St. Landry democrat., 1885-01-03


house at Washington, D. c., by illness,
which, though serious, is said not to De
dangerous. He is suffering from de-
rangement of the stomach, and his physi-
clans have ordered him to remain home
and rest.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
FIRE destroyed Morrison's spinning mill
at Dundee, Scotland, on the 23d. Loss
$4,000.
AT Detroit, Mich, on the 23d, Michael
Beck, an inmate of charitable institution,
was struck by train and fatally injured.
He only lived a short time.
A FORMER resident of Atchison, kan.s
named Charles Linden, was murdered on
the 23d in Boulder, COL, while attempting
to waylay and rob pedestrian in that
place. Linden drew revolver and or
dered the person to deliver, when the lat-
ter grabbed the weapon and struck Linden
over the head with the butt, which caused
his death.
CHRISTMAS afternoon Minneapolis was
visited by $780, 900 confagration.
On the evening of the oath w. c. Har"
vey. of Panora, Ia, was shot, badly In
jured and robbed of $1,000 that he was car
rying home with him for safe-keeping, 1t
being after banking hours.
A COLLISION occurred between the
steamer Chetudra and the bark Hohne-
strand OFF Eddystone, on the south coast
of England, on the 10Th, and both sunk.
The crews escaped in boats.
A NEGRO named Sanford Sisco, whom
Abram Garnee, of Park Ridge, N. j., de-
clared assaulted and robbed him on the
23d, was arrested on the 18th.
FIRE destroyed the Masonic Temple at
Cincinnati, O., on the oath, causing great
| loss to the order, as well as business firms
occupying stores in the building.
On the 18th John Goetz, Jr., who was in-
jured by natural gas explosion at Butt
Ter, Pa, died after terrible suffering. One
of his sisters is out of her mind on account
of the death.
AT Ithaca, N. Y, on the 9th, the Cor
| oner' Jury concluded a three days secret
| investigation into the death of Mark A.
Blakely, Of Lansing. The verdict says the
| shot was fred by his son Charles, who has
been arrested.
On the oath VIM. s. Kerl1er, late Teller
| in the Second National Bank at ronton,
| o., indicted on nineteen counts for embez-
element of the banks money, was found
guilty in the United States Court on three
counts, charging false entries, whereby
the bank lost $4,000.
On the 26th Walt Henry, a saloon-keeper
of Akron, o., was arrested on charge OF
wife murder.
on the 26th Fred Barinbrock, of Dayton,
o.. after brooding over financial troubles
| killed himself. He leaves wife and seven
children.
on the night Of the 25th Mrs. John Car.
roll, of Green Ridge, Pa, was taken from
her house, assaulted and left in the woods
where she was frozen to death.
| BANDITS entered the house Of a Catholic
priest in Galicia for pillage. Failing K
/ get money they tied the priest in heal
1 Of straw and burned him to death.
ON the 26th the steamer Vint Shinklt
burned on the Mississippi, below Cairo
She was owned BY the Cincinnati e Mem
/ phis line, and was valued at $4,000.
/ A SIXTEEN year-old boy named Davit
| McGinnis shot and killed Jerome Gay a
! Burgin. KY, on the 26th. The fight wal
forced on McGinnis by the victim and hi
| brother.
/ ON the 26th Rainwater g. Starn's larg
elevator at Dallas, Tex, burned, causing
| heavy loss. Two men were burned tt
death, and boy was also missing.
/ ON the 26th Joseph A. Kuhn, cashier 0
i the Hotel Moser, st. Louis, Mo-, left TO
parts unknown, and is charged with hav
i ing taken about 81 200 belonging to tn
hotel, and also 500 belonging to his wife
to whom he had been married only fou
months.
i On Christmas Day William Lyons, o
i Gloucester, N. J., while in a drunken stu
por, went home to whip his wife, and whel
i his brother Thomas interfered William
i dealt him blow behind the ear with hi
fist, knocking him down, his head strikinj
a stone step. He died instantly. William
was arrested by another brother, Bernard
who is policeman.
4 RON the 18th James Collins, ticket agen
. IF the Pan Handle Road at Cadiz juno
tion, o., disap pared with $4,000 Dor
row,ed from frieE $ anepbelonging to tn
company
JOSEF ZEsnaI, nStnager of the Discoun
Bank of Gafaney AEaat Labache, Austria
who defauIoed for Id 300 forms, killed him
{ self in the bank on ole Doth, when about
be arrested.
1uscE 'LANEOUs.
CHRISTMAS wasl iulsfn Vienna, owing t
J the depression in Hsiness: %
The lobbyists in syifhifdlo p g. bewail tn
fact that their aaStd atithat prophout gon
and thew have had 1T ~ same. make an,
J money this season. !. pc
ON the 24th the New York stock broker
spent the day IN athletic sports, using sill
hats OF the members for footballs. Fish
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