St. Landry democrat., 1886-05-08
sstpE destroyed the works of the Pater-

FIRE DESTROYED the works of the Pater-
son IN. J.) Dyeing and Finishing Com
pany at Riverside, a suburb of Paterson,
on the DIST. The loss is $50, 900, almost COW
cred by insurance. The fire was OF accl-
dental origin.
ON the 21st James Townsend, of Corlnth,
N. Y, Hiram Davis and boy named Jones
were drowned while attempting to cross
the river at Hadley, Saratoga County.
Their boat was caught by floating logs and
carried over a dam.
THE merchant bar mill of the Pennsyl-
vania Steel Works, at Harrisburg, fa.'
was entirely destroyed by fire on the 2lSt,
caused by the explosion of lamp. The
mill was valued at $150,000, on which there
was an insurance of $4,000, which will
cover the loss.
AT Wiggan's colliery, Shenandoah, Pa,
on the Dist, John Shamousky and his
brother and two Hungarians, names I'M
known, were working a gangway when
blast exploded prematurely, killing Sha-
mousky and fatally injuring his brother.
The other two men are seriously but not
fatally injured.
On the 21st Mrs. Henry Agnew was ar
res ted in Philadelphia on charge OF ar
son, her residence, in which the furniture
| was heavily insured, being recently dis
covered on fire ten times within four
| hours.
JESSE & DARLINGToN's large barn,
| three miles from West Chester, Pa, was
burned on the Dist. Forty cows and three
| horses persisted in the flames. The con-
tents of the barn, including hay, grain
and implements, were entirely consumed.
The loss is very heavy with only partial
| insurance.
| STATE PRISON KEEPER LAvERTY of New
jersey was found guilty of one of the
| charges against him, and he has been dis
missed from office and disqualified from
holding any Office of honor, trust or profit
in the State hereafter.
CUSTOM HOUSE officials at Odessa, Rus'
I STA, are said to have been defrauding the
government for years. The amount en-
bezzled is placed at several million rubles
On the 22d Edward T. Shaw, who fol
twelve years has carried the mail between
the local post-office at Beverly, Mass, and
the railway station, was arrested he con-
fessed to having systematically robbed the
mails for several years, taking between 81
900 and 5000 letters and obtaining upward
of 81 800.
AN emigrant named Uransky fell from 6
train at Antelope station, on the Missouri
Pacific railroad, forty miles east of Chey'
enne, on the 22d. Both his legs were cut
off, and he died in few minutes. He was
bound for Butte, NJ. T.
| MRS. FANNY SMITH, who lived near Key
port, N. j., in fit of mania on the I'D
killed one of her children and seriously
wounded three others with an axe.
FREDERICK HILLERMAN, wife and two
children were drowned while fishing il
the Auglaize river at Defiance, O., on tn
23d.
ROBERT FOWLER was hanged according
to programme at Morganfeld, KY, on tn
23d.
MARY JOHNSON, Philadelphia dolores
woman, was killed on the 23d by VIM
Bush, former lover.
, A sKIFF capsized in the river at Moline
, ILL.,, on the 23d, with three young men, an
, Chas. w. Schaeffer was drowned.
AT New Orleans on the 23d William c
Nessen, aged sixty-two, attempted to XII
, his wife and then shot and killed himself
, JENNIE THOMPSON, fifteen years old
committed suicide at Delavan, ILL.,, on tn
23d, by throwing herself under train.
, $3.50