Brookings County sentinel. (Brookings, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1890, 1882-10-05
the 25th. The total amount Of insurance car.
ried ON the establishment Is $3.50, 200.


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| John II. Boggers, q Clarksburg. W. Va,
farmer, while in drunken frenzy on the Is!
inst, killed bis wife and la-year-old daughter
with an iron poker.
Unknown assassins cut OF the career OF
Henry G. Carpenter, prominent citizen OF
Russell County, Va, on the 30th ult.
| A skiff containing the bodies Of three negroes
was picked up near Battles Landing, Ca. on
the 30th ult.
Sam Whitley and Bill Armstrong, two motor
ious horse thieves wero killed by officers in
Basque County, Texas, while resisting arrest.
row between white and colored men oc-
CURED at Lancaster, s. c., on the 28th, which
resulted in the death Of four Of the latter. A
| number we're wounded. None OF the white
men were injured.
| Melissa Power and Addie Johnson fought a
duel at New Orleans, La, TO settle difference
| concerpinga certain young man. Both OF the
Amazons were mortally wounded.
James Bel, who killed Major Smith, at Deca-
tur, Ala, was attacked by pursuing party and
killed, but not before he had shot down Smiths
| son.
A religious gathering at Hampton Cross
Roads. in Virginia, was the scene Of double
| tragedy on the 9th. The Baptist Association
was holding its annual meeting, attended by a
very large crowd Of men, women and children,
and among q number of wild and reckless
young fellowswho had gone to the meeting two
became involved in quarrel, and q duel with
pistols in the midst Of the throng was the
| result. The worshipers were seized with a
panic and rushed for place Of safety, several
women and children being thrown down and
| trampled on in the confusion, while the dueists
kept on blazing away at each other until both
had received mortal wounds, ono through the
neck and the other in the back.
Minor Misbaps.
The home of Hilaire Rousseau. in st. Simon
| nah xa h1rp ha
ult. His three children perished in the flames.
by the premature explosion Of q blast at
| Cornwall Station, n. v, on the 30th, three men
were killed and three badly hurt.
Martin Borrowick's boarding house at Lemont.
| H., burned on the night uf the Goth. Two
| boarders lost their lives.
! By runaway accident at Albany, N. Y, on
the 29th ult, Mrs. Lewis Rathbone was killed
aud Hon. Amasa J. Parker, Jr.. seriously in.
! jured Mrs. Parker aud Mrs. s. II. Strong of
Savannah, were slightly hurt.
| At New Britain, Mass, c. J. Welton aud
wife were killed by their carriage being struck
| by railway train.
Henry Burke and Martin Carlson, employees
Of the Standard Oh Works, at Long Island,
| were fatally burned by an accident on the 2Sth.
prairie fire swept the vicinity Of Redield,
ID. T., on the 27th, and that village was saved
with difficulty. DIR. II. NJ. Towne, formerly Of
| Chicago, and Young man named Zacharian
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| by the fire. The doctor was fatally burned, but
John reached town terribly roasted about the
| face and arms.
-Four persons-two young men and two young
ladIes--were drowned in the Miami river at
| South Lebanon, o., on the Goth by the upset.
! ting OF q boat. Two women, a man and q
child were drowned in the Saguenay River,
| Canads, by the upsetting of a boat and Mrs.
Bush and her five children were drowned at
| Heathsville, Va, by the washing away of their
house by the bursting Of a mill dam.
coal-slide in the D)dsOl nine at Wilkes
| barre, Pcunsy syania, caused an explosion of
| fire damp, killing one man ami seriously burn.
| ing four Others. The track OF the Lacaawanna
! Road settled three feet for "A space of several
| huudred wards. similar occurrence at Iona
| coming, MARYLAND, burned -four men. who will
! probably not recover.
| James Conway, James Wall and William
/ Dugan were drowned bv the capsizing Of a
boat at Buffalo, \. Y, on the 25.h. Two
young boatmeu found watery graves at st.
| GATHERINGS, Ont. on the same day. farmer
named Levant. his wife and child were drowned
at Quebec. Louisa BlondeD, cook on the
steambarge Brunette, while Engaged in fishing
| from the steamer at Green Bay. Wis, on the
25th, fell into the river with her child and both
we're drowned.
| The west gallery in the exposition building at
Cleveland, o., fell on the 25th, precipitating Il
number Of people, an organ ana piano a dis
tance OF thirty feet. Seven persons were in
| jured. but none fatally.