The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1907-03-14
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 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 be
tween Irvington and Warren, Pa. The
train plunged over a twenty-fve-foot
embankment and nine persons were
injured, none fatally.
John Olingcr. 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 a pile of earth which had caved
in from high bank. Jones met his
death while driving along the road
way.
In an effort to escape being burned
to death John Comfy, a comedian of
the Vanity Fair company, was in
stantly killed at Chester, Pa, by Jump
ing from 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 a small outbuild-
ing at Marquette, Mich. He had
killed himself.
Damage from a fire at sea, amount
ing to $25O,Oo0, 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 passed
2-cent fare bill.
Having failed to pay its fees and file
its report as required by law, the State
Insurance company of Indiana ha:
barred from doing business in Cnln
RADIO.
The four-year.old son of DIR. II. 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 Attorne.
Jerome of New York, Justice FitZger
aid authorized the selection of spe
cial grand jury for April. 1t is be
lieved that the jury is to hear insur.
ance cases.
J. w. Cliff submitted to an opera
ton at Des Moines, Iowa.. for the am
putation 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-thrce
persons were killed, brought in q 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.
Uses sensations. Miss Beans was
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, died
Of pneumonia at the Iroquois apart.
ments in Pittsburg. Two hours later
his wife expired in an adjoining room
from the same disease.
The Pennsylvania Railroad compa
ny announces that it has increased 1t.
annual appropriation to it's pension
fund IS per cent. from $4,000 tt
100000. According to the annual re
port $467,614 was paid by the compa
ny to its retired employees last year