St. Landry democrat., 1886-01-30
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.

BENJAMIN CooKsoN, while trying to res
cue his children from his burning resi-
dence at Greenbush, Me-, on the 18th, was
burned to death.
ON the 18th Pilot Joe Davis was killed,
and the fireman and others seriously in
jured by the explosion of the boiler of the
tugboat Modoc at Pittsburgh, Pa.
On the 10Th snow storm of unusual Sc
verify was reported from Colorado, which
had been raging for several days. Rail-
road travel was seriously impeded. Two
men were reported lost in slide in Lost
mans Gulch in Gunnison County.
ON the Goth cowboys undertook to run
the town of Burlington, Tex, and four Of
them were killed by officers.
WIN. SHEEHAN, convicted of the murder
of his mother, sister and brother, was
hanged at Cork, Ireland, ON the Goth.
On the Goth the steamer Crystal from
Scotland arrived at New York with fire
among her cargo which had been burning
for several days.
AT Tompkinsville, N. Y, on the Doth,
warehouse burned, together with a large
amount of cotton, involving an aggregate
loss of ,00O For time adjoining prop
erty of almost untold value was in great
peril.
ON the Goth, while cutting timber near
Bedford, Ia, Aaron Cox was struck across
the chest by falling tree and instantly
killed. He was about fifty-ive years old,
an old settler and member of the Grand
Army of the Republic. He leaves wife
and seven children.
THOMAS STAFFORD, of Parkersburg, w.
Va, fatally shot his sister on the 21st dur
ing quarrel, and then made his escape.
THE ship Frank N. Thayer, from Manila
to New York is reported burned at sea.
MRS. URIAH GORDON, of Nashville, Ind,
committed suicide on the 21st by hanging.
By an explosion of a boiler at Terre
Haute, Ind, on the 21st, six men were IA
tally and five others seriously injured.
AT Dawson, Pa, on the Dist, a young
man named Marshall and. young lady
named Risen were drowned while skating.
AN explosion occurred in the shaft of the
Newburg Oriel Coal Company's mine at
Newburg, W. Va, on the 21st, by which
thirty miners were killed or imprisoned in
the burning pit.
THE Delaware Oil Works at Chester,
Pa, were almost entirely burned out on
the night of the Goth. The fire started
from an explosion, and burned all night.
Nearly all the buildings employed in the
of lubricating and paraf1ine
wax were burned Loss, about $4,000
On the 22d Mrs. George Gravener jump
ed into cistern at Louisville, KY, with
her babe in her arms and both were drown
n nj Of f-o had
settled her reason.
ON the 22d rear-end collision occurred |
at Oakdale Station, Pa, on the Baltimore |
& Ohio Railroad, by which caboose and |
seven cars of freight We're wrecked, three |
men killed and others injured.
On the night of the 2lst, during quar-
rel over religious discussion at Chicago, |
Henry Neimeyer, cook at the Sherman |
House, was fatally shot by William Fl.
Behler.
ON the 22d Jacob Christman, young
German, received fatal injuries near Wa
bash, Ind, by log rolling upon him
which he was helping to load upon sled.
ON the 22d two young men were fatally |
Ind one seriously injured at Pittsburgh, |
Pa, by colliding with a heavy wagon
while coasting.
ON the ed John r. Moore, wealthy
'armer residing near Clifford, Mich,
while in e temporary fit of insanity,
plunged head foremost into large wood
stove in which fire was burning, and was
fatally burned before he could be
'escued.
A BRAKEMAN named Edward Heatom
vas crushed to death by the cars at Ham
'urg, Ia, on the 22d.
MISCELLANEOUS. |
THE recent discovery of Nihilist resort
opposite the Anntchkoff Palace in ST. Pc
ersburg has resulted in the arrest of sew