The farmers' union. (Memphis, Mo.) 1891-1895, 1894-08-30
CRIME AND CASUALTY.

"A house which was being torn down in
Worcester. Mass. collapsed. burning
dozen children and three men. Seven were
rescued. severely injured.
George B. Reed, who murdered Daniel
Hend rickson for s. 80. was arraigned at
Terre Aaute, Ind. and pleaded guilty.
Henry Hartman. of Logan County.
West Virginia. was showing to his friends
a rife with which be proposed to square
things with a ne,ghbor named Pennington.
who in n quarrel recently had shot his
tHarmau's) hand on Hartman dropped
the rife and it went of. lodging a bullet
in his brain William Workman started
through the woods for a doctor. He passed
some men who were telling trees. and one
Of the trees fell on him. crushing him to
death Hartman died from his wound.
Charles Beach. son Of Edmund Beach,
living near Valparaiso Ind. vas drowned
In Lake Michigan.
Mrs. Mack Abrahams. OF Frankfort,
Ky. quarreled with her husband because
he went TO hear Breckfnridge speak. and
took morphine and arsenic with probably
fatal effect
Five persons we're instantly killed and
Q boy seriously injured in a grade-cross-
ing accident at Paris. Tenn.
The boiler Of q thrashing engine on a
farm eight miles southeast OF La Mourn.
n. D.. exploded. instantly killing John
Lind and Louis Berg The latter was blown
100 feet and frightfully mangled Four
men we're more or less injured.
Miss Edith s Clark. IS years old.
daughter OF Plttsburg. Pa. bank official.
was walking near the Fort Wayne Rail-
road at Clifton when a spark from loco
motive set fire to her clothing. In mo-
ment she was enveloped in flames Crazed
by fright and pain she rushed across the
track and sprang into the Ohio River. from
which she was rescued with difficulty. She
is in very serious condition. but may
recover.
The dead bodies OF man and a woman
were found Tuesday on the Ramble In
Central Park. New York The man had u
bullet hole in his head and the woman was
shot In the left breast The police are
unable to learn. so far. whether both com =
mitted suicide or whether the man shot the
women and then himself Their names
are believed to be julius De Naren and
Julia Faunrier, both French. The man
was about 20 years OF age and the woman
. few years younger.
Rat Portage, Ont. dispatch: The
steamer Monarch. OF 160 tons burden.
struck a rock and went to the bottom on
Aug 10 at Long Sault. Rainy River Tho
City excur ,ionists escaped to shore by a
| rope. None we're lost The steamer lies in
fifty feet of water. News Of the wreck was
brought In by IN excursionist.
Police Inspector Child. OF Ciitheral.
Mimi. has in charge Frank J. Nichols,
formerly an operator on the Northern Pa
cifc. Who was arrested at Little Rock.
| Ark. on q charge of stealing two express
packages containing So. 600 from tho North
ern Paciic's railway Office 1T Clitheral
over four years ago Nichols was arrested
by Inspector Child just as he was leaving
the Arkansas penitentiary after serving
four years for burglary.
Gabriel Brock was shot and killed and
Mira Mary Edwards wounded while driv-
ing near Hot Springs. Ark James Murrel
and John Lenehard are accused OF the
crime.
Miguel Coucharty, q full blooded Sem
inole. has been senten ced to death by the
Seminole council for the murder OF Dan
Brooks. a squawman. He will be publicly
shot ut Wewaka, Kan. on Sept. i.
-Four persons were injured and much
valuable property destroyed by an explo-
sion Of dynamite which was being used In
excavating In New York.
John T. Callahan. u member OF New
Orleans city council. was convicted OF re-
ceiving bride and committed TO jail.
The steamer America collided will
and sank the schooner Ahira Cobb in St
| Mary's River during u fog
William Storm. formerly Chicago
real estate dealer. IS held at New Yorl
on charge OF swindling clients out o
81, 500 ---.
a s. Tucker. Chicago Board OF Trad
broker. shot himself through the head and
died Instantly Thursday in Washington
Park.
"A mining disaster IS reported from thu
Lamireno district southwest OF Durango
Mexico A cave-in occurred In one Of tn,
mines. bury ing ten miners Six OF tn
men were rescued alive. but the other
were dead v hen found The superintend
held until the investigation Us to tn
cause Of the catastrophe Is completed.
John Daily. who deserted his wife n
Kokomo three month. ago. was arrested a
Springfield. Mo. with another woman an
horse and buggy in his possession. tn
latter stolen at Kingman. Kan
John Cronin. who was to have been OK
ecuted on an automatic Rallows at Hart
, ford, Ct. has been granted L respite
In fight growing out OF q trifle a
Bourbon. IND. seven men men were in
iured, one suffering fractured skull.