Girl Drowned
MELBOURNE, Tuesday.--Miss Eileen Fitzpatrick a daughter of a telegraph operator at tho G.P.O., went to the St. Kilda baths this afternoon with companions. She was a good…
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Narrow Escape From Drowning
BOOLIGAL. Tuesday.--Constable Marshall had a narrow escape from drowning to-day, while swimming, the Lachlan River. He was seized with cramps, and after struggling, with much…
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Bartholomew Farrell, 13, residing in Malakoff-street, Marrickville, was drowned yesterday afternoon while swimming with two other lads in Daley's Waterhole,…
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An inquest was held this afternoon on the body of Joseph Thomas Bennett, an elderly man whose body was found on December 24 near Sandringham. Bennett resided with his…
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The death of John Smith, a fishmonger, who resided in Glebe-road, Glebe, which took place at Prince Alfred Hospital on December 23, from injuries received the previous night,…
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BROKEN-HILL, Tuesday.--The nine-year-old son of E. Pengelly, undertaker, attended the Manchester Unity picnic at Silverton to-day. It is supposed that he went to bathe in the…
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An ironmoulder named James M'Gown Lundle, 23 years of age, residing at Granville, was this morning seriously injured at Ultimo. He was working at his trade at…
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A jockey named Charles Wills, aged 26 years and residing at Rouse Hill, was exercising a horse called fall Boy when the animal kicked him. He was taken to the Royal…
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At about a quarter to 8 o'clock this morning Walter Henry Job was admitted to tha St. Vincent's Hospital, he having met with an accident. Job who is a labourer, was…
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At Kenny's Ladies' Baths, St. Kilda, this afternoon, Eileen Fitzpatrick, aged 15, was drowned. Miss Fitzpatrick was generally supposed to be a strong swimmer. She had…
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CASINO, Wednesday.—An accident occurred last night, seventeen miles from here, to the Tenterfield-Casino mail coach. Rev. D. Carruthers, Mr. and Mrs. French and baby,…
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The City Coroner (Mr. A. N. Barnett) held an inquest at the Coroner's Court to-day into the death of an elderly man named John Smith, who died in the Royal Prince Alfred…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Struck by Lightning. a Girl Killed. Young Man Seriously Injured. Leura
During a storm this morning, Ethel Heffornan, aged 12, of Station-street, Newtown, who was on a visit to Leura, was killed. She was watching some friends taking down a tent…
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James Lundy, 23, an iron-moulder, residing at Granville, met with a severe accident this morning at the foundry of Messrs. Crown Brothers and Mulholland galvanisers and sheet On the Manly range at Deewhy Lagoon the Irish Rifles defeated the local club. Scores Irish Rifles 603 (Sergeant O'Hara 66, Private Shearer 61, Sergeant Lawless 59, Corporal…
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A mishap occurred to a mixed train which left Eskbank for the mountains a few days ago. When steaming out of Clarence Station one of the couplings broke, and the brake-van…
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A distressing fatality occurred at the Yudna Mutna copper field in the far north. Mr. W. Barney was trying to sell a small bore rifle to an Assyrian hawker, and was…
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Charles Newell, 14, residing in Reldy-street, Newtown, was playing with a small pistol yesterday afternoon, when it exploded, and the bullet entered his abdomen. He was…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The Railway Disasters the Scottish Accident. Engine Driver Arrested. London, Jan. 1
Gourlay, the driver of the North British express, which on Friday crashed into a stationary train at Arbroath, has been arrested on a charge of driving…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The Washington Accident. Driver's Dash for Safety. London, Dec. 31
Details of the accident on the Baltimore-Ohio railway near Washington show that an empty train, travelling at the rate of 60 miles an hour, hurled a coal truck on a…
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Eight persons were injured, three probably fatally, in the course of some motor-car races on the Point Breeze track, Phlladelphia (U.S.A.), on November 24. When…
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