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Terrible Disasters in 1881, 1883, 1898 and Now
That of 1907.
TALES OF TIIi-: DISASTER.
Miss Ethel Earle, one of the girls who
was caught in the falling ruin of floors
end wells in the terrible disaster at
1.,•ndun on Tuesday Of lust week, but
ho was extricated, is one of the pa-
le uls in the hospital. In conversation
with a reporter she described her ex-
perience.
1)EATI I OF CLARA \IULLIN.
"i was standing near the centre of the
Brewster store with 1.ih►ne Smith and
�Afriy IInrdingliurn, when, without any
warning at all, there was a Willing
crash and a rule• (lint sounded like nn
explosion, and the Ovalis of the build-
ing seemed to be sliding westward. 1
remember crying out, 'Libbie, we will
never get out of this alive. 1 look about
two steps and Was then hemmed in b
the ruin. l.ibbio ran to me and w�
placed our arms around one another,
and the debris seemed to surround us in
a ntinute. It wvas the most frightful ex-
perience 1 ever weat through, and 1
teli you that the ordinary person Inas no
idea of how it feels to be caught in a
!tap like That. One reads of a tragedy
like the San Francisco earthquake, but
cannot begin to realize it, unless they
have an experience like mine. Poor
Cara Mullin was standing neat us, and
after the walls had fallen 1 ^ould hear
tier moaning where she lay. She must
have been in great pain, for we heard
her sobbing and crying, and yet we
<:euld not move to do anything to assist
her. Not long after her moans ceased,
and instinctively we knew that the poor
girl was dead.
"\We were hemmed in on all sides.
We lay in perfect darkness. \\'e might
have been five or fifty feet under heed-
heawy walls, bricks and beams for all
we knew, for we could hear nothing. 11
seemed like eternity before help came.
J wonder my hair is not grey."
Miss Li1bie .Smith, wwho is a sleno-
giapher, was injured internally, but she
worked with the instinct of one to whom
life is dear and death is not far distant,
1) retain her senses after the serest'.
ESCAPED SUFFOCATi(ON.
"If it had not been for the fact that
my eight arm was free and uninjured,
I %would, undoubtedly, have choked and
miff:wated after the accident," she said.
"It cane without n moment's warning.
Ellie) Earle and I Were not far apart
when it seemed to ane that the whole
building shivered. Then there was
neatening roar and clatter and the
Luilding seemed to crumple up. It was
a most terrifying moment.. The next
thing 1 knew l was swept off my feet
em and was caught fast in n mass of debris.
y A dense, choking dust rose front around
me and a stream of dust and what
rseenned like ashes began lo rain down
What was the immediate cause of the
collapse is still a matter of surmise,
and, the ultimate verdict must be leased
upon the expert testimony which will be
adduced nt the inquest. At first the sup-
(litsttten was That the inner portion of the
Crystal Hull gore way, carrying with it
the outer portion, which crushed into
and demolished the Brewster store. An-
other theory is now advanced that it
was the outer portion of the building
beetling on the alley wvhich first gave
way, and this opinion is firmly held ty
(:sty Engineer 1;raydon. Six windows
were being inserted in the wall facing
the nley, and the suggestion Is made
that the supports were altogether in-
adequate. This, however, is a loint
which will have to he cleared up at the
inquest, and although in certain quar-
ter- blame is being attached to certain
individuals. the bulk of the citizens are
wisely withholding their censure until
they have obtained proper grounds upon
which to base their verdict.
PREVIOUS DISASTEI1S IN LONDO...
London, Ontario, scents to be a city
of terrible tragedies.
It is only a little over nine years ago
since the collapse of a platform at the
city hall killed 23 people and injured
over one hundred ethers. A meeting
in celebration of a municipal election
was in progress. without the slightest
warning, the platform. and the floor of
the hall gave way, precipitating about
150 persons to the floor below. Near
the platform stood a large iron safe,
which, going down with the floor, nd-
ded its terrible crashing weight to Pie
felling timbers, and pinned fast the un -
((attitude victims, who Wright otherwise
have had a chance of escaping. The
cove -in occurred immediately over the
(sty Engineer's ollice, and more than
2(17 people were precipitated into the
funnel -shaped death trap. with the safe
end a heavy steam colt fulling on top
of Them. Groans from the dying and
agonizing cries from the injured, ming -
ie I in an appalling and never to be for-
getten chorus. Numerous thrilling es-
crpes wire recorded.
