St. Landry democrat., 1886-02-13

HALF of the village of Dewitt, Neb.,
was destroyed by fire on the I'd; loss,
$4,000.
On the I'd VIM Baker & Sons dry goods
establishment at Trenton, N. j., was dam
aged $4,000 by fire.
By an explosion of gas on the night of
the LIST the Sheridan furnaces at Sheridan,
Pa, were burned. The boiler houses, stacks,
trestles, hoists, fourteen cars and engine
houses were burned, together with large
quantity of coal; loss about 900.
BY powder explosion at the New York
aqueduct shaft No. %, on the Sd, one man
was reported killed and two seriously in
jured
ON the Sd three persons were seriously
| injured by the explosion of a candy kettle
at Flynn & Duffy's establishment at De-
troit, Mich.
CHARLES SIsK, of Newark, O., a con-
ductor of the Baltimore g. Ohio railway,
was killed in a collision near GAINESVILLE,
O., on the Sd.
On the Sd, in row in concert saloon at
Baltimore, Md, Mrs. Joseph Bucholtz, wife
of the proprietor, was shot and probably
fatally wounded.
A WOMAN and two children were burned
to death in their dwellings at Maestrict,
town of the Netherlands, ON the night of
the I'd.
On the 4th a woman was killed by to-
boggan accident at Toronto, Ont.
On the night of the Sd, a German being
put in the lookup at Cressfeld, Md,
burned the house down and persisted in
the flames.
EDWARD CRowELL, who squandered his
mothers fortune, and is charged with for
gerry, is in jail at Cleveland, o. He was
captured at Poughkeepsie, N. Y.
JAS. CLARKE, a prisoner in the Riverside
Pa.) Penitentiary, on the 4th assaulted
and seriously injured three of his guards,
one mcrtally.
Two brothers, named HARRISON, sold thier
wheat at Bartlett, OAK, on the 1st, and
started home drunk and lost their way at
night. One brother froze to death and the
legs Of the other have been amputated.
On the 4th the Sturgis (Mich.) Furniture
Manufacturing Company's works, with
contents. was burned. A workman was
standing in front of the stove when the
back of his coat caught fire. From the coat
the flames seized on the infammable oils,
and the building was soon ON fire. Loss,
$4,000; insurance, $1,000.
On the 9Th fire at Greenville, S. c., de-
stroyed $4,000 worth of property.
On the 9Th Fred Hall, boy of Empire
City, Kas., fell down mine shaft and was
drowned.
On the 5th six persons who were enjoy
ing sleigh-ride were seriously injured by
being run into by train on the Lake
Shore road at Edgarton, o.
On the 5th Annie Roberts, a Brooklyn
IN. " domestic, was badly scalded by
the explosion of kitchen boiler.
On the 9TH Mrs. Carrie, who had been on
trial at Morrisville, N. Y, for the murder
of her husband, was acquitted.
HENRY Ivy was convicted at Lawrence
vile, Ind, on the 9TH, of the killing of
Timlin and was sentenced to fifteen years.
imprisonment.
ON the 9Th the farmhouse of Albert
Cooley, near McGregor, Ia, burned down,
and Cooley, his wife and three children
were burned to death.
ON the 9Th Wells carriage factory at
Montgomery, Ala, was burned, and E. s.
Horton, of Richmond, Ind, persisted in the
flames.
FIRE broke out in Hibberd & Brooks
Touring mill in Bridgeport, Pa, on the 9Th.
and fifty barrels of flour We're saved. The
mill was totally destroyed. The insurance
is not known.