The Springdale news., 1888-10-12
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.

CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
 ELBRIDGE, Dak., on the 3d, was i'll dan- ger of destruction from prairie fire rag ing in that vicinity. A squad of Northern Pacific men had left Jamestown to help save the place.
 FIRE destroyed the Union Carriage Works, owned by Fitzgibbons & Crisp, of Trenton, N. J., on the 4th Loss about S99, 000: insured
 ON the 4th W. H. Crabb, of Curtis, Neb., was arrested 0 complaint of Frank Hollingsworth, of Hastings, charged with obtaining $22, 005 worth of merchan- disc on fraudulent title papers to sec- ton of land.
 ON the 4th Joseph NJ. Pane. a director of the First National Bank of Angelica, N. Y, was indict ed on a charge of de- voting funds of the bank to his own use and making false entries in the books of the bank, and with misappropriating about s5. 900.
 gTwo Viennese students, being hope lessly embarrassed financially, shot themselves dead by mutual agreement in the suburbs of that city, on the 9th. Neither Of them had available assets, and both resolved to die rather than face their creditors.
 
 crop of tobacco and a lot of farming inn plements, on the farm of Mr. NJ. Reid, near Mayfeld, Ky, was destroyed by fire early on the morning of the 9th. Loss, s. 200; partially insured. l | A COLLISION occurred on the Baltimore & Ohio railroad near Dickens station, forty miles west of Washington, about midnight on the 7th. Three men were killed outright and several others se- riously injured.
 DURING the ceremonies attending the cornerstone laying of the new St Mary's Polish Catholic Church in Reading, Pa, on the afternoon of the Tth, the floor gave way, and more than one hundred persons were preeipitated to the basement below, distance Of thirty feet sustaining more or less severe and fatal injuries.
 GEO. SCHMIDT, of Marietta, O.. in the employ of Roland Potter on the beef drive. near Saltwater, Mont, was killed on the 7th, while attempting to ride a vicious horse.
 THE police, while arresting some drunk en Indians in the western part of Spokane Falls, ". T., on the 9th, were fred at and number of shots were exchanged. The citizens rallied to the aid of the po- lice, and one Indian was killed, whose body went floating down tue river. There were twenty fveor thirty Indians of the Neg Perees and Spokane tribes.
 No TRACE of Bosworth, the missing treasurer of the Stafford Mills aud Beattie Zine Company at Fall River, Mass, has been found. The experts at work on the books have not yet found any discrepancy, except that of 5000 ln the accounts with the Mass oft Bank.
 THE police of Moscow, Russia, on the sth, discovered in t cellar complete manufaetory Of dynamite shells. and ar rested the proprietor, a Nlhilist recently returned from penal servitude in Si- 1 beria
 THE storm of August ? at Nokagori, Japan, destroyed 5000 houses. wreck ed 800 vessels, besides eighty five others which were totally lost. Fifty-tso thou sand wounded persons received public assistance.
 THos. F. CAREY, awaiting trial for drunkenness in Salem, Mass, took paris green, on the sth, and died, making the third suicide by parties awaiting trial at the present term of the Superior Court ln that city
 FRANCIS 4. WILLARD, aged sixtv-oue, senior partner ot the extensive banking dId 9oiHliieH4pu h0use oL " lllidul b4 dc r. 65 Co.,, Of New York, shot himself, on the Sth, owing to worry over the troubles oe the firm which was caught in the Hutch lnsou squeeze on wheat.
 AT the meeting of the Whitechapel (London) inquest, on the Sth, several sur geons deposed that the body found in Whitehall was that Of woman of un- usually fine appearance and evidently Of good social position.
 THE Supreme Court Of New York City, on the sth, granted permission 10 Attor- ney General Tabor to brlng action to an- null the charter of the Havemeyer X Elder Sugar Company on the ground tn 1t by joining the trust it had forfeited its corporate rights.