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  2. DEATH AFTER A RIDING ACCIDENT.

    Constable Nicholls, of St. Peters, reported to the City Watchhouse on Sunday that Mr. John [?] William Piening, aged 34 years, laborer, had died at ...

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  3. LIFE'S TRAGIC SIDE.

    F. W. Smallacombe, in stepping off his harvester, ran a sharp hook under his kneecap, inflicting severe injuries. Mr. P. Parbs drove a sharp crowbar almost ...

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  4. A BOY INJURED.

    A little boy named Walte-broke his arm badly as the result of a tall at Upper Blackwood. ...

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  5. A SHOOTING FATALITY.

    The body of Helson, the man reported yesterday as missing from Marvel Loch, was found by a constable and black trackers in the [?] to-day. Death was ...

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  6. A BOLTING HORSE.

    John Donelly, baker, was returning from a sale with a young horse and spring-dray, which was loaded with crockery and other purchases. He left the horse and ...

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  7. FARMER'S REMARKABLE ESCAPE.

    Harry Middleton, a farmer at Newlyine, was driving over a level crossing at Northam, and did not notice an engine with brakevan attached approaching. His ...

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  8. A BUGGY ACCIDENT.

    Thomas O'Donohue was driving a buggy on the Bunyip to Garfield-road yesterday when the winkers on the horse came off, and the horse bolted. Mrs. O'Donohus ...

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  9. CYCLING ACCIDENT.

    Two of the shearers engaged by Mr. N. McEacharn, of Cape Jervis, were cycling from Second Valley to the stat on last night, when one of them ran his machine ...

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  10. ANGASTON RAILWAY MISHAP.

    Messrs. Smith & Timing, the contractors for the Angaston railway, had an unfortunate mishap yesterday through the breaking of the coupling between a tender and ...

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  11. SUICIDE BY HANGING.

    Thomas Wills, a miner, 28 years of age residing at Bendigo committed suicide by hanging late last night or early this moraine. The deceased, who was married ...

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  12. SHOT WITH A GUN.

    The City Coroner (Dr. Ramsay Smith) on Tuesday morning conducted an enquiry into the circumstances surrounding the death of John Albert Sawyer, aged 13. ...

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  13. TWO BARRIER MISHAPS.

    Early yesterday morning a miner. John Weiss, employed at the Junction North, had his back badly bruised through falling on a piece of rock while barring down ...

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  14. INJURED BY FALLING.

    W. Clapp, of near Gumbowie. while jumping over a fence, fell and broke his leg. He was conveyed to Nurse Robertson's private hospital on Sunday, and Dr. ...

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  15. MINE MANAGER KILLED.

    Mr. Robert Arbuckle, manager of the Pelaw Main Colliery, was killed yesterday morning while riding on a motor trolly from the Pelaw Main to Minmi. The ...

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  16. A LADY INJURED.

    Considering the large traffic to the National Park accidents are unusually rare. Yesterday, however an unfortunate incident occurred. Owing to the skidding of a ...

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  17. "HIS LAST DIVE."

    A young man, Frederick Dawson a painter, living at Glebe, was drowned in the Woronora River this afternoon while bathing. He announced that he was going ...

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  18. A MINING MISHAP.

    Robert Nicholson sustained compound fracture of the thigh and injuries to the back owing to a fall of rock in the Cattlin mine, Ravensthorpe. ...

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  19. A SAWYER INJURED.

    D. Craig while working at his sustained a serious cut on the nose and lip through a piece of wood flying from the saw. The wound had to be stitched ...

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  20. FALL FROM A LADDER.

    Ralph Griffen, a young man, living at 180, Hanson-street, Adelaide, and employed by Messrs. Martindale & Flehr, painting contractors, of Thebarton. fell from a ...

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  21. FRACTURED THIGH.

    Mrs. Scott, sen., aged 85, of Upper Blackwood, fell and fractured her thigh, Her condition is serious. ...

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  22. DEATH AT SEA.

    It was reported upon the arrival of the German steamer Bremen at Port Adelaide on November 11 that a third class passenger, Samuel Boyce, had ...

