The Blandford and Wimbourne Telegram. — 1883-06-08 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

MURDER OF A BROIHER. A case of fratricide occurred near Wearhead, Weardale, on Sunday. A young man named Ralph Robinson, wham mother occupies the farm at took offence et some remarks made by his btother Thomas while at dinner. A scuffle eneand. and Ralph, seizing a knife fr,im the table, plunged it into the broat't of his brother, who died two hours afterwards. Ralph was secured by his mother and brothers, and handed over to the police.  SHOCKIA G ACCIDENT IN ITALY, News arrives from Oleggio, a town about 50 miles from Milan, of a terrible accident which has just occurred in its vicinity. A. number of workmen, who had just finished their day's work on the Villoresi Canal, had to cross the Tessin on their return homP. Inst!ad of making two journeys across, the boatman took the whole 20 labourers at once in his boat. When they had reached the middle of the river the boat, which was greatly Over. laden, capsizel, the boatman, apprehending a catastrophe, having already flung himself into the water and of the 28 pasmngers 22 were drowned. It is believed they were carried by the current into the Po. into which the Twain flows near Pavia. The Po is greatly swoll-n by the heavy rains and by the melting of the snows.. The me'ancholy news spread desolation through Oleygm, where most of the me9blived. Several of them were marricd and leave sorrow mg families.  THE FATAL PANIC ON BROOKLYN BRIDGE, NEW YORK, Thursday Morning.—The block on the bridge was first c • iised by some perm( no stopping to jeer at a man whose hat had blown off. A. woman fainted and a mon fought to protect her, and.universal fighting at once ensued. Crowds poured to the scone of comma. tion from both ends of the great br.dge ; tverwhelm• jog pressure hurled both men, women, and chhdren down fourteen steep stone steps by which passel. girs from New York side get up on to the bridge. fhe steps and their surroundings were jammed with a seething mass four deep. Free and unrestricted admit, tance was still allow° I at both ends of the bridge. Kr a quarter of a mile the bridge was packed with a vast struggling crowd, yelling. shrieking, and grasping vainly for anything to catch at ; EO,llO scores altogether were swept over the s.eps, and 12 were trodden ti death, amongst whom were seven women, whose bodies were crushed to shapeless forms. A full quarter of an hour elapsed attar the disaster first occurred before any help cou,d be rendered. Scores who left the bridge alive did so with scarcely a vestige of clothing on them, so diatomite had been their strugg'e for life. One p leCuoao, she was on the spot, by desperate and heroic efforts saved the life of the first WOMAII who fell, although a'most losing his own in so doing. One man jumped over the bridge, and was killed. Tad panic was in no way due to a fear that the bridge was giving way. Nione dresrat of that, but "what made the disaster possible was the scion of the authorities in permitting sucl crowds to be on the bridge stone time, and also the very great steepness et the atone steps. A warning that what has now thappened might some day occur was several times given to the proper authorities. From later inquiries, it appears that twelve persons were killed and twenty-six injured during the