The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1896-04-17
Casualties.

The Old Dominion steamer Yorktown
IS ashore near Smalfs Point. Va.
The Butler express, on the West
Pennsylvania railroad was wrecked
near Freeport, Pa, and five persons
were seriously injured.
Patrick McGuinness, ninety years OF
age. was burned to death In ire
which destroyed his home at Middle
town, n. Y.
George Cross, q farmer of Fancy
Prairie. ILL.,, Lightweight years of age,
was killed by an electric car at Spring
field. Ill.
Robert Torrey, for years with Buff
falo Bills show, while going through
livery stable at Valparaiso. Ind, was
struck on the head by bale Of hay
and killed.
Fire Mt Oriskany Falls, N. T., de-
stroyed an entire business block. The
opera house, Union school and Sargent
house were badly damaged. Loss,
$4,000.
Fire at Ansonia, Conn.,, destroyed
Germania hall, q brick block. The jan
itor, Henry Erban, fell from an upper
landing headforemost and was fatally
injured. The loss is estimated at about
$4,000.
A southbound vestibule train on the
Southern railroad ran into the siding
at Eastman, Ca, fnjuring four per-
sons. A mail clerk threw out a bag
which struck a switch, breaking it and
opening a siding.
The boiler of Fred Growers saw mill,
rS$ Nf{1ForI N1nYnr
Ohio, exploded. W. r. Fitzwater and
Ernest Martin, employees, were killed.
Fred Grover, Hiram Fitzwater and
Mile Fitzwater were badly injured.
The wall of o building recently de-
stroyed by fire fell upon u residence at
Cleveland, Ohio. killing Mrs. L. o..
Bradford of Olmstead Falls, Ohio, a
visitor in the house, and seriously in
juring Miss Emma Deitrichs, a do
nestle.
While attempting to round the curve
at the corner of Fifty-third street and
Seventh avenue, New York, cable
car on the Columbia avenue line was
run into by a cable car on the Seventh
avenue line. Gripman John Hanley,
Arthur Messenger, a clerk, Henry T..
Friedlander, Sigfried Schlecterer and
Gripman Joseph Rogers were seriously
but not fatally injured.
Evil Doings.
Louisina regulators prevented ne
grOes from registering. A negro killed
one of the regulators.
Robert Sacks vas fatally shot ut
Red Lick. KY, in q quarrel over the
cutting off of portion Of his saddle.
Thieves looted a Springfield Qll) dry
goods store, but were careful to select
this years patterns, leaving the old
styles behind.
Tim Sheehan. discharged from the
service Of the Cincinnati Southern rail-
way because of color-blindncss, killed
himself with a razor at Lansing, Tenn.
James Raines Of Jellico, Tenn, was
killed in drunken quarrel. Fifteen
hours later his son, Zeb, picked quar-
rel with Frank Susey and was shot to
death.
William Strienbinger, a commission
merchant, whose place of business is
| No. 20 Euclid avenue, Cleveland, COM
United suicide at Detroit, because he
had lost heavily in speculation.
Harry Hill, aged twenty-eight, no.
tel porter, shot and killed his wife,
aged twenty-one, at Kansas City, and
then committed suicide. Hill had
warned his wife against keeping CON-
pany with certain woman.
The asphyxiated bodies Of Mrs. Olga
Duess and her three little children
were found at San Francisco by he's
husband. who is a prosperous jeweler.
1t is believed that the mother suffocat-
ed the children and took her own life.
Anson B. Strong was arrested at Ra.
VIENNA. Portage county, Ohio, charged
with the murder of Mrs. Alvin N.
Stone, at Tallmadgc. The evidence on
which the charge is based 10 largely
circumstantial.
On information from Alton, Ill.,,
Charles COnwell was arrested at Law.
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