New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-02-09
GENERAL TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

The Grand Lodge of the /. o. of o. F.
Of Alabama is now in session IN Mobile.
The oil refinery of b. Hughes IL Co., at
Rochester partially burned yesterday. The damage
is slight
80. The Rev. David Dyer, for many years
city missionary in Albany, died suddenly Of heart dis
ease yesterday.
"A girl named Eliza butcher. residing at
Benton, committed suicide on Monday by shooting her
self through the head.
THE fifth annual reunion of the 18th
Massachusetts Volunteer Regiment Association held
at Worcester, Mass. last evening.
The dwellipg-hou and barn of DR.. n.
G. Moore at Nashua n II. was partially destroyed by
fire yesterday; insured for 1900.
The Hartford Insurance Company have
cash and deposited in Canada to policy
holders there 20 the amount OF s7SS.l6o
49,. Leroy Cotton was yesterday convicted of
the murder OF Major Lochpar in Galveston Texas las:
April, and sentenced be hanged the 6th Of April
-. Robert Grow, life prisoner in the Rhode
Island State Prison. savagey assaulted one OF the officers
yesterday but prompt assistance prevented very serious
injury. go >, q.
killed yesterday in Boston by slung shot during az
fray in warrngon-st Three persons are under arrest
suspicion.
The paper-mill of Talcott g. Miner,
surauce, $4,000.
The snow storm yesterday was wide
spread, and railroad communication was greatly i'm
Peded About six inches Of snow has fallen all through
the Eastern States.
THE Alabama and Chattanooga Railroad
bill hts passed both Houses OF the Alabama Legislature
by large majority The bill loans the credit Of the
State ~ the amount Of t2,oo0.OOo.
Mrs. Amilia Hobbs has been elected
sey County III. by majority Of 20 votes. This is the
first woman ever elected 10 office IN Illinois.
An old man named Jacobs, living alone
in retired SPOT, half mile from the village OF SOning-
ton, Mass, murdered Sunday night Two negroes
have been arrested suspicion OF beng the murderers
Frederick Barden, foreman in the Boston
Rolling MILL at Cambrideepor Mass caught IN the
nachnery yese rday, and drawn between rollers three
inches apart lie was native of Newton, IS years old.
aud unmarried
"A party of half breeds Just arrived at Fort
Benton from the Indian camps on the Maras River report
that the Indians are dying at the rate Of rs per day Of
small pox. The report that Mountain Chiefs band aud
others had declared war Is untrue.
THE liabilities of ID. w. King, commits
ssiOn tobacco merchant In Hartford. who made
sgDmept recently. WILL is thought reach 100000. 1t
is said that one OF his creditors VIII BRING suit against
HIM a charge OF false pretenses
49,. The preliminary examination of Norman
Hoey at Buffalo on the charge OF smuggling Terminated
FOR trial In the United States Court AZ the term ut
Utica Ills father is United States Collector at Buffalo.
MANY parties in New York and else
Yankee printing press, sold by H. Z. Fakner Co. Of
Providence There is no such firm Ia that city, and the
Postmaster now deains the letters and sends them to
Washington.
1.-Two workmen named John Nolan and
Stephen Craghen, engaged the st. Paul bridge
the Mississippi River, which is rebuilding by the
breaking of plank fell from elevation OF feet
the Ice the river below While falling they struck the
timber Of u temporary scaiiOd. When taken up both
were alive but terribly bruised ~ " render their
coyery iaI2ss.11alle.: 1>--.-'"&-.a9 q.
IA severe explosion of gas occurred on
Monday, the OF Hanover aud 6aemsss. Bos
ton property the extent OF $1,000 but doing
personal mi y. Tie explosion caused by leak
In cellar. The building shattered and tho windows
blown aud the flames. following the sewer iRnted
building 100 yards distant fags0ne weighing three
tuns lifted from its bed and tilted nearly end
AT Blue Creek Station, on the list inst, q
clearinghouse car OF the Cea;s iacio Railroad caught
fire. as is supposed from IparkS from passing locomo
tive. An efploye OF the Company named Joseph Bulk
was sleeping Ia the ear and escaped with serious burns
aud M nude condition. He Had 10 Walk Two miles 10
reach habtatoD aud before reaching t his feet were
frozen. lie was taken 10 CoIrinne W. T., for medical
treatment, but died on Saturday
About 100 delegates from the Northern
railroad companies OF Pennsylvania and Western New
1Ok met Ia convention at WillamspOrt, yesterday, TO
devise ways and for building Independent and
direct railroad from the Jersey Shore TO Buffalo. The
meeting quite enthusiastic, aud there seeDs To he no
doubt that tho Buffalo and Washington Railway Will
connect with the PIBe Creek, jersey Shore and State
Line Road at Port Allegheny. committee was Ap-
pointed 10 carry out the desgn VI the Convention.