FLOOD CLAIMED 22.
Il was the flood that caused the his-
toric disaster preceding that. On May
10 and 11, 1893, the Thanes overflowed
its banks, and twenty-two people were
drowned. They were chiefly residents
c f (Ie.west of London.
\\'tIOi.E FAMILIES WIPED OUT.
But the greatest tragedy of all - n
tragedy which it is hoped will never
be duplicated -occurred in 1881. It Kap-
p( ned in the midst of nterritnenl and
thoughtless mirth of the celebration e t
the Queen's Birthday, \lay 24. Five
hundred excursionists were returning on
Around from the ruins above. In a short a steamer 'Victoria" on the River
Thames. Carrying a load far in excess
of her capacity, the steamer collapsed
and 187 of the excursionists were
drowned in shallow water. Struggling
women and helpless children went to
wcelery graves. and whole families were
wipel out in that brief but agonizing
catastrophe.
titer this filled my ears and got through
may hair. 1 got my right arm free and
i warded of( the stuff as it irickled
d(.wn from entering my mouth and
nostrils. Otherwise 1 should have been
i,utfocaled." .
PRAYED TO DIE.
"While my plight seemed rnosl des-
pernk, 1 shell never forget one terrible
part of it. Where 1 lay 1 could hear
Ile.- moans of Frank Smith, manager ( f
Ihc store, who wns afterwards taken
out dead. The poor fellow was not
rr:ore than hall a dozen feel away, it
reeled, and I heard hint moan and cry
n; 1 never toter'o head anyone. Ile
prayed repeatedly Ilint he (night die and
have his terrible sufferings ended. 1
lienrd trine gasp tinnily, 'O. my God, let
Ins die.' 1t scented nlore like prayer
of resignation than nnylhing else, al-
though 1 knew that his injuries must
love been terrible from the agony in
his voice. 1 henrd no more from him,
and he must hae died soon alter.
IN A 'I'IIAI',
"No wends can begin to picture the
terror of this line. To be olive, yet
hemmed in by solid substances Hint
seemed as if no human force could
ower mese Ihent, sends the blood to the
)(till in a sickening feeling of fear.
One w.tuld do anything, 1 think, in a
liar' like that, to save his life, but when
is added to that the cries of ethers bad-
ly limrl, it Is terrible.
"1 wonder my hair is not grey. ;l
is difficult ter me here in this cod
place, surmunded with nllenlive duc-
t rs aril kind. cheery nurses, to realize
that I am n{1 still in the wreck. 11
t go t, sleep 1 awake V. 111) n dart and
H cry. In my fancy the eons have just
(:lien again.-"
1'1'LI. iN\'I:STIG:V1'ION DI:\IANI►ED.
11y common consent it Is admitted
that there must lie a thorough investt-
gniknn into the cause of the disaster and
1h,• nr pored le parties Netrgtit to book.
UNDER TERRIBLE SIIADOW.
And now cones the great calamity
of 1907 with its toll of victims again
well up in double figures. No sooner is
one tragedy almost forgotten than on -
ether occurs. Truly the shadow of ca-
lamity' seems to perpetually !intuit this
otherwise beautiful Cnnadian city.
WtFI 4 PATIENCE (;()NF:.
Pours Gasoline on I:rrintl husband and
Lights 11.
A dcslatrh from Vancouver says:
ft. Ilebblethwaile, a chnrnetcr well
known about town and figuring inn.
fluently in the Police (:Hurt, Was arrested
on a charge of drunkenness and failure
1) pn,vide ter his wife and children, and
is in the hospital brooding on a fore-
taste of fiery torment. he cam' hone
drunk. and. failing 1e get into the house,
went to sleep in the back yard. Ills wife
heard him. went out and read him n le -
hire, which he never !tenni. Becoming
incensed at Ms failure to nnswer, she
poured a can of gasoline over hien, set
lire to his cloth(% and left trim. Belittle
Menne, waking sportily, ran yelling
alma the yard until neighbors in night
eiethew npprnrel with blankets and
smothered the flames,. Ile was t,ndiy
burned and wise removed to lite !Kepi.
