St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1886-01-16
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.

ON the 4th negro convict named Jonn-
son, doing long term in the Riverside
(Pa.) Penitentiary, assaulted DR.. Mazinski
and keeper because the former refused to
allow him to take medicine prescribed by
another physician. DR.. Mazinski received
painful injuries and the keeper was
knocked senseless. The latter is in a seri-
Gus condition. johnson was placed in the
dungeon.
LEVI BROWN, of Rockport, Miss, was
on the 9Th.
AT Union City, Tenn, on the 9Th, Beck,
Bransford & Ekdahl's Furniture Company
burned, throwing 200 men out of employ
ment.
THE steamer Norwegian from Philadel-
phia to Glasgow, lost 100 head of cattle on
the voyage.
HANS PETERSON, an insane man living
near Greenvi1le, Mich, shot his wife
through the head and himself through the
heart on the 9Th.
THREE Europeans have been murdered,
and the country within twenty miles of
Mandalay has been raided by Dacoits.
On the 9th three men were killed in a
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Stretcher's Neck tunnel.
ON the 9Th, at Beamsville, Ont, John
Stone shot his niece, Miss Hodge, fatally,
and then wounded himself.
On the It'll the elevator of D. R. Putnam
McGregor burned at Groton, OAK, with
1850 bushels of wheat.
A BAND of Nihilists recently broke into
the Post-office at Rostoff, Russia, and
stole $4,000 roubles and many important
letters.
GABRIEL RACHTER, and his son Joseph,
aged fifteen, were suffocated at Pittsburgh,
Pa, on the night of the 9TH, by gas from a
coke stove used in drying plaster in new
houses.
On the 7th fire occurred in Philadel-
phia, Pa, in the third story of No. 7l5 San
som street, and the adjoining house. A
boy four years old, the son of Mrs. Hardin,
the janitress, persisted in the flames.
ANOTHER suicide has occurred at Monte
Carlo. A wealthy Mexican named Cheyre
gambled away his entire fortune at the
tables and then took his life. He was buried
in common grave. He has left wife
and family penniless.
On the 7th a cavern occurred mt Boston
Run, near Mahanoy City, Pa, and block
of houses went down out of sight. The
families living in the houses made a mar
row escape. The surface was still caving,
and five more blocks were expected to go
down.
PA SLIGHT fire occurred on the Guion
Line steamer Alaska at Liverpool on the
9Th.
T1tN 1k Dat
was destroyed by fire on the sth. Many
of the inmates had narrow escapes.
MRS. ROSE MANcI, of New York, com.
mitted suicide on the Sth from grief over
the loss of child.
A BARBER at Chicago placed his savings,
consisting of bonds, in an oyster can in an
unused stove for safety. They went up in
the usual way.
CHARLES WILLIAMS, colored, convicted
of an outrage on Mrs. Eliza Keene. was
hanged at Cambridge, Md, on the sth.
A FOUR STORY warehouse at Louisville,
KY, collapsed and burned on the 9Th. J.
B. Balmsforth, one of the proprietors, NJ.
n. Wright, manager of the place, and a
colored porter, were buried in the ruins.
WILLIAM ROSE, book-keeper for Painter,
Tongue & Co., Baltimore, Md, who con-
fessed to having stolen $4,000 from his
employees, was arrested on the 9Th and held
in $50, 900 bail.
WHILE Benjamin Scott, Mayor Flames
vile, O., was attempting to rescue prop
erty from burning house on the sth, a
heavy timber fell upon him. He died of
his injuries.