, re-
turned averdict Of acquittal on the Sth.
The bodies of several victims Of the
recent fireat Nashville, Tenn, were recoY-
cred ON the 8th. 90 M
The top Of the flood was asfar South
IS Helena on the sth. Further occasional
breaks in the levees were reported. The
Of plantation hands from the bot
IONS along the Lover Mississippi was be-
coming, general. ri
THE Mayor OF Xerez. Spain, received
letter recently containing threat to pois-
on the drinking water il the prosecution OF
me z Black Handn Society was continued.
iJosErH II. Looms was executed at
Springfield, Mass, on the sth for the muir.
der Of his friend David Levitt, in Agawam,
Ia December, 1881
MISCELLANEOUS.
SUICIDES among German army Off
cers were recently said to be OF almost daifv