The Springdale news., 1888-08-03

IT is reported that the Prince of Wales will visit Dahlin shortly. ON the 3eth Mrs. Cleveland and her l mother took sail on the lake at Marion. Mass. with their host and some invited 1 friends.
 l NATHAN KENNEDY, q we'll known hve- stock importer, of Montreal, Can, as- l signed on the 2)th. Liabilities, Sl5o,00). CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
 ON the 25th ono young woman was killed, and several others severely in- l iured, by the collapse of in, floors of ! New York City book .bindery.
 ON the 2Gth a company of militia at- tackled, routed and captured nineteen of a band of bold, bad tramps, who, armed with revolvers, were making life a burden 1 to farmers and others in the neighber- 1 hood of Ashtabula O. They had pre- viously routed the local police. NEAR Prestdio, Cal, Rothblum & Co.'s l beef packing house was burned, on the 2eth, the large building and plant being entirely destroyed, and causing a loss of l 40000.
 WHILE playing on some logs in the l L'Assomption river, four sons of Mir. i Vandevill, of Boston, aged six, eight. ten aud twelve years, respectively, were drowned at Montreal, Can, on the 2ith. Their bodies were recovered and buried 1 on the 26th.
 NEAR Arlington, Va, sixteen year. l old son of Mr. O. l.. Pr,rien, assistsnt { i secretary to the President, was killed, on l the 2Tth, on farm. The lad was riding on farm wagon, when sudden jolt threw him off. The wheels passed over him and so crushed him that he die LII pc 1 short time.
 Ar Brighton, N. Y, on the 27th, a seri- ! ous break occurred in the three-m mile l level of the Erie canal. Several boats were broken in twet and all of the east bound boats were. delayed.
 oS the night of the 26th Deputy Sheriff |. s. Elmer, of Wahpeton, Dak, was taken from jail by a mobof angry citizens and hanged for the unprovoxcd murder of Miss Mollie Korbsl.
 ON the night of the 26th Eugene Zen gins, young married man of St. Paul, Ming. attended prayer meeting in fn- dianapois with his wife, where, after taking part in the exercises for awhile. he retired to classroom aud took dose of earbolic acid, dying in great agony few minutes later. He was out of employ ment and Respondent
 | 1antDH, o., hns NeW prk a1Q 10l- cago Limited Express, east bound, was wrecked on the 27th. The locomotive jumped the track on switch crossing, and was upset com bination car fol- i lowing was dashed upon the disabled en- zine and demolished. Engineer Pat Mor. l gan was fatally injured. and several pas sengers were slightly bruised. Travel was delayed four hours.
 At Pittsburgh, Pa. Robert Barnett and ". L. Penny, Jr., charged with swindlng 1 Wm Mertz out of Si0, ,000 in bunko game, were acquitted on the 27th.
 Ar Sehneetady, N Y, the foundry con- nected with the Edison machine works was destroyed by fire on tho 28th. Loss, S32 900: insurance, s75 0Do. The building was one oft en which cover five acres of ground.
 ON the esth Roweh &co's blow works at Hartford Wis, were,destroyed by fire. Loss, S25, 900: no insurance
 ON the 50th q young man named Peter ] swagart was struck by lightning at St. Paul, Minn., and instantly killed.
 AT New Canaan, Conn.,, three large barns belonging to $. B. Hoyt, nursery man, were burned, on the 2oth, with their contents. Loss, sls 900; insurance, S15, 600. The fire is supposed to have been in- cendiary.
 EARLY on the morning of the 3)th two men entered the rosid snce of Joseph l Ellis, at Bridgewater. Mass, and. with | drawn revolvers, forced Mir. Ellis to give up all the money ne had in the house. They then decamped, taking Mfr. Ellis horse and buggy
 THE man found drowned off Nahant, on the 23d, has been identified as that of Davld Fitzpatrick, of Woburn Mass, who had been missing since the 2lst II is not determined whether the case was one of suicide or foul play.
 ON the 29th the tug boat Henry Preston, IT., sank at her wharf in Beverly, Mass. Engineer Jones and two of the crew, who slept on board, were awakened by a loud noise as ot a cannon fired under the side of the boat. Foul play is suspected.
 HE burning of John Devarreu's paper mill, at Lee, Pa, on the night of the 29th, caused loss of S25, 900; fully insured
 ENRAGED at failing to receive overdue wages, George Shepard, aged thirty. the hired man of Obiah Cutler, of Lowell, Mass, procured a revolver, on the s0th and chased his employer about the yard firing IS he ran. He lodged one bullet in Cutters shoulder, and then fed.
 THE factory of the Rock Nitro -glycertne Company. two miles south of Lima, O.. was set on fire on the 29th, and soon aftel exploded with great force. The building was reduced to splinters, and .pieces of flesh were found some distance.away. Ii Is supposed several tramps were killed as. large number of them were seer around there a few minutes before the ex plosion.