St. Landry democrat., 1888-04-07

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more apparent.
On the 3Oth James Gilhooly, member oi
Parliament for West Cork, who was re.
Gently sentenced to two months imprison.
ment, but released on bail pending his
appeal, was sentenced to two weeks add.
tlonal Imprisonment for assaulting q
police inspector.
ON the 29th Governor johnson Of Mary.
| land pardoned the seven judges and clerks
| OF election who were found guilty OF
frauds at the polls two years ago, and
| sentenced in June last.
| On the 3Oth DIR. Mackenzie, having been
| hooted by mob upon the streets of Ber-
lin, the Emperor promptly gave orders for
his protection in the future, and declared
that an indignity to the great doctor would
be taken as an insult to himself.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
On the 26th an aged woman named Mar
icle was burned to death in her residence
| near Dryden, N. Y. It is supposed she
overturned the stove and set the house on
fire while suffering from fits, to which she
| was subject.
IT is reported that one Of the robbers
who murdered Nine Manager Gribbel of
the Phoenix (Ariz.) silver mine was over
us
On the 9th Conductor Robin was killed
in the wreck Of freight train on the Kan
| sas City, st. Joe & Council Bluffs rail-
road.
Two white men and negro were killed
and several wounded by an explosion of a
boiler at Luce's saw-mill, Cookville, Tenn,
on the 9th.
The Honan floods in China are over,
leaving two million people destitute. The
starving hordes are invading the surround
ing towns and devouring every thing like
locusts, causing great distress to the poor
inhabitants.
ON the 2Sth the sugar-laden steamer
Canonbury, from Matanzas, struck west of
the sold Man," off Nantucket, Mass, but
the crew Of twenty three men were gall
lantly landed through perilous surf
by the Life-Saving crew, amid the
applause Of a large concourse Of people on
the shore.
1T Is reported that losses from recent
floods in Germany are enormous, aggre-
eating $50 600.
ON the 28th three men were manned for
life by powder explosion in an ore mine
at Rittenhouse Gap, Pa. Several other
workmen were seriously injured.
On the 18th Thomas Fl. Shllman, Of
Plainyille, N. T., cut his throat in the pres
ence Of his parents and other relatives and
instantly expired, He had been driven In
sane by the report that he was suspected
Of murder.
In Kkinda, Austria, more than two hun
dred houses were destroyed by fire, on the
18th. a
AT Detroit, Mich. on the 18th. Simon
O'Neill, an, old soldier, who entered the
army in 1857, and served through the civil
and three Indian wars, suicided by hang
ing.
ON the 18th NJ. q. sidebottom, of somer-
set, KY, was arrested and confessed to
the murder and robbery, on the 28th, of
Thomas Wilson, an old soldier who had
gone to that place to collect proof to aid
him in getting pension.
AT Montreal (Can.) detective was, on
the 2Sth, sentenced to fourteen years i'm
prisonment in the penitentiary for robbing
Grand Trunk railroad Offices.
An arist0cratic young counterfeiter of
New York City, Jas. T. Walker, was, on
the 10th, sentenced to three years in tho
penitentiary with hard labor.
On the 18th the jury in the famous Pat
terson murder case at Cheyenne, W. r.,
was discharged after being out eighty -one
hours without coming to an agreement.
ON the 30th Albert Murrish, an insur-
ance agent living in Center Township,
Neb., shot and killed his wife and fatally
wounded the hired man, because he sus-
pected them Of undue intimacy.
On the 30th John r. Decamp, vice e-presi-
dent Of the defunct Metropolitan Bank,
was rearrested in Cincinnati, having been
surrendered by his bondsmen.
On the 18th Mrs. John Garlich, Of Gin
cinnaH, was instantly killed by an ele-
yator, while trying to step of before ithad
stopped.
ON the 2sth the bill granting the st.
Louis d San Francisco railroad the right
Of way through the Indian Territory passed
the Senate.
DEPUTY REVENUE COLLECTOR TAYLOR,
OF Raleigh, N. G., reported, on the 30th, the
capture Of an Illicit still IN Chatham
County, N. C.
In Prussia, by the overfowing of the
Monan river, fifty villages We're complete
ly submerged.
On the SOth Harry Lovett, Of Philadel-
phia, was killed at Lynn, Mass, by an
electric shock while experimenting IN an
electric company's works.
ON the seth O. j. Coughlin, publisher Of
the Binghamton On. ~ Dispatch, was ar
rested on charge of criminal libel in al
leging that Police Officer Donely had led
girls astray.
NIsCELLANEOUs.
DIV the 2Sth the International Range AS
s0ciation, in session at Denver, COL,
adopted resolution amending their con-
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