St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1885-06-20
CR1MEs AND CASUALTIES.

CRIMES AND CASUALTIES
The aggregate loss by fires in May in
the United States and Canada is estimated
at S., $4,000 or ten per cent. increase IN
fire waste during the same month for ten
years.
A CONFESSION has been made by
Schneider sentenced to be hanged at
Hamilton, O., June 18th, for killing his
mother.
CHARLEY YOUNG was lynched in Ore
gon for stealing horses and the same fate
befell Toby Richardson for like offense
in connection with cattle.
A NEWPORT (R. L } saloon keeper had
delirium tremens, and to escape from hor-
rible creatures of his own imagination sat
down on a keg of powder and blew him.
self and his saloon all to pieces.
On the night of the 10th, fire in China
town, San Francisco burned the interior
Of the Chinese theater, and destroyed sew
eral adjoining buildings. Loss, $65, o09;
insurance unknown.
KITzINGER's single mill at Manistee,
Mich, burned the night of the 9Th, with
all it's contents. Loss, $50 900; insurance,
$11, 900. The mill was not in use.
THE family of William King, a printer
at Clifton, Long Island, were poisoned on
the 10th, by eating canned corn. One
child died and the remainder of the family
were in more or less precarious condi"
tion.
On the 10th S. Il. and Dean Denman,
father and son, were killed by the burst
ing of the boiler on their small steamboat
on Cedar River, few miles below Cedar
feet and killed instantly.
On the night of the 18th Judge Brown of
the United States Circuit Court at Detroit,
Mich, was awakened by burglar in his
bedroom. An exchange of shots followed,
| but nobody was hurt.
| On the 18th the fall of the staircase OLA
Court house at Theirs, France, killed
| twenty -four persons and wounded 1853,
fourteen very seriously.
HAGGERTY, the man who fooled the po-
lice to give Odlum chance to make his
/ fatal leap from the Brooklyn Bridge, was
sentenced on the 18th to eight months in
| the Penitentiary. He was Iallowed to APP
| peal and released on bail.
The greater portion of the town of
Groduo, Russia, including the government
offices and numerous churches, has been
! destroyed by fire. The loss amounts to
several million rubles.
BRITISH residents of Cashmere report
that earthquake shocks continue of great
severity. The towns Of Baramulla and
Sopur have been utterly ruined and 400
persons killed. There has also been great
loss OF life in adjacent villages. Many
cattle and sheep have been killed.
FIVE men were killed in the construction
train wreck on the Cincinnati Southern
Railway on the 18th.
A RECENT shock of an earthquake com
pletely swallowed up the town of Sikuch,
Eastern Caucasus.
FIRE in theIbuilding in London on the
18th, used by the International Inventions
Exhibition, did great damage to the In
dian museum and several departments.
CAPTAIN LAwToN's supply camp al
Cloverdale ranch, A. T., was surprised by
Indians and five men killed.
4 THREE children Of Henry A. Altmeyer
/ at Larens UNI, Pa, were terribly burned
on the 18th; caused by a lamp explosion
THE Supreme Court of South Carolina
/ has affirmed the death sentence agans
Thomas Gee, Thomas Mcneil and Joseph
will be executed at Fayetteville, June
/ 25th.
A CYCLONE passed over Council Bluffs
Ia, the evening of the 18th, doing con
siderable damage. The fourth and fftl
stories of the State Deaf and Dumb Asy
lum were blown off. Damage, $4,000
No lives lost.
DURING an alteration on the 18th be
tween Henry Neirte and Peter Guidinger
farmers residing about twelve miles nortl
of Milwaukee, Wis, the former was sho
and killed by Guidinger, who delivered
himself up to the authorities soou after.
4 A HEAVY wind storm at Omaha, Neb.
on the night of the 18th demolished {
four-story brick building belonging t.
g. A. Lindquest & Co., which was being
erected at the corner of Jones and Tentl
streets. The building was almost com.
pleted. In falling the walls crushed il
the adjacent dwelling, fatally injuring
one man.