The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1892-11-09
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Happenings The World Over.
oLEANINos OF INTEREST TERsp
Ii TOLD. BOTH DOMESTIC
AND FOREIGN.


D,snsier., Accident. and Fatalities.
Near Alexandria, Va, the steamer Wake.
field of the Potomac river line, while on
her WY up the river and Off Maryland
Point blew hole in her boiler The acci-
dent caused the death of three colored men
and the serious injury of two others. Az
were members Of her crew.
william Van Arsdale and son, Of High
Bridge, n. j., were out hunting The boy
handled his gun carelessiy and shot hi'
father dead
John Stevens, Of Tennant, y. j., and
Frederick Hess, an Englishman, were killed
Of Tenant while driving across the Penn
sylvana railroad tracks
The bursting of steam pipe on tug
lying at the Brooklyn docks so scalded Will
liam But :, Michael Walters and Edward
Gibson. that they ed.
Two trains collided near Cabin Creek sta
ton on the Little Rock Il Ft Smith rail
road, Ark. Engineer Jones and Fireman
William Dearly were killed The accident
was caused by the carelessness of the tele
graph operator at Cabin Creek.
J. +. Bsrkelow and Frank NJ Conroy, Of
Brooklyn, ~ y, left Ogden, Utah, two
weeks ago to examine the territory of the
txtinct cliff dwellers along Nine Mile cr,eS
Barkeow returned here Wednesday and
told most horrible story of Conroy's fall
ing down precpice and landing on pro.
iected rock. where he was attacked by tive
eagles and clawed to death
George X. Wheat, IT, an engineer, is
dead, while J. A. Connolly, n fireman, is
lying in critical condition at the Mercy
Hospital, Pittsburg. They were struck by
the limited express on the Panhandle Il. K
ct Mcdonald, Pa.
Crime and Penalties.
A terrible murder has been
brought to light in Paris The
body of young woman cut into T. pieces
was discovered in an empty house in the
Rue Bot2aris near the Pare des Buttes Chau.
mont. The head Of the body had been cut
oil and could not be fond. There is in.
tense excitement not only in the neghbor.
hood where the tragedy was enacted but
throughout the city.
At Ballston, ~ y, James Niartelle, the
Italian who killed John Perrello at Sarato-
ga, N. Y, last May, was sentenced to be
electrocuted IN the week beginning Dec
ember IL
An unknown lynching party took two
young men. named Lucas and Burgess,
charged with the diabolical murder OF Oak
Sutherland, from the Jail at l.a.onora, near
Bristol, Tenn, and hanged them.
Patrick Murphy, alias Oscar Williams OF
New York, alter being sentenced to 81 years
in the penitentiary, walked out of the court
room at Long Island city and made his es
cape.
The badly decomposed body of Mrs. J.
johnson and her l5-year-old son, Gustav,
were found in their home, at San Francisco,
II was case of double suicide because OF
their destitute circumstances.
Three outlaws rode into Spearville Kan,
and going to the Ford county bank COMPEL.
I'd Cashier Baird, at the point of revolvers,
to hand over si,7Oo. A mounted posse is in
pursuit.
Dorsey Goodwin, of Timminsville, $. c.,
il under arrest charged with beating his I.
year-old daughter to death He whipped
her with strap, to which buckle was at
tached, 20 minutes
AT Cohoes, n. Y, the pipe shop Of Curtis
Co. burned; loss, S50,000.
At Milwaukee, an accurate count shows
that there were 465 buildings burned and
35s families rendered homeless. Residents
Of the Third ward familiar with its popula.
tion say the families will average seven per.
sons each. Itis q conservative estima:s to
say there are $500 persons homeless.
A5-story tenement house IL. New York
city, occupied by 10 families, was destroyed
by fire. Loss $4,000.
Turf News
At Scdalia, Missouri, Prince, said to be
she Oldest trotting horse in the United States,
having been foaled in the spring of 1867 in
Kentucky, died last night on the farm of
NJ. II. seicert. In his day he was
= celebrated roadster with a record of 230,
seven years ago he was turned out to pas.
snre, but ever since then he has received as
much care and attention as in the days
When he was the wonder of Central Mis-
souri.
Financial and Commercial.
At Omaha, Neb., the Nebraska Grand
Lodge, Knights of Pythias, has Just dis.
covered that it lost 200 by the failure Of
the Ainsworth Bank The Grand Treasurer
NJ fha ordar vas casbiar Of tho hanL onI