Fires And Other Accidents

In a eonflagration in Roading, Pa., early Tbursday moruing, four houses were cousumed, aud a family named Hopp- fatber, daugbter, and sou- perished. Mrs. Zerwikh, of Limestoae, lüs., drank a cup of lye, mistaking it for wine, and died in great agony. William Barrou walked ofï a bridge at Lima, Ohio, Thursday niht, aud foll a distance of seventy feet. He was instantly killed. A frighteued boreo near Jackaon, Mich., tbrew George Hurr froui a cutter and brolre bis neck. The swells of a steamboat overturned a skiff on tbe Mississippi river at New Orleans, Monday, and six negroes, two men aud four womeu ware drowned. A flre in the Ryan blook, ia the wholesale mercautile center of St. Paul, Minn., Monday irorninft, destroyed the boot and shoe establishment of Foote, Scbulzj & Co. ; loss, about $300,000; insurance, $'290,000. A colorad family of five persons, liviug at Colfax, La., were poisoned last Friday and died next day. Instaad of soda, Rough on Rats bad, by miatake, been put into a pot of greens. Drunken Hungarians overturned a lampat Sil ver Brook, Pa., Saturday night, and the place catching fire, live men and a girl were burned to déath, and other parsous are not expected to recover. Near Winona, Minn., the oíd Mosquito millo, one of tha historie landmarks of that región, have been destroyed by flre. Loss, $ftt,0(0. The westbound passenger trata on the Manitoba was wrecked by a bioken rail at Atwater, Minn., Ttiesday afternoon. Niue passengers were hurt, all more or less severely.