St. Landry democrat., 1884-08-09
CRIMEs AND CASUALTIES.

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On the 21st petroleum miners at
Drohobiz, Austria, attacked all the Jews,
desecrated the synagogue, tore up the
books and carried on wild riot, in which
several persons were killed and several
others wounded.
FOREST fires were reported raging all
through Northern Michigan, doing terrible
damage.
AT Gloucester, Mass, on the 22d, heavy
fire came very near sweeping the town
away.
On the 22d, at the colored Methodist
camp-meeting at JewelPs Woods, Ind,
one man was fatally and others seriously
injured during fracas.
In Michigan the forest fires had COM
pletely surrounded the town of Farwell,
Glare County, on the 22d, and the citizens
were fighting to keep them off.
FIRE destroyed Blanchard's shoe factory
in Boston, Mass, on the 23d.
On the 23d hail and wind storm did
considerable damage to property and life
in Wisconsin.
On the 23d George Nichols was shot in
the back and instantly killed by James
Cullinane in Cleveland, Q.
A. B. WAGNER has been arrested for
completely in the Edmunson murder at Nc
Keesport Pa.
In the recent storm at Dakota, seven
persons were killed. Much property was
also destroyed.
AT Petersburg, Va, on the 23d, R. c.
Mack's and George Davis peanut factories
burned. Supposed incendiarism.
AN explosion of gas occurring in the
German Bank vault at Pittsburgh, Pa, on
the a3d, shattered the building and almost
killed the bank cashier.
THE boiler of steam thresher at Rush
vile, Ind, exploded on the oath, killing
three men and severely injuring half
dozen others.
On the oath three children of Joseph
Ashley, while bathing at Green Bay, Wis,
attempted to rescue one Of the party and
all were drowned.
On the night of the the 23d deerstalkers,
giIlies and laborers on an estate nea
Inverness, Scotland, had fight. A gillie
named Campbell killed a laborer.
FIRE destroyed Oyerholtz & Co.'s dis.
tillery, with three bonded warehouses and
1000 barrels of whisky, at Connelsvllle,
Pa, the night Of the oath. The spectators
got drunk drinking whisky which flowed
along the ground.
On the 25th the boiler of an engine on
the Lehigh Valley Road, exploded, killing
four men.
NEARLY all the houses in Massowah
were destroyed by an earthquake on the
25th, and the inhabitants fed for the in
terror.
On the 25th Miss Mary S. Aulters, of
Leachburg, Pa, who attempted suicide by
prussic acid couple of weeks ago, tried
it again with pistol, infiicting mortal
wound.
On the 25th the wall of rolling mill at
Lexington. KY, was forced out by loa d
of wheat in the building, and one man was
killed and another fatally injured.
On the 10Th Carl Kessler and Albert
Kellogg, two newsboys at Lafayette,
Ind, fought, and the former stabbed the
latter four times. 1t was thought that
Kellogg would die.
"a GERMAN janitor in New York named
julius Halweg, committed suicide in a
most elaborate fashion, on the 10Th.
In Iowa and Missouri recent storms
have played havoc with the small grain
and fruit.
The New Orleans Exposition managers
have notified the Governors of all States
that the 5000 appropriated for each State
is ready for distribution.
MUCH excitement was occasioned in Ohio
on the 23d by a rumor to the effect that
some of the operators have been shipping
bombs to Jacksonville to be used against
striking miners.
AT Gloucester, Mass, on the 23d, a work
man, while carrying a basket of dynamite
packages, got frightened and threw it
away, causing an explosion which shook
up the entire neighborhood.
DURING the twenty-four hours ended at
p. m. on the 23I. there were forty-four
deaths from cholera at hIarseilles and
fifteen at Toulon. The public schools in
both cities are closed. A large number
| Of deaths also occurred at Aries and AK,
and the people are fleeing by thousands.
AT Toulon and Marseilles the cholera
| epidemic is on the decrease.
| AN attack by the rebels is expected on
| Suakim while the inhabitants celebrate
the Bairam feast8losing the fast of Rama,
| dan.
THE sal7S ton Army has been prohibited
holding NEE tngs at Berne, Switzerland.
TIE salod keepers of Cincinnati are
worrying the State in the Scott li~tpr law
cases and msan to demand a jury IN each
case.
| On the PAM tae st ockholders of the En-.
caustic TiIeOToaks at IndiaRespolis applied
for and secuted Nrheo appointment of re-
ceiver. t. - another Is ]. S. G. Har-
rison's institutfs4s.
On the oath the 2Ailors, fremen, walters
and others of the steamship Illinois struck
at Philadelphia against shipping under
the provisions q the Dingley bill and