St. Landry democrat., 1885-06-06

. SA~S
Campbell.
ON the 18th three persons were drowned
at Toronto, Ont, while boating on the bay
A squall swamped them.
ON the 25th a crazy negro ran away
with locomotive and passenger train on
the East Tennessee, Virginia & Georgia
Railroad. His fire went out and the train
came to stop before any damage was
done.
By the burning of the Feremeze cotton
mill near Paisley, England, on the 26ths
thousand employees were thrown out OF
work.
GEORGE CALDWELL was acquitted at
Philadelphia, Pa, for the killing OF wal
ter Scott Brown. Caldwell is eleven years
| old and Brown was eight.
CHARLES P. BOYD, noted forger, has
been arrested at Columbia, S. O., ana
taken to Steubenville, O., the scene OF his
| exploits.
By the falling of an old tenement house
in Jersey City, N. j., on the 9th, four
persons were killed
BY the burning of New York furniture
factory on the 9th, damage to the extent
| of $685., 900 was caused andi 800 workmen
made idle.
AT Charleston, w. Va, on the 9th, four
miners were killed by the swapping of the
brake band of an incline, letting the car go
at great speed.
On the 9th William Prentiss killed his
| father at Orange, Mass. The man was
druAk and, placing cup on his head or
dered the boy to shoot at it.
/ A VERY serious fire occurred at Medford,
| Wis, on the 28th.
FIRE destroyed twelve buildings at Phoe-
nix, Ariz., on the 18th.
AT Evansville, Ind, ON the 18th, cloud
burst caused loss of $4,000.
| JAMES LEE was caught on the 18th in
the act of initiating Odlum's leap from the
Brooklyn Bridge, and was locked up.
By the bursting of an emery wheel,
Joseph Blankensop was killed at Wheel
ing, W. Va, on the 18th.
On the 28th fve-year-o old child was
fatally beaten by four other children, all
under twelve, at Pittsburgh, Pa.
ON the 2Sth G. G.. Gray, of Marquette,
Mich, Auditor of the Marquette, Hough-
ton & Ontonagon Railroad, committed
suicide.
By the sinking of French fishing bark
run down in a fog off the Banks of New.
foundland by the steamship City of Rome
twenty two lives were lost.
SERIOUS depredatio and number Of
murders have been committed by Indian:
near Silver City, N. M.
FIRE destroyed the implement factory o
John Elliott & Son at London, Ont, OF
the Goth.
CHARLEY CASH, boy rider at the Teri
Haute (Ind.) races had his back broken o.
the 10Th by fall.
MARION NJ OGDEN, a reporter at Pitts
burgh, Pa, has been arrested on a charge
! of conspiracy.
ARTHUR E. MARSH, the embezz1er, VIII
absconded from New York, was alreste'
on arrival of the steamship at Queens
town.
A DESTRUCTIVE fire;occurred in the-lum
, Der wards of Studebaker s. Bros, at Soutl
: Bend, Ind, on the 29sh; loss, 500, 600.
A WHITE man was killed by lightning 8
Big Springs, Tex, on the 29th, and anger
t was seriously injured.
] ACHILLES ONoFRI, whe killed MS step
daughter at Philadelphia, Pa, was con
' Yicted of murder in the first degree.
l NEMED1, village in Hungary of %
l houses.has been destroyed by fire. The PEG
: Die are destitute.
JOHN TERRY, icolored, was hanged s
4 Barnwell, 8. c., on the 10Th, for the mur
der, in May last, of the Rev. John g. Ses
q sions. His neck was broken and life wa
d pronounced extinct in twenty minute
He made confession, attrtbuting til
: murder to whisky.
/
MISCELLANEOUS.
On the 9th the General Synod of th
Lutheran Church met In thirty secon
biennial convention at Harrisburg, Pa.
= IT is stated that men who hold off1cii
positions and edit newspapers that printe
3 the scandal circulated about Clevelan
during the campaign, are to be remove
on the ground of indecency.
8 THE Mikado of Japan has conferred IL
: order of the "Rising Sun" upon fly
Americans for services in the Toxic Un
: versity.
9 AN amusing incident occurred fe
days ago in St Louis. Among the visitor
. to the panorama of the Siege of Paris, n
q Gently opened on Washington avenue
!, Frenchman, both of whom had partic
= pated IN the memorable siege. Inc pa
quietly admired the beauties Of the wo1
r derful painting for some time, when
t. casual remark by the Prussian relative
I. some incident of the siege elected a reto
from the Frenchman. In moment tt
Is siege was in progress again, and the a
ID was filled with mixture of French an
y German wordy missiles, and more seriol
70 hostilities were threatened. The time
intervention of Colonel James, the lecture
w restored peace and harmony, howeye
te AMI French and Prussian retired in goc