St. Landry democrat., 1885-07-04
GRIMES AND CASUALTIES.

his dead Child on account OF poverty DuO
was prevented. He then attempted to
kill his wife.
AN American, who had lost all his
money by gambling at Monte Carlo, COM
mitted suicide at Nice on the 22d by taxi
ing morphine.
DURING the procession of Forepaugh's
circus at Flint, Mich, on the 22d, John
Riley fell from a large chariot and was
instantly killed by wheel passing over
| his head.
On the 90 the trial of five Italians for
the murder of Filippo Caruso was begun
at Chicago. This is Chicago's trunk trag-
edy.
On the 23d sensation occurred at Rock
Island, ILL.,, by the poisoning of about
twenty families from eating diseased
beef.
WHILE resisting arrest a desperate
Ga, on the 23d.
On the 23d AdoIph Loeyy, a ST. Louis
cigar packer, fifty years old, died from
the effects of an overdose of morphine
supposed suicide.
ON the 23d John Payne, an escaped
| murderer, walk ed into the police station
at Chattanooga, Tenn, and, stating who
he was, surrendered. Payne killed ]. F.
Barnes in Marion County five years ago.
| THE jury in the case of J. Spencer
! Smith, an ex-gas trust clerk at Philadel-
phia, charged with embezzIement of the
I trusts funds, rendered verdict Of guilty.
there are five other bills against the de-
| fendant charging similar offenses.
| On the 23d at Funfkirchen, Hungary,
Herr Lisch, the inventor of new dynamite
patents, which have been sold in America
and elsewhere, was killed by fearful ex-
| plosion which occurred in his h ouse while
he was packing boxes. His mother was
| also killed and the roof of the house was
blown off.
| AT New Haven, Conn, on the oath, Cor
neIius B. Demarest cut his throat from ear
| to ear with carving knife. Temporary
| insanity from nervous prostration is the
alleged cause.
w. w. Coles elephant Samson went on
the rampage at Lapeer, Mich, on the oath,
at circus performance, stampeded the
audience, played havoc generally and
got Ave bullets in his hide for his fun.
| On the oath Adrian johnson and John
Melin fell from windIass at the Luding-
! ton mine at Iron Mountain, Mich. Melin
was killed and johnson fatally hurt.
Melin was falling and johnson tried to
save him.
ON the oath fearful explosion occurred
| in powder mill at Lucca, Italy. A mum
Der of people were at work at the time and
very few escaped death or serious in
! juries. The bodies Of twelve of the killed
were recovered.
A FAMILY named burst was accidentally
poisoned at Plymouth, Wis, on the 25th,
by the accidental use Of ars enic for baking
powder. One death resulted, and others
were in precaric US condition.
TREASURER ANDERSON of West Hob ok-
en-, N. j., is charged with being $25, 900 be-
hind in his accounts
A MAN named Carpenter, trial at New
York for wife murder, tried to commit
suicide on the 25th, but failed.
THE Pacific mail steamer City of Toxic,
ashore near Yokohama, Japan, will be
total loss.
Ar Bairdstown, KY, on the 26th, an
explosion of boiler killed three negroes
and seriously injured another.
ON the 26th James Arcine and William
Parchmeal, -blooded Cherokee In
dians were hanged at Fort Smith, Ark,
for murder.
ON the 26th John McKeener, colored
murderer, was hanged in Memphis, Tenn,
and Jordan Taylor at Hopktnsville, KY.
A BOY named William Hayes, sixteen
years old, was found h pnged with his
hands and feet tied, on the 26sh, in Harri-
son County, Iowa, supposedly the work of
tramps. He was a harmless lad and left
home on the 22d to go to church.
AFT ER four days work jury has been
obtained to try the five Italians, charged
with the murder of Cafuso, fellow coun-
tryman, in Chicago.
On the 26th Milo Jump, porter at the
Whitmore House, at Northum berl and,
Pa, was shot by John Cox, proprietor of
the Palmer House. Jump lived but a few
minutes.
ON the Goth the building occupied by the
Dickinson Grass and Field Seeds Company
at Chicago was partially burned Loss,
$25, 600; fully insured
MISCELLANEOUS.
OFFICIAL reports Of the ravages Of chol-
era in Spain on the oath show total of
1,020new cases and 512 deaths. In ALI
cante alone on the 25th there were forty
eight new cases and forty deaths.
Born Houses of the British Parliament
adjourned on the 25th until July 9Th.
TIE Commercial Travellers Protective
Association began its annual convention
at Buffalo on the 25th.
'THIRTY- SIX deaf and dumb immigrants
arrived at Montreal, Can, on the 18th.
THE contest for Territorial offices seems
to bo tie topic Of chief interest now at
Washington.
THH differences between Turkey aud
Russia have been amicably settled.