St. Landry democrat., 1885-08-22

MISS OOWERS, living near Dd4AoOJ @0A"s
kindIed fire on the 18th with kerosene
She is dead and her mother and two sis'
tiers were burned hey ond recovery.
HIHE AND STEWART POND, while lead"
ing a. Holstein bull to their farm near st
Paul, Mimi, on the 18th, were attacked by
the animal and killed.
TEN white men and two negroes, con-
nected with a circus, committed brutal
assault on a country girl named Flora
Morrison at Huntington, Pa, on the l1tn.
TWENrY-rHREE miners were killed by
an accumulation of gas in working OF
the West End Coal Company at Mocan-
aque, Pa, on the 11th.
JAMES THOMPSON, confined in jail at
Clarion, Pa, for forgery, committed SUI
eide on the 18th by hanging himself IN his
cell.
On the 18th Hamburghert's tannery
at Oswego Falls, N. Y, burned. Loss
$50, 900.
THE family Of Daniel Ashbaugh were
poisoned at New Philadelphia, o., on the
18th, by eating toadstools.
THOMAS SKEELs was killed with knife
by man named Lagrange, near Evans
vile, Ind, on the 18th.
ON the 18th several persons were
drowned and great damage was done by
waterspout near Deadwood, Oak.
On the 18th Frank and John Donohue,
were buried beneath fall of earth in
stone quarry at Youngstown, 0. Frank
was killed and John was fatally injured.
ON the 18th cyclone struck the village
of Norwood, N. Y, destroying several
| houses, taking off church steeples and de-
molishing one church edifice. Eight per-
sons were killed and several fatally and
otherwise injured.
AT Hoffman's Ferry near Amsterdam,
N. Y, on the 18th, cloud burst washed
| out 500 yards of the New York Central
| Railways tracks, and played havoc with
the fences and telegraph lines.
THE Sturtevant Lumber Company, OF
Cleveland, O., lost $780, 900 by the burning
of their planning mill on the night of the
18th.
On the 18th James Horace Jones was
hanged at Troy, N. Y, for wife murder.
| ON the 18Th Lewis Hartmann, farmer
of Fayette County, Indiana, committed
| suicide, and Morton Hull followed suit at
| Dubuque, Ia.
FIRE destroyed number of tenement
houses at Jersey City, N. T., on the 18th.
Forty families were rendered homeless.
PHILIPPoPoLrs, city of Roumelia, was
the scene of great confagration on the
/ 18th. Forty-five houses were burned to
the ground and two persons lost their
lives The damage is immense.
In Humboldt County, California, on the
18th Henry D. Benner, suspected OF be-
| ing the murderer of Amanda NJ. Towne,
twas taken from the Sheriff by mob and
| riddled with bullets.
A POWDER magazine on the outskirts OF
| Silver City, n. NJ, was struck by light.
ming on the 18th and seventy kegs of pow"
der exploded, doing considerable damage.
| to windows in the vicinity. The building
was burned; but, strange to say, 6,OOO
pounds Of giant powder remained intact.
On the 18th a storm of almost unprece-
dented severity visited Saratoga, N. 7.
-Four inches of rain fell within six hours,
| doing an immense amount of damage.
Several persons were Frustrated by iigh T"
ming. One man and team Of hors es
| were killed.
| THE Craig Hotel at Dresden, O., was de-
stroyed by fire on the I4th.
HENRY FREEsE,. colored, was hanged Ell
CatIettsburg. KY, on the 14sh, tor the
murder Of Chester Hounker last May.
/ The Western Union Telegraph office at
Cleveland, o.. was destroyed by fire OF
| the 14th.
FIRE at Franklin, O., on the 18th de
stroyed the agricultural warehouse Of G
| Eldridge.
JAMES J. MULLIGAN was.found in Bos'
ton on the 14th suffering from cuts, and
died soon afterward. No Glow to the as
sassln.
WILLIAM and Ny Man Hamilton
Chickasaw Indians. were convicted al
Fort Smith on the 14th of murder in the
Indian Territory.
HIRAM FaANTz, notorious desperate,
was captured at Middletown, Pa, on tht
14th, and in trying to escape was NOR
tally wounded by an officer.
FoREPAUGH's circus was badly smashed
up by collision on the rail near OF
tumwa, Ia, on the 14th. Several persons
were severely injured and considerable
damage was done to property.