Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1881-04-21
Accidents.

a FIRE at Delhi, La, destroyed a hotel
and four stores. the loss being $50, 600
THE grist mill OF a. Lerdell on Duel,
creek, near Green Bay was destroyed by
fire. Loss, $500 insured for 81 500.
By the accidental falling OF a large
corn bin at Mount Zion, Illinois, John
Maddox, adopted son Of james Davis, was
almost instantly killed.
The furniture factory of Metzner,
Scholbore d Co., at Wheeling, w. Va,
was destroyed by fire, the estimated loss
being so, 900.
The grist-mill OF Lyon, Clement q
Greenleaf, at Wauseon. O., has been burn
ed, causing loss of $4,000.
4 FIRE at Newark. y. j., damaged the
Peters manufacturing company's oil-cloth
works TO the amount of $4,000.
AT point five miles north of Atchison,
Kan, soon after midnight, an engine,
baggage-car, and coach of the Nebraska
road plunged into the Missouri river,
Those on board escaped by swimming.
A DISASTROUS tornado swept through
the. region of fernando, in north
ern Mississippi recently, destroying much
property, killing number of persons,
ana lnlurlng others.
AT Gofstown y. H., an octogenarian
named Franklin Aiken, was overcome by
smoke and excitement in trying to save
his homestead from fire. and was burned
to death
Mrs. AUGUSTA GEDELYA, of New York.
rendered insane by the exposure of her
children to the smallpox, leaped from the
roof of a tenement house in Delaney
street to the sidewalk, and was instantly
kille!
a BRAKEMAN on the Lake Shore road,
named Jones, a resident of Adrian, Mich.
was terribly injured while coupling cars
laden with lumber the projecting piles of
which caught his head. He will proba-
bly, die,
A VESSEL on fire is reported to have been
seen from Highland Light, Cape Cod,
Mass, but owing to the darkness her class
could not be distinguished. She was first
seen at about $50 P. II. Saturday, and by S
o'clock she had disappeared,
AT Decatur, Illinois John Riebsamen,
aged about 20 years. got upon the roof of a
building on East May street, and with a
large butcher-knife, committed suicide by
nearly severing his head from his body.
His wife died some weeks ago, and since
then he has been disconsolate
TIE wife of John Hattsy, of Hartland
township, Illinois, a woman of about -,
and about year and half married hav-
ing a babe nine months old, shot herself
in the head and cannot recover. She has
been for some time suffering from infama-
tory rheumatism, and was partly dement,
ed in consequence.
RICHARD BURGESS, the adopted son of
William Burgess, while riding on a freight
train on the Illinois Central, near Nation,
H., struck a switch and fell beneath the
wheels of the cars, receiving injuries to
such an extent that the right leg was
amputatcd below the knee, and also the
big toe of the left foot. The lad is only
II years Of age, but he bore his Affections
mantullv.
LAST December two young men named
William Alexander and Charles Harris,
of Brownsville, Mimi, went up to La
Crosse on the ice, and after spending the
day in different saloons, started for home
in an intoxicated condition. Since then
nothing has been heard of them until the
other dav, when a man coming up the
river from Brownsville in skiff, dislodg-
ed large cake of ice and Immediately
after the body of Alexander was discov-
cred. The remains were taken to Browns
Vile for burial. Harris body has not
been discovered