Show PAN HANDLE ROBBERS I A Thoroughly Organized Gang of FreightCar Thieves Unearthed A Party Of Visitors to a Pennsylvania Coal Mine Killed by a Firedamp Fire-damp Explosion A Great Fire Raging at St Augustine Augus-tine Florida A Few Drops of Rain in DrouthStricken Texas James M Ward Shot BOSTON April 12James H Ward tho Irish comedian who began his engagement last night at the Bijou Theatre in his play Red Fox was painfully wounded during the third act by a supernumerary named Cohee In this act Wardas liody the heroin hero-in attempting to escape from prison is shot Cohee in discharging aimed too low and the charge of wadding penetrated Wards breast striking and bending the breastbone breast-bone The curtain was lowered and the injured in-jured man removed behind the scenes where physicians were summoned The audience was apprised of the accieent and dismissed Physicians succeeded in removing the paper wadding from the wound but say that Ward cannot return to the stage for several weeks |