The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1891-01-07

THIRTEEN building in Pugwash, near
Halifax, n. s., have been DESTROYED by
fire, involving loss of $4,000.
SEVEN colOred children were burned
in house near Bayboro, n. C. The
parents had locked the children in when
going to church, the house in some way
taking FIRE and burning them to death.
JOHN 7. MILLER has been arrested
near Pittsburgh, Preble County, O., for
making and passing SIS gold pieces.
BV al explosion in the gas works at
Sherbrooke, Que, Charles Dins,nore
was killed and another employee fatally
hurt.
VtCE-PREsDENr LEVI P. MORTON has
sold his summer residence, Fair
Lawn at Newport. r. l., to Isaac
Townsend Barden, of New York. The
price paid was about $4,000.
By the premature discharge of blast
near the village of Stafford, n. Y, four
men. Andrew Hunt and three Hungarian
laborers, were killed and four others
received injuries that will probably re-
suit fatally. The dangerously injured
men We're also Hungarians.
On the Iowa Central, three miles from
Oskaloosa, passenger train crashed
into a standing freight train. Engineer
Wright was fatally injured and several
passengers seriously hurt. The two
engines, express and passenger cars
wore totally Demolished.
NEWS has been received from Fort
Sully of the drowning of Mrs. Lieuten-
ant e. c. Carnahan while crossing the
Missouri river in closed army ambu-
lance. The ice over the main channel
broke and the entire conveyance was
drawn under.
THE strike of Hungarian furnace men
at the Edgar Thompson steel works,
Bradford, Pa, has been attended with
serious disturbances.
THE old Wilkinson & Green yarn mill,
Providence, Z. l., has been destroyed by
fire. Loss, S125,OOO.
FIRE broke out in the house owned by
Secretary Of State Blaine and occupied
by Mr.. Letter, of Chicago, at Washing
ton on the 1st. 1t was subdued after
considera BILE damage had been done.
THE Fifth Avenue and Hermann's
Theaters, New York, and adjacent
buildings were burned on the night of
the I'd almost Immediately after the per-
formances. Six firemen were reported
killed. The damage was at least $780,
OOO
Two men, woman and boy per-
ished in the flames that destroyed the
Avenue Hotel, Corsicana. Tex.
BUSINESS failures (Dun's report) for
bered 34S, compared with 333 the pre-
vious week and 323 the corresponding
week of last year.
A FAMILY of five persons without
home who had been tramping through
the country were found by the roadside
near Cambridge, England, all frozen to
death
TWELVE miners were blown to pieces
recently at the Pinoles mine, Durango,
Mexico. They had entered the powder
house to obtain supply and while one
was fixing a cap it went off.
THE floods We're extremely threaten
ing in West Virginia on the I'd.
NEAR Namur, Belgium, five persons
were fatally asphyxiated.
IN the habeaS corpus original package
case from Vinton Judge Preston, of
Cedar Rapids, has decided that the Iowa
law relating to original packages was
not made effective by the passage of the
Wilson bill.
THE British bark Topsy went ashore
on Grand Cayman beach, Ala. Five
men were drowned.
THE towboat Anna Roberts exploded
her boilers near Portsmouth, o., on the
I'd. Five men were killed.
THE Monongahela river miners have
struck. Ten thousand men are in
vOlved.