Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1896-07-24
TERsE NEWS.

Mary Snodgrass, of Colburn, Va,
was hanged a few days ago
for the murder of her child.
She was disreputable character, and
to get rid of the child she threw it into
the fire and burned it to death.
Cornelius Vanderbilt received stroke
of paralysis at his home in New York
a few days ago and for time it was
believed that the stroke would prove
fatal However the doctor has just
issued a statement that unless the un-
expected happens, he will recover.
The entire town of Malvern, Ark,
was destroyed by an incendiary
fire at 9 o'clock a: M. Only three
houses are left standing. Four men
are under arrest. Malvern was a city
of 6, 900 inha bitants, the business por-
ton clustered around the railroad
The burned buildings include the rail
road depot, two hotels and a bank. all
the principal business houses. Fire
broke out simultaneously in three
places at midnight. As there is no fire
apparatus; it burned itself out. The
incendiaries will probably be dealt
with summarily. The loss is estimated
at from 5000, 900 to 100000. with light
insurance.
In the English house of commons re-
Gently, Mr.. George n. Curzon, under
secretary for foreign affairs, announced
that complaint had been made by the
Christian insurgents in Crete that the
Turks in that island had further
violated the armistice which had been
agreed upon between the Turks and
the Christian rebels, by making an
attack upon the town Of Apokorona,
where many persons, including women
and children. are reported to have
been killed Mr.. Curzon said the
powers had made protest to the
porte, insisting that the Turkish
troops in the island of Crete should
remain purely on the defensive, accord
ing to the agreement entered into
when the arnistice was established.
A heavy storm, which was practi-
cally a cloud burst, did great damage
throughout the city of Pittsburg and
Allegheny county recently. Estimates
made from reports coming from out
lying portions indicate loss of nearly
81 100000 All street car lines have
been stopped. At Forty-eighth street
water is in the second story of the
houses, caused by the bursting Gs
large sewer. Part of the Allegheny
cemetery wall has been washed away,
and nearly two miles of the Citizens
street railway is torn up. Tons of
earth and stones have been washed
onto the Fifth Avenue & Duquesne
Traction Company's lines at Soho.
The sewers in Butcher run and Woods
run in Allegheny are reported as hav-
ing bursted, flooding those sections.
No loss of life as yet is reported.
Miss Addie Iillman, eldest daugh,
ter OF Senator Tillman, of South
Carolina, Rev. Robert Lee and a
young lady were killed by lightning
at Brevard, n. G.
Cleveland, Ohio, dispatch: An ore
steamer which had just been loaded at
the Cleveland and Pittsburg railroad
| docks, turned over by the shifting of
the cargo. 1t is believed that twenty
two men were drowned. The bodies
of fourteen men have been recovered.
The steamer, which was overloaded
was a very small one and the wash of
large one caused the trouble.
Chicago dispatch: The car barns of
the Chicago City Railway Company, on
Cottage Grove, near Thirty ninth street,
were destroyed by fire. The barns were
$50 feet long, 400 feet deep and occu-
| pied three-fourths of square. 1t was
| filed with cars, being the stable for
the entire system. The company lost
554 cars, 100 of them being grip cars,
| and IA horses. Not thing in the
building was saved. The loss is esti-
mated at fully 100000, the building
and contents being insured for 1911 600,
Sixteen dead bodies have been re-
covered from the Ohio river at Cleve-
| land. where the ore steamer sank, At
least three are still missing.