People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 August 1895 — CASS[?]IES [ARTICLE]

CASS[?]IES

The persons poisoned at a Lutheran picnic near Laporte, Ind., are all recovering. The trouble tfas due to impure water. John T. Ingraham, city editor of the Herald, of Dubuque, lowa, was run down and probably fatally injured by a freight train switching at a crossing. David Mitchell, Jr., superintending architect, was fatally injured in one of the building at 117th street and the boulevard, New York city, which are being remodeled for Columbia college. He fell twenty-five feet into the basement in a pile of twisted pipes and rocks. Mrs. Sarah Twogood, 92 years old and a pensioner of the war of ISI2, as well as the oldest inhabitant of Rockford, 111., is dead as the result of a fall. Three children of Henry Johnson, colored, living near Mexia, Tex., were burned to death Sunday night while their parents were at church. While counting his hoard of $5,000 at Hamilton, Ala., Ben Stillman upset a lamp, which, exploding, set fire to the house and the money and cabin were consumed. The famous Midway row at Fort Thomas, Ky., burned. The row comprises six or eight buildings occupied as saloons, restaurants and concert halls. Loss, 20,000, with little insurance. A fire in the waste-paper room in the treasury department building at Washington brought out the city fire department and caused some excitement, but no further damage than the destruction of a little waste paper. Three tramps are belived to have been killed in a freight train wreck on the Cleveland. Akron & Columbus road near Millersburg. O.