Shocking Accident

A terrible accident bappened a few days ago at a raüroad crossing about ten miles west of St. Louis. Mr. W. F. Ritchey, his wife and two oliildren were crossing the Mipsouri Pacific railroad track in a covered wagon, when a paBsenger train going west struck the vehicle and tore it into splinters. Mr. Kitchey was tossed into the air and instantly killed. His wife and the two children were carried 250 yards on the engipe front. Mrs. Ritchey was brenthing when taken froin. tlie engine, but died while being carrieil to a wagon. The babo was fatolly injured, and the reinaining member of the family, a little girl named Gracie, has a broken thigh. One of the horses was killed outright and the other escaped unharmed. Mr. Ritchey was a nephew of Judge John F. Long, Collector of Customs at St. Louis. A man in Boston made a savftge assault the other day upon liis doctor, while suffering from tomporary insanity, brought on by a too-free iudulgence m ham and eggs. The Globe calis attention to the factthat a too-free indulgence in that toothsorue viaud must therefore be regarded as a uiost dangeioas and deadly praxstioe,