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

l-Joseph Bacon, negro, Foa. Mo-, shoots an s.
year-old sister, and CUTS the head off his 8
Shot Carrie Drug colored. through Jealousy,
and Deputy sheriff Dalton. who attempted 20
b. Five men entombed, and mum per seri-
ously injured. by fall of rock in the Noting
5ETerrihc storms delay the steamship waesland
and drown two OF her officers. Minnie and
Annie Brock. st. Louis, eat OF a cake sprinkled
killed, three fatally and others seriously
wounded in fire In an Italian tenement
s-secretary Of the Navy Tracy's elegant home
In Washington gutted by hre; flames not dis
in Gr the sleeping family to s
to the ground from her bedroom window and
died soon after; Miss Mary Tracy sufseated. sae
also died: secretary Tracy rescued badly as
phyxiated, but his life spared.
bell al Montague. A Polish christening near
Scranton results in three deaths and the burn
s-Dozen Idaho miners overwhelmed by ava
lanches; six persons killed in one house.
Cashier W. E. Crowley, farmers Bank sui
and is crematel. Maurice j. Hickey, aged Is
years while attempting to board a freight
Tsrrible a 81 eTplosIon occurs in BRUSH Cutlery
800 miners were caught; latest estimate Of the
dead places the number ,n., st lSei Howard Gal.
John vichdafer, Bellefonte. Pa, fatally stabs
sealded to death by the collapse Of boiler
fue. An engine leaves the tracks and plunges
freman ian and operator drowned. Engineer Pat
rick Haganey, Heading. shot by unknown per-
GAS %ost o
killed by falling wallis furious wind storm
wrecks the plant. Nearly 200 lives lost in the
s-kansom Floyd, an aged Essex county. N T.,
farmer. sold some property for "a. 700 and kept
the money in the house: masked man enters,
fatally shoots Floyd and kills his wife: j. -.
King, Chicago. outs the throat OF Thomas
St. Paul Gas Light Company explode. killing
Daniel Desmond and seriously inluring four
others.
his daughter-in-law at Miami, Mann
brakeman on the Northern Central leaves
,fSur fatally tally Injured. Jennie Whitehead. an
imbecile inmate o. the state institute is ios
TO eeash Mhiie in % the bath JACOB k. Slater
and wife drowned in Binnewater Lake, near
Kingston, n: \. while attempting to rescue
the Ice and we're also drowned.
le-Herbert Roger, Scottdale commits suicide by
cutting his throat. James Delafeld Trenor,
New York, mysteriously murdered by un-
1a-Etta Bixby, aged l6. Saratoga. N. Y, has her
hair caught in a pulley and the scalp torn from
her head, killing her almost instantly; Col
iision on the A. & g. 5. Railroad. Coaling.
ing ia passengers. William II. Marsteller and
wife killed on the r. \. & A. Railroad, near
1S-Locomo otive boiler explodes on the Pemicky
:. road, killing Charles Jenkins and severely in
juring four others. Jesse Markly, Connells-
VILE tinple boss, Killed by the falling ofa
IA Texas sport killed In the ring by a member
Of the Kilrain combination. Discovery of the
decapitated body OF Hiram sawtelle near East
Rochester. N. Y. George r. Bender killed by
the bursting of an emery wheel at the Amer
lean Iron Works. Frank Bortz Killed while
walking on the track near Greenville.
I5-One woman logged to death In Siberian
dungeon: a number of Nihillsts suicide in
preference to submitting to u similar fate.
edward Starkey, East Liverpool commits
Is-New York officer Killed by train, but his
reported among Indians from, the grip. Lottie
Walters, an Allegheny girl, commits suiciue
don church buries score of people.
I7-While attempting to rob a residence at Crest
line burglar is shot dead.
l9-Henry Lebo, Heading, fugitive wife murderer,
draws a revolver and shoots himself on being
captured.
Seely Hopkins. BelleIonte, the rope breaking
after he was unconscious and he was carried
ijr. Charles Drapar. Zapesville, stands in
front OF glass and cuts his throat
2i-Alice Lynch, Niagara Falls. could not be mar
Engines collide in California. Killing a large
number OF lab0rers and injuring many.
22-forty lives lost, at least BY tne giving away
Carrie Taylor, Newark, N. j.. killed in run
IA child burned to death in a canal boat in
New York and the father and mother badly
burned. John II. Dawson, sexton, jumps
from steeple in kearney. Nsb.. killing him
a4-The falling Of cnpola in Hamburg kills men
asLThomas ZIndra Shoots and Kills girl and
then himself at Montgomery, MINI.