St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1886-03-20

On the Sth horrible double murder an
a robbery were committed at the farm
house of John T. Everhart, near Licking
vile, Pa. A boy in the family, returning
from school, found Mrs. Everhart ly
ing on the floor with her throat cut from
ear to ear, and her mother, Mrs. Gillfall en-
IN the spring house also with her throa
cut and life extinct. The house had beer
ransacked and $500 taken.
On the 10th the tug-boat John Market
was blown up in Boston, and five men
composing her crew, lost their lives.
AN attempt was made on the 10th to as.
sassinate Jules Verne by his nephew al
Amiens, France.
On the 10th George w. Curtin, peddler
of cheap jewelry, surrendered himself tc
the police in New Y ork as the murderer OF
the barkeeper Malloy, who was shot in his
saloon on South Fifth avenue. Curtin de-
clares that Malloy had previously robbed
him Of part of his stock.
| VIsCOUNT DUPPLIN, Earl of Kinnoul,
died at Monte Carlo on the 18th. 1t is ru-
mored that he committed suicide, owing
to losses at gambling. He had led q wild
and disspated career and was thirty sew
| en- years old.
On the morning of the 10th fire broke
out in the tar works of M. Ehret & Co., at
the Point Breeze (Phiiadelphia) gas works,
caused by the explosion of STILL That
part of the works is a total loss.
A FIRE on the 10Th at McKeesport, Pa,
destroyed divers tailoring establishment,
Ca'r's cigar store, Brooks butcher shop
and the Times Office. Loss, $4,000; fully
insured.
On the night of the 9th P. N. Pitman, an
employee of G. w. Moore, insurance agency
OF Detroit. Mich, was arrested in Kala-
mazoo on charge OF embezzling ST. 900
from the New York Life Insurance Com
pany.
On the 10th the largest fire in Montreal
for long time occurred, and DESTROYED
large number Of business places, principal
ly wholesalers. The aggregate loss will
reach 100000; well insured One firemen
is missing.
On the night of the 10th farmer named
Heenan was killed by moonshiners at Kill
rush, County Clare Ireland
On the 18th three young men, stealing
ride in a box car ON the Decatur &
Evansville railroad, engaged in fight,
which resulted in the fatal shooting of
Edward Ivey, one of the party.
On the 11th the two great powder mills
of the Gambo Powder Company, eleven
miles from Portland, Me-, blew up. There
was large stock of material on hand, and
the explosion was terrific. Clarence Clarv.
of Gorham, was killed and Henry Hooper
was terribly and fatally mangled.
THE custom-hc use at Catalinas, South
America, was burned on the 1Ith: loss, |
S. 200, 0OO
A FIRE at railway station at Oldham,
England, on the 18th, destroyed $3.50, 600
worth of cotton.
BY the burning of the Orphanage for
boys in the town of Voerde, Germany. ON
The 18th, five inmates lost their lives.
On the 18th, while Sarah Hassett, cook
at a Logansport Gnd.) restaurant, was
filing the tank on a gasoline stove the
1uld took fire and the tank exploded. The
Hassett woman and a bystander named
Joseph Heffner were horribly and fatally
HE station master at Monte Carlo who
aused the recent railway collision was ar
'ested on the 18th and committed suicide.
EDWARD CLAPPER, living seven miles
rom Fremont, Neb., was burned to death
"A his house, which was destroyed by fire
n the 10Th. He was unmarried and a
armer. There is no explanation of the
flair. but the supposition is that it was
occidental.