St. Landry democrat., 1885-03-28
GRIMES AND CASUALTIES.


GRIMES AND CASUALTIES
AT social entertainment in New York
on the 18th one woman stabbed another
with knife and then tried to cut her
throat with a corset steel and butt her
| brains out.
LIEUTENANT JOHN w. RICHARDS, of the
! Salvation Army, was arrested at North
| Adams, Mass, on the 7th and indicted,
| with three others, on the charge of obtains
ing $50, 600 worth of goods from merchants
in different cities and disposing of the
goods for their own benefit.
JOSEPH SCHENCK, a Swede, who was
| placed in Jail at Steele, OAK, on the 10Th,
charged with the murder of Anton Lei
powski, was found dead in his cell on the
18th. Doctors pronounced it a case of
death from fright.
AN explosion of fre-damp in a mine
near Saarbrucken, Rhenish Prussia, on
the 18th, imprisoned over 20J man. Thirty
we're rescued alive.
On the 18th J. L Weed, prominent
citizen of Binghamton, N. Y, was arrested
on charge of forgery.
On the 18th VIM. Mulcahy was muir
dered in the Essex County IN. J.) Insan 9
Asylum by Hermann Fuchs, another pa
tient.
A CONFIDENTIAL clerk of the st. Helena
Mine, Las Delicias, Sonora, named j. w.
Smith, absconded with gold bar valued
at $4,000, which he was conveying to Her.
mosillo. The company offer s., 900 reward
for the capture of the thief and the re-
covery of the bullion.
On the evening of the 18th tank in the
oi1-works Of Zone & Fleming, Newton
Creek, N. Y, exploded, And $4,000 barrels
of oil were destroyed. The loss is es,i-
mated at $4,000
On the morning of the 18th when the
paraffine factory at EIiz abethport, N. j.,
was fired, the still burst and the factory
was totally destroyed. The loss is $780,,
900; no insurance! The place employed
fifty hands, and was owned by Theophilus
NJ. Marc
The glass-works of Francis Storms,
Brooklyn, N. Y, were damaged by fire on
the 18th to the extent of $4,000.
A PARTY of robbers entered Donaldson &
Co.'s bank at Columbus, O., on the 18th,
and stole $1,000.
AT Allegripus, Pa, freight train was
wrecked on the 10Th. One man killed and
several seriously injured,
JOS. SKELTAN and George <. Osborn are
under arrest at Chicago, charged with
manufacturing and passing counterfeit
silver coin.
On the 10Th the residence of Lieutenant
Thomas w. Fitch General Sherman S som
in-law,) at Cote Brilliante, suburb of st.
II n hxPR T
$4,000; insured.
AT Newton, Mass, on the goth, Sam
Glass was killed by boiler explosion.
The execution of Stephen Jones, me-
gro murderer, took place at San Francis
co, Cal, on the Goth.
ST. JosEPH's Academy at Emittsburg,
Md, burned on the Goth. Loss, 5000.
ON The goth two people were burned to
death in boarding house fire at Bridge
port, Conn.
On the Goth A. SiIvas and NJ. Martinez
were executed at Los Angeles, Cal The
former murdered a man for brushing up
against him.
EARLY the morning of the Goth the ORR
entail Hotel at Seattle, W. T., was destroy
ed by fire. One man named Mike Tobin
was burned to death and number fatally
and seriously injured.
The hotel, store, butcher shop and few
small buildings comprising about half the
business part of the town of Mecosta,
Mich, burned the night of the Goth. Loss,
$4,000; insurance, $4,000.
In Crescent Township, Pottawattomie
County, Ia, on the night Of the 10Th, lit
tie girl named Myrtle Perry was burned
to death by her clothes taking fire from
some burning brush, near which she was
playing.