Attempted Poisoning.
(Per Press Association.) iN apiee, This Day. John Restail was arrested at Patoka yesterday, charged with attempting tc poison, by means of arsenic, ten station hands on Rhodes' estate on Monday morning. _____ mm^ mam^ mmm^ Disastrous Forest Fires. FJFTEEN HUNDRED LIVES LOST HEARTRENDING SCENES. SIXTEEN TOWNS DESTROYED. FORTY SQUARE MILES DEVASTATED. DAMAGE ESTIMATED AT .£2,000,000 [PEB PBKB9 ASSOCIATION. I Washington, September 4. The forest fires were due to a prolonged drought, which had lasted two months. The fires began on Friday, and tbe result was appalling Sixteen towns exclusive of villages have been destroyed, and fifteen hundred lives lost. i This shocking feature of the calamity was in a large measure due to the change of wind, by which towns supposed to be I safe were suddenly engulfed. ; In many placet* the citizens kept the fire at bay for hours till they were exhausted. Whenever the flames swept their way, the air was filled with the shrieks of the dying. Some frenzied people stood in pools and dashed water over one another, while others wallowed in mud, and so Bought to escape a dreadful fate Rain is now falling in Minnesota, but the fires continue in Michigan and Win. consin. Forty square miles h&rp be_en devastated.
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Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 60, 5 September 1894, Page 2
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