The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1884-10-30
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.

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CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
THOMAS KENNEDY was cremated in
burning building at Philadelphia, Pa, on
the 18Th.
A GERMAN theater and several other
buildings in Moscow, Russia, were de-
stroyed by Gre on the 10Th.
BY boiler explosion in Taylor County,
West Virginia, on the 18th, two men were
killed and five injured.
On the 195h an insane man named Bull
who was confined i'll padded room in his
brothers. house at Erie, Pa, which took
fire and burned, perished in the flames.
He was worth $4,000. His brother was
badly burned in endeavors to rescue him.
AT Porter's Lake, Nova Scotia, Arohi-
bald Stewart, hotel-keeper, died on the
10 h from eating wild parsnip, which he
supposed was sarsaparila. A boy named
Murphy was in critical condition from
the same cause.
AT Lauterbrunner, Switzerland, the
Grand Hotel burned on the goth, with a
loss of 100000.
WHILE attempting an escape from Jail
at Greensburg, Pa, on the 20th, John Fitz-
gerald, horse-thief, was fatally injured.
AN explosion of gas in a bank vault at
Elmira, N. ", occurred on the goth, by
which Congressman John Arnot, the
cashier, was blown across the room, burn
ing his face and hands, and otherwise
seriously injuring him. The building was
badly wrecked.
AT Carthage, N. Y, fire on the Goth
swept away over two hundred buildings,
involving loss of upward of million
dollars.
The New Jersey forest fires in Camden,
Gloucester and Atlauic Counties were
still burning fiercely on the 9th, and great
apprehension was felt for buildings in the
wooded country in the region of the
flames.
THE great fire at Carthage, N. Y, was
more serious than at first reported. 1t
was the most disastrous conhagration that
ever visited that part of the State. Hun
dreds of people are homeless and des-
titute.
OK the 21st Miss Jane Ward and J. R.
Dorsey, wealthy farmer, were lynched
in Central Alabama. They were accused
Of completely in the recent murder of Mrs.
Mary H. Davis.
On the 2lst the Post office, telegraph Of
flee, McCambridge's Hotel, the Orange
Hall and ten stores in the village of Frank
ford, Ont, were destroyed by fire.
on the 22d Cluke, one of tho horses in
heat race at Washington, d. c., fell dead
ON the track.
ON the 22d, while packing his trunk for
| bridal tour Edward o. Fitzgerald, Jr.,
of Richmond, Va, was accidentally and
probably fatally shot.
On the night of the 22i the Southern
| Barbed. Wire Company's buildings in st.
Louis, Mo-, were damaged by fire to the
extent of about $50,0JO. The insurance
amounted to S5l,75).
| SOME scoundrels are said to be poisoning
cows by Wholesale at Hamilton, Canada,
by feeding them turnips impregnated with
strychnine.
A DISPATCH from Mattawa, Ontario, de-
| tails tue poisoning Of thirteen persons in
that village from eating oysters which had
become tainted. They were attacked with
violent spasms and vomiting, and at one
time it was thought that several Of the
victims could not recover. Similar cases
of poisoning were reported near Kingston
few days since.
ON the night of the 23d, 7. A. Chapman's
mammoth dry-goods house at Milwaukee,
Wis, burned. Loss, S55O,OOo; insurance,
S450000. Stark Bros, who occupied por'
ton of the building, lose 100000 on stock ;
fully insured. -Four hundred persons were
empIoyed in the building.