Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1878-08-15
CASUALTIES.


at Dubuque on the Sth inst.
A colored barber in Nashville, Tenn,
died of sunstroke on the Sth iast.
A four story furniture warehouse was
burned at Toledo, o., on the 9Th ms.
There was on the 10th inst, a $780,.
900 fire in Brooklyn, N ", and also
$4,000 fire at White River, Junction, W.
A explosion has occurred in the mines
of the Notifications of Kars, resulting 10 fire
which destroyed the best ortion of the city.
A Russian magazine exploded at
Trateshi, .Roumania, on the 9TH inst, killing
number of persons and doing great damage
to property.
Secretary and Mrs. Sherman, Mrs.
President Hayes and daughter and other Ia
dies and gentlemen have been visiting Sena-
tor Burnside, at Providence, Rhode Island.
August 9Th was reported to be the hot
test day of the season at Omaha, the ther.
mometer indicated 100 degrees. There were
four cases of prostration by heat. And one
fatal.
Two Chicago fire engines collided on
the 9th inst, killing the fireman, George Rau
and badly ipjucing Fireman Shaughnessy
Both engines were running to q fire and met
on corner.
Letters from on board Her British
Majesty's steamship, Swiftsure, in the gulf Of
Saras, declare that the Russians are still
busily fortifying the coast, and do. not expect
he peace to be permanent.
A letter received from Honolulu says
the French bark Calcutta. went ashore on the
island Injuries. one of tho sicily group. June
25d-a total loss, The captain of the barb
committed suicide. No.other lives were lost
An explosion occurred in coal mine
at Scoemerston, near Berwick, Eng, on the6th
inst. Thirty men were in the mine at the
one dangerously. The men were working with
naked lights.
August 10th, boy at work in plan.
ing mill in Chicago, was accidentally caught
and drawn into planning machine, and liter.
ally sliced to pieces, his head, shoulders, arms
body and lower limbs being successfully cut
of by the knives.
j. G. Downely, formerly conductor on
the Baltimore & Ohio road, fell off freight
train Of which he was brakeman and was lit
orally cut to pieces on the 9th inst. Deceased
was on the Louisville & Nashville line. He
was from Ohio.
J. B. Pond Of the Redpath Lvceum
bureau, and Miss Isabel NJ. Stone of Boston
were married at Council Bluffs, Iowa, August
11th by the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, Mr.
Pond accompanies MFR. Beecher in his Cali
fornla lecture tour.
A freight and special train consisting
of an engine and cclaboose collided on the
10th inst, on the Ohio and Mississippi rail-
road near North Vernon, Ind. One man was
killed, and the fremen and engineers jumped
from the trains receiving slight injuries.
On the afternoon OF the 9Th inst Belle
vile and Norwood, Canada, were visited by
very heavy storms, accompanied by thunder
and hail, and great damage was done to
crops. In Norwood houses and barns were
leveled, and several persons were seriously
injured.
A passenger train on the Chicago, Bur-
lington and Quincy railroad, coming north,
at Riverside on the 9th inst, struck a. milk
train which was switched on side track at
that point. Several persons we're injured,
but none seriously, except Holden: the bag
gage MAI, who had both legs broken. The
cause of the accident was misplaced switch.
The Illinois Central car repair shops at
Dubuque, Iowa, frame building, was burned
to the ground on the 9th inst, together with
eight freight cars, which stood on side track
to the windward. By hard work many cars
aud much freight were put ont of the way and
many thousands Of dollars saved. The loss is
probably about $4,000. The cause is sup
posed to be sparks from a locomotive.
A Philadelphia telegram Of August, LIST,
says, two heavy rain storms, accompanied by
thunder and lightning, swept over the city
that evening, doing considerable damage to
the exhibition buildings and goods therein.
A portion Of the roof of Wannemacher'
establishment fell under the weight of water,
but only one salesman was slightly injured.
Cellers were flooded level with the street in
many places, doing immense damage to
goods stored. Culverts were choaked, trees
blown down, and roofs demolished. Il 80 49,,
asS PERsONALANDr u44ITIcAL. @F
Mrs. President Hayes is at Newport,
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