Click image to open full size in new tab
Article Text
The schooner David Currier, laden with stone, sunk near Westbrook, Conn. The crew was landed Say brook Point. Robert Mitchell, member of the state board of agriculture and a leading farmer of Indiana, died at Prince ton, Ind. An explosion of gas in the Darr mine of the Pittsburg Coal company at Jacobs Creek, Pa., entombed between 200 and 250 miners, and there was scarcely a ray of hope that a single one of them would be taken from the mines alive. Many men escaped death because they were observing a festival of the Greek church. A terrifie explosion occurred in Palermo in the military powder magazine, where a large quantity of dynamite was stored. and was followed by a number of lesser explosions, the whole town being badly shaken and the people thrown into a panic, About 25 persons were killed and many injured. Thinking it unloaded. John Meyer, a farmer boy, living at Holy Cross, Ia, pointed a shotgun at his 16-yearold sister and pulled the trigger. blow. ing her head from her shoulders. Col. James B. McGonigal, who was a conductor on the first train operated on the Panhandle railroad in 1850, died in Kansas City, aged 74. The late King Osear of Sweden was buried at Stockholm with imposing ceremony. The Republican county committee of New York county, by - almost unanimous vote, refused to consider at this time a resolution indersing Gov. Charles . Hughes for the Republican presidential nomination. C. Hauge, the Norwegian minister to the United States, died while on a snowshoelag trip near Christiania. Henry Dibblee. one of the most prominent real estate men in Chicago, died of heart disease, aged 67 years. The first bill passed by the Philippine assembly appropriated $1,000,000 for schools. Burglars in Springfield, III., broke the window of the jewelry store of John C. Pierik and made their escape with $10,000 worth of diamonds. The Glenville Banking & Trust company, a small concern in the suburbs of Cleveland, O., made an as signment in the insolvency court. Engineer Frank Krag, 50 years old, of Buffalo, N. Y., thought III and faint, stayed at his throttle till he had brought his fast Lake Shore train safely into Collinwood, O. Then he stepped from his cab, and in a few minutes was dead. Olive Bartlett, daughter of J. J. Bartlett, a retired farmer, was shot and killed at her home in Olathe, Kan., by J. Frederick Kastendiek, a former sweetheart, who then killed himself. Howard West, alias Frank Earl, was electrocuted in the annex at the Ohio penitentiary at Columbus for the murder of William Legg, a butcher of Sid. ney, O. An attempt to rob a car on the Buf falo express in Philadelphia was frus. trated and William A. Hewett, said to have been caught beneath the car which contained $60,000 in gold bullion, placed under arrest. Capt. D. L. Keller, alias D. L. Smith, a United States officer of Reno, Nev., was arrested at Kamloops, B. C., charged with having stolen a bank check from Fort Sheridan, III., and filling It in for $92,500. Foreigners attacked Constable James Dolan at Lebanon, Pa., when he attempted to arrest coal thieves and the constable shot into the crowd, killing two Hungarians. The coal mines of the United States are killing three times as many men per 1,000 employes as those of most European countries. In the last 17 years 22,840 men have given up their lives in the mines of this country. These and other shocking facts are set forth in a report of an investigation by experts ordered by Secretary Garfield. The supreme court of Illinois handed down an opinion declaring the anticigarette law passed by the legislature this year dees not apply to eigarettes which contain pure tobacco, but only to those sigarettes which contain substances deleterious to health. The Diamond Jo line of Mississippi river steamers has been sold to a syndicate of men who will improve the present fleet of passenger and freight boats and increase its earrying eapacity very materially. Henry F. Currier, national bank examiner, took charge of the Jewelers' National bank at North Attleboro, Mass., whose vice president and cashier, Frederlek E. Sargeant, was found dead in a bathtub. Smallpox broke out in Chadbourne hall, a dormitory for women students at the University of Wisconsin, and 100 young women who live in the dormitory were ordered vaccinated and to leave for their homes. An attempt was made to hold up the west-bound Northern Pacific train 11
