St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1888-06-30

| meeting of Prohibitionists was held t,
ratify the presidential nominations o
their party. General Fiske, Sam Small
| Mrs. Frances Willard and others ad
| dressed the meeting.
The report circulated on the 22d tina
Count De Lesseps was dead was promptl!
| denied. He was not only alive, but il
| good health. The first report caused the
| closing of the French bourse.
! CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
| IN Silver Lake, near Perry, N. Y, AL
bert E. Purdy, a we'll known business
! man, and Miss Lettie NJ. Strauss were
| drowned. on the 18th, by the upsetting OF
| their boat.
| On the 18th Nine. Dis DeBar and Gen.
| eral Dis DeBar, who were recently con-
victed of conspiracy in swindling Luther
| R. Marsh, New York lawyer, out of a
portion of his property, were sentenced
! by Judge Gildersleeve to the penitentiary
| for six months.
The Sparta Hotel at Wakefield, Mich,
| was destroyed by fire on the 18th. The
building was owned and occupied by Ed
| ward Bowler, whose family perished in
the flames. Several men were badly
burned in trying to save the children.
On the 18th deputy United States mar
shall arrived at Wichita, Kas., from the
Indian Territory with Tom Thrumber and
Jim Baldwin, murderers Of Peter Mann,
Thrumber's father in-law The three men
quarreled over the possession of wagon
and team of horses. Three weeks ago
Thrumber and Baldwin laid in wait for
Mann, and shot him as he passed along
the road.
On the 10Th John R. Dunn, the lawyer
Company robbery, was sentenced to nine
years and eight months in New York
State prison, the full penalty of the law.
THIRTY lives are reported to have been
lost in the fire at Dubois. Pa. on the Is tn,
twenty men, four women and six chill
dren; also that the loss will aggregate
more than 100000. Telegraphic COM
munication was cut off by the fire; and
the details have not been received.
On the 18th Fred May, the well-known
man about town, was arrested in New
York for insulting ladies on the street.
He was intoxicated, and pointed a pistol
at the officer who arrested him. The lat
ter clubbed him into submission, and it
was found necessary to send him to the
tention.
A DISPATCH was received from Klel,
Germany, on the 10th, stating that the
steamer Nord had been lost by fire and
that eight of her crew were drowned by
the capsizing of boat.
AT the Nelson colliery, near Shamokin,
Pa, on the Goth, there was a terrific ex-
plosion Of gas by which Geo. Schmack re-
ceived probably fatal injuries; Michael
Kelly, of Slope Hill, was badly burned,
besides other injuries. and Karin Karins,
of Scotch Hill, was frightfully burned.
The latter may recover.
On the Goth Mrs. Josephine Morike,
Polish woman, residing in Pittsburgh,
Pa, administered strychnine to each Of
her three children, all under nine years
Of age, and then took the fatal dose her.
self.
In London, on the 21st, two we'll known
American burglars, Billy Porter and
Frank Buck, both having many aliases,
were arrested on a warrant issued on a
charge Of burglary at Zurich, Switzer-
land. Superintendent John Shere of the
Metropolitan police and officers of his
staff made the arrests, and the prisoners
were identified by officers from Zurich.
derer Of Mrs. Madeline Goelz, of New
York, was convicted of murder in the
first degree. The. jury were out only
thirty minutes.
AT Alexandria Bay, N. Y, the stables
and servants quarters belonging to the
Thousand Island House were burned on
the ed. 1t was only by the slight veer-
ing of the wind that the immense wooden
hotel was saved. The utmost confusion
prevailed among the 800 guests, most of
whom had been called to take the morn
ing boat for Montreal. The hotel fire ex-
tinguishers were found to be almost use
less.
A ZAcATEcAs Mex dispath of t he 23d
tells Of awful destruction Of life and prop
erty by foods caused by heavy rains, on
the 10Th. At Zelos 500 houses were swept
away, and great many lives lost; at
Leon, the next city in size to the capital,
/ 200 bodies had been recovered, and at
Lagoon the loss OF life and property was
equally terrible. Hundreds of families
were homeless at all points, many were
starving and crops were ruined.
AT Keyser, Md, a shifting engine on
the Baltimore & Ohio railroad, exploded
on the 22d, killing Engineer Joseph Bell,
of Grafton, and injuring fatally John
McNabb, of Winchester, the conductor,
and William Baylis, of Keyser, the fire.
man.
Ar Schuylkill Haven, Pa, on the 22d, in
a collision on the Philadelphia 81 Read
ing road. Engineer John D. Smith and a
man named Frank Herschey, both OF
Philadelphia, were killed, and Charles
II. Eddinger, fireman, was terribly
scalded. The tracks were blocked for six
hours.
ON the 2sd, Cooley Stone, the jockey
who rode Frolic at Sheepshead bay, L. l.,
on the 22d, got into quarrel with Earnest.
Miller, bartender in the ST. Nicholas
Hotel, at the west end Of Coney Island,
about payment for drinks. Stone drew
pistol and shot Miller dead. The murderer
was arrested.
MISCELLANEOUS.
IHE Supreme Court OF Minnesota has
rendered decision in the case OF Fred
Hardenburg against the St Paul. MIN |
neapolis & Manitoba Railroad Company, |
awarding damages for ejectment from a
train for refusing to pay fare where no
seat was provided.
The President has approved the act au- |
thorizing the construction OF bridge |
across the Mississippi river at Hickman.
KY.
At San Francisco Savage, Son g. o.,
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