Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-01
APRIL.

lama blown to atoms in the Metallic Cap
Works, Montgomery county, Pa Morris
2-George Lang, of Egg Harbor City, N. j., sets
fire TO his house. attempting % burn his family
3-Great destruction and suffering all along the
Lower Mississippi; fully score reported
to death. A naked lamp causes an explosion
at Nanticoke; three men killed and many in
EHorace A. smiler kills one wife in New York
and is found to have two more still living.
several lives reported lost. Hugh Graham, Of
scranton, shot by man who was hunting
s-Marcus O.. stearns, one OF Chieago,s mil
lionaires, depressed by the death Of his favorite
and Instantly killed, and Martin Fancy
seriously injured by drunken colored man on
"a e Culver, Denver, takes morphine and
then blows out his brains, The 1-year-old
Kan, accidentally hs ged In y hammock
oil on her husband while he sleeps and applies
match; his life spared.
s-Cyclons sweeps a track half q mile wide
through Nofwalk, o.; one person killed and
several injured. Nine buildings burned az
ll-JuIia Smith browns herself at Nyack after
preparing her grave clothes Two more bodies
Recovered from the Conemaugh river at Johns
town. Hiss Emeline Hill Instantly killed in
runaway at Mansfield, D.
I2-Particuiars Of the wreck of she steamer Quetta
show that Of those on board 1855 were drowned
town, N. j., and the engineer horribly man
Cleo. steam barge Shenango discovered in
flames and abandoned by her crew on Lake
ls-The steamer Handy Boy wrecked on the sagi-
NV s river; SIX persons ,ee. perish = Oscar sr, NJ
his wife; aged 90, through Jealousy and then
1.-TWO young women of Little Compton. Mass,
horsewhipped by brutal father. A Danish
murderer ships his victim to America in a cask
US a sample of plaster; the barrel held for duty
when the murderer confesses.
16-Great suffering reported throughout Arkansas;
people cannot move about or even bury their
dead. Human bones discoyeredsin a lime kiln
at Scottdale; suspicious Of foul play.
H-J.J. Grinnell, Dubuque, shoots George Cor
nell through Jealousy. Joseph CottrelL. New
suphuric acid in his wiie's face because She
brother At MilbaIk, $, D., while hunting
Is-s; W. stewart, Iexarkana, shot by ll-year-
l9-Four men terribly burned 6y gas explosion
in a coal mine at Scranton. Ben Elsey, hanged
in Alabama, confessed he was concerned In q
90 An impatient quarryman killed while examin-
Ing lighted fuse. John Rhodes shoots his
quarrel From to Is persons believed to have
lost their lives in an Alabama tornado.
Sse9s @ OF feet Of he eyee aSe S
way. Andrew Fray, scottsdale. imagines
h%se wisR% aG se%aTi
a. MeKesspors n for putting poison Is H. tPeqD: te
other menhers of their family.
z2-Fifteeu breaks In the levee In the vicinity OF
New Orleans; parts OF the surrounding coun-
try in imminent dangeri residents 1t Bayou
Sara roosting In the trees. Three pershns
swept overheard from James Gordon Benefits
yacht in the China Sea-
23-One life reported lost in the Mississippi Hood
and many In great danger. Two men killed
and eight others injured in boiler explosion
at New Castle.
2A-Repurted loss ofllfe In the remote regions Of
the Lower Mississippi district: 4, 100 square
miles of Louisiana territory uader water.
theater panic in New York causes y small boy
to die OF fright. Doan's drugstore, Deavan,
Wis, wrecked by dynamite and two men
Killed.
Is -Waters subsiding in the lower basin- A Texan
cloudburst inundateS small village and de-
stroys considerable property: one life lost
Z-Most destructive flood ever known in North
Texas passes. through Trinity; much prop
erty destroyed.
28-Goyernor or Louisiana calls on the Govern
ment for ten days rations. Jealousy causes
two attempted murders and one suicide at
Nyack.
2e-Tke steamer II. B. Plant burned near Jack
sonville, Fla, causing the loss OF three lives.
3O-Michael Vineovlch cut TO pieces on the r. z L..
f. at Homework. David Vance. OF Nt.
Morris threw stones at an old can containing
nitro-glyeeFine, and was instantly killed and
his mother badly injured By the falling or
scaffold at Chicago two brieklRyers were
fatally aud eight others seriously injured.