St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1885-11-28
GRIMES AND CASUALTIES.

GRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
A FRENCH tailor named Edward Quevit
was shot and dangerously wounded by his
discarded mistress, Adeline Duval, at Chi.
cago, on the 18th.
N. WEBSTER, assistant Pullman agent at
the town of Pullman, ILL.,, has been arrested
charged with embezzlement
On the 18th Felix Griffin and Tom Starr,
both desperate men, had shooting scrape
at Briartown, l. T., in which both were
wounded.
IT has been decided by the Baltimore &
Ohio Railroad officials that the recent ac-
cident near Connellsville was caused by 9
defective frog.
ON the 18th, while repairing one of the
blast furnaces of the Cambria Iron Com
pany at Johnstown, Pa, j. B. Smith was
overcome by foul gas and fell headlong
into the furnace on top of the tamping.
He was literally baked, and seventeen
workmeE were successfully overcome by
the gas and dragged away from the mouth
of the furnace before his body could be re-
covered.
ON the evening of the 18th Frank Tress
was fatally stabbed at German Catholic
ball at Beaver Falls, Pa.
On the 18th Miss NJ. Began, Milton Began
and Joseph Berkeley were drowned near
Batavia, O., by their team going over the
abutment of an old bridge.
JOHN E. WETHERBEE, a prominent law
yer of Boston, committed suicide on the
18th by taking cyanide of potassium.
THE Journal de st. Petersburg advises
Prince Alexander to conform with the Sui
tan's reply to his request for assistance.
On the 18th six persons were fatally
burned by the explosion of an oil tank at
the works Of the Lubricating Oil Company
at Philadelphia, Pa.
ON the 18th a freight train of eighteen
cars and an engine went through bridge
ON the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton
Railway, near Indianapolis, fatally injur
ing the engineer and dangerously injuring
the conductor, fireman and brakeman.
DR.. WILL1AM FRoTH1NGHAM, one Of the
best known physicians Of New York, was
killed on the 10Th by the accidental dis
charge of q pistol he was cleaning.
A POOR demented woman named Mrs.
Johnston smothered her child to death at
Brooklyn, N. Y, ON the 10Th.
Two noted horse-thieves, John Truston
and Silas Drove, were captured in the In
dian Territory on the 18th, but afterward
released by friends.
The body of Judge A. S. Sanborn, of
Madison, Wis, was found in Lansing's
woods near that city on the 10Th with evil
dence that he had suicided with laudanum,
He was subject TO temporary fits of insan-
ity.
On the Goth Gottleib Vartz, aged thirty
eight, was scalded TO death in a vat of
boiling malt at the Empire Brewery, New
York.
ON the Goth DIR. Allen Cope, a prominent
dentist of Coldwater, Mich, while using
had his left arm blown off and
was severely wounded in the breast by the
explosion of the apparatus.
WILKINSON, the murderer of Officer Law
renee, was hanged at Thomaston, Me-, on
the goth, and died coolIy and unrepentant.
On the night Of the 10Th Mrs. Sadie Kirk
and Reeta Emmons, her niece, of Dale
City, Ia, retired at hotel at Creston, Ia,
and blew out the gas. When called to take
the 3:45 a. m. train for their destination
both were found to be nearly suffocated,
with slim chances of recovery.
SEVERAL persons were poisoned by
water from an old well, recently
in Chester County, Pa, two of
whom, Annie Poole and Frank Townsend,
died. The water is believed to be inpreg-
mated with deadly mineral poison.
ON the Goth two persons were instantly
killed and several severely injured by an
explosion Of new boiler which was being
tested in a mill which had just been COM
pleted at Richland City, Ind. The dam
age to the property is estimated at $4,000.
On the goth Otto Koblank, drunken
brute, went to his boarding house in Jer-
sey City, N. j., and began to abuse the
Iandlady, Mrs. sweeny, and wound up by
pouring kettle Of boiling water over her,
scalding her 50 severely that her recovery
Is impossible.
An attempt was made to wreck the
Glencoe express near st. Thomas, Ont, on
5he goth, by placing Instructions on the
rack Of the Air Line Road.