The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1907-03-14
Accidental Happenings.

Lieut.. b. G. Birch lost his life in a
Are which burned out Murray BROS.
cafe at Newark, \. j.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Baker were IN
| stantIy killed AT Donaldson, IND, by
| the Pennsylvania flyer
In dust explosion in the Ether
coal mine, near Logan, w. Va, ia
Grover. miner, was killed and sew
eral others injured.
George Gregor, foreman of the laro
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 il is thought all
have been rescued.
A passenger train was wrecked be-
| tween Iryington and Warren, Pa. The
| train plunged over twenty-five-foot
embankment and nine persons were
| injured, none fatally.
John Olinger, 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 "A 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 a window of the Arcade no
tel.
| The search for Matson, South
| Shore railroad section foreman, miss.
| ing for some hours. resulted in die
| covering his body i'm small outbuild-
ing at Marquette, Mich. He had
killed himself.
| Damage from fire at sea, amount
ing to $250,000, 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.
Is and was subdued only after the
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The Illinois legislature has passed
a 2-cent fare bill,
Having failed to pay its fees and file
It's report as required by law, the State
Insurance company of Indiana has
barred from doing business in Colo
RADIO.
The four-yearold 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 Attorney
Jerome Of New York, Justice Fftzger
aid authorized the selection of spe
cial grand jury for April. II is be
Iiieved 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 tho
use Of anaesthetics, and converset
with the physicians willie the opera
tion was being performed.
The jury in the coroner's inquest In
New York into the New York Contra
wreck OF Feb. 16, when twcnty-thre<
persons were killed. brought In YER
dict holding the operating and con
Istruction departments of the railroad
Irresponsible.
The breach OF promise suit of Miss
Mary Beans of Galesburg for $20.O0t
against Robert Denny Of Burlington
began at Burlington, Iowa. and prom
ises sensations. Miss Beans wal
Denney's housekeeper while he lives
In Calesburg. Denny Is wealthy.
| Frank Van .Dusen. chief assistan
general passenger agent of the Penn
sylvania lines west Of Pittsburg. die'
OF pneumonia at the Iroquois apart
ments In Pittsburg. Two hours late
his wife expired in an adjoining room
! from the same disease.
The Pennsylvania Railroad comps
ny announces that II has increased It
annual appropriation to Its pensio
fund IS per cent, from $4,000 :
$500 900. According to the annual n
Iport t467.s14 was paid by the comps
Inv to its retired employees last yea
z fhe iarkest Tulm yea paid i'm any "a