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er near by, which fell on the head OF his son'
killing him almost instantly.
JOHN DEWEY, the driver of load OF nitro
glycerine, was annihilated near PleasantVlle'
Penn, by the explosion of the freight.
By boiler explosion at Ralston's Mills
Penn, Lille Gross, George Kelly and jesse
Hall were instantly killed Lewis Ralston
was perhaps fatally scalded
AARON C. TURNER, half-witted boy, shot
and killed his sister, Bella, at Amelia, n.y.,
with a gun given him to care for by George
Manning, hunter.
GEORGE GILBERT and Glenn Blodgett
aged sixteen and fourteen respectively, broke
through the ice at Charles City, Iowa, while
skating and were drowned.
CHARLES and Henry Kohlman, of Auburn,
Wis, aged twelve and ten years respectively,
were drowned in Mud Lake.
THE oyster pirates on the Little ChoptanS
River, Md, have not only put to flight the
vessels of the State navy, but they have SO
cowed their crews that many of the men have
resigned, and though every inducement has
becn offered none others could be found who
would take their places.
Two men were killed and three injured
by railroad collision at Hustled, Col.
A TERRIBLE tragedy occurred at Viau,
Cherokee Nation, in which four men were
killed and one wounded. The killing was
the result of drunken row, which was frs:
commenced by one of the STAIRS stabbins
Landrum with knife. They were all
Cheroiees
JACKSONVILLE and ST. Augustine. Fla
have been visited by frost. Thin ice formed
throughout the country. All danger OF
yellow fever is now thought to be over. and
the incoming trains are crowded with passen
gers returning home.
FoRTY-Two houses have been destroyed by
fire at Isabella de Salena, Cuba.
SERIOUS election riots occurred in Servia-
Several lives were lost and many public
buildings were demolished.
The strike of coal miners in Belgium is
spreading Gendarmes and guards are pa
trolling the troubled districts
IRE steam collier Allentown, of Philadel-
phia, went ON the rocks off Cohasset, Mass,
and was wrecked. Her crew Of eighteen
perished.
A FATAL fire occurred in Brooklyn in
which an invalid woman and her brother,
ubn otf tal 70 how. Iii
SURGEON w. J. SIMON, of the United
States cruiser Boston. who contracted yellow
fever while his ship was cruising in Haytan
waters, has died on board thu vessel in New
York Harbor.
A STEAM engine connected with thresh-.
ing machine at Poynette, Wis, exploded,
frightfully mangling and killing John Tut
tie, Charles York and William Buckley, and
seriously injuring three others.
The General Assembly of the knights of
Labor, which has been in session at Indian.
apolis, has adjourned. The place for the
next meeting will be chosen by the General
Executive Board. 1t will be either Atlanta,
New Orleans, or Albany.
THE total vote for the highest Presidential
eiector in Indiana, according to the official
canvass just completed, gives Harrison u.s.
361 and Cleveland $751; OBI. The plurality Of
the lowest Republican elector is 2434.
THE boiler in the chair factory at Cochran,
Ind, exploded, killing William Bencke, John
Stark and William Matthews. Jr., and
severely injuring the engineer. The factory
was wrecked.
FIVE men quarrelled in low drinking
saloon at Vaine. Indian Territory, and in the
fight which ensued three of them were killed.
The New Orleans Mint sent 81, 100000 Of
silver dollars to Washington few days ago,
and it has been discovered that $1,000 was
stolen en- route, bag Of shot having been
substituted.
THE House Committee on Appropriations
is hard at work in Washington, and expects
to have at least two bills ready for Congress
when it assemblies
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND has appointed
George Washington Hensel to be Collector Of
Internal Revenue for the Ninth District of
Pennsylvania.
In accordance with his custom, Secretary
Whitney presented each of tho four hundred
employees of the United States Navy Depart
ment with large turkey for the Thanks
giving dinner.
A STATEMENT prepared at the Pension
Bureau ut Washington shows that of the 49,
600 estimated cases under the act of June Z,
1888, allowing widows arrears of pension
from the date of the husbands death, 14,502
have already teen allowed and settled with
out expense to the Government.
NJ. w. F. HERTENsTEIN, President Of
Switzerland, who underwent the amputaton
of his right leg last week, because Of disease
of the arteries. is dead. He will be buried
with military and civic pomp.
THE British ship The Douglass has found
dercd in the North Sea. Two Of the crew
were drowned.
A L1FEBoAT was upset at Whitby, Eng
and, and twelve persons were drowned.