St. Landry democrat., 1885-12-12

at Cleveland, O., has appointed Neal
Cleveland, nephew of President Cleve-
lond, as gauger in the Revenue office IN
that city. The position pays about $40
per month.
In view of possible political compliea-
tions, even before the meeting of Parlia-
ment, Mr.. ParRen win probably not visit
America for the present.
GRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
In a car of wheat which arrived at Du-
luth. Mimi, on the 30th, from Lisbon,
Dakota, was found the body OF man, his
face and handle smeared with blood, lying
in the wheat. The man was killed with
coupling pin, was thirty-hye years old,
rather heavy build, five feet four inches
tall. He had, been dead about four days,
the date when the car left Lisbon. In his
| pocket was found note giving the name
l.. Pratt, telegraph operator at Sanborn,
who has not been heard from since.
ON the list George B. Chase, a gambler,
deliberately shot and killed his wife at
Providence, r. /.
WIN. RYDER, prominent stockman, has
been arrested at Omaha, Neb., on charge
of obtaining money under false pretenses
from Kansas City firm.
On the night of the 1st Joseph Hosdo-
| witch, teller of the Farmers National
Bank at Mansfield, O., crossed overgto
Canada, taking with him 81, 800 in money
and securities belonging to the bank.
ON the list Donald Stuart, of Schemes
tady, N. Y, aged twelve years, son of
| DR.. George A. Stuart, took hydrocyanic
acid, after being admonished for some boy
| ish fault, and died in ten minutes.
On the LIST Conrad Kiett, New York
tailor, stabbed with a pair of shears and
killed Patrick Moonan, a carriage washer.
| Moonan was under the influence of liquor,
and mistook Kiett's door for his own. It
| is supposed that Kiett took him for rob-
Der. The shears severed the jugular vein
and carotid artery.
| On the I'd David Blacks tinware factory
in New York burned out; loss, $4,000.
ON the I'd the towboat Iron City was
blown up at Herr's Island on the AIle-
| gheny River, and George Ashton, the en-
| gineer, was killed, and six others wounded.
| FIRE destroyed the Tippecanoe Paper
Mills, located in the northern part of Car
roll County, Indiana, on the night of the
1st. The loss is reported at $4,000, with
| So, 900 insurance.
| ON the Cd the Atlantic express, from the
West, running forty to fifty miles an hour,
ran of the track at Scio Station, N. Y.
| Engineer Allen is missing. The baggage
cars and three or four sleepers were burned
and locomotive wrecked. All the passen-
| gers are reported safe.
! On the Sd Lulu Allstett, aged nineteen,
| committed suicide by taking morphine at
Indianapolis, Ind.
THE Barnum Wire-works at Detroit,
Mich, burned on the Sd, entailing loss Of
nearly $8O0, 900.
ON the Sd the McGraw Saw-mil1, owned
by Birdsall & Barker, the largest on the
Saginaw River, in Michigan, was de-
stroyed by fire.
| The tug-boat Dora Emory blew up in
East River, N. Y, on the Sd, and boat and
crew of six men entirely disappeared.
/ MARSHAL CLEMENTS was hanged at
Saguache, Col, on the Sd, for the murder
of his brother and his brothers. wife. The
execution was witnessed by vast throng,
| and Clements maintained his ffrmness to
/ the last.
On the night Of the I'd the body of Bertha
Duckwise, aged twenty zone, was found at
Detroit, Mich, with her throat cut. Her
lover and afianced husband, William Ste
vens, is suspected of the murder.
THE British ship Magician, from Cardiff
to San Francisco, has been sunk in a coll
lision. E ssttsS#
| q ON the 4th an Indictment for bribery in
connection with the purchase of armory
sites was returned against General ShaleI
by the Grand Jury at New York.
ON the 4th, at Indianapolis, Ind, John
Griffith pointed what he thought to be al
empty pistol at his head and pulled tbs
! trigger. He viii not recover.
ON the 4th .Bentel & Co., private bankers
1 at Freedom, Pa, were robbed Of SD 900.
/ On the 4th VIM. Rohlfing and his sol
were killed by a runaway team near Ke'
nosha, Wis.
ON the 4th the boiler Of q locomotive OF
the Epson County (Ga.l Railroad explod
ed four miles from GAINESVILLE. Engineel
/ Hoaker was instantly killed and the fire
man badly scalded.
WILLIAM STEVENS, suspected of the muir.
/ der of Bertha Duckwitz, at Detroit, Mich.
was captured at Orion, Oakland County
/ on the 4th. His clothes were spotted will
blood. In his pocket was razor with
| blood on the inside of the handle, the res
/ Of it having been cleaned. A ring, cameo
set in pearls, having it the inscription
wv. s. to B. d., 1884, y was taken from his
finger. He refused to say anything, ant
at first denied his identity.
NFEGCETT REECFIE
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