Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 August 1896 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

EASTERN.

At Niagara Falls the Park Theater, fugby's Museum and other buildings in Ike neighborhood were .destroyed Arc Friday morning. The International Hotel was on fire several times and the •seats fled to the street*. At 2 o’clock «e ftnawaa under.control, the Internaftonal Hotel being only slightly damaged. S*ke ioaa will rpach 9250,000. •Mb Annie, beco^nighten^,

age?fT&; volunteered pretrttton and went with Mrs. Deets .to the door of her house. Deets opened the dpor, and seeing Andrews began striking him. Andrews whipped out a knife and stabbed Deets tg kjfiing him instantly. Andrews; WSJ arrested. * ft x T"” kmed and another % tally injured in a freight wreck on the Philadelphia nnd Reading Railroad six miles west of Shamokin. Pa., Tuesday. The wreckage took fire from the dismantled locomotive, and the knowledge that on the siding where the accident occurred was a carload of gunpowder prevented any attempt at rescue until the explosion ,had occurred. The body of Engineer Michael Smock was burned withjn view of the workmen. It was pinned beneath the engine and fiercely burning debris. The wrecked train was running about forty miles an hour when it ran into a freight car door that had fallen across the track from a passing train. The engine jumped the traek nfid twelve cars were piled within a space of fifty feet.