The recent wrecking of a railway
tram in West Virginia, resulting in the j
in jury of several persons, was the work
of a revengeful woman of Grafton,
named Mrs. Blake, whose husband o’ I I
bees arrested ter stealing from the rail
way company. She confesses the dia
bolical crime, having placed an iron
bar on the railway track in such a man
ner as to throw oif the train.
K.\iii v Thursday morning a wedge
driven in a frog on the Baltimore and
Ohio track near Grafton, Ohio, wrecked
a passenger train. The engine was
bmled to the bottom of a creek, the
engineer. Frank Hepburn, being killed,
and the fireman. George Dorsey, scalded
to death by escaping steam. The mail
ear landed on its roof, but the coaches
kept the track. Four persons were in
jured seriously and a number badly
shaken up. The financial loss h> $50,-
000.
FOREIGN.
The recent floods in India destroyed
hundreds of houses. Fifty-three persons
were drowned by the overflow of the
Rr Hill lakes at Madias.
Latest dispatches from Bay Roberts
say that Roman Catholic Bishop Mc-
Donald was prevented by oraegemen
from holding service ia his church,
whih the Orangemen surrounded. Af
fairs are growing darker and more
threatening. Hundreds of armed men
are parading the streets, and the police
are unequal to the occasion. The British
man of war Teuedo* has arrived to re
inforce the civil authorities. Orange
men refuse to take down thvir arc his
and flags.
FROM THE CAPITAL.
