Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-12-23
TELEGRAPHIc BREVTlES.

PITTsBURG, Pa, Dec 22-The last trair
on the Panhandle road which left here "a
II O'Clock last night ran into freight
train near lakewood, Pa, wrecking the en-
| CINE, postal car and one freight car
| Fireman w. 7. Barker. Of this city, wa:
! caught in the wreck and crushed to death
The engineer saved himself by jumping.
SARANAC LAKE. \. Y. Dec. PA cold
wave prevails here. The mercury at the
| signal service station registered % degrees
! below zero last night.
| CROCKETT. Tex, Dec. 2.-John Andrew
johnson was hanged yesterday in the grave
| yard here for criminal assault com.
| mitted on Miss Allie Simmons in June
last. johnson was only 10 years of age
| He protested his innocence on the scaffold
BELLEvILLE, Ill, Dec. "a Belleviue
and Carondolet train was derailed eight
| miles from here yesterday and Thomas
Ash, a fireman, was crushed and scalded
to death. His brother, William Ash, and
George Sacks, brakeman, were fatally
injured
STURGEON BAY. Wis, Dec. 22.-Ernest
Kurtz ard his 15-year-old son were found
dead in the woods about three miles from
Jackson fort yesterday. They had gone
out early in the morning to cut cordwooc,
and the supposition is that limb fell from
a tree which they were cutting down and
killed both instantly.
NEW YORK, Dec 2-Ihe steamer Cho-
teau La Fitte from Bardeaux, which ar
rived here yesterday with small pox in her
steerage, is still detained at quarantine.
Several new cases of the contag1on, 1t was
reported today having broken out on the
vessel since her arrival.
LOUISVILLE, XIV, Dec. 22.-News has
just re ached here that five men concerned
in the famous French Eversdale feud, have
been killed in the mountain region south
of Cumberland. Ga.
FRANKFORT, Ind, Dec. 22.-The boiler in
Bracken's stave factory exploded yester-
day. Martin Nolan, the engineer, was
killed outright and Walter Fentmacher
and Albert Frantz were mortally wound
ed. Nolan was a prominent young mar
ried man and leaves wife and two child
rem.
MILWAUKEE, Wis, Dec 22.-The su-
preme court at Madison today rendered a
decision which will send Paul Greukau, of
anarchist fame, back to the house of cor
rectiOn to serve out about eleven months
of a years sentence for rlOting in May,
1886
Boston, Dec 22-The committee ap-
pointed to investigate the failure of VIII
liam d. Forbes, president of the national
jain VI ueliipClOu, lCpol 10 piiC iioOAiiolSS
at 1864, 900 and the assets $4,000. The
committee has been unable to get an offer
of settlement from Forbes, and further
time has been granted him.
ALBANY, n. Y, Dec. % Edward Gal
lagher, a machinist, was found frozen to
death this morning 500 feet from his house.
He was 81 years of age and leaves wife
and eight or nine children.
BosToN, Dec. 22.-Fire in the p. Lennox
morocco factory tonight caused a loss OF
S250,000
CINCINNATI, Dec 22-The body of Jerry
Bray, captain of company No. 4, who lost
his life in the Strobel fire, was found this
evening under debris under the first floor.
He started from the fifth floor and evil
IDENTIFY wandered down stairs to the first
floor and could get no further. His body
was only slightly burned. Tom Kelly,
one of the firemen. had a strange expert
ence. His hair has turned white as that
of an old man since last night. He was
much exposed and greatly frightened.