Marshall County Republican., 1872-04-25
NEWS SUMMARY.


Victoria T.. Woodnull, uleo III NE" 1oIk Oh
Sunday night, from the effects of morphine
and whisky....A break has occurred in the
Delaware and Hudson canal q miles above
Lock No. 81, on the Neversink. The break
is so feet long and 16 feet below the canal
level. 1t is estimated that it will take at
least ten days to repair the damages.
A TERRIBIE railroad disaster occurred on
Wednesday morning on the New Jersey
Midland railroad. The train leaving Pat
erson for Hackensack, at a. M, was passing
over thesaddleriver bridge, two and halt
miles above Hackensack, when the structure
suddenly gave way, hurting the train into
the water below. John R. Doremus, brake
man, was instantly killed, the baggage
master, name unknown, had one OF his legs
broken, and passenger was injured IN
similar manner. David Blauvelt, conductor,
was badly bruised about the head, and Is IN
a precarlous condition. Isaac Wortendy,
Probate Judge of Bergen county, was ter
ribly injured. Twenty-Five or thirty pas
sergers were taken from the wreck in
more or less injured condition. Had the
water in the river been at the usual depth,
none of the passengers could have escaped.
..Mullen, Parker & Co.'s paper mill at
Carlisle, Pa, was destroyed by fire on
Wednesday morning. The fire was acci-
dental. Loss $45 900 insured for $3O,oO0......
The Union Hotel, of Saratoga, was sold at
auction on Tuesday, to an agent OF A. i.
Stewart, for $685., ,O00..... Two colonies from
Pennsyivania, mum bering 800 families, left
Allentown on Wednesday for homes IN Rus-
sci county, Kansas.....A fire att Oil City, Pa,
on Wednesday morning destroyed the Gait
House, the Benn House, Fishers large tank,
the Model Refining Company's tank, and a
large school house, the loss is about S25,OOO.
The fire engines were burned, but others
were sent from Titusville and Franklin.
The whole city was in danger at one time
and high wind was prevailing.
The tug-boat Davenport was blown to
atoms Thursday morning by a boiler explo-
sion at Jersey City, instantly killing six OF
her crew Scarcely fragment of the tug
was to be seen after the explosion, both the
boat and victims being literally obliterated
IA blind man, named Richard Cain, af-
ter making his way alone through New
York store for many years, fell through
hatchway on Wednesday afternoon, and was
instantly killed ...A locomotive attached t.
freight train on the Boston and Albany
railroad exploded on Wednesday at Grant
vile, Mass. J. W. Stoughton, fireman, wal
scalded and has since died. Michael Man
nov, brakeman, will probably die from
scalding. The wool and packing establish
nent of Hitchcock & Freese, Jersey City
vas damaged by fire on Thursday morning
W lu0 cAbSAb VI YoO,OUo'
ONLY one cf the killed by the explosion o
the tug Davenport, at New York on Thurs
day, John Caulfeld, has been recovered
Efforts are being made for the recovery o
the remaining five. The Davenport wa
known to be an utterly worthless craft. Tn
explosion is attributed to a lack OF water II
the boiler, owing to the negligence OF tn
engineer and fireman, who were witnessln
-f-bf of the harCas A com
mittee Of the Georgia Legislature has com
menced an investigation at New York int
the financial acts of Ex-Governor Bullock
......A Halifax N. S.) dispatch of the l2tl
says: GA rainstorm is producing heav.
freshets, which have done great damage t
roads, bridges, and lumber throughout Nov
Scotia. The Western railway track, nea
Windsor, is eight feet under water"
A fire at Aver, Mass, on Saturday night
destroyed the entire business portion of th
tewn, and also a number OF residence:
Loss estimated at $2OO,OOe insured 70
about S45, 600 1.-THE first Charleston straw
berries sold in New York on Saturday q
S2.50M3 per quart.....A fire at Pottsvillt
Pa, on Saturday, destroyed ten tenemer
buildings. Loss, SIS ,000..... Lieutenant !
Mahoney, of the Fourteenth Infantr,
dropped dead on Friday evening at til
American House, Boston THE Metropo
itan Paper Collar Factory, New York, ws
burned on Saturday night. Loss, S115,00
Five hundred girls are thrown out of en-
ployment.
BENJAMIN TILLISGER, young German, W;
crushed into an unrecognizable mass c
Monday, between two cars on the Clevelan
and Pittsburg Railroad. .....The Grand Jur
of Philadelphia has indicted