Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1871-07-06
News Items.

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of June, by storm of rain and snow
which commenced at nine p. W., an,
was about thirty minutes duration
Last week Wednesday afternoon til,
mail train from New York, on the Del
aware and Lackawanna Railroad, raj
into a coal train running on the same
track, between Denville and Boonton
The trains were utterly wrecked. Sew.
eral cars were pitched down a steeI
embankment, and the track was strewn
with debris and broken timbers. The
mail train conductor had his arm brok-
en-, the fireman of the coal train was
severely scalded, and two or three
brakemen and passengers were badly
bruised. None are fatally injured.
A correspondent of the Free Press
says: Geo. Pierce, very estimable
citizen of Oxford, while moving, on
the 2Sth of June, for neighbor, had
his arm cut off at the wrist by the ma
chine. lie had moved but few
rounds when the off wheel dropped in
to hole while the team was under
good motion, and the bolts that held
the seat gave way at the same time
Mr.. Pierce was thrown off of the ma
chine, and his right arm striking before
the knives, was Immediately severed
at the wrist, so that it only hung by a
small piece of the skin. Mr.. Pierce
got up, walked about forty rods across
the field and hailed some men at work
in the barn, before yielding to the ter
rible pain he was suffering. The men
took him home, about a mile distant,
when Drs. Burdick and Bell were
called, who decided upon a further am
putation in order to give the bone u
chance to heal; accordingly another
piece of the bone was taken off. Mr..
Pierce looking on the operation as qui-
city as if he was not concerned, show
ing nerve that few possess.
A prize fighter and desperate, nam
ed Looncy, who had long been terror
to the people of Central Erie County
and the mining districts in Colorado
was shot dead, short time since, by
some unknown person. Looney and q
comrade, Jim Gcary, on the day pre-
vious, had brutally beaten and nal
treated Rev. Mr.. Van Vallenburg and
another citizen. Looney entered a sa
loon with knife and a revolver. and
commenced violont demonstrations
against two other persons present.
While thus engaged, a rife ball came
whizzing through the open door, ender
ed his side, and he dropped to the floor
dead. The man who fired the shot j,
not known, but it is supposed that he
was one of the vigilance committee
raised at Boulder, to rid the countr,
of the rufian. There is general re
joicing over his taking off.
Gen. Lawrence, who suddenly dis
appeared some weeks since, leaving
large deficit in his accounts as Pension
Agent at New York, has turned up il
Texas. The amount of his defalca
ton is about $47 900, most of whicl
was lost in stock spcculations. Thi
amount his friends stand ready to pa,
before he can be declared defaulter
They hope that he will then be rcstor
ed to his family and resume his forme
pursuits with the least possible stail
from this unfortunate episode.
Bishop Lauer, Roman Catholi
Bishop of Fort Wayne, died yer,
sudden, on the morning of June 30, o
apoplexy, aged AZ. He arrived a
Cleveland on Tuesday, to confer order
at Roman Catholic seminary; an,
was walking to the depot to take tn
cars for Erie when taken i'll. Bisho
Lauer was priest for several years a
Cincinnati. He had resided at For
Wayne about IL years, and was great
ly beloved by all who knew him. Iii
remains were taken to Fort Wayne.
Col. +. s. Leadbeatcr, for nearly 81,
years Treasurer of the city of Detroi,
died at his residence, on Cass street
on the evening of june 80.
A hotel, telegraph Offices and half
mile Of snow sheds Of the San Fran