The Dickinson press., 1896-08-29
PeOnIe I'm Print.

The chief diversion of Nine. Navarro
Miss Mary Anderson) is chess playing.
Mrs. Allen Wales Harrist n, the old
est surviving descendant of Thomas
jefferson, died in Baltimore.
Henry q. Ford, president of the Penn
| sylvana State Fish commission, is
dead.
Advices received from Bolivia an
nounce that eX-Pres:lcnt Canlpero died
on Aug. IL.
.Amcricus Symcs, eighty-tive years of
| age, died in Louisville. He was the
son of John Clevc Symcs, who was an
Arctic explorer.
John T.. Chamberlain, proprietor Of
the hotel bearing his name at Wash
ington and Old Point Comfort. is crit
ically i'll at the Grand Union hotel at
Saratoga
chant at Manchester, Conn.,, aged for
ty-tive years, has returned from trip
around the world which consumed ex-
actly year. Mr.. Brough travelled on
Il bicycle wherever possible. OF the
GO,000 miles covered by him, 10000
were by water, 10000 on his wheel and
the rest by railroad in different coun-
| tries.
The announcement is made of the
marriage Of Vaughn Waters and Eliza
beth L. Blanc at New York. What
gives peculiar interest to this state
ment is that the bride has achieved
some fame as 'Betty" Rigi of the AIys-
tic Isle, and later as the Baroness
Blanc, and that a similar announce
ment made June 1S was strenuously
denied by Mr.. Waters, who is mill
ionairc and conspicuous in club circles.
Casualties.
A heavy storm destroyed considera-
bic property near Florence, Ala, re-
Gently.
The Newbanks oil we'll at Sisterville,
w. VA, producing 200 barrels a day,
took fire, and much property was de-
stroyed.
BY the explosion of molten metal at
Furnace No. 1 of the Edgar Thomson
Steel works at Pittsburg, ten men were
burned, three seriously.
At Sandy Hook, Ky, Baptist
church. an old farm building, took fire
during meeting. Nine persons were re-
ported killed and fifty injured.
Three mon were killed, number in
jured and several buildings demolished
by the explosion of twenty-five pounds
Of dynamite at New Holland, Pa.
Twelve negroes and three white per-
sons were killed by cyclone which
! swept through Perry county, Alabama.
Much property was destroyed.
A fOof.Hyinrp fro ~, thu
& Ohio ran into an open switch at Ra-
vensworth, Va, wrecking four of the
passenger coaches. Several lives were
lost and many persons injured.
Henry Ensor, farmer living mt
1lichland, 1rd., was fatally injured by
q falling tree. He was in a buggy
when the tree fell, it striking his back
and breaking it. He lay until saw
was procured and the tree removed.
An areonaut near Dallas, Texas,
while descending in a parachute, was
thrown from the machine into an elm
tree, where his head was caught in q
fork Of the branches, and instant death
ensued.
A head-end collision occurred on the
Baltimore & Ohio railroad, near Park
i
passenger train, causing the death of
both engineers and one fireman and
seriously injuring several employees OF
the road.
G. B. Mogle, a prominent young at
torney of Cheney, Kan, attempted to
cross the Walnut river on horseback
when the stream was swollen. He was
thrown off in the middle of the stream.
but caught his horse by the tail and
was dragged to the bank. Just as lie
let go the horse kicked him in the fore
head and killed him.
Capt. j. w. Goslin, editor of the
Winston Republican, in stepping off a
street car at Winston, N. c., fell, his
head striking the macadamized pave.
ment, producing concussion of the
brain and causing death in two hours
He was tifty-ive years old. He was a
gallant soldier during the war, and
was promoted to captain Of his compa-
| nv.