The Yale expositor., 1894-10-12
NEWS ITEM s.

A hurricane has devastated the
banana plantations of Cuba.
The w. c. #. L. in Chicago have
begun crusade against the exhibition
of living pictures
Mrs. Mcclure and her daughter
were fatally burned by the explosion
of a gasoline stove at Yellow Springs, o.
An unknown man was held up and
murdered by trampS at Elkhart, Ind.
The murderers escaped on a freight
train.
2The Cracow papers declare that the
cars debility and depressed spirits are
regarded as being more serious than a
specific disease.
Miss Nellie s. Campbell, veteran
school teacher of Grand Rapids, inhaled
chloroform to relieve a headache and
got an overdose. She may recover.
Two men were killed in the Illinois
Steel works at Chicago, and five in
jured by the explosion of steam-pipe.
The recovery of the injured is doubt
full.
The residence of Il. B. Pierce, of
Three sons with ages ranging from 25
to 35 years, and a daughter is years
old perished.
A typhoon has swept over Hong
Kong Much damage was done among
the small craft in the harbor. One of
these vessels was sunk and all hands
were drowned.
Fire at Adel, Ia, consumed the opera
house and a number of other buildings
in the business portion. Loss, S75, 900
to 100000; insurance, half. Fifteen
horses were cremated.
Passenger train No 3j of the At
lanta & West Point road, tumbled
from the high trestle over 0sauappo
creek, few miles beyond West Point,
Ga, and seven persons were badly in.
jured.
Capt Charles A. Sawyer died at Port
Townsend, Wash. He had command
of the bark Orpheus 30 years ago when
she collided with and sunk the steamer
Pacific off Cape Flattery, cn.ailing a
loss of nearly 400 lives.
The car, the czarina, the czare-
witch, of Russia, the Grand Dukes
George and Michael of Greece left
Spala for Livadia in the Crimea, where
it is expected that the car will stand
better chance of recovering from his
sickness.
John Bugdanius, aged 16, was in
stantly killed, and Peter La Soutski,
aged 35, was fatally injured by an ex-
plosion of gas in the Maple Hill mines,
at Ashland. Pa. The explosion was
caused by the careless handling of a
safety lamp.
George Heimindinger, a well-to-do
farmer, three miles southwest of Man
chester, has been suffering with
erysipelas and physicians announce
that his case has eliminated in small
pox. A large number of friends who
visited him are in great fear.
Washington: A letter received here
from a gentleman who is very close to
Senator Hill says that the senator will
unquestionably resign his seat in the
senate before the election, believing
that he will stand better with the
people without an office behind him.
A west bound fast freight on the
Rock Island jumped the track, near
Seymour, la. Twenty freight cars
followed the engine into the gorge and
Engineer Gerald Nolon, Fireman Mar
shall Lower and Brakeman Charles Il.
Dempsey were instantly killed. Con-
ductor sam Van Hook was injured.
A dispatch from Grenada, Mica
ragua. says: "A terrible catastrophe
has occurred here. The military bar
racks had been blown up and whole
quarter of the city has been badly dam
aged. The number of dead is estimated
at 200. The number of wounded is
much greater. but no exact estimate is
yet obtainable."