Sorrowful Tales

NUMEKOUS CAHVAI.TIES. Petebsboro, Ont, Nov. 4. - Miss Ellen 'owers, of this place met with a strange [eath yesterday. While hunting in a trunk he fainted and her head iell inside the runk, the lid closing over her neck. Death rom fiutt'oeation occurred in a few moments. Alleoheny City, Pa., Nov. 5.- Atacrossng in this city Thursday night a freight jain dashed against the rear eud of a streetar, which was iilled with passengere. The ar was partly wrecked, and John M. Cnlp and a young wonian named Harriet Weyman, who had rushed to the rear platform, were knocked off and groimd to pieces nner the wheels of the engine. Other pasengers were not injiired. London, Not. 4. - An explosión of flredamp occurred yesterday morning in a lead mine at Matlock, Coanty of Derby. Twentyive men were in the pit at the time. Fiye ead bodies have already been recovered. Boulogsk, Nov. 4. - Fifty-nine flshermen have been missing since the gale of Mesday last Seven bodies lashed tofether have been washed ashore at Etablea St. Louis, Nov. 5. - It is clearly proven ;hat the recent terrible explosión in this ity, by which nine lives were lost, was urely accidental, but the cause remains a mystery. Blue tirniNos, Neb., Nov. 5. - C. W. Livngood's five-year-old daughter was burned o death yesterday. She had been playing with matches. Nokfolk, Va, Nov. 6.- lieports have been eceived that the schooner Ocean Bird sank in Pasquotauk river during Monday night's torin, and that all on board perished. "robably twenty lives were lost. Cleveland, O., Nov. 5. - In the office of ickands, Mather fc Co., Friday, a boy, while )laying with a loaded ritte, discharged the weapon. The bullet struck William 3. Mat. on, a keeper, who died in 1 i 1' t con minutes. San Francisco, Nov. 7. - From the latest mail advices froin China it appears that a yphoon on September 17 caused great oss of life on the island of Hoi Ling. Two randred people were thought to have been érowned.