St. Landry democrat., 1885-09-26
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.

Gays ago Wneu OEISBs Au0 SAhSA ~ WAY
Academy.
GRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
On the 18th a Kentucky Central Rail-
road train jumped the track near Lexing-
ton, KY. Engineer Frank Watts ana
Fireman II. G. Burger were killed; 4. ).
Nichols, tho well-known horseman, prob.
ally fatally injured, and several others
bruised and scalded.
On the 18th two employees, namel An
drew Blum and John Feck, wer9 fatally
injured by the bursting of a large fly
wheel at thu rolling-mill of ?. L. Kim
berly & Co, at GreenvtIle, Pa Tue fly.
ing fragments demolished the roof of the
mill.
On the 10Th Jim and Nose Ballard,
brothers of Jack Ballard, convicted and
sentenced to imprisonment for life at
OwingsviIle, KY, for the murder of Pete
Spencer, endeavored to effect his rescue
from the Sheriff and guards who were
returning him to jail, and both were
killed.
BOLD attempt was made at Utica, N.
Y, on the 10Th, to rob bank, butt
failed and the robber was jailed.
Grucera were dro wned in Lake Wfnne-
bago, near Menasha, Wis, on the 10Th,
JUMBO, Barnum's big elephant, was
| killed by freight train at st. Thomas,
Ont, on the 18th. The trick elephant Tom
Thumb also had a les broken.
A FIRE at Nashville, Tenn, on the 18th,
consumed 6,O00,O03 feet of lumber, the
Southern Pump Company's mill, Rhea q
Sons grain elevator, the gas works, an
| ice factory and other property. Loss,
5000. 900; Insurance., 10000.
THE body of Charles Hlss. aged seven
! ty-elght years. was found hanging in his
| barn at Davenport, Ia, on the 16Sh. de
was prosperous farmer, and no cause IS
known for the suicide
| THREE lives were lost at Butte, Mont,
on the 18th by mine accident.
| On the II III collision on the Phila-
| delpaia & r eadiug Railroad eau sed an
| oil fre which resulted in $50. 00l loss.
| AT the Olkwell colliery, Iukstone, En-.
gland, the shaft was blocked by an acci-
dent on the 18th, and 80 miners were en-
tombed. TWAS thought they would all be
saved.
TIE schooner Edwin Post collided with
an unknown tug-boat at New York on
| the 18th The schooner sank Immediate
ly, carrying down the steward and Cap
| tain.
/ By tho capsizing of yacht near Lam
caster, Ont, on the 18th, three persons
were thrown into the water and after re-
gaining the yacht and floating all night,
two of them died from exposure and the
third was in precarious condition.
ON the 18th, as Patrick Naughton, an
inmate of the Soldiers Home at Washing
| ton, D. c., was being taken to the lock- up
by Sergeant Edward Alexander, for being
drunk, he stabbed the officer twice with q
pocket-knife, the second blow inf citing
such serious wound that Alexander died
from its effects.
| ANOTHER sawdust swim lie has been ex-
4 posed in New York and runner convict
ed, but the principals escaped.
BERNARD STE1cKNER, alias Louis Brown,
the Chicago jewelry thief, has been sen
/ at London, Ontario, for carrying stolen
1 property into the Dominion.
FIFTY pounds of powder in an iron
chest exploded at Wilmington, N. c., on
| the 18Th Charles Smith was badly
| burned and all the windows in the vicin-
ity were broken.
THE special Grand Jury convened at
| Warsaw, N. Y, to consider the case of
the Attica bank robber, found three bills,
-one for robbery and two for assault with
intent to kill Cashier Barross and Post :
master Lorish. He pleaded guilty to the
first charge and Judge Lewis sentenced
him to twenty years on the first bill ana
| ten years on the second. He is twenty
| one years old.
PRAIRIE fires have ragged in the vicinity
of Bismarck, OAK, with unusual fierce
| ness. Atleast fifty farmers are burned
| out of crops and houses. L ssss range
from 81, 000 to IS 600 each. The aggregate
loss is over 5000. There has been some
| loss of human lie
THE Delaware & Hudson freight depot,
| two New Jersey Central freight cars and
the warehouse Of the Glen's Falls Paper
Mill Company at Gien's Falls, n. 7,
| were destroyed by fire the morning of the
18th. The loss on the freight depot and
cars is $40, 900; fully insured. The loss on
the warehouse is $4,000; insurance,
So, 600.
MISCELLANEOUS
THE question Of Sunday labor in Ger
many is being officially in vestigated.