FRISCO MAIL NEWS.
MADAME JOUNAIX.
A TEEKLBLE EXPLOSION.
(By Telegraph-Press Association). AnciLAND, Friday. The Frisco mail brings the following news:—The woman Jounaix, for the murder of her sister, brother, and uncle, to secure thoir life insurance, though sentenced to death will he commuted to imprisonment for life, She is a daughter of General Jules Abbay, and wife of the Chief Engineer of Bridges for the Belgium Ministry. Tho combined insurance on the lives of her victims amounted to 35.C30 dollars. Butte City, Montana, was the scene of a frightful holacaust on January loth when a fire originated in the Eoyal Milling works, and spread to Kenyon and Cornell's warehouse, in which was stored several cartloads of giant powder. An explosion followed killing all the Bremen bnt two. A second explosion more violent than the first occurred, and pcoplo in the vicinity were mowed down as if with a scythe, and streets for half a block, appeared like a battle-field. Debris came down a mile away. A third j explosion also killed many. The list of dead has reached 75, and the damago done to property is more than a million dollars.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 4965, 2 March 1895, Page 3
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191FRISCO MAIL NEWS. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 4965, 2 March 1895, Page 3
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