The Springdale news., 1888-11-09
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.

PATRICK GILLIGAS, a farmer, was shot dead near Athloue, Ireland, on tue 2d. The crime grew out of agrarian disputes.
 AS special train was returning to Chi cago from Indianapolis, on the afternoon of the 4th, crazy man jumped in front of the engine at Radao, Ind, and was in : stantly killed. His name was Sanford Franklin. He had threatened suicide in this way for months.
 ON the night of the 4th an incendiary fire wiped out three of the largest busi- ness blocks in Gary Dak.
 AT Tacoma, W. T., on the 4th. sixteen sailors of the ship Hecla, which arrived load ed with wheat for Great Britain, en- tered suit in the District Court again st Captain Snow of that vessel for cruelty, Their allegations of ill-treatment aud starvation are blood -curdling.
 ON the morning of the 5th an explosion of gas occurred in the Starkville (Col.1 coal mine, wrecking the mine and killing two men. Had it occurred an hour later fifty men would doubtless have per ished.
 OK the 9th. while Mrs. Stuysanka, of Abbeville, s. C., was out driving. the horse became frightened and backed the buggy off bridge, and Mrs. Stuy ysauka was killed by the fall.
 A express on the North & West Branch railroad ran into wildcat engine a. Nes- copec, Pa, on the 9th. Engineer Samuef Dietrich and his fireman, George Steulitz of the passenger train, were probably fatally injured. The bagga ayemaster also sustained serious injuries.
 REsoS SwIGER is under arrest at Indian Creek. ". Va, for defrauding Mary Gil- christ. q pensioner of the War of 1872, out Of S400 for services in the prosecution of her claim. H. made confession.
 AT the Delaware Torpedo Compa ny's warehouse at Shannopin, Pa. a terrific explosion of nitro- gly yeerine was caused, on the 9th, by tramp trying to force an entrance to the magazine. The tramp was blown to atoms.
 FoUR powder mllls of tEe Oriental Powder Company at Gambo, Me, We're blown to pieces, on the 9th, and two me |, who were the only occupants at the time, were fatally hurt.
 ON the 9th David McDermoad, a boy, Of Mt. Holly, Pa, went gunning and be- coming tired, laid down iH the brush to rest, and drawing his rif tow ard him. the hammer caught in the brush and the load was dischar ged, almost tearing his head from hls body.
 A RESPECTABLE market gardener named Joseph kroeger was wantonly run down in the street at College Point, \. Y.. on the night of the 5th, trampIed and killed. by 6 half dozen drunken fellows mounted on mustangs, who were riding recklessly through the town. The men were trace I to a riding school in Brooklyn, but their identity was not established.
 VIM. PARKEs, register Of q .eis Os Nell son County, Dak.. is reported to have ab- sconded on the 9th, with Sl0,0)) which ne had secured by mortgaging Iii, property two CT three times over, escaping detec- tion by neglecting to index tue mort gages.
 ON the 9th Henry Liudamar, of Albany N. Y., laborer. aged forty. shot and killed his fourteen-year- old son, Willie. f9r quarreling with his brother.
 A TELEGRAM from London of the 9th said: Severe gales are prevailing on the coast of Great Britain. Many wrecks Of vessels are reported but no lives are known 10 be lost as yet"