The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-08-13
CASlJAI.TIE.S.

AT Owentown, ky., on the 5th inst, Will,
Cope Ryerman and family were attending tn,
funeral Of a neighbor's child, q four-ycar-old
child ofthc Rcyermans inquired what the gray,
was dug for. and on being told took a look a,
| the coffin and then dropped dead.
WAvERLY (O.) dispatch of the 9th saw
three passenger cars in an excursion tram re-,
turning from Niagara falls to Jackson, O., via
the Springfield Southern railroad. went through
bridge into the canal az that place. The loco
motive crossed safely. One hundred and fifty
Passengers, residents Of jackson and vicinity,
were on the train. 4 man named David DUNCAN
wa, killed aud large number injurcd-som.
seriously.
DESPATCH from Laramie City, Wyoming,
dated the 9th inst, says: "A man named A. G.
Angelo was found dead beside the Union Pacific
track this morning by section hands lie had
been run over by the ,ars, and ended life by
shooting himself through the heart The man
IL probably 81. Abrey G. A. Angelo, correspond
ent Of the Liverpool Courier, who was with
was killed. Angelo has been writing mp the
west for his paper, and left Cheyenne yesterday
Tor Yellowstone Park TO join Secretary Schurz.'
A COLLISION with hull threw an engine and
baggage car off the track of the Housatonic,
Mass, road, on the 9Th, severely iniuring Geo.
Bowers, engineer, and Abe Tucker, express mes
senger Several others were slightly injured.
The freight house Of the Indianapolis 4 st.
Louis railroad, situated on the bank Of the river
at East st. Louis, together with 1900 feet OF
platform, track, etc, and some fifty cars, most
Of them laden with merchandise, burned on the
9th inst. Loss of railroad property and freight
cars, roughly estimated, SlOO,OO0. The value
OF merchandise i'll freight houses il not known.
BAPTIsTE FERsCHNEIDER, cook at the United
States hotel, Saratoga, n. Y, was shot dead on
the night Of the Sd inst, by his friend and room
mate, August Bremmcr. The pistol was Just
pointed III fun at Ferschneider.
THE Kansas express on the Wabash, ST. LOUIS
4 Pacific road, ran through an open switch at
Clark station, eight miles from Moberly, Mo-,
on the 18th inst, and the mail and baggage cars
were dltched, badly injuring VIM. Dittman,
fireman. and killing Frank Benville. The engi-
necr was dangerously scaldcd about the head
and body, and a brother Of his, who was riding
on the engine, was also scriousl scalded.
CAR loaded with naptha III all eastward
bound freight train jumped the track at Roch-
dale, Mass, and fourteen cars loaded with nler-
chandisc, three Of which with naptha. taking
fire when the accident occurred, the road Was
blocked for two hours and a new track around
the debris had to lie built 10 open the road The
Iphs VIII Do about sZU,OOO.
WM. PRICE,, car inspector for the Baltimore
and Ohio road, war run over and killed at
Grafton, W. Va, on the Sd instant.
ALL the efforts Of the engineers III charge Of
he Hudson river tunnel to reach the bodies Of
the men cntombcd there two weeks ago have
resulted i'll failure.
The st. Louis sewer pipe cOnipany's works
burned on the Sd inst. Loss about :35, 900.
Al "A =
houses and stores and a number Of barns were
destroyed by fire. Loss about 5000.
FEIsESTHAL & Bros. rag and paper ware
house, i'll Chicago, was burned on the Sd inst.
Loss sl5,OOO.
cst fires in the southwest district Of New Bruns-
wick Is estimated nj S30O,O
ELIzARETH OGLEsBY was fatally injured at
Philadelphia, on the Sd instant, by jumping
from burning building.
ON the night of the I'd instant, an unknown
man drove liS horse and buggy of the ap-
proach to Wells street bridge, Chicago, into the
river. The man and horse were drowned. The
unfortunate name IN supposed to be Richard
Gilbert.
Ar Lancaster, Pa, on the I'd inst, while
Frank Stevenson, aged 10, and his brother
Willie, children Of Vim. Stevenson, of Columbia
were playing "burgars" with their fathers
revolver, the weapon was discharged and Frank
was instantly killed.
HoERIX's brewery at Akron o., was destroyed
by fire on the I'd int. Loss $4,000.
FIRE at West Fairyiew, opposite Harrisburg,
Pa, on the I'd inst, destroyed Lutheran
church, four frame cottages and several stables
Loss between 1900 and $4,000.
VICTORIA b. C. dispatch says "Total loss
by the Yale fire 100000. Nearly all the safes
failed and the contents were ruined. Both men
burned at York's Hotel have since died."
EARLY on the morning of the LIST inst, the
building at Terre ITaute, Ind, occupied
by J. Eckhoif, G. IIaitzel, +. II. Franz, and
NOrtOn's restaurant was destroyed by fire. One
man was burned TO death.
Is runaway accident near Sherman, Texas,
recently, a man and his wife were killed.