St. Landry democrat., 1885-05-09

FRED TYLER was killed at Travare,
Oak, on the 18th, by Anton Nelson.
ON the 2Sth two men were arrested Tor
robbing the railroad safe at Athens, Tex.
MRS. JOHN T. CLARK was shot and
killed by her stepson at Port Austin
Mich, on the 28th.
NEAR Concordia, O., on the 2S5h, Adoiph
Hess murdered his wife and then hanged
himself.
SEVERAL days ago Charles A. Holt a
money lender, left Boston, Mass, and IL Is
supposed has gone to South America ne
is charged with having forged notes ana
mortgages amounting to about S5O, oOo'
FIRE destroyed Freeman's carriage fac
tory and the Gordon Opera-house at Ran
way, N. J., on the Goth.
A LAW fixing heavy fine and imprlson-
ment for Offering or receiving money at
primary or general elections has oeen
passed by the Ohio Legislature.
FIRE destroyed the large jeans mill OF
Bronagan & Lamb in Chester, Pa, on the
29th. The amount of the loss will aggre-
gate $35, 900; nearly covered by insurance
On the Doth passenger train passing
through the village of Austintown, Pa.,
collided with a wagon, In which were
seated Edward Anderson and Barton
Ballard. Anderson was fatally injured,
and Ballard quite seriously hurt. The
wagon was demolished and the horse
killed.
ON the Goth the boiler in Samuel Beau
champs saw-mill, three miles north OF
Oakland City, Ind, exploded, killing the
engineer, John Cauthan. Jesse Wester
had his skull crushed and leg broken and
is in q critical condition. Jep Collins had
a foot broken and suffered other injuries.
ON the Both two policemen of Evans
vile, Ind, were arrested on charge OF
grand larceny.
ANGUS M. CANNON, brother of the Con-
gressional Delegate from Utah, has been
convicted of polygamy.
On the Both Fred Roth, a Prussian, who
recently arrived in Cincinnati, committed
suicide because he could get no work.
ON the 30th Ruperto Lara, who MUIR
dred the Nesmith family in Dona Ana
County, New Mexico, was executed at
Las Cruces.
On the 30th the trial of Richard Short,
who stabbed Captain Phelan, was called
at New York. Bob Phelan, son of the
Captain, was compelled to surrender the
pistols he was carrying.
On the 30th train on the Louisville
New Albany & Chicago Railroad, in In
diana, was entered by robber and the
express company's safe robbed of consid-
erable money, and two train men fatally
beaten and shot.
kssAT Altoona, Ia, on the 1st, 7. Osborn
endeavored to commit suicide by cutting
his throat with a scythe
On the 1st, Rev. Jesse Cook, colored
killed his wife with an axe at Butler, Ga.
THE police of Omaha, Neb, raided tht
Chinese opium dens in that city on the
night of the 1st, and made number o.
arrests.
= On the night of the s0th Fred Stelberg,
OF Rapid City, ILL.,, blow out the gas at q
Omaha hotel and died from the results.
w. H. JONES, locomotive engineer a
Macon, Ga, shot his wife and then killeC
himself on the 1st
ElAT Dallas, Tex, on the 1st, Jim Hunni
cutt, one of the members of the notorious
s'Scyene gang" was sentencedto the Pen
itentiary for life
1T the Pittsburgh (Pa.) Union Depot /
baggage-mastero opened a trunk on the
1st that gave out a suspicious odor, ant
found the body OF man badly decom
posed.
SHOCKS of earthquake were felt on the
1st in several districts of the Alps and
also in Vienna Several houses were dam
aged and a number of women killed a
Kindboerg, in styria.
MISCELLANEOUS.
On the Goth the steel man-of-war Howe
was launched at Pembroke, Wales. She
is of 9,7O0 tons burden, with engines oil
1850 horse power.
In. London the current opinion is tha
Russia is preparing for war much more
rapidly than outward appearances indt
cate, the Russian papers being warned tc
secrecy.
If war is soon declared between England
and Russia it is probable the two vessels
belonging to those nations, and now in
| our waters, will have fight.
ON the 10Th case of over twenty -thr .
years. standing Cyrus Fl. Mccormick, OF
Chicago, against the Pennsylvania Rail.
road, for loss of baggage-was decided il
New York in favor of the plaintiffs ex
i ecutor, as Mr.. Mccormick died some tim.
| since.
| By reason of light receipts and heavy
disbursements during the month of April
the public debt statement TO be issued o.
May 1st will show slight if any reduc
tion.
On the 30th the new Cotton Exchange a
New York was formally opened.
LANG Son has been evacuated by th
Chinese forces.
SOME of the Partisan journals asser
that it is the duty of Bismarck to try t
prevent war between Russia and En-