Int, Where he will be e4 need for some
liner; but w ill 'initially recover. Mean-
time lite wife lays another charge of
drunkenness, and when he is able to
halve the hospital he must go to jail.
The Attorney--Gonernl's deportment was
notified et the elk's (wenn, but refused
in presnvle unless he mite(, oteeplaint.
SHOT BY IIER YOUNG SO
A New Brunswick Woman Very Serious-
ly %rounded.
A despatch from Moncton. N.R., says:
Shat 1)y a rewioher in the hand' of her
Me -year-old ren, Mrs. Sankinl Ander-
son el lelgelt's Landing, near llills-
ts r ', ww as en \\'e,tnesday 50 seriously
Snowed lhnl site may die. She w -as o(ter-
ated on hal tier eonditkn is sennas.
Ulrs. Athlete. ti, ehe is in a delicate state
r' health, wns +tutting al a dra.k un
>wLkh h(•i• husband kept a loaded revel*
w, r In securing willing mt\t'rial the
left the drneer containing the re\er er
open. and tier link' see kook the wea-
prer it d1►s ?nether did net relic.• bun
a: first, Lal tut -reel sus.1 saw tum, and
quickly arcked Ler the rewt,Iver, nrw4 ns rJne
reached 14take it the little hikes. puttee
the trigger and the k,lle( ettlerest fits
mothers nlrlomM. A Mem len physf•
elan was 5milnntconPrl, and there age
hopes of Mrs. Auderroni Naw�wety.
IlbiEADSTuFFs.
1'( r.en!o, July 23. -Ontario \\heat -
GuI,; Ne. 2 while, $8jlc to
Manitoba \lhcat--No. 1 hard, nomin-
ee No. 1 northern, 98c; No. 2 northern,
9535e.
Corn -Continues normal; No. 2 yellow,
GIXc to 62e.
Marley -Nominal.
Oats--Ontario-No. 2 white, 44' c. (.2
45c, outside. Mateloba-No. 2 white,
45Xe to 46e, on track at ele►•ator,
Peas -Nominal.
Itye--Noutdnal,
Flour--Ontario-90 per cent. patents,
e3.15 bid. $3.50 asked; Manitoba first
petcnls, $L75 to $5; seconds, $4.40 to
t>4.50; strong bakers', 8120 to 81.30.
Bran- 817 to 817.50, outside; shorts,
nbuut $20 outside.
COUN17t) I'11ODUCE,
Rutter -Creameries are quiet, but
dairies are in good demand.
Creamery prints .... .... .. 21c to 22c
do solids .... ltk• to 20c
Dairy prints .... .... .... lite to 19c
du solids.. , . . .. . lee to-llllc
Cheese -12c �tol2Xc for large and
I.yc for twins, in lee lots here.
Eggs -Prices are firm al 17Se to 18e.
Rebuts --$1.65 to 81.70 for hued -picked
and $1.50 to 81.55 for primes.
I'utul(tes-Dull. Delawares, 90c to 81,
in car tuts on track here.
Baled tluy-4111 W 815 for No. 1 tim-
othy; No. 2, $12.50.
Bitted Straw -$7 to 87.25 per ton, in
car tots on truck here.
PROVISIONS.
Dressed Bogs -$9.25 for lightweights
and $8.75 10 89 for heavies,
feele-Short cut, $22.75 to 823 per bar-
rel, niers, 821 to $21.50.
Smoked and Dry Salted ?tents -Long
clear bacon, 1tc to llj;e for t,ns and
discs; hunts, medium) and light, 153 c
to 16c; heavy. 143 a to 15c; backs, 16%c
l0 17e; shoulders, 10Xc to Ile; rolls,
11Xc; out of pickle, lc less than smoked.
