Connecticut western news., 1911-02-02
GRIM ES
 AND CASUALTIES.


 n,,1 of the Irene Ruth, m ~,,.'- oyster boat lying off Colonial beach, West moreland, Va, and an unknown sailor, were murdered by mutinous members of the crew, and John Adams, the first mate, was fatally injured. H. Brady. Henry Northly and negro became mutinous and when ordered to work attacked the captain with an ax, kill ing him instantly. Adams and the unknown man, who sided with the captain, defended themselves as best they could. but after rendering Adams unconscious the mutineers attacked the unknown sailor and after brutally beating him threw him overheard.
 Charged with the murder of Rev. AmZi l.. Armstrong, the aged pastor emeritus of the Dutch Neck Presby- terian church, and his wife Thanks giving eve, John Sears, half breed ne- gro, is being tried before Supreme Court Justice Alfred Reed and Judge Frederick Gnichtel in Trenton, N. J. Although he confessed the double mur- der and said after the crime that he
 
 an outcast, he is now making a fight for his life, and it is declared that he has behind him money and influence.
 Detectives of the New York, Chicago and St Louis railway are Investigating the attempt to wreck the "Flier'' at Hobart, Ind The fireman while shoveling coal from the tender into hn SfT oh his shovel. Thinking 1t was a chunk of coal, he started to throw it into the firebox when he discovered that it was a twenty-five pound can of giant pow der. Officials believe that discharged employees may have had something to do with the affair.
 The Rev. Rufus Macurda, speaker of the First Association of Spiritualists of New York, was arrested charged with being a fortune teller. MT. Ma curda told the police that he was not only the head of the spiritualist con- gregation, but that he Is also connected with the Church of Divine Inspiration of America. Along with MT. Macurda the police took four other persons in various parts of the city who are al- legged to be fortune tellers.
 When a huge brick chimney crashed down into the Caledonian Boxboard mill at Whippany. N. J.. two men were buried in the debris and dozen others had narrow escapes from death. The chimney. 100 feet tall. was blown over. and the bricks and the iron top piece crashed down through the roof of the stock and beater rooms. The men were so deeply buried by the debris that it took an hour to dig out their bodies
 The New York police have received word that Chinaman had been caught at Hartford, Conn.,, who Is suspected of having killed a Chinese storekeeper In Pell street last December. His name Is Lee Fee. It is believed Tee, in com pany with another Chinaman, entered the store on the evening of Dec. and started to dicker about the price of goods. Presently they drew revolvers and shot and killed the storekeeper.
 Ablaze from head to foot and while a fireman was reaching out a ladder to save her, Mrs. Michael Celia, fifty years old, leaped from a fourth story fire escape to her death in a fire that gutted the four story brick tenement house at 635 Sixth avenue, New York. Firemen at the risk of their lives saved her daughters, Nellie and Elizabeth. and her husband from being burned to death.
 Cecil, aged six years, son of S. A. F. Gullett, a Lee county (Ala.) farmer, at his home sent the load from a shotgun through the head of his four-year-old sister Mildred, killing her instantly.
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