The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1890-09-06
MINOR

The list ofvictims Of the Wilkesbarre (Pa.)
cyclone now numbers sixteen.
Fire has swept the Soukais forest in Al
gers. Two villages were destroyed by the
conflagration.
A fire broke out at Tokay, Austria, the
enterpot for the noted Tokay wine, and the
whole town, with the exception of thirteen
houses, was destroyed.
William Higgins, a contractor. was part.
ally disemboweled while loading logs on q
car at Groundhouse, Mimi, and will probably
die.
go An epidemic of disastrous fires has occur
red in the frontier towns Of russian Pc land.
In all these fires have rendered $50 families
homeless.
At Sundridge, Ont, the Queens hotel, to-
gether with it's contents, was burned. Two
men-Thomss Powers and Herbert Dayton
were burned to death, and two others were
badly burned.
Six persons were recently bitten by q mad
wolf near Moscow. Three of the victims
have since died of ~hydrophobia. The other
three are under treatment by Pasteur of
Paris, and will probably reco yer.
The boiler of q locomotive on O freight
train on the New York, Pennsylvania & Ohio
exploded near Mansfield, Ohio. En- inesr
Albert Graham and Fireman Joseph MUIR
ply were instantly killed and fifteen cars
of oil burned.
By the mistake Of a druggist at Knoxville,
Tenn, John P. Smith, the eleven-year-old
son of State Superintendent of Public In
struction F. M. Smith, and q boy named
Hutchins died from q dose Of morphine, TAX
en- for quinine,
Wilhelm Schmidt Of Bloomer, Wis, was
found near that place, having been run over
by a train at night. He was still alive, al
though having laid there all night with one
leg smashed to q jelley. He expired the next
morning.
The hail stones that fell in recent thunder
storms in Connecticut were ex traord inarily
large, and cut like flying shot. In one tenn
pest along the sound they were simply mis-
hapen chuncks of ice. They tore corn into
~tatters, and pierced the hide of cattle SO
that blood followed the impact of each ice
ball.
Afarmer named II. A. Smith was killed on
his place near Mulvaney, Kansas, by a mad
horse. Smith was tying up the brute when
it turned on him, seized him by the should er
and threw him down. Just then the barn
door closed, shutting off oil means OF escape,
and the horse viciously attacked the man.
biting, paving and kicking. until Smith
seized q club and with it killed his horse. He
was 80 badly exhausted, however, that he
died shortly after being disco vered, when he
had just strength enough to tell of the fight.
While a Wisconsin Centeral engine with q
train of ten cars loaded with coal and eight
empties, was engaged in switching on the
docks of the Ohio Goal company at Ashland,
Wis, it ran off an open switch on to the ties.
The dock extends o~utinto Chequamegon bay
on piles. The engine ran Off the ties and into
the bay, being completely submerged. The
engineer and fireman jumped and were not
hurt except the former sustained a slight
sprain OF an ankle. Owing to the break in
the dock wrecking trains cannot. get at the
wreck and the engine will probably have to
be taken to pieces to- be recovered.
While Frank Roberts was hunting for his
calves about a mile and q half west of Ban.
croft. Iowa, he was attacked by a wild and
ferocious animal. According to his account
the animal bore a resemblance to a.panther.
The animal sprang upon him from a bunch
of weeds on the edge of an adjoining slough,
clearing ten feet at the first bound, knocking
him down and covering his whole face with
it's enormous mouth, displaying at the same
time q hugh set of blunt yellow teeth He
says the animal was about six feet long,
having short legs, built heavy in front, but
slim through the flank. Once he thought
the animal had him down Tor the last tim e,
but fortunately he caught it by the lower
jaw with one hand and by a desperate effort
pushed him off and got on his feet again and
esca ped.