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  23. A LAD'S LEG BROKEN.

    J. Watson, a lad in the employ of a farmer of this district, met with a painful accident last week. He was riding on horseback when the horse trod in a ...

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  24. A JOCKEY INJURED.

    Sparks, the rider of Mernda et Caulfield yesterday, had his left wrist broken when the horse fell. ...

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  25. A MAN HANGS HIMSELF.

    The Coroner held an inquest concerning the death of John Fortune, whose body was found hanging by the neck in a shed at the rear of his residence. Deceased, who had ...

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  26. KNOCKED DOWN BY A HORSE.

    G. Fechner, of Charleston, last week, in attempting to catch a runaway horse attached to a cart, was knocked down. His head struck the metal road, and the wheel ...

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  27. DROPPED DEAD IN THE STREET.

    Robert Barker, for some years licensee of the Woolpack Inn, was talking to cabmen, in York-street yesterday, when he turned to walk away and dropped dead. Heart ...

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  28. DEATH FROM A SHOT WOUND.

    John Sawyer, aged 13 years, died in the Adelaide Hospital at 7.45 on Friday night. A few hours earlier he was admitted to the institution from the Fullarton Estate ...

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  29. TWO PAINFUL ACCIDENTS.

    A painful accident happened to Mr. J. H. Dakin, head miller at Messrs. Ja ket. Bros mill, here on Monday last, he was attending to the rollers when his right hand ...

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  30. A PAINFUL INJURY.

    C. Lehmann, a fanner, was this morning with another man doing some fencing when the forefinger of his right hand was jammed and the nail was torn off. The ...

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  31. BLACKSMITH HANGS HIMSELF.

    The body of John Fortune (55 years), employed as a blacksmith at the Meadowbank Ironworks, was found early this morning hanging by the neck from a rafter in a ...

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  32. FATAL RACING ACCIDENT.

    There was a fatal accident on Saturday in the Nursery Handicap at Newcastle, When opposite the Leger stand Chevelette, ridden by J. Trezise, stumbled and fell ...

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  33. A MISSING MAN.

    The Commissioner of Police has received a telegram from the constable stationed at Keith to the effect that the man named Gregory. who was missed from Mount ...

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  34. A FARMER KILLED.

    Ernest Bray, a fanner, accompanied by his wife, was returning home to Kindred from Devonport show last evening when the horses holted ...

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  35. A BUTCHER INJURED.

    John Strauss, in the employ of the local butcher, was at the slaughter-horse one evening last week was dressing a sheep. The knife slipped, cutting him just above the ...

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  36. DRAG ACCIDENT IN THE HILLS.

    An accident occurred to the leading drag of the picnic procession in connection with the Adelaide and Suburban and Port Adelaide Master Carters' Association ...

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  37. THROWN FROM A CART.

    Mrs. J. Hatch, of Nuriootpa, and three of her children, on Thursday were driving through Angaston in a spring cart, when the horse shied and ran the cart into a ...

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  38. A DROWNING CASE.

    The body of Travers Riordan, who has been misting for a fortnight, was discovered this morning washed up on the rocks on the opposite side of the river from ...

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  39. SHOOTING GALLERY ACCIDENT.

    William Campbell, 14. who lived with his parents in Ultimo-road, Ul[?], was shot dead at "Toyland" (a place of amusement owned by Messrs. Grace Brothers). ...

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  40. KICKED BY A HORSE.

    Wilfred Pittaway, son of Mr. G. Pittaway, of Erith, had his leg broken last night through being kicked by a horse. He was driven to Balaklava and attended by ...

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  41. FRACTURED LEG.

    Early this morning a mill hand at the Junction North, F. Berriman, was caught in the halting on the machinery, his leg being broken. ...

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  42. DOUBLE DROWNING CASE.

    A double drowning accident occurred this afternoon at Cecil Plains, a station 25 miles flora Dalby. A boy, William Rogser, and a young man, Samuel Davis, were ...

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  43. NEW ARRIVAL FOUND DEAD.

