The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1907-03-15
Accidental Happenings.

Accidental Happenings.
Lieut.. B. c. Birch lost his life in a
fire which burned out Murray Bros.
cafe at Newark, N. ].
Mr.. and Mrs. John Baker were in
stantly killed at Donaldson, Ind, by
the Pennsylvania flyer.
In a dust explosion in the Ethel
coal mine, near Logan, w. Va, Ed
Grover, a miner. was killed and sew
eral others injured.
George Gregor, foreman Of the lard
room, and Jim Blanketer were killed
by boiling lard at the Agar packing
plant at Des Moines.
Head-on collisions between freight
trains near Maugansville, Pa, re-
suited in the killing Of two engineers
and the injury of several trainmen.
The Ionia county poor house, loca-
ted five miles from Iona, Iowa. burn
ed. There was sixty inmates in the
house at the time, but it is thought all
have been rescued.
A passenger train was wrecked De
tween Irvington and Warren, Pa. The
train plunged over a twenty-five-foot
embankment and nine persons were
injured, none fatally.
John Olinger, a freight brakeman
was cut in two at Dollar Bay, Mich,
being caught between two cars. He
was engaged in coupling and was
thrown beneath the wheels.
Constantine Jones, farmer living
near Tabor, Iowa, was found dead be-
meath pile of earth which. had caved
in from high bank. Jones met his
death while driving along the road
way.
In an effor, to escape being burned
to death John Comfy, comedian of
the Vanity Fair company, was in
stantly killed at Chester, Pa, by Jump
ing from a window of the Arcade no.
tel.
The search for Matson, a South
Shore railroad section foreman. miss
ing for some hours, resulted in die
covering his body in small outbuild-
ing at Marquette. Mich. He had
killed himself.
Damage from fire at sea, amount
ing to $25O,000, was reported by the
German steamer Vandalia, which ar
rived at New York from China and
Japan. The fire started in the Van
dallas hold on the afternoon Of Feb.
25 and was subdued only after the
hold had been flooded with water.
The illinois legislature has passea
a 2-cent fare bill.
Having failed to pay its fees and file
its report as required by law, the State
Insurance company of Indiana has
barred from doing business in Colo.
RADIO.
The four-year-old son of DR.. H. w.
Marvin, recently of Sioux City, Iowa
disappeared from home at Dover, Del.
and has not been found. Kidnapping
is suspected
On application of District Attorney
Jerome of New York, Justice FitZger.
aid authorized the selection of a spe
cial grand jury for April. 1t is be
lieved that the jury is to hear irsur,
ance cases.
J. w. Cliff submitted to an opera
ton at Des Moines, Iowa, for the am
putaticn of his right leg without the
use of anaesthetics, and conversed
with the physicians while the opera
ton was being performed.
The jury in the coroner's inquest III
New York into the New York Central
wreck of Feb. 16, when twenty-three
persons were killed, brought in yer
dict holding the operating and con
struction departments of the railroad
responsible.
The breach Of promise suit of Miss
Mary Beans of Galesburg for $4,000
against Robert Denny Of Burlington
began at Burlington, Iowa, and prom
ises sensations. Miss Beans wat
Denney's housekeeper while he lived
in Galesburg. Denny is wealthy.
Frank Van Dusen, chief assistan,
general passenger agent Of the Penn
sylvania lines west Of Pittsburg, diet
Of pneumonia at the Iroquois apart
ments in Pittsburg. Two hours latel
his wife expired in an adjoining room
from the same disease.
The Pennsylvania Railroad comps
ny announces that Il has increased It