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A telegram from New York gives particulars of a terrible sequel to a political quarrel in Indiana. Two families named Swinford and Lawson, who had…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →CARCOAR, Wednesday.-An accident happened to the down train due here at half-past 10 o'clock on Monday night. One of the tubes of the boiler burst when the train was 30 yards inside the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →KIAMA, Wednesday.-Miss Grey, of Mount Salem, met with a very serious accident yesterday evening while collecting ferns. She was dislodging a handsome specimen from a rock near her…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →LONDON, Tuesday Night.--A terrible disaster has occurred in a tinmino at Penzance, in Cornwall. An old shaft which was Hooded with water suddenly burst,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Two little brothers named Joan and B[?] Morris were bathing at Townville, when one of the children got beyond his depth. The other wont to his assistance, and both…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →St. John's Place, a small cross alley leading from a vacant allotment off Sussex-street into Bathurst-street, was the scene of a serious shooting affray last night, the victim being a woman…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A driver named Charles Mates, living in Pyrmont, was leading a pair of horses attached to one of Sanders and Home's delivery vans out of gateway in Camperdown yesterday, when the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →DUBBO, Thursday.-A case of poisoning was the subject of a magisterial inquiry here yesterday. A little girl, who was minding a baby 12 months' old, found a bottle which appeared to contain…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A sad case of accidental poisoning was the subject of a magisterial inquiry here to-day. A little girl who was left to mind a baby 12 months old found a bottle which contained what appeared to be water…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Sir,—Reflecting on the late sad accident in the harbour, and the fact that numbers of lives have been lost in the past through similar capsizes, it seems that if the pleasant pastime of boating is to be enjoyed as…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Two miners named James Bonthron and Charles Hensley were thrown out of a spring cart near Caboolture. Bonthron's head was smashed against a projecting root, and he…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →AT half-past 5 this morning the Newtown police succeeded in finding the body of the lad William Walton, who was drowned while bathing in a water-hole off Sydenham…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →An inquest on the bodies of the two men, William Dempecy and John Thomas Atkin[?]e recovered from Homebush Bar by the Ryde and the Water Police on Thursday last, 6th inst.,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A schoolboy named William Walton was drowned while bathing in a waterhole off Sydenham-road, Marrickville, between 6 and 7 o'clock on Thursday evening. He was bathing with a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →NOWRA, Thursday.-A lad named Wilson, while fishing in Bomadery Creek yesterday, observed the body of a man standing upright in the water, the top of the head being about 15in under the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The families of the 515 Italian emigrants who were drowned in Gibraltar Harbor in March, 1891, by the loss of the steamer Utopia, of the Anchor Line, have commenced…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →While a family named Hedger were driving in a springvan from Coogee with a friend named Rod well on Thursday afternoon a portion of the harness broke, causing the vehicle to fall forward…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Long Bay was the scene of an accident-on Wednesday which, while unattended with personal injuries, was remarkable for the narrowness of the escape of the party. It seems that Mrs…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Sir,—Your correspondent, "J. Harding Tucker," in this day's issue, calls attention to the dangerous state of King-street, Newtown, where the above occurred. It is a standing disgrace to the Newtown…
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