St. Landry democrat., 1884-12-06
CETMEs AND CASTALTIEs.

GRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
JEaEMIAH Fritz and wife, residing at
DoyIestown, o., were awakened the
morning of the 24ta by two masked men,
xllo pointed cooked revoIverS at the old
people and demanded their money. Fritz
gave the burglars 5000, when they de-
parted, threatening death il a noise was
made.
SELDEN'5 lumber yard and sheds in
Rome, N. Y, were burned by incendiarles
the Gaorning of the 24th. The loss is about
$4,000; partly insured.
THE three train wreckers, Collins, Kirk
endale and Proctor, were sentenced on the
9th at Santa Fe, n. NJ, to the Territorial
Penitentiary for seven years each.
AN unsuccessful attempt was made the
night of the 23d to rob the safe in the office
of the North Avenue Savings Bank at
Cambridge, Mass. Holes were bored in
one of the doors, through which several
pounds of powder were poured and ex-
ploded. The safe was badly damaged, but
not sufficiently to allow the burglars to
get at the valuables.
CHARLES H. C. RISD, of Adrian, Mich.
son of the late Dr.. Rind, a prominent
son-ir-law of Judge Comstock, Kalama-
ZOO, postal clerk on the Michigan Central,
was arrested on the oath by the Post office
inspector at Monroe for stealing from the
mails. In default of $1,000 bail he was
sent to Jail at Detroit to await trial. He
had been suspected, and decoy letters led
TO his arrest.
THE residence of John Steinmeyer, pro-
prietor of the brewery at Flagstaff, Ari-
zona, was burned on the night Of the 21st.
He was burned to crisp. His wife and
child were rescued.
POLICEMEN GRANT and Devins of New
ark, N. j., have been committed to await
trial on charge of highway robbery and
attempted shooting. While drunk on duty
the night of the 23d, they attacked man,
robbed him and fired several shots at him
while he was endeavoring to escape. Two
other policemen who failed to arrest the
guilty officers were suspended by the
Mayor.
On the night Of the oath fire was discov-
cred. in the building in Chicago occupied
by the Chicago Paper Company and 9th
ers. The paper company's loss is $4,000;
insurance, $4,000. Other minor losses,
chiefly by printers, 5000; fully insured.
The building is owned by Treat Campbell,
and is damaged 5000; insured.
ON the 25th Mrs. Joseph ShibIey and her
thirteen year-old daughter were killed by
lightning near Point Pleasant, W. Va
On the 20th an attempt was made to
wreck passenger train on the Cincinnati,
Hamilton & Dayton Railroad near the
Cincinnati city limits. The obstructions
were discovered in time TO prevent mis-
chief
HERBERT CLARK, member of q promi-
nent banking firm at Moscow, Idaho, has
absconded with over $4,000 of the
banks fuIds and a woman not his wife.
His wife and two children were left at Mos
cow.
On the 26th Jacob Schu1er, of Miamis-
burg, o., committed suicide by hanging
himself to a raftar in his barn.
By the burning Of the Forty Fort Colliery
near Wilkesbarre, Pa, 500 persons are
thrown ont of employment.
On the 26th DR.. John Maxwell, living
near Springfield, o., chloroformed his five
children and himself and laid down to die.
Three of the children died. He was re-
waved and placed IN jail.
AN enraged woman at Paris, France,
killed a man by shooting him five times n
the chest. She claims that her victim per-
.sistently slandered her.
NEAR Manlius, N. Y, on the 28th,
farmer shot at what he supposed to be
skunk, and killed an unknown man who
had hidden in a straw stack.
A scoLoRED desperado named George
Brisco was warned to leave Anne Arundel
County, Nd, because of his penchant for
appropriating other peoples property. He
did not profit by the warning, and on the
..2Sth "a party of masked men seized and
lynched him.
A LONDON dispatch of the 2Sth an
nounced that the steamer Durango was in
collision off the port of Dunkirk, which re-
suited in her sinking and the drowning of
thirty persons.
MISCELLANEOUS
THE Pacific Mail steamship City of Toxic
arriytl in San Francisco on the Doth,
bringi1 ffty~six cases of Chinese ex-
hibits fa the New Orleans Exposition.
At Nj Washington, n. Y, the ther-
dicated a temperature of four
teen degree tbelow zero on the 25th.
IN his anE i report the Comptroller Of
the CurrencSt COWS that during the year
ended NoyemAi LIST, 1884, l91 banks have
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