The farmers' union. (Memphis, Mo.) 1891-1895, 1893-11-30
CRIME AND CASUALTY.

BY the bursting Of a hsndcar wheel
seven men were hurled down the mo untaln
near Hazelton, Pa. One is dead.
--Lucius :. Merriam, an instructor In
Cornell University. a, Ithaca. n y. and
Mis-, Mary l. Ycargin, a student. went out
in u rowboat or Cayusa Lake. and are
now missing. They may have been
drowned
Five men attempted TO kiduap the r.
year old daughter OF Joe H. Kraft at New
Albany, Ind. and hold her for ransom.
Kraft had been informed OF tho plot and
with a half dozen weil-arnled friends gave
the Ould- be kidnapefs Il hot reception.
Stephen Whitman wa, killed. and two 9TH
ers OF the gang, Mason Whitman and
Charles Compton. were captured.
Theodore y. Haughey. the Indianapolis
bank wIecker. was for thirty years Treas
urer OF the Indiana Grand Lodge OF Dad
Fellows, and thc order loses Si5, 900 by him.
-Barnbcrger, the murderer OF the seven
Kred-rs at Cando. n D., cooliy pleaded
guilty to the crime.
The Missouri Supreme Court affirmed
death sentences in the case OF three muir
dcrers and they Will be hanged.
One man was mortally hurt and half a
dozen seriously injured by an explosion OF
powder at Coalfeld. Iowa
Three masked men bound Mrs Mary
Williams in her residence near Enon VAL
leg, Pa, and compelled her to give up 5000
In gold She was left bound and gagged
Three men. supposed to be the robbers
o: the Illinois Central train near Bard well.
Ky. are in hiding in swamp near
Paducah and posse Will attempt to dis
lodge them.
The tug Charles T. stone sank at pier
l, North river, New York. Two men were
drowned
At Denver. Charles Maui, Is years OF
age, was snowballed ny a party Of young
touyhs. He objected, and a quarrel fol-
lowed in which, after he had whipped four
Of them. some one stabbed him with a
pockets knife The wound Will prove fatal
AT Xenia. Ohio, carriage in which
we're three young ladies was struck by a
train. Two were killed, the other fatally
injured
Freight train No 50, west bound, on
the St Louis and San Francisco Road, ran
into an open switch in the yards at Van
Buren,, Ark. and demolished two engines
and five cars Three men were killed and
a fourth SO badly injured that he cannot
live The men were employees OF the Long
Bell Lumber Company. and were pushing
a train out Of the way when the freight.
going at fifteen mile, an hour. drove the
cars upon them Just where the blame lies
is impossible to ascertain. as each crew
claims It. was In the right.
james kcndrick aud Patrick Cutrk,
employed by the city at Spokane Fails,
Wash, in oXcavatinS rock fOr the Post
street bridge just above the falls. met with
&: terrible death. They were working on n
narrow ledge OF rock forty feet above the
Spokane River. at this time a raging tor
rent. when Kendrick slipped and fell into
the water. carrying Quirk with him. As
soon they struck the water the rapid
current bore tn I'm quickly to the thirty
foot falls and in u twiukllng. before their
Mortified companions could make a move
to aid them. they we're carried into the
"Dcvils Caldron," a bottomlcSs. seethin2.
foaming pool at tho base OF the falls. and
from which no body has even been reCov
cred Both were single ,Ecn. kendr!ck
mailing from Buffalo, n y, and Quirls
from inyfieli. ILL.,
Father J. T. Els. Of the Catholic Church
OF the Sacred Heart, Columbus. Ohio. was
fired uron five times by two burglars who
aroused him while robbiny his house One
bullet struck him in the light forearm.
making Il painful wound, but the plucky
prizes! cjected them both from the house
"A: Grand Island, Ncb.. a fast freight
making up lost time dashed into an open
s-i'ch Two OF the trainmen were fatally
hurt.