St. Landry democrat., 1885-07-18
GRIMES AND CASUALTIES.

THE large stock barn Of James Vanette,
in the town Of Fulton, near JanesvllAes
Wis, was destroyed by fire at an early
hour the morning of the 9th, together with
nine blooded horses and slelghs and car"
riages. Two men sleeping in the barn
were badly burned, one seriously. He
will probably not recover. The loss is.
$20, 900; insurance, $4,000
ON the 7th fire destroyed the Belgian
glass works at Meadville, Pa.
On the 7th James Kane was hanged at
Philadelphia for the murder Of his
brother.
Two negroes, Felix Williams and Jerry
McChristian, were lynched near Grenada,
Miss, for the murder Of O peddlcr.
Mn1rGAN and the two Bumms, officers
Of the wrecked Shackamaxon Bank, Phil
adelphla, Pa, were bound over on charge
of conspiracy.
E. RosENrHAL, Hebrew merchant OF
Gonzales, Ore, was cowhided by the
parents of his dead wife for refusing to
marry young sister-in-law. The In"
dignity drove him to suicide.
On the 7th the engine and baggage car
Of an Ohio Central pass enger train left the
track at Bucyrus, o. The engineer es-
capped by jumping, but the fireman, Wes-
ley Craig, was caught under the locomo-
tive and killed. No one else was hurt.
A TERRIBLE thunderstorm visited Phil
adelphia, Pa, on the 7th. Several dwell =
ings were struck by lightning. At Glou-
cester, N. j., a child was killed by thun-
derbolt
ToM BALLARD has been convicted OF
murder in the first degree in Omaha
FIRE destroyed q great tannery and
glue factory at Bermondseyt suburb OF
London, on the 9Th. Loss, 500, 900.
AT Howden, in Warwick County, Ind,
on the 8th, Mrs. Rogers killed herself and
her two children, because her husband
preferred another woman to her.
A BOILER in Platt & Bentley's shingle
mill, three miles from Titusville, Pa, ex'
ploded on the 9Th, instantly killing the
foreman, Elliott Alcrans, and seriously
cutting and scalding Jacob Miller, VIM
Longworthy and A. W. Massicer. The
mill is total wreck.
On the 9th fire destroyed the Welsh
University College at Aberystwith.
Wales; loss, 100000.
AN Omaha merchant named Gus5aye
Boehmk fell out of hotel window on the
9th, and was killed.
ON the 9th Charles Knott, shoemaker
at Washington, D. c., fatally shot Mrs
| Geo. Morris and then killed himself.
By wreck on the 9th on the Pan Han.
die Road in West Virginia, fireman was
killed. three trainmen badly hurt and six
teen cars demolished.
DURING a severe storm in Madison, Wis.
the night OF the Sth the sptre was blowr
from the Presbyterian Church, and
Colonel Villas residence was unroofed.
| On the 9th an Internal machine, sc
rugged that the passage of train woulc
explode it, was found on the bridge ovel
| the Salmon River, south Of Pittsburgh,
Pa, only few minutes bsfere a passen.
ger train was due
| MRS, MORRIS was killed by lightning a
Fort Popham, Mo-, on the 10Th.
DANIEL CARNEs and Reuben Miller ia
tally shot each other at Scipio, Ind, Of
| the 10th.
GEORGE KoEREER was run over by al
engine on the Belt Road, Indianapolis
Ind, on the 10th, and killed.
w. FL. PUDHEY, the aged sexton of ST
Georges Church, New York, was sen
fenced on the 10th to twenty years in tn
Penitentiary for an assault on two littl
girls.
The Captain and first mate of tho Brit
ish brig J. Williams, which arrived a
Newcastle-on-Tyne April 23d from vii
mington, N. c., were sentenced on tn
10th each to seven years penal ssrvitud
| for killing Seaman Limberg.
| A TERRIBLE hailstorm passed over
section of Northern Michigan three or fou
miles wide by ten tlong the night Of tn
9th, going over the lake to Port Hope
Ont Great damage'resulted to stendin
crops. The hail peat out windows an
otherwise injured buildings.
MISCELLANEOUS
SHOCKS Of earthquake continue In tn
| Vale Of Cashmere.
STAT1sTIcIANs are figuring on 80, 900, 00
bushels Of spring and fall wheat in Iowa
MINNESOTA, Wisconsin and Iowa hav
been visited by great wind and rain
storms.
THE Mayor OF Cleyeland on the 9th CAV