The Dickinson press., 1896-08-01
COxunlties

n fire in AShtaDula, ONO, OccaSlOned
4 loss of $4,000.
y half-million dollar fire occurred at
Terre IIau,e, Ind.
The street railway car barns in Chi
eago were burned, with loss of $780,
600.
| Walter Nmnemacher of Milwaukee,
Wis, was drowned in Lake Nago-
| Wicka.
Frederick McNickalas of Marinesco
was run over and killed by an ore
train near Marinesco, Mich. lie leaves
Il wife and family
Southern Kansas and Southern and
Western Missouri have experienced
the heaviest rains for years. and coll
siderable damage will result.
Fred. c. IIarESen of Warsaw, Ind,
while assisting in IL barn-ra ising. was
killed by falling lafter. Ills brother
met similar death four years ago.
Joseph German, forty-nine years of
age. of Barberton. Ohio. swallowed
several taclss. They could not be dis
lodged, dysentcry set in. and German
Gicd in terrible agony
While driving Il horserakc near Ed
inburg, Ind, Fcnten Wright fell upon
the farm implement. when the horse
bolted, and both of his eyes were
gougcd out.
To quell IL riot in ol:e of the corridors
Jailer Richardson of Geneva, ILL.,. fired
shot at the ceiling, which is made of
heavy metal plates. The ball glanced
and struck Joseph Allen, prisoner
from Elgin. killing him instantly.
The body of the man drowned at AL
legan, Mich. while trying to escape
arrest for assaulting girl, has been
identified as that of NJ. NJ. Stevens of
Grand Rapids. Micl,. A verdict of Sill
icide was rendered.
The British bark Durdonald frOn
San Francisco. for Hull, VI hich was in
collision with the steamer Santaren !;
on June IS, has arrived ut Queenstown.
The DundOnald's top masts are gOue
and hole was stove IN her bow.
A disastrous railroad wreck occurred
OH the Chicago Il Texas railroad. one
mile south of Murphysboro, Ill. A
trcstle over Big Muddy creek gave
way. and one passenger coach was
ditclled. Twelve persons were injured,
two Of whom mag die.
James Cra lston. proprietor of Gram
oSpA oS AIAS5A9SAs 1uO, NNS
killed by Il boiler explosion. He had
run his mill all night, in the absence
of the engineer, who declared that Mr.
CranstOn should act as engineer one
| night while the engineer should enjoy
a holiday.
Two children Of Ira Reese were bur-
led alive near Fowler, Kas. They were
| playing under 1: sand bank, when it
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| witnessed by their father. but they
were dead when he dug the sand away
from them. The girl was twelve years
old and the boy six.
Lawrence Murphy. aged twenty-sev-
en-. a featlierweiglt boxer of Sagina ",
Mich. boarded a moving freight car
on the Lake Shore road at Toledo.
| While standing on the car he was
struck Ivy the Fassett street bridge and
knocked nuder the wheels and his
head completely severed from his
body.
| The medical examination of the body
of William Metcalf, the farmer killed
by lightning near Kokomo. Ind, re-
vcaled a curious state of facts. 1t was
! found that nearly every bone in his
body was burst. all of them being
shattered and reduced to small splnt-
ers without burning or lacerating the
flesh.
MAYORS opera house at Terre
Haute, Ind. built at a cost Of $500, 900,
about thirty years ago, was DESTROYED
by fire. The opera house was occupied
by EspeHhcim Il AlDrecht, dry goods.
The Cincinnati house, recently built at
Il cost Of $jO,OOO. and two buildings
adjoining We're also destroyed. The
loss is 100000.