Lard -Steady; tierces, 12c; tubs, 12Xc;
pails, 12yc.
MONTREAI. elARKL l'S.
Montreal, July 23. -Orals remain Grin,
Willi small demand. Sales of Manitoba
No 2 white were made at 49c to 493 c;
Ontario No. 2. at 48%c to 49e; No. 3, at
4734e to 48e, and No. 4 at 46eec to 47c
ren bushel, ex -store.
Flour -Choice spring wheat patents,
';5.111 to 85.20; seconds, 84.50 to Meet;
winter wheat patents, 81.85; straight
rollers, $4.10 to 8125; do., in Lags,
81.90 to 82; extras, 81.60.
Millf(C,l-\iinit,bn bran. In bags, 819;
shorts, $23; Ontario bran, in tangs, $18.-
50
18:50 to 819; shorts, $22 to $23; milled
muffle. $24 to 828 per ton, and straight
grain, 8.10 to 832.
Rolled Oats -The demand for rolled
oats is Iln1i1(d at $2.25 per bag; corn-
meal Is 111100n;ted at $1.45 to 81.50.
limy -No. 1. $16 to 816.50; No. 2, 815
to 815.50; clover. $13.50 to 814, and clo-
ver, mixed, $12.50 to 813 per ton in car
lets.
Butter -Townships. 20%c to 20%c;
Quebec. 20c to 20r/ye; Ontario, 197%;
dhlry, 17%c to 17',c.
Cheese -Ontario, white, 1l c; colored,
I l jlc to 11%e; eastern, 10Xe e to 10%c.
Eggs -No. I candled, nt 17c; No. 2
riutdli(1, nt 14e, and No. 2 straight, et
12jec per dozen.
11roviseins-I j.irre}s short. cut n,((;s,
5.22 to 822.50; halt barrels. 811.25 to 811.-
75t, clear Mt back. 823.51) to $21.50; long
cut heavy mess. $20.50 to $21.50; half -
barrels do., 81075 to $1L50; dry sailed
long clear bacon, 103 to I I j;c; borrels.
plate beef. $14 to 816; hail barrels do.,
87.50 to 88.25; barrels heavy tress beef.
$10; halt borlrls do., 5.50; compound
lard, 103 c to 10•'/.e; pure lard, 12 ;c. to
12%e; kettle rendered, 13c to 13%e;
Marne. ile to the, according to size;
breakfast bacon. 1434c to 15c; Windsor
bacon. 15%c to Ihc; fresh killed abattoir
dressed hogs, 89.75 to 810; alive, 87.25
t! 87.40.
i1t'FFA1.0 MARKET.
Buffalo, July 23. --- Flour - Stendy.
Wheat -Spring. easy; No. 1 Northern.
*1.03X; Winter. quiet. Corn -Little
(k'mand;I Ne. 2 yellow, 58';c; No. 2.
white, 573%. Oats -Steady; No. 2
while. 4'.» e: No. 2 mixed. 46c. Marley
-Lillie doing. Bye -Chicago cash,
sec.
NE\\' YORK WIIEAT \IAIUKI T.
New' Y. rk, July 23. -Wheat -Spot firm:
No. 2 nal. 97e elevator; No. 2 red, St' e
Loeb. aitch; No. 1 northern Duluth, 81.11
Le.h, 1111 iib; No. 2 hard winter, 100';
f.o.b. allele.
cA rrLi; \I:\Ill:ET.
Toronto, July 21.- Buyers complained
nl.(u1 the poor qurility <tf many of the
butchers' rattle brought forward. choice
cattle kept up well in values, Me range
Ming tram $5 to 85.25 per cwt. Me-
dium nut! hair butehers' collie brought
F 125 (e $4.75 per cwt. A steady trade
ehlnine.l in choice cows at $3.75 In
x4.25 per , wt . but co►nnutn and rough
re w•s were n little hard to sell nt 82.25
le 83. Butchers' bulls were quoted at
6.1.50 kr $1.25 per ewl.
