St. Landry democrat., 1885-04-11

COMMANDER KANE of the Galena holds
two of the most prominent insurgents VINO
assisted in firing Aspinwall
IT is 1aid that the Governor of Texas
will veto the land bill.
SECRETARY OF THE NAVY WHITNEY has
given Admiral Jouett instructions for his
guidance at Aspinwall
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
The steamer R. R. Springer, from Gin
cfnnati, sank near waterproof, La, on the
3Oth. No one lost. The boat was valued
at $50, 900.
THE man who was shot and killed while
prying about the premises of w. u. Hoyt
at Cleveland, proves to be Charles stan
ley, painter, thirty years old. de al
ways bora q good reputation, ana ms
friends denounce Hoyt's hasty action.
Hoyt is still at largo on BAIL
The interior of the Eureka Theater at
Columbus, O., was burned on the evening
of the 31st.
J. C.. Corr, merchant, was killed at
Mont Calm, La, on the 3ist by r. NJ. Jones.
It was the result of an feud.
WITHOUT reason or proyocation a youth
boarded a freight train OF the Norfolk q
Western Road in Virginia on the 31st, and
seriously stabbed tle conductor.
ON the LIST the E merry candle factory at
Cincinnati, o, was partially destroyed
by fire.
NEWS was received at Washington on
the Isl that Asoinwall was in ashes, the
insurgents having burned it to escape
capture by the Government.
WHILE in the act of robbing a store at
San Vego, on the night OF the list, gun
was accidentally discharged by one of
twelve Mexican bandits, causing the in
slant death of the robber the ball struck.
Citizens pursued the robbers.
FIRE destroyed the Court house at Min
neapolis, Mimi, on the I'd.
By the burning of steamer at the re-
cent Aspinwall confagration, heavy mails
of the United States were destroyed.
ON the ID stranger giving the name of
NJ. NJ. Smith presented check at Mad
ison Gowa) bank. Banker Richards sus-
pected forgery and called an officer. The
man escaped and was pursued, shots be-
ing exchanged, killing one of the pur-
suers' horses. The stranger wrote in a
memorandum book that he would die be-
fore being taken, and drawing a revolver
shot himself through the head. Papers
found on the body gave his name as Ar
thur Muller.
PETER JOSEPH SCHROEDER, the ex-
Aims house attendant at Philadelphia,
Pa, who was arrested on a charge of MUIR
der, growing out OF the recent fire at the
Aims house, by which twenty-five lives
were lost, was discharged by the Court on
the ground that there was not sufficient
evidence to hold him.
THE boiler of David Hulz' saw-mills,
near Scipio, Ind, exploded on the I'd and
killed Anthony Cleayer, engineer, and fa-
tally injured David Hull, Morton Hull
and Alfred Hulz.
NEAR Alexander, Genessee County, N.
Y, on the I'd, Mrs. d. S. Spring, in a fit of
passion, saturated her bedding with kero-
sene, applied match, and herself and
two children persisted in the flames.
JAS. S. WHITE, charged with embezzle-
ment of 5000 in Milwaukee city bonds,
was arrested at Niles, Mich, on the I'd,
while on his way to Canada.
ROBBERS entered farmers house near
Lancaster; O., the night of the I'd. shot
him dead and secured 5000.
ALVIN ALLEN, Vermonter and fugi-
tive from justice, killed himself in Iowa
on the Sd, rather than be arrested by Off
GERS in pursuit
CITIZENS were still in pursuit Of Howard
Cooper, the negro brute who outraged a
young lady near Rockland, Nd, and indi-
cations were that Judge Lynch would have
work to do when he was caught.
A TERRIFIC explosion Of fre-damp oc-
Cured on the 3D. in coal mine near
Charleroix, Belgium. Eighteen miners
were killed outright and many more
wounded.