St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1885-01-10
GRIMES AND CASUALTIES.


CRIMES AND CASUALTIES
On the 18th Catharine Mllar was found
in an clubhouse in Baltimore, Nd, where
she had been for five days, nearly dead
! from exposure. Four toes of the left foot
were frozen off, the right foot badly frozen
and part of her nose also gone.
ON the Doth terrible fire was reported
raging in Pierre, Oak, and as the mercury
was twenty degrees below zero and all the
pumps frozen solid it was impossible to
control it. The stores of Hollonback, F..
Nasup Cavanaugh, r. D. Jones, P. H.
Johnston, wholesale liquors; Samuel Y.
| Goodwin, same; Parks Billiard Hall and a
dozen smaller buildings were in flames,
and buildings were being torn down to
stay the progress of the fire.
On the New York elevated railroads two
collisions occurred on the Both, due to fog,
but fortunately no lives were lost.
THE recent earthquake caused the death
of hundreds of people in some of the Span
ish towns, besides injuries to great NUM-
bers.
On the night of the goth eight masked
men 1ynched Pleasant Anderson near
Blakesburg, La. He was tried for murder
year ago, and acquitted.
On the 30th William Pearson, a spirit
ualistic crank, killed his infant child with
hammer at CheholIis, Wyoming. He then
proposed to his wife that they both cut
their throats, which they did, but they
were both alive at last accounts.
In railway accident in England on the
1st four persons were killed and thirty in
jured.
On the 1st Representative Laird, of Ne
braska, was severely injured at Washing
ton while horseback riding.
On the 1st Baltimore & Ohio train was
wrecked near Grafton, W. Va. Two men
were killed and number injured.
AT Ipswich, D. T., on the 31st, number
of business houses were burned.
The total number of persons killed by the
earthquakes in Spain since Christmas will
approximate 1000.
ON,the 31st Mrs. Mary E. Cody, step
daughter of a prominent member of the
Canadian Parliament, was arrested in De-
troit, Mich, charged with forging her
mothers name
At ALBANIA, Spain, one thousand houses
are in ruins, the result of the earthquake.
One hundred and ninety-two bodies have
been recovered.
In a powder mill explosion near xenia,
O., on the I'd, John CHM was killed.
MRS. ROBERT JENNETTs was accidental
ly burned to death at Franklin, KY, on
the I'd.
On the I'd mob, said to be- locked out
miners, used dynamite on the Bristol tun-
mel on the Shawnee Division Of the Balti-
more & Ohio Road, causing 300 feet to cave
in.
A DAsTARDLY attempt was made to blow
up an underground railway train with
dynamite in London on the ID. No pas
sengers hurt.
ALBANIA, Spain, is reported in ruins as
the result Of the recent earthquake shocks.
Many other towns are deserted, the people |
being panic-stricken, and living in the |
fields.
On the ID Gustav Tell, of Lexington,
KY, committed suicide by cutting his !
throat with butcher knife.
MISCELLANEOUS.
On the 30th it was reported that a |
French transport with troops from Toulon
had been sunk by Chinese cruiser be-
tHSSA oLuR6pUIG AZ L0h1 BQHs
THERE is proposition before the Fin.
nish Parliament to establish woman suf-
frage throughout that country.
The General Manager of the Phila-
delphia & Reading Coal and Iron Com
pany, stated on the 10Th that all the
collieries of the Company had been idle
for weeks, and some for a longer time,
and that fuantu emo oolI;ar.Sa, -, SxoL,,-l
Kill County will not resume January 1st.
TEE Governor Of Idaho has signed the
bill prescribing an anti-polygamy oath of
'ffice for county and precinct officers.
The Northwestern Travelling Mems AS
ISOLATION was in session at Chicago on the
10Th.
On the Both the visible supply of wheat
vas 47,720, 900 bushels; corn, 1851 900 BUSH
Is; oats, 2,170,0oo bushels.
The French have again met and defeated
he Chinese in Tonquin,
Foe the week ended the 30th, the value
f exports, exclusive of specie, from the
'ort of New York was $685., 900, against
6, Al, eco for the previous week.
THE Board of Alderman of New York
ave been enjoined from confirming the
ppointnent made by the Mayor for SUI /
of Public Works.
The millers of Minneapolis, Mimi, are ,
cling -four in Canada for less than the ,
rice OF Canadian wheat, and this has !
aused the large mills at Winnipeg to shut
own.
New Years callers in Washington had !
} go about in q drilling rain.
THE next fnauguraISsal1 is intended to
slipse anything 1lf tfe-Slnd ever at
snpte(e in the country. Eileen thousand
= ss viii be accommoda
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