Daily globe., 1882-09-30
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
A Train Runs Through an Open Draw Into
Niagara Rivera Long List of Misde-
meanOrS.
THROUGH A DRAW.


ing drawing car used in conveying pas
sengers over the International bridge be-
tween here and Black Rock, suburb OF
Buffalo, fell through an open draw into the
Niagara river twenty-five feet. Engineer
Bohn and Edwin Herschey, Reeves OF
Bertie, Ont, were killed, and Mrs. Parm-
lee, of Black Rock, Capt. Haggert, the
dummy conductor, and lady, name un-
known, seriously injured. ''a's. oaS
1t seems that the steamer Falcon was
coming up andTthe draw. in the bridge was
opened for her to pass.-At the same time
the dummy engine, used to cross the
bridge with passengers, was making Its
last trip for the night. From some cause
the engineer did not perceive the draw
open, and the dummy plunged into, the
river. The engineer. Edward Bohn, and
Edward Herschey, farmer. We're killed
instantly. The balance of the passengers
were Mrs. J. w. Parmlee, John Connel, and
Miss Connelu Conductor James Haggert
and three others were seriously bruised,
but rescued by the Falcon. Malcom Col
eugh bridge superintendent, standing on
the platform of the car, jumped to the
bridge as the car went down. The water
was full forty feet deep at the point where
the car went down. ot ., y :.
aY ,iiaa B. ARREST OF A THIEF. 3-a-a e
New York, Sept. 29.-John Whipple, of
Quincy,l H., is at police headquarters,
charged with stealing 500 from farmer
near Quincy. 81
SENTENCED FOR EMBEZZLEMENT. 90
PROVIDENCE, R. l., Sept, 29.-Henry j.
Hall, late teller of the Rhode Island Hos
pital Fruit company pleaded non-con-
tenGered to one of the four indictments
for embeZzlement, and was sentenced to
five years in the state prison. The amount
of the embezzlement is $4,000. The other
indictments were nolle pressed.
ROBBED HIS EMPLOYERS.
James A. Tabener, representative of
the English house of Higgins, Lloyd & Co..
has disappeared. An examination of the
books of the custom house shows he sys-
tematically robbed his employers in pay
ments of duties, charging the firm larger
amount than he paid, and destroying the
custom house receipts. Tabener was sent
from England four years ago to take the
place of another defaulting clerk.
FIRES.
EMPORIUM, Pa, Sept. 29.-Early this
morning fire in the Democrat Office al
Ridgeway communicated to seven princi
pie business places, which were burned
including both printing Offices, bank
and the Hyde house. Loss, $150,O00; in
surance, $4,000.
HELD FOR MURDER.
New ORLEANS, Sept. 29.-J. 1. Riculf
has been held for the murder of W. F
Fakloa, and L. NJ. McClung as accessory
McClungs bail was fixed at $4,000.
HELD TO BAIL.
PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 29.-John II. Park
almshouse contractor, arrested last night
was this forenoon held in $4,000 bail, and
was sent to prison in default of the same
STEAMER ASHORE.
CAPE HENRY. Va, Sept. 29.-An ocean
steamer from Philadelphia to Havana is
ashore near here.
ANOTHER DISAGREEMENT.
PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 29.-The jury IN
the star route prosecutions in the United
States district court reported this morning
that they had been unable to agree on {
verdict.
WHOLESALE POISONING.
PHILADELPHIA, Sept. '29.-The police
have arrested w. G. Whitaker, residing in
Paschalville, near the city limits, charged
with poisoning his wife Jennie, aged forty
four years, and his children, Mayson, aged
twenty-four years, May aged nineteen, Eve
fifteen, Sarah twenty, Bertha eight, and
Willie two years. A boarder named Mayson
Cooper, nineteen years old, was also poi
soned. Some of the sufferers are in crit
ical condition. 1t is alleged tina tWhitta-
ker placed arsenic in a bucket of water
with which tea was made.
FATAL RUNAwA1. So
ALBANY, n. Y, Sept. 29.-Ex-Assembly-
man Amos J. Parker, Jr., was driving a
spirited team to-day, when the horses ran
away. Parker was thrown out and his leg
was broken. 1t is feared that his skull
was also fractured. The horses continued
to run and the carriage struck tree,
Throwing out the lady occupants. Mrs.
Lewis Rathbone, wife of prominent re-
tired manufacturer of this city, was in
stantly killed, and Mrs, Parker and Mrs.
s. Il. Strong, of Savannah, sister-in-law of
Col. Parker, were slightly injured. ~
Dick Winship's Duel.
Snookinp of Dick Winshin rooo1Is bic