Taking a Header. Bathing Fatality at Inverell. Inverell
Thomas Naughten, aged 33, in the employment of Mr. G. F. Lewin, Clinton Orchard, went bathing on Friday with some companions in the river below the town. Taking a…
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Scene in Liverpool-street Sergeant O'dea Injured
About 10.30 o'clock last night upwards of 200 strikers marched Along Liverpool-street to the Queensland Export Company's Works. On the footpath in fronts of the promises they…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Struck by a Stone. Schoolboy Seriously Injured. Port Macquarie
A schoolboy named Ainslee Kingsford was struck on the head by a stone at school accidentally by another boy. He sustained a severe compound fracture of the skull, and…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Latest Edition. "Evening News" Office. 450 P.m. Floods in Queensland Brisbane River Overflows. Suburban Areas Covered. Wharves Submerged. a Policeman Drowned
BRISBANE, Thursday.—Through the interruption of the telegraphic service to Sydney, no information could be sent as to the heavy floods which threatened Brisbane and other…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Accident at a Racecourse. Jockey Killed. a Curious Incident. Hobart
A serious accident occurred during the running of the Ladies' Bracelet at the Scottsdale races to-day. Virtue, which was running second, fell, H. Thomas,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Saving Her Child. a Pathetic Accident. Melbourne
A serious raliway accident occurred at Bentstreet crossing. Northcote, shortly after noon to-day. Mrs. Frances Rae, 34, was wheeling a perambulator containing her child, and…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Fatal Result of an Accident Melbourne
Mrs. Jatho, who was last week run over by an engine at Port Melbourne, died to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Fatalities and Accidents. Victim to Despondency
The Coroner yesterday gave a verdict of suicide in the case of Lewis Joseph Grill (34) recently postmaster at Culcairn, who was found shot, at Ben Buckler last Sunday. The evidence disclosed…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Question Time. Invalidity and Accidents Pensions
Mr. WADDELL in answer to Mr. Burgess, said that 966 applications for invalidity and accident pensions had been received in the metropolitan district, and 882 in the country. In the metropolitan district 823 cases had…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Painter Injured
George Gigley, aged 29, a painter, was working at the Technical College in Harrisstreet yesterday when he stepped from a scaffolding and fell about 10ft. His left arm…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Hundreds of Sheep Drowned
GUNNEDAH, Thursday.--The flood waters have now subsided, and flooded-out residents have returned to their homes. Eight hundred sheep, belonging to Mr. Roid, of Coocooboonah,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Shooting Gallery Accident
Through the accidental discharge of a pea-rlfle at a shooting gallery in George-street, city, last evening, Francis Catnam, a laborer, received a bullet wound In the month., Catnam, who…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Accidentally Shot
Shortly before 10 o'clock last night Frank Catman, 28, a labourer, living at 306 Pitt-street, was accidentally shot at a rifle gallery in George-street, near Liverpool-street…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Casualties. Accident at Brickworks
Whilst engaged at his work at the National Brickworks, Thornleigh, on Wednesday, Samuel Bowcrman fell down tho pit, a drop of nearly 70ft. One of his shoulders…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Fatalities and Accidents. Accident at a Shooting Gallery
Frank Catnam, a laborer, was accidentally shot at a shooting gallery between Liverpool and Goulburn streets last night, and narrowly escaped being killed. Catnam was standing…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Tamworth Drowning Case
TAMWORTH, Saturday.—An inquest, was held on the body of Richard Ponsonby, which was recovered in the Peel River yesterday afternoon…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Wharf Fatality
Oscar Sells, 58 wharf labourer, living in Grosvenor-street, was working in the hold of the R.M.S. Asturias about 9 p.m. yesterday, when a sling knocked him off a platform…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Tamworth Flood Fatality. Verdict of Accidental Death
TAMWORTH, Friday.--At the inquest to-day on Richard Ponsonby, who was drowned in the flood on Monday evening, the principal witness, John James Hickson, deposed that he met…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Club Swinger Injured. Accident at a Timber Yard. Melbourne
Jack Harrison, the champion club swinger of Victoria, aged 28 years, sustained dreadful injuries in an accident to-day in a timber yard. He was engaged testing one of the…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Stopping a Runaway Horse. Clergyman and Sister Injured
CANDELO, Friday.--Last night Rev. Mr. Wilkinson and his sister, Miss Wilkinson, met with a painful and serious accident in attempting to stop a runaway horse. The horse got away…
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