(:IMttee Blockers were wroth $3.50 to
8.1.75. and common tram $2.511 t, 83
pot* cwt. Feeders were saleable nt 81.•
411 l0 $4.80 per cwt.
cutch neve cementer! to sell nt $35 to
8s5 ea' Iu for choice, and $25 to (Eau !or
cerulea.
Veal calves tete
C. tits per prnnd.
Ewes were worth 4.51) to $1.75 per
(wt.. and harks and culla sold nt 83.50
t e $1 per cwt. 'rime pr5'rs r.1 lambs
ranged from 88 to 11.40 per cwt.
Select hops wild at $4.90, and lights
end buts at $6.95 per cwt.
-f
spree mei ee ersi lnnl hate fugnfsl n
treney. nt arbitrntien.
re Im•'e.e). has been apt"Anted
Avtstant (:creme Freight Agent of the
11.T. Y'
melee at 3 to 6
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS
UAPVENIN S FnO\I AU OVER !IIB
CLOD&
Trleuraphl••. Oriels From Our Own and
Ull►rr Counlrles of Recent
Events.
CANADA.
The tax rate of 'Toronto Junclien was
fixed tit twentj-eight mills.
?duel live stock is repelled lost in
forest tires in Algoma.
Horses and dogs at elooson►in, Sask.,
are suffering froth rabies.
The Kingston Locomotive Works will
build 25 locomotives for the hntercolo-
niol.
flans have been completed for the
new Engineering building at McGill
University.
Mayor Scott of Ottawa fins recent -
mended that the city expropriate ;he
electric plant.
As few of the houses in Berlin are
numbered, postal delivery has been de-
layed,
Munition Ls to gel cheaper incandes-
cent lighting rates from the Cataract
Power Go.
Roslhern is said to be where the new
experimental farm in Saskatchewan
will be located.
The Government are taking steps to
punish people who publish slanders me-
garding the Dominion.
Libel suits asking for 8280.000 dam-
ages have now been flied in connection
with the Cayuga murder trial.
The C. P. R. is being prosecuted he-
forelhe Supreme Court of Manitoba !or
v.olntion of the lord's Dny Act.
The site for the new isolation hospi-
tal at London has been approved by
Ihc. Provincial hoard of Health.
The late lion. A. G. Blur's widow has
given 130 valuable books frons her late
husband's library to the Ottawa Public
Library.
Crop reports from all over Canada
collected by the etolssons Bank indicate
that Imps are from len days to two
weeks lute.
While returning from n fishing trip,
J. Pinkerton, of Fort William, had his
foot crushed by a train, and a doctor
amputaird the foot with a penknife.
A monument will be erected on Drum-
mond Bill, at Niagara, in memory (,1
Cepl. (lull, U.S.A.; and some of his
company who were killed near the spot.
After staying away for 15 months 1,0
escape the law, Win. Dawson was spot -
led on his return to Quebec city and
sunt to the penitentiary for two years.
Thomas O'Connor, a thirteen -year-old
tiny. was knit at Stellnrton, N.S., by
touching an electric Wire in a spirit of
bravado.
The Delaware & Hudson ilailway Com-
pany have purchased the Quebec, Mont-
real Southern Railway and will extend
it to Quebec.
A new Empress steamer is to be built
fie the C.P.R. Pacific fleet, In addition
to lite two new sleamen; for the lakes.
and the Princess Etta, now in course of
construction.
iI is staled that fifty million dollars
capital will be required by Messrs. Mac-
kenzie It Mann for their smelter and
ear works. which they propose to estab-
lish at Ashbridge's Ilay, Toronto.
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GREAT BRITAIN.
Sir \\'m. henry Perkin, founder of
Pie coal Inr colony industry, died on
Sunday in Landoll.
Complaints are being made nt London
that the Japanese are endeavoring to
shut out Great Britain and the United
Stales from trade in Corea. •
The engagement is nnnaunce(1 in Lon-
don of Miss Florence l'adelford, (lnugh-
ter of Mrs. Ernest. Cunard by her first
marriage, and the honorable flobti-I
Victor Grosvenor, eldest son and heir of
I.ord Ebury.
