, 1872-10-31

and grain houses at Rockfe1d, Ind, belonging
to A. Van Gund1y, Esq, we're destroyed by fire.
Loss about sc, 900 to $25,oD.
The loss on the steamer Kate Kinney, burned
on Tuesday night, at New Albany, is 523, 900 /;
insured in the National, Of Boston, for 81, 500,
and for the same amount IN the Franklin, Of
Wheeling.
The Association OF the Army Of Northern Vir-
ginia meets in Richmond to-day. General }. B.
Gordon Will deliver the annual address,.
Thomas Sullivan, of Boston, Was yesterday
sentenced to ten years in the States Prison for
gar1otng and robbing man Of 98 in the street.
F. II. Lark, carpenter in planning mill at
Dayton, O., had his arm fearfully mangled on
Tuesday. His shirtB1eeve WAS caught in cir
cular-saw: He will probably lose the use Of his
arm for life.
A painter, named Peacock, fell from scafTold
IN the Emanuel Church, Dayton, O., yesterday,
and had his left leg broken. He was also Sc
Verely' injured about the head and body, and
will probably die.
3; A. Abbott, for nearly twenty years rail-
road agent at Cambridge, Ohio, committed sui
eide yesterday afternoon by shooting himself
through the head. The cause is supposed to be
domestic troubles.
Max strakosch, who, with others Of the Patti
q Mario troupe, we're on the train which met with
the accident at Beamsyille, Ont, on Tuesday
otherwise injured
4 fire broke out in q large body Of timber be-
longing 1 to Stephen Green, Of Morgan County,
d., on Tuesday, and before the flames could be
stayed, ten acres weress burned over, destroying
much valuable timber.
Yesterday a boy, aged IA, named Wood Brown
ing, son Of Conductor Browning, OF the Clncin-
natl Cleveland Railroad, while attempting to
vile, Ind, fell under the train and had both his
legs cut OF. He cannot recover
A special meeting Of the Board OF Supervisors
OF LaSal1e County is called, to take place at
Ottawa on the 7th OF November, to appoint
County School Superintendent to fill the vacancy
occasioned by the resignation Of George S.
Wedgewood.
Mclaughlin, the Sacramento assassin, WAS
tried yesterday, and found guilty Of murder in
the first degree. The prisoner, after the return
OF the verdict, was allowed to leave the court
room unaccompanied by an officer. He visited
Since
4 switchman, named P. G. Culbertson, in the
employ Of the Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati
Indianapolis Railway, Was run over by q
switching engine in the yards Of the company at
Crestline, yesterday afternoon, and almost in
stantly killed He was about rs years Of age,
and leaves wife and one small child.
The farmers from various parts Of Morgan
and adjacent counties in this State, report that
the Hessian 1y has made it's appearance in i'm
mense numbers, and doing great drmage to the
fall-sown wheat. The opinion Of farmers is,
that unless rain shall fall soon+ the drought and
the fy, combined, will totally destroy the wheat
crop.
A serious accident occurred last evening in
Boston, as procession was passing through
board fngate which WAS carried in the line.
Cornelius D. Marsten WAS mutilated in horri-
bic manner, and Patrick Haley, who was stand
ihg on the sidewalk, was wounded in the leg,
The two men were carried to the City Hospital.
The manufacturing establishment OF the Co
totally destroyed by IRE last night Loss about
1000, insured for $4,000 in the following
Companies National, Of Boston, $4,000; Hart
ford, 81 900; Home, OF New York, Howe, Of Co.
No2s S6a1 merea sa and q aurs %ase1g ii 6ss5 s5h e
s1,o00,, and Knox Mutual $5, o00. a large force
Of workmen suffer heavily, loBing fine Kits OF
tools. The Stockholders Of the Cabinet Conapa-
ny are Workmen in the establishment. The
cause Of the fire is unknown.
For several days past al important insurance
case has been On trial before the United States
Circuit Court in Des1roines. The administrator
OF one Hogan sued the New York Mutual Life
Insurance Company to recover the amount Of a
policy for 81 900 on the Life Of said Hogan, who
Committed suicide. The Company refused TO
pay, alleging that the deceased deliberately shot
himself, for the express purpose OF providing
for his family and paying his debts. Yesterday
the Jury returned verdict OF 3l,026 for the
plaintiff. In his charge to the jury, Judge
Lowe ruled that suicide was not in itself an evi-
dence of insanity, but q circumstance which
mi ght tend to show it.
E. D: Williams, one Of the proprietors Of the.
HUFF House in Winona, Minn., was instantly
killed yesterday morning about o'clock, while
unscrewing some bolts upon an old gasonometer,
preparatory to removing some old gasoline
works, which were used for the Huff House
two years ago. Spontaneous combustion oc-
cured With loud report, which set fire to the
building. His body was thrown through the
aPd S 5ofe 1t i5e t6
appearance Of his remains it seems as
if his back had been broken. Mr. Williams was
an old and highly respected citizen Of that place,
being connected with several public enterprises.
He WAS President OF the Winona Gas Company,
one OF the Directors of the Southern Junction
Railroad, and one Of the proprietors Of the HUFF
HOuaa.