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Show NEWS OF THE WORLD Cincinnati, Oct. (October) 20. - A collision on the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dalton Railroad, this morning, at Jones' Station, nineteen miles north of Cincinnati, resulted in injuring 15 persons. It was caused by the regular passenger running into the rear car of an accommodation train as the latter was switching. The injuries were from scalding and bruises. The wounded were all brought here. Mexico, Oct. (October) 10 - A bill has been submitted to Congress that the churches and curacies now under the charge of foreign priests shall be restored to the dominion of the nation. This is a blow aimed at Jesuits. Another bill removes the obstacles to the practice of possession, making the possession of title no longer a necessary qualification. It is doubtful whether this can become law, the innovation being too great. Raleigh, N. C. (North Carolina), Oct. (October) 21. - Today a freight train ran into a crowded excursion train coming to the State Fair. The engines and cars were wrecked. Three men were killed. 14 wounded three seriously. They were mostly on the platform. Terre Haute, Oct. (October) 21. - A horrible accident occurred in this city this afternoon. A battery of three boilers in the distillery of Cox and Fairbanks, the largest establishment on the kind in the United States, exploded with a report and concussion that was heard and felt for miles. Six men were instantly killed and twice as many seriously injured. The cause of the accident is not ascertained but a coroner's inquest will be a searching investigation. There is great excitement here over the affair. Halifax, Oct. (October) 20. - As Capt. (Captain) Duncan Adams was fishing off New London, Prince Edward's Island, his attention was suddenly attracted to some great sea monster alongside the boat. Losing no time, he got underway and sailed a mile or two, but found the monster going as fast as the boat. He had only two boys with him. When the boat luffed the monster dashed at the captain, missed and was caught by the gunwale of the boat, and fell back into the sea, making no further attempt, as the captain lost no time in putting the boat towards land. He says the monster was no less than twenty feet long, with black stripes and large black spots. Denver, 21. - A Republican's Gunnison City special says: A courier from Cabella, 60 miles below here reports a large number of Indians in that vicinity running off horses. It is also reported that 50 horses belonging to Mr. Hartman, the Gunnison postmaster, have been run off. A private letter from Postmaster Hotchkiss at Powder Horn, states that an Indian outbreak is inevitable. The authorities have asked Governor Pitkin to send 150 stand of arms and 10,000 rounds of ammunition immediately. Reliable reports are that Agent Berry is in Denver and Sheriff Youle sent a party after him this morning. Cincinnati, Oct. (October) 20. - A shocking calamity in connection with a fire occurred shortly after 11 o'clock this morning. The fire broke out in the shoddyman's factory of Benjamin Heys, Second and Broadway, in such a way as to cut off the escape from the third story, where a number of women were at work. The firemen made heroic but ineffectual attempts to rescue the women. After extinguishing the fire the firemen succeeded in extricating the dead bodies of five women, not yet identified. The loss is estimated at $50,000; insurance $120,000. Madison, Ind. (Indiana), Oct. (October) 21. - George Messer, while firing a salute on the arrival of Gov. (Governor) Porter at noon today, had both his arms blown off and his eyes blown out by a premature ???Line unreadable??? , was seized with a fit and threw the child into the fire, fatally burning it. St. (Saint) Petersburg, Oct. (October) 23. - The Gator devotes a long article to the failure of crops. It says the outlook for Russia is very gloomy, as the country, whose ordinary export is forty million quarters will have to buy grain from abroad. How to feed the peasantry the coming winter is a problem occupying the serious attention of the government, and there is no ground for expecting a good harvest in the future. Thousands of insects defy the efforts to exterminate them and lie hidden under the deep snow until spring enables them to renew their work of destruction. The Gator gives the result of the past financial year, showing the expenditures to exceed the estimate by 2,600,000 rubles. Santa Fe, Oct. (October) 23. - Terrasas, chief of the Mexican troops, writes Gen. (General) Hatch that on the 15th he killed Victorio and 100 warriors and 80 women and children, and captured 68 women and children. Still 30 Indians are at large. Terrasas has 1,800 men operating and there are 800 United States troops on the borders of New Mexico. Coldburn with 200 men is ordered to drive all the Mescaleros absent from the agency back to the same. Suspension Bridge, Ont. (Ontario), Oct. (October) 18. - A feeble old man who arrived by the New York, Lake Erie and Western Railroad train, this evening, died in the waiting room at the depot here. He had a railway ticket reading from Council Bluffs to New York; also a receipt for six month's subscription to the San Francisco Chronicle in favor of W. Markham, Atlanta, Ga. (Georgia), and $40 in American bills, tied in a handkerchief around his neck. Londonville, Vt. (Vermont), Oct. (October) 18. - Blake has been insane a long time from spinal trouble, but although he was always of ugly temper he has been allowed his liberty. He was horribly brutal in his murder today, clubbing the whole family to death with a shotgun, breaking the stock over Mrs. Williams' head. The whole room was spotted with blood. The back of Mrs. Williams' head was pounded in, her teeth knocked out and the skull broken in, over the eyes. Mr. Parks' head was pounded to jelly, his arm and neck broken. Mrs. Parks' head was crushed in the same as the others. Blake hung himself by the reins of a harness. Carson, Oct. (October) 15. - Antoine Fried, last night, traveling agent for Livingston & Co. (Company), of San Francisco, was shot by H. H. Moody, deputy postmaster of Bodie. The two men were coming to Carson in the stage, when Moody asked Fried to give him more room. Fried said the stage was so crowded that he could not move whereupon Moody drew a pistol and shot Fried in the back. The passengers bound Moody with ropes , tied him to the top of the stage, and took him to Aurora where he was lodged in jail. Threats of lynching were made, and much excitement prevailed. Mr. Fried is very low, but chances of recovery are in his favor. Mr. Fried is well known in Salt Lake having been a few years ago, a member of the firm of Taussig & Co. (Company), and their traveling representative. |