St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1884-10-25

The room with tie above result. The little
girl was badly stunned, but will recover.
FIRE destroyed the Third Presbyterian
Chur Oh of Chicago CDR. Kittridge's) on
the 10Th.
BANDS of masked robbers are reported
as relieving farmers in Pennsylvania OF
their ready cash almost daily. 4.
On the 10th Leo Bugal, thirteen-year-
old how oe Pittsburgh. Pa, maliciously
destroyed the sight of both eyes Of Berthe
Black, aged five years.
On the 10th the headless body or MIS-
Stilwell Henderson, was found in well
near Troy, Ind. Her husband and son
were the murderers. At late hour the
same night mob hanged the son and
started back for the old man.
IT is now estimated that the nun ber OF
persons injured by the cyclone in Cata-
MIA will exceed 500.
BANDS Of robbers continue to harass
and rob farmers III Pennsylvania.
On the 18th a disastrous dynamite ex-
plosion occurred al the new Parliament
building, Que bee. The walls were badly
damaged and the windows broken. Two
persons were injured.
LATEST accounts of the recent cyclone
in Sicily state that 5000 dwellings were
DESTROYED in addition to vineyards and
olive gardens.
THE syndicate mines in the Hooking
Valley were nearly all on fire on the l2Eh.
A number of hoppers were burned.
AT Pueblo, Col, on the 18th, Anthony
White, about twenty years of age, was
dangerously wounded under peculiar cir
cumstances. While at the house OF Mr..
Shane the six-year- old son of the latter
entered the room, and noticing small
selfcocking revolver on the table,
the child picked it up, playfully
pointed it at Mr.. White and pulled the
trigger The ball entered Mr.. Whites
head, just over the left eye, and pene-
trated the brain.
a COLLISION occurred on the Pennsyl-
vania Railway at Hanker's Station on the
10th. John F. Layton, brakeman, was
killed, and three other trainmen injured.
Several cars loaded with coke were
burned.
On the 18th Lawrence L. Cauley, Phil
adelphia youth Of eighteen, shot Mamie
Benson, aged fourteen, at Lancaster, Pa,
because she would not love him, and
then shot himself fatally. The girl will
recover.
ON the 13sh Thomas NJ. Scraggy, an old
man engaged in the stationery business in
Philadel phia, was convicted of dealing in
obscene pictures, books, ETC., and sen
fenced to imprisonment for two years and
fine of 81 900, the full penalty.
On the 18th Turkish mail caravan
Ia oft aIynH hU iunnHS
near Ismid. Three of the escort were
killed and So 70, 900 in Governments bullion
stolen. The Sultan sent troops In pursuit
On the 18Th collision occurred at Cam
den, n. j., between two passenger trains.
Joseph Carmen, engineer of one OF the
trains, was killed, and the fireman of the
other train was fatally injured, having
both legs cut off. Several passengers
were hurt Both engines were smashed.
WHILE drawing truck containing
Christ Turdhorst, patient, upon an ele-
vator, to take him to the amphith eatre,
for clinical lecture on the 18Th, VIM.
I. Thomas, an attendant at the Cincin.
natl Hospital, fell through the hatchway,
pulling the truck after him. Both were
killed.
NEAR ivy as VA SAAS
14th, two coke trains collided, killing one
man and wounding others.
On the 14,h G. A. Jackson g. Co.'s inn
mense tobacco factory, at Petersburg, Va,
was destroyed by fire. Loss, $4,000.
Four hundred men are thrown out of EN-.
ployment.
IN Racine, Wis, large double tene-
ment house was partially destroyed by
fire the morning of the 18th. Six families
occupied the house, and all escaped ex'
cept Edward and Albert Gross. who were
fatally burned. The loss is 5000.
The remains of John Dunn were found
the evening of the 18th in the creek in Emil
grant Canyon, g. T., held under wagon
loaded with wood. The wagon had upset
and pinioned him down, crushing out his
life.
WHILE saving wood with a circular saw
at Berne, Ind, on the 145h. Henry Michaud,
aged twenty years, was thrown agains
the saw and fatally injured by the saw
cutting him nearly in two.
On the 14th j. Gaumes and family, o.
Linton Township, Jefferson County, Oslo,
drank from q spring of water which was
poisoned, and at last accounts were lying
at the point Of death.
MISCELLANEOUS.
On the 18th the new Roman Catholic
Caurch, st. Charles Borrmeo's, in Balti-
more, Nd, was consecrated and opened to
public worship. Archbishop Gibbons was
assisted by Vicar. General MICHIGAN, and
other clergy men officia5ed.
The UnitGe States Supreme Court re-
assembled onS he 18Th with full bench.
On the 10 Ne Natiepal Lauudrymen's
Association me in c6hvention in Phila-
deipafa, Pa.l-wiel1 ZOO delegates in attend.
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WAgnIsaToN dis Aatches ate that the