The Springdale news., 1888-12-21
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.


 IT is reported that during target prac- tice or board a French iron-clad in the Gulf of Juan, recently, gun exploded and killed an officer and five men.
 ON the evening of the 18th the iewelry store of Smith French at Wabash Ind was burglarized to the extent of $1,s0l while the proprietor was absent taking tea.
 ON the 14th the jury in the ease of James Stone, the negro jockey, on trial ill Brook lyn for the murder of Coney Island bar tender, named Henry Miller, in a bar room fight last summer, failed to agree upon verdict.
 ON the 14th the trestle work on the in- side of the stand-pipe being erected in connection with the water works at Ste vens' Point Wis, fell. killing four men l and severely wounding two others
 ON the night of the 18th an overland train was wrecked near Encinitas, thirty miles north of San Diego, Cal. by the spreading of the rails. Every car but the sleeper left the track and rolled down a steep embankment. All hands escaped injury except Express Messenger White head, who had one of his ribs broken.
 ON the night of the 14th Mrs. Hall, of Rockport N. Y.. was suffoeated by smoke rom fire which originated in a saloon in the building in which she was a tenant
 OS the morning of the 14th the foundry and engine house of the Moorehead Manu- featuring Company. OH. Second avenue, Pittsburgh, Pa. was destroyed by fire. Loss, so 900; fully insured. The fire is supposed to have been caused by q nat ural-gas leak.
 OS the night of the 10th a daring train T, Two masked robbers held up an Illinois Central train, and secured 5000 from the express car. 4 passenger named Charles Hughes. Of Jackson, Tenn, who attacked the robbers with a Winchester rifle, was shot by them and killed
 ADyIeEs from South Africa say that the King of Swaziland recently caused the massacre of his Premier and six chiefs and their people. They were supposed to be concerned ia plot to dethrone him in favor of his brother.
 STORMS ragged, between the 18th and 15th, in the Department of Pyrenees- Orientales, France, flooding villages and causing wrecks and loss of life.
 ON the 15th two boys, aged eleven and fifteen, sons of MT. Herbert, a storekeeper at Ferrvpoint, Ont. while skating, broke through the ice and were drowned.
 AT Hinsdale, Cattaraugus County, N. Y, on the night of the 15th, Harvey Lub- bington, aged fifteen, threw chair at his father, fracturing the old nlan's skull and causing death. The boy was ar rested.
 ALFRED DUENwEG, book-keeper for Bauermeister & Busch, at Terl~ Haute, Ind, has abscondcd The firm do not know where he has gone, or how muck they are out. but say the books have been doctored for long time
 ON the 17th a through freight or the Erie railroad broke in two whilepassing Friendship. \. Y. About three miles fur ther on the second section overlook the first and caused a serious wreck. several cars being derailed and the tracks block ed. No one was h1rt.
 OS the 10th the British steamer Jasper, from Workington for Glasgow, foundered off the Wigtown coast Her crew, num- lering eleven persons, were drowned.
 ON the 11th Olaf r. Olsen, charged with the killing of Mrs. Nelse Lindman. Ut St. Panl. Miun., for 500, which she had in bank il his name, was found guilty of murder ill the first degree. His will be Sile first hanging in St. Paul since 1s58.