Tragedy Discovered After A Fire
NEW YORK, Monday.--Three people were burned to death when fire destroyed a row of wooden houses in the old gold-mining town of…
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Rescued Their Children House Destroyed By Fire TULLAMORE
In night attire Mr. and Mrs. Philip Cassar carried their two young children to safety when a fire occurred early to-day at their house…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Fire-walking: Doctor Says It Needs a Hard Skin
OCCULT and medical opinions yesterday gave entirely different views of the feat of three Englishmen, led by an Indian, who walked unscathed through a fire pit in Surrey, England…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wool Store Fire. Payments to Growers. High Court Grants Leave to Appeal
The High Court yesterday granted Goldsborough Mort and Co., Ltd., special leave to appeal from a decision of the State Full Court that the company was not entitled to retain…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →To Fire Without Any Warning Orders to British Warships Dramatic Reply To Franco LONDON
BRITISH warships have been instructed to fire without warning on armed Spanish vessels interfering with British…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Hood Stands Off Bilbao Supported By A Cruiser And 4 Destroyers Franco Claims Rights Extend Beyond 3 MILES British Warships Will. Fire If He Acts LONDON
H.M.S. HOOD, accompanied by the cruiser Shropshire and the destroyers Brazen, Blanche, Beagle, and Brilliant, is standing off Bilbao (Northern Spain)…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Giant Flames Burn Men Gas Catches Fire Suddenly
Flames 8ft. long badly burned two men when gas from a container caught fire in a Waterloo battery works to-day…
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The prompt action of Constable Filtness prevented a fire at the Guildford Hardware Store on Tuesday night. An outbreak had occurred among some…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Early Morning Fire
Four bridges wont to a blase in a store at the foot of Macquarit St., at 2.25 a.m. to-day. One hydrant was used to oxtinguish…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Marched Into Machine-gun Fire
LONDON, Wednesday.--A Scots Guardsman was killed by machine- gun fire at Pirbright Camp, Surrey. A company of Guards was…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →General Average Fire On The Aller
The German steamer Aller is due at Sydney about 9 o'clock this morning from European ports and will berth at No. 8 Walsh Bay wharf to discharge…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fire Officers' Decorations. Tweed Heads
At a function here, Mr. J. Beswick, of the New South Wales Board of Fire Commissioners, presented long-service medals to six members of the Tweed Heads Fire Brigade—…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →APPEAL! Wool Store Fire High Court Agrees
THE High Court has granted Golds-brough Mort and Co., Ltd., special leave to appeal from a decision of the State Full Court that the company was…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Stolen Goods Strewn Before Fire Goulburn
James Murray, alias Sydney Francis Connelly, a miner, was sentenced to 14 days' hard labor at Goulburn Police Court on a charge of having…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Blazed Up After Long Black-out April Fire Met Poor Hurdle Opposition
"GLAD to see him win a race,", said Wootton, when he saw a cast-off', April Fire, land the Hurdle at Warwick Farm on Saturday. "I…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Two Negroes Lynched. Torture by Fire. Savage Mob in U.S.A. New York, April 14
Two negroes were tortured and lynched by a mob of 100 white men at Winona (Mississippi) yesterday, two hours after they had pleaded…
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"BUBULES" (Reddestone).—Since last writing we have had some much-needed rains and, although no definite change has been noticed in the condition of the country. It…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Heroic Rescue. One-armed Man's Dash Into Blaze. BRISBANE
A one-armed war pensioner, Percy Lillicrap, was responsible for a heroic rescue at Stanthorpe, early this morning, when he dragged an unconscious…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Kept on with Her Dance Despite Blaze on Stage Hobart
Carrying on the tradition that "the show must go on," a young dancer. Inc. Hewson. despite the fact that stage scenery was ablaze and the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fire at Showground. Kyogle
The stables and horse-boxes on the showground were, destroyed by fire shortly after noon to-day. The buildings were erected last year, and were only evacuated to-day…
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