UNITES) STATES.
Dr. Edwnrl 1t. Taylor is the new
Mayor of Snn Francisco.
Three children were swept away by a
fond at McCoombs, \\'est Virginia, on
Thursday.
The output of the mines at Cripple
Creek. Col., for the past six months ex-
ceeds $7,000.(%I).
Prank Bailey. n negro, wens lynched
II/ a trxtb at a small town twenty -live
utiles )with -ens! of Oklahoma for as -
sniffling n railroad man.
The Standard Oil Company gives a
general denial to the Strale's charge n1
conspires)? In restraint of bade and
trying to stifle cempelilion.
('laces of busin.'.ss conducted by
Greeks in ilonnoke, \'a.. were wrecked
in a rnec riot, which bids fair to bring
un intcrnatinnnl complications.
President Ruosewell has sent n gift to
Ili, University of Berlin consisting of his
works in nine wo:umex, beautifully
round and Mewing his autograph.
'Tore hays. rest ecti5ely four ntid six
years o1d,, were found by the police.
staring, in New ilaen, Conn. Their
parents had started for Italy and left
tsar children mane.
A cloud of king -winged yelknv hugs
clogged the machinery of n Mean -dont
near SI. I,ctuts, and the boat 110(1 to
slop until 11►e engines could be heel
from the insects.
A girl sentenced to serve Twenty
months in nn Alabama prison, was kept
there for twelve yenrs, until she diose, n
clerk's mistake having made the sentence
tend twenty yenrs.
A New York bartender, mnrrie41 five
months age. sdnhb(vl his wife. intbefing
nine wounds. then jumped from the roof
of n fnur-d(orey building. Ile will die,
1.111 his wife will recover.
Fred. 11. Magill, formerly cashier of
the Kerner National f:ar,k of Clinton.
lll., was nrreilel nt Sart Diego. (:al.,
with his wife on a charge of killing
Magee:, first wife at (.Itnten Iwo
months ago.
The Mermen (butch in Snit t.nke
(sly has purchased the farm lying neer
!'nlmyrn. N.Y.. wherr Joseph Stnilh
passel les early manhood. and where 111
us eni(1 1., heels found the pinkie (reel
wvl.,ch Ihr Mermen Bible was prime.
'1114. acting Allorney fins decreed Ihnt
(eery (112(1 tehe, buys loiter• of Ili• drug
skrea in Topeka. Kau -ns. must sign fins
CRIPPLE PLUNGED TO DEATH
(I Tell My Friends That I Have Gone
to Glory. tr
A despatch from Niagara Falls, N.Y.,
says : People who had on 'Heirs/ley
evening gathered in Prospect Park and
in Victoria Park, were'slarticd at 7.40
o'clock to sec the body of it man come
dancing down the rapids of the Ameri-
can channel and plunge over the Ant'ri-
can falls. As the man carne sweeping
along will the currents end waves it
looked as though lie was waving fare-
well to those on shore, but it is likely
that Me waves gave the motion they felt
was a human effort to say farcewell.
This latest suicide is anon to have
entered lite bridge between the main-
land and Green Island from the island
end. Ile walked out to the second bay
on a crulcl and a cane, and (here he
climbed over the wall n( the bridge and
dropped into the rapids. Ile left his
crutch and cane behind, also a nota
which reads : "Telt my friends that i
have gone to glory." This mule as well
a, the crutch, bears lite initials "J.1).,"
81111 110 doubt they will be a great help
in identifying Inn' man. !tottery nt the
hotels does net reveal that any of the
guests are missing, nor do any of thein
retort hawing a guest who was lame.
'rhe body made the awful plunge over
the brink about 20 feet out /rote Pros-
pect Point, and when it wa.s announced
in the park that a human being was
plunging dowel the rapids toward the
Falls there was a hurrying of many to
tits point to witness the terrible 1•lunge
to eternity. The rush was impulsive on
the part of some, 0(111 many were sad.
doted by the sight. Superintendent
Perry has the articles left behind.
own and real name to the afrelave which
(!,e purchaser makes that the liquors are
to be used for medicinal purposes.
