The Springdale news., 1888-11-16
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.

CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
 4 srEERAGE passenger named Caroline Rose, on the National Line steamer Egypt, committed suicide by jumping overheard at sea on the 27th ult
 ON the 9th an unknown man jumped into the river from Prospect Park at Niagara Falls, and was carried over the falls and lost.
 FOUR men were thrown to the ground, two being killed and the others severely njured, by the falling of a mason's scaf- fold in the Weed building, at Stamford, Conn.,, on the 9th.
 ON the 9th Michael Klonn, the second victim Of the recent boiler explosion at the Lancaster (Pa) Che mical Works, died from his injuries.
 ON the night of the Sth another atroeicus woman murder, with the usual disgusting butchery of the remains, was perpetrated ed in Spitalfelds, London. As before the police are impotent.
 A FIRE, with loss of life which may reach between fifty and sixty, occurred in the Rochester (N. Y. , Steam Guage and Lantern Works on the 9th.
 EARLY on the evening of the 9th, young Swede of New Britain, Conn, Gustav Erickson, was met by man who was la boring under great excitement and who told him he had lost S1 900 on the election. Ar hour later the body of the same man was found alongside the New England railroad track, just west os the city There Is no clew to the mans identity.
 SEVENTY THOUSAND followers of the Mahdi attacked the town of Wadai, west of Darfoor. The garrison repulsed the assailants and killed 5000. but the Nah dists reattack 9d anl captured the town The Sultan of Wadai fed 10 Ghiri
 ON the 10th Joseph Fowle, the colored candy king of Boston, was arraigaed on a charge of cheating Lawyer John B. App pleton, and larceny from the Collateral Loan Company, and committed to jail.
 A PASSENGER train on the Illinois Gen. tral railroad collided with a freight tram near Waterloo la, on the 10th. Wm. Leighton, of Galena, H., a passen ger in the freight caboose, was fatally injured.
 WILLIAM BUCKToN, a wire worker, em ployed by the Cromwell Manufacturing Company, fatally stabbed Gustav Wiehe, q grocer of Cincinnati. on the 11th.
 MARTIN NEWMAN, who was arrested in Washington. aa the 9sh for obtaining money on promise of marriage from Kate Smith, a department clerk, finally offered to marry the girl, and she baggel for his release, but as the police hal found in his room evidence that he had wife in Tennessee he was held for trial
 MCCUEs' carriage factory, Pringlers' shoe factory and Fink & Sehinders' fu1 niture factory at San Francisco, were burned on the night of the lfth. Total loss about Sl00, 001; insurance, $3), ,000.
 AT Vernon Center, N. Y, on the II th, Frederick knorr, his wife and eleven year. -old daughter perished in their burn ing home.
 LARGE tank belonging to the Sharon Gas X Water Com pany Of sharon. Pa, exploded on the 12th. The buildings and machinery were destroyed. and an enI- ploye named Charles Smith was killed Every house in the town was shaken, and some Of tl.sm badly shattered.
 Oy the night of the 12th a Portland (Conn.3 harness-mak 1T, named Cooper, killed his wife with an axe while she Was asleep in bed, and when arrested for the bloody deed, showed a letter received by her from a prominent business man in East Hampton in justification of the act.
 IT was reported on the 12th that the steamer Iberia, which collided with the Cunarder Umbria, on the 10th, could not be found by the wreckers who went iii search of her, and she is supposed to have sunk.
 THE Governor of Massachusetts and his council. on the 12th, commuted the sen. tence of Mrs. Sarah Jane Robinson. who was to have been hanged, on the 16th, for the murder of her brother in- law, Prince Arthur Freeman, 10 solitary confnemen 1t for life.
 ON the 12th Charles Benson, Swede. was instantly killed, and Antonio Rom talo and Nicel Retti. Italians. were fa- tally injured by an explosion os dynamite at Kettner, Pa. They were engaged in track laying and the dynamite was be- ing thawed by a fire when the explosion occurred.