St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1884-06-07
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.

| E4O,00O, and the rupture between hlmsel
and father is said to be complete.
GRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
ON the 18th Foxy Bray and William
Henderson,, of Lawrenceburg, Pa, were
fatally shot by a policeman, who attempt
ed to arrest them for abducting German
girl.
On the 18th freight train and accommo
dation train collided on the Pittsburgh,
Fort Wayne & Chicago Railroad, seriously
| iniuring seven men and fatally wounding
two.
On the 10Th thirty houses were unroofed
! by storm in Pickaway County, 0.
The Cincinnati Pipe and Sheet Com
pany's works were damaged by fire on the
18th. Two persons were severely burned.
ON the 10Th eleven persons persisted
and nearly thousand dwellings, shops,
schools and mosques were destroyed by a
fire at Bel Bazaar, Asia Minor.
On the Goth Joseph Frazier, the murderer
of Wesley Hupp in Anderson, Ind, COM
mitted suicide by hanging himself in jail
with his pocket handkerchief.
A CoLoRED insane patient in the Kansas
City (Mo.) Hospital named Durfus
Weaver was killed in self defense by
Steward Winfrey on the 10th. Weaver
had attacked couple of patients and
afterwards attempted to burn the build
ing.
On the goth two suicides were reported in
st. Louis, Mo. Mamie Stern, of KeoKuk,
Ia, took poison at Hurst's Hotel, sooner
than be dependent upon her brother-in-
law. Michael Schoettel, an Alsatian, fifty
years of age, shot himself while delirious
from drink.
In the recent Liverpool fire 1900 bales
Of cotton were destroyed.
On the 21st three children belonging to
Mrs. Fulweller, of Portsmouth, O., were
drowned by the collapse of the suspension
bridge over the Scioto River.
FIRES on the 91st: Harnish tobacco fac.
tory, Lancaster, Pa; loss, $4,000. Wood
rufus paper mill, Buffalo; loss, $4o,C0o.
Kelly Nail and Iron Company's mill, IRON
ton, o.; loss, $4,000 African NJ. E.
Church, Moberly, Mo-; damage, $500.
In collision between mixed train and
a freight train on the Panhandle Rail-
way, at Wheeling Junction, Fa., forty-one
miles from Pittsburgh, on the DIST, D. Bar
tholomew, travelling salesman for Cincin-
natl house, was killed and five employees
of the road injured.
THE British ship Syria was wrecked in
the Fiji Islands, and seventy coolie pas
sengers lost.
AN Italian murderer named Sabate Al
exander, committed suicide in Easton, Pa,
on the 22d.
On the night of the 21st, John Gilman,
wife and grown daughter were burned to
death at Portsmouth, o.
ON the I'D two men named Thompson
and Cook were fatally injured by rail-
road accident at Harms City, Pa.
DURING thunderstorm at Toledo, o..
IN the 22d Miss lilly Fear was struck by
lightning and instantly killed. Her sister |
and two children, who were with her, mar I
'owly escaped the same fate.
FIRES on the 22d: Forge department.
Kelly Nail and Iron Company, Ironton. /
D.; loss, $4,000. Saink's Shoddy Mills,
Philadelphia; loss, $4,000 Ward &
5aennston's hide and tallow factory, Chi
ago; loss, $40, 900. A. 0. Salher's imple-
nent store, Cannon Falls, Mimi; loss,
81 900. George w. Campbell's store and
lwelling, Fayette County, Pa; also the
foantGineer newspaper Office and several
Their buildings; loss, $4,000.
MISCELLANEOUS.
IN the French Chamber of Deputies a
ill will be introduced providing for the
axation of impoSfed cereals and cattle.
A FIFTY. per cent. assessment has haay