Cut Throat, Then Fell Into Fire
GOONDIWINDI, Tuesday.--After writing a letter to the police to-day, informing them of his intention to commit suicide, Thomas Chambers carried out his…
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Forest Fires. Extensive Damage in U.S.A. New York, April 13
Forest fires are raging over a wide area in the neighbourhood of Wisconsin Rapids (Wisconsin), and have already destroyed a thousand acres of timber and caused great damage…
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A blaze that has eaten through a coal field six miles square near New Straitsville, Ohio, has spread to a new mine opened near by. The entrance to the…
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A family had a narrow escape from burning yesterday morning when their house in Margaret-street, Rozelle, was destroyed by Are. The flames ensulfed the building so rapidly…
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The District Coroner will probably have occasion to try to elucidate the mystery connected with a fire that destroyed an unoccupied house at Epping during last…
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WELLINGTON (N.Z.), Wednesday. -- The extensive premises of the Maoriland Motor. Company, Wellington, were destroyed by fire at…
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Valuable records and plans were destroyed by a fire which burnt out the New Lambton Council Chambers shortly before 6 o'clock this morning…
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New Lambton Council Chambers were gutted by fire this morning. Flames were observed coming from…
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Fire which broke out at midnight destroyed the premises of the Maorlland Motor Company, Wellington About 100 cars were destroyed, volunteers saving others. The damage…
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THERE is usually more sickness in the winter than at other times of the year and it often becomes necessary to have a fire in a bedroom…
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Evidence of a remarkable character was given at the Parramatta Court yesterday, when the Parramatta District Coroner (Mr. H. Richardson Clark) conducted an inquiry…
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Further letters sent to-night by Mr. Latham to other leaders show thai the negotiations for unity are not progressing satisfactorily…
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Overcome by smoke when a lodging house at Port Melbourne was burnt, James Wood (58), an unemployed wharf-laborer, died soon afterwards…
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Detective Campbell created consternation in Oxford-street, Darlinghurst, early yesterday afternoon when he fired two shots to intimidate two shoplifters whom he was…
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Out of calamities sometimes come blessings. Had it not been for the terrible fire which in 1890 razed most of the buildings facing old Moore-street, the fine thoroughfare now known…
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On September 22. 1882, the beautiful building known as "The Garden Palace"â erected in the Botanic Gardens to house the great International Exhibition of 1879-1880â…
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When a fire broke out at a weekend cottage, occupied by five people, in Clarke-street, Peakhurst, early yesterday morning, a neighbor's dog…
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SUCH were the extraordinary circumstances surrounding a fire in Wetherill-street, Lidcombe, on March 13 last, that the…
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"Although denied by consuls and other officials, slavery still exists in Arabia," says Mr. George Matthews, who returned…
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Extensive damage was done to a threestoried building at 421 Elizabeth-street, city, by a fire which broke out about 6 o'clock on Saturday evening…
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