GENERAL.
The Czar and his family have gone
on a cruise for the summer.
Over a trillion persons have died from
tee plague in India during the last six
111011111S.
Fourteen persons have been drowned
at Marslrand, Sweden, by the upsetting
c,f rt .riilbet!. '
President Fallieres of France to re-
duce expenses, has banished costly fish
trout his table.
General Aikhnnoff, Governor-General
of Kutnis, was blown to pieces by a
bomb fenced by revolutionists.
Placards were hosted in Seoul Thor-
oughfares on 'Thursday, calling for the
death of all the Japanese ollicials in
the city.
King Menelik of Abyssinia Is raising
ne army of 20,000 men, and it is ru►n-
orcd that he intends retaking war upon
Maly.
Sir William R. Cremer, founder • b
the Interparliamentary Conferences,
was knighted in a freck coat by the
King.
Venezuela has intimated lint 11 will
refuse to pay the $2.00,000 debt 10 its
Brigion minters. loins decision is con-
trary to the ending of The Vague tri-
bunal, and the Belgian Government is
doing its utmost to induce Venezuela
to carry out The Vague verdict.
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ADRIFT AL1. NIGII'r.
four Pori Itycrse (.iris Went Out in n
Punt.
A despal^h from Sincoe says: Four
young girls, Misses Wetter, Slickncy,
Iloyck fined her sister, residing near fort
'Verse, went out for n boat ride on sal-
t:rday aletut 5 o'clock in n hunters punt,
with only a (ole to guide lite punt. The
land breeze drove therm over to Long
l'oinl. Their absence was not noticed
until nearly dark, when word was sent
lc fort Dover, and a general search was
orgnnize(l by the fishing tugs of That
place. The search was unsuccessful 1u)-
111 about 12 o'clock noon on Sunday,
wtten the young ladies were found near
the coltng(s nt Long Point. They were
none the worse for (heir night's experi-
ence. exrrpt greatly fatigued. They
were bnwght to foil Dover by the tug
Angler. and driven to their homes at
Port Ily'crse.
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JUMPED TO DEATH.
Chicago Stenographer Leaped From Fi1-
henlh Floor to Pa►emenl.
A despatch from Chicago says: While
talking to friends on lite fifteenth Mier
of the i,lasone. Temple, on 'rhnredey,
Miss Anne Nermoyle, a stenographer.
deliberately walked to an open court
winektw• and w.1111ou1 n word of warning
threw herself to the stone pavement of
the rotunda, 2.',0 feel 1-0(4255'. The girl
was mutilated (1lt►ktst beyond recogni-
tion. No Cause is known for the 'ii -
tide.
SIIOT HIS WIFE DEAD.
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North Ontario County Farmer !'sed
(:un With Awful Effect.
A despatch from Sunderland, Ont.,
says : Adana Lodwick, of Vallenlyne,
(about 4X miles west of this place, sunt
and killed his wife at all early hour ori
Saturday mor•neig. It scents Lodwick
had leen in a low slate of health during
the last few months, and while his wife
was in bei silt► a four -weeks -old infant
in her arms, he procured a shot gun and
!laced the muzzle almost rlosc to his
wife's ince and literally hk'wv off the top
of her head. Strnnge to say, the hnby.
was not injured. T. 11. Glendinning,
J.1'., and County Constable Davidson, of
Sunderland, were telephoned for, and
on arriving found Lodwick in all un-
conscious condition, seated in an arm-
chair. Dr. Blanchard Was sent for, and
idler a few hours Lodwick recovered
sufficiently to acknowledge taking the
entire contents of a bottle, which the
(lector found to be n preparatk)n he had
left for 1110 mon for his nerves, with
which he had been troubled. Deceased. -
was a daughter of \Ir. Philip St. John,
a highly-respe bel fanner of Vallentyne,
ane leaves a family of live to mourn her
terrible death.
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D:tSIIED R:till: TO 1►F.ATII,
Terrible Crime -of a Drunken Neuro In
;New Work.
