The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1892-08-03
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Important News Items Received as We
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Disasters, Accidents and Fatalities.


The sailing yacht owned by Frank Bacon
and W. L. Varnum, Of Erie, Pa, was wreck.
ed off Dunkirk N. Y A fishing vessel
while going out to raise nets found the spar
ofthe wrecked yacht, to which were cling.
ing the two members of the crew. Captain
Thomas Stick was found unconscious and
was taken to Dunkirk for medical treat.
ment. He will probably die. His companion,
George Granzow aged IS years, was dead
when found Both men had been dashed
about on the spar for 3s hours before being
found.
James and Thomas Shade, of Indanapo-
lis, Ind, aged respectively and 8 years,
were horribly burned by natural gas by
playing with gas leak. Their parents
were burying another child who had burn
ed to death.
Five workmen were badly burned in gas
explosion on Liberty street Pittsburg The e1
plosion was in a manhole built by the Cen
tral Telephone Company for the conveyance
Of its wires underground.
Coal oil gas, which escaped to a st. Louis
sewer, caused an explsion that wrecked
large part or the city's drainage system.
Three lives were lost and several persons
were wounded.
The steamer City of Concord came in col
lision off Hyde Park, near Chicago, with
tug. The latter was cut to the keel and
sank at once. Oscar Page, steward and
William Kopfer, deck hand, were drowned.
The other three members of the crew were
rescued.
search for four missing children in
Medford, Mass, Thursday, resulted in find.
ing them in a closet under sink in an un.
finished house, where they had crawled
some time during the day. The door was
shut in some other way, swapping the catch
and making them prisoners, Three of them,
all boys. died from suffocation, and the
other, a little girl, was slowly sinking.
Chas Newport ate canned lobster at his
wedding feast, and soon after died of blood
poisoning
AT Dell Rapids, s. d., on Wednesday
hundreds Of farmers were starting in to cut
their barley with every prospect of reaping
most bountiful harvest. In the afternoon
they were in the midst of desolstion. A
large blush green cloud swept down upon
the ripening grain and left destruction in
its wake. The storm of wind hail and
heavy ram came from the Northwest with
terrible violence, and As minutes later the
sun sbone as brilliantly as on a perfect
summer day. Thousand of acres are laid
TO waste. Many farmers are insured but
many others lose heavily.
Miss Augusta Regan, aged 10, was killed
by lightning while bathing in the Passac
river near Stirling, NJ ].
Crops.
The continued heavy rains in the vicinity
Of Memphis Tenn, have seriously damag-
en- the cotton crop in that section
Harvesting is nearly over in Michigan. A
good yield is reported.
Conservative crop reports from Illinois
indicate that the corn crop will fall 25 per
cent below last year. Wheat is now being
harvested in northern counties and in other
sections threshing is in progress. Reports
from rye indicate light yield, while that
of oats is good. There is no improvement
in the fruit outlook.
terrific hail and wind storm swept over
the town Of Pennington, Mimi, Friday.
Hail to the depth Of six inches covered the
ground doing great damage to property of
all kinds. The loss to crops is absolute The
total acreage destroyed is estimated at TO-
900 while the total loss will not fall short
of $1,000
Recent rains have insured an almost un-
precedented corn crop in Kansas.
In the Northwest the harvest is ready, but
laborers are very, very scarce. There will
be work for thousands from the more east
ern States at good wages, and excursion
rates will be almost nothing.
Capital. Labor and Industrial,
The 800 employees of the Gilkey d Anson
Lumber Company. of Morrill,, Wis, have
struck. They demand 10 hours work in
stead of II at 10 hours pay,
All the girls employed as operators in the
Central Union telephone exchange, lndiano-
polls Ind, went on strike, and there is
much inconvenience throughout the city in
consequence The trouble, the girls claim,
is not one of wages or hours They say they
have struck because of unreasonable rules
which they are expected to observe, but can.
not.
The polishing girls of the United States
Tin Plate Company, of McKeesport, Pa,
who were getting 90 cents day, have struck
for rs cents.
The Idaho strikers who have been ar.
rested are to be taken before the United
States commissioners court. When bound
over they will be delivered into the custody
of the United States marshal In this way
the state authorities will be relieved from
the necessity Of providing for them. 1Ot
prisoners are confined at Wardner in a place
but poorly adapted for such purposes, and
he plac is infested with vermin. At Wal
lace there are ll6 prisoners. If all the
troops should be withdrawn from this region
II is thought there would be an exodus Of