    Donald Morrison, a recent arrival, was found dead in bed at the Albambra Cafe, Fremantle, at an early hour this morning. Papers found in his pockets showed that ...

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  44. A FRIGHTENED HORSE.

    A holt which, fortunately, was not attended by any serious consequences took place in King-street on Friday afternoon. Mr. N. T. Lee. a fruiterer, was calling on ...

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  45. A BARRIER MISHAP.

    J. McCarthy, a young man, sprained his ankle at the De Bavay works this morning through slipping on a pipe and falling while oiling some machinery. ...

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  46. A TERRIBLE PREDICAMENT.

    A shocking burning accident occurred at Gordon to-day to James Pritchard. A neighbor's son going into the house saw. that the man had fallen into the fire. Not ...

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  47. WHARF LABORER KILLED.

    A wharf laborer, Thomas Boyes, while working at the steamer Ayrshire at the South Brisbane wharf early this morning fell against the coamings of a hatch and ...

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  48. FRACTURED THIGH.

    Frederick Johnson, a youth, fractured his thigh at the Zinc Corporation Works last night. He and another youth were skylarking, when Johnson fell. He was ...

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  49. ACCIDENT WITH A SERIOUS SEQUEL.

    Constable Fitzgerald reported to the City Watchhouse on Saturday that at about 9.20 p.m. Mr. Herbert Joseph Backhouse, of Avenue-road, North Fitzroy, accompanied ...

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  50. THREE MEN INJURED.

    A cottage at Newstead, Fortitude Valley, was being raised to-day when it collapsed and three men named McKenzie, Savage, and Bishop were injured. Four ...

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  51. TERRIBLE ELECTRIC SHOCK.

    James Turner (29), a tram driver, living at Glebe, received a frightful electric shock at his work this morning. Turner was working in the carshed at Port ...

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  52. YOUNG GIRL'S SUICIDE.

    At a magisterial enquiry concerning the death of Hepzibah Seymour, 17 years of age, a tailoress, whose body was found by her father in a waterhole on the ...

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  53. WHIRLED TO HIS DEATH.

    John Baillie, aged 56, while wotting on the Wellington wharf, became entangled in the ropes of the hydraulic capstan and was whirled round the capstan violently for ...

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  54. THROWN FROM A SULKY.

    A chapter of accidents are reported from the Greenbushes district at Bridgetown. Mrs. Reading and Mrs. Bayley were driving in a sulky when the horse shied and ...

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  55. A BOLTING HORSE.

    On Wednesday night, whilst returning home to Allandale, Mr. E. Hyde, who was riding a young horse, lost control of the animal, which bolted furiously. When in ...

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  56. DRAGGED BY THE STIRRUP.

    Sophie Zirm, aged about 10 years, youngest daughter of Mrs. C. Zermer, of the Manoora Hotel, whilst visiting a neighbor on Sunday afternoon, mounted a horse ...

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  57. A BUGGY ACCIDENT.

    Lady Steere and Miss Steere were driving at Upper Blackwood when Miss Steere's attention was momentarily diverted from the horses, and the buggy ...

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  58. INJURED BY A FALL.

    The wheat sheds now in coarse of construction at the north side of the Fremantle harbor were this morning the scene of an accident, the consequences of which ...

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  59. MOTOR CAR IN AN EXCAVATION.

    Mr. Charles Francis Duffield. son of Mr. Thomas Duffield, and M. Harold Les[?]e Pearse. farmer, of Gum station were driving in Mr. Pearse's motor car along ...

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  60. AN INJURED JOCKEY.

    The stipendiary stewards inspected the Perth racecourse after Murella had fallen in the November Handicap, and found no trace of the alleged hole mode by a hurdle ...

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  61. THROWN FROM A HORSE.

    Gordon James, one of the telegraph line party camped near here, was taking a horse to water yesterday afternoon, when the bit broke. The animal threw him ...

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  62. INSOMNIA AND SUICIDE.

    At Bourke a middle-aged man, George Mitchell, died this morning, after taking cyanide of potassium. He was manager of a cordial factory. He had suffered from ...

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