A despatch from New York says: in
n frenzy, lotus !fester. a negro who had
been drinking, seized the year -and -a.
half -old son of Mrs. Samuel Fischer, al
Lang ilranch, N. J., on \Wednesday,
and swinging fern high nbowe his head
Wished the child upon the pavement.
The baby inky die. The Fischer child,
who was only able to toddle about, was
playing in front of his lime when an
organ grinder came along. The baby's;
attempts to dance to (he MUSIC caught
ILr negro's eye. Resler cnught hint up
and began 10 whirl around with the
bey in his arms. Alarmed, \ifs. Fischer
called to hien to put the bnby down,
wli"reupon ha hailed him wrathfully
to the stone pnw'emenl and ran. 'I'ne
negro was caught.
CHILD IMPALED ON IIA1-FOiIK.
Terrible Accident to a i'nur-year-old
Danihler of h(titheold Farmer.
A despatch (roar St. '!foams says :
The fuer-yenr-old daughter of James
Jones, of Sodheo.d, was terribly in-
jured on Saturday. The chikl was
caught in the honks of n hnyfork. One
of the prongs. alter entering the back,
passel completely through the body.
The child is in a critical condition.
Nearly two thousand ore dnckmen nro
oil strike at Duluth, Superior, and other
Lake Superior harbors.
Five 1'rr'S0ns died in New York yes.
tansy from the extreme heat.
At Utica, N.Y., Charles Stuckn fell
seven storeys and was leslnnlly kilted,
nal struck a pedestrian vital may also
die
111111113 COLLIDE, MANY PERISH
Thirty Persons Killed on the Pere
Marquette Railroad.
A despnlch from Solem, Mld►Ignn,
snys : 'Thirty persons nrr known to Ito
dead reel sixty are injured as the result
of n wreck en Ile. fere Marquette Rail-
road, near this leave, ahr,rtly before 10
o clock on Saturday morning. A spceinl
(ruin of eleven conchee lett Ionia will►
itetvren flue and 1,(100 of the ernitirees(
of the ('ere Nnrgmwife for the annual
Excursion to i'h lnel. and 0hout half -w ay
between her' and Plym.ullh the s("'cin1
true) heel n 110841441 collision w. ith a
wnsl-Liund freight train.
T he passenger train find been gee))
Ilse right -a -way. but because of /101110
blunder on the pnrt of the crew of the
freight (rain 1l kept on instead of well-
i1.g at Plymouth, which is the despatch-
inheadqunrt<'rs fur this division, le let
Pi. passenger pacts.
The passenger train was just rounding
the cure at \\ aahbour'ne (:rssaie,
when it sighted the freight train. lt..Ih
engineers nppnrently saw (their danger
at the samne lnontnt, set tiff stem and
applied the brakes. With the paruen-
get treat travelling at 45 mules en hour
tleo crsth wns horrific.
Nene it Oise the screams of panic-
stricken paw'ngers. who had bees{
pitched 11110 the Middle of the carve
bendy n11 of them nt<tre or lees injure)
uud crazed with fright. 'there was a
stampede, the terrors rirkee people
lighting to get out of the (k,ar and em-
it/me. While from the pile of woe^kage
Came the cries of Mee who were Nit-
res! (keen by the weight. suffering
agonies from hraken bones WW1 man-
gled fedi 111141 5,11111 110 hope of M•i,ig
exlrieated Wild n worn king train or -
reed (tont Detroit.
'rh(e fear that the pde .,f w•rerknge. in
which many (ereons Iwd) drnd and
0110 Wer' buried might r,1leh fire.
nerved Me nuniwors to the week of
resew.. n Werk In which they were as.
stdeal by the farmers `n the vicinity.
With their bare lintels or with nnpm-
vhed initis they set le wr,rk to raise the
teeny timbers, under wM<h human la'-
tigs ww •1r 1) mltg. and one after anelher
was rete:tsed until eln'n the wT(rking
train arrived nearly 411 ',robe., had 18011
extrk'nted. besides eewrrni Wounded
pet,ple. The (lead were nearly all
crushed nevem! rr'ognm's n. and their
clothing was liberally tells Mt 1s'm.