A dynamite explosion took place in
the Calloa custom house Peru, S. A. An
inspector was examining boxes containing
metalic fuses and cartridges used for firing
dynamite in mines. By some carelessness
a cartridge was roughly struck and a tre
mendous explosion resulted. Twelve of
the persons present were blown into frag
ments, three others died shortly afterward
and 19 others are expected to die, as frag
ments of cartridges, caps and wood had
been blown into their flesh.
A monster saw mill engine boiler
exploded at Centerville, West Virginia
tearing everything loose in the neighbor
hood, killing three men and wrecked the
engine and mill completely. A man named
Erwine was torn to pieces, having been
caught between the end of the boiler and a
large log. A man named Kent Evans was
also maimed Some time after these two
were found a man named Tompkins was
taken out from behind a pile of lumber and
soon died of his wounds.
A telegram from Ballinger, Texas,
states that Sergt. J. A. Brooks, of Company
F, State Rangers, and Sheriff Formell, ar
rested J. A. Nowsome, charged with being
the Lone highwayman who several times
robbed the stage between Ballinger and San
Angelo. Rev. J. H. Sewely of San Angelo
was one of the passengers on the stage at
the time of one robberv. Being in the city
he without any hssitation declared the
prisoner to be the identical lone highway
man.
At Smith's Ferry. Pa., S. Laughlin,
and daughter of Hookstown, and Mrs.
