New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1890-09-03
ACCIDENTAL.

ACCIDENTAL.
The independent Oil company, St. Paul,
loses $25, 900 by fire.
An incendiary fire destroyed the Ness City
(Kan.) sugar mill; loss, $3.50, 900, partially
insured
A scaffold upon which seven men were at
work fell sixty-ive feet down furnace stack
near Baltimore. They are fatally injured.
R. NJ. Gordon young Presbyterian di-
vine of West Superior was drowned while on
an excursion to Spirit lake.
One of the worst storms ever known occur
red along the east coast of Connecticut
Several vessels were driven ashore but as
yet no lives are reported lost.
At Carbonate, Wash, Mrs Mary Wilson
and her infant child were instantly killed by
falling tree. Mrs Wilson, with the babe
In her arms. was sitting on the grave of one
of her children when the tree fell on them.
A terrific storm has visited Triest, Austria,
causing great loss of life and property.
Many wrecks are reported on the Adriatic
sea. and the crews Of several vessels have per.
ished
D. G. Jordan, head bookkeeper of the Bank
of Little Rock, Ark, has left the city with a
dashing widow named Mrs. Latham, taking
with him two drafts which he raised and
cashed in st. Louis.
Conservative railroad men estimate the
prospective loss to the Old Colony Railroad
company by reason of the Quincy accident,
aside from the damage of rolling stock at
100000.
At Rosedale Kan, Benjamin Carter, aged
sixteen, tried to cut his sisters throat, and
afterward b"nt her into insensibiity with
base ball lii. INJECTING probably fatal in.
juries.
Jonathan Hartgraves, a farmer near ills
Iyboro, ILL.,, gave his twelve ear-o old boy gun
|'and stationed hi y in the watermelon patch.
Hartgraves slipped into the patch to try the
boys nerve, and received the con tents of the
gun. He may die.
Joseph, Klitzman, a tailor living in Cleve.
land, Ohio, became angry with his son Mar
tin, aged fourteen years, and threw heavy
pair OF shears at him. One of the points en-
tered the boys side, from the effects of which
he died.
John N. Insley, assistant cashier of the
Oskaloosa (Kan. Estate bank, real estate
dealer and abstractor, committed suicide.
Investigations show that he had embezzled
several thousand dollars of the funds of an
estate of which he was administrator.
Between thirty-five and forty houses were
washed away in Juarez, Texas and sixty
families rendered homeless by IL cloudburst.
The street traversed by one Of the national
| street car lines was almost obliterated. The
dwellings on both sides were su Emerged and
destroyed. Two persons only were drowned.
Emma Morgan, alias Forger, an octoroon,
who has figured in several scrapes in San
Francisco and Denver has been arrested in
New York, charged with robbing wealthy
|
The police re use to disclose the merchants
name
Two sons of George Smith, of the town of
Ellington, Otter Tail county, MINI, were
driving a hay-rack while stacking. The
horses ran away aud both boys were thrown
out in front of the wagon One, aged four
teen, had his leg broken and received other
| injuries. The other, aged twelve. was run
over by the wheels, and was dead when pick
ed up.
A freight train on the Norfolk & Western
railroad was thrown from the track near
Radford by striking a COW, and the en- CINE
and nine cars fell on top of number of
| shanties below occupied by Italian railroad
| laborers. The cars crushed through the
shanties. creating the utmost CONSERVATION
and confusion. -Four men were killed.
| p. j. Conway, conducto or of freight train
| on the Milwaukee road, was found uncon-
scious on the top OF high furniture car as
the train pulled into the station at Lake
City. 1t is supposed that his head came in
contact with the bridge over Wells creek, be-
| low Frontenac. The wound is severe, but
| not serious.
The large elev ator and warehouse operated
in connection with the Aberdeen, S. D., roller
mills caught fire early one morning from
spontaneous combustion, it is supposed, and
was destroyed. The building was attached
to the mill, and it was with great skill on the
| part of the fire department. and the excellent
water facilities possessed by the city that
saved the valuable mill property. Loss on
elevator, So, 900.
DINER Ardery, young bridge carpenter
fell from q bridge at Spokane Falls and met
instant death ON the rocks below. He was
working among the braces about a hundred
feet above the bed of the stream, when. in at
tempting to swing one of tbs heavy tim berf
in the derrick rope, he missed his footing
He made desperate effort to cling to the
timber but it was large and planed smooth
rendering it impossible for him to maintain
his hold and he fell, striking here and there
j among the braces and timbers until he final
| " struck on the rocks below. He died before
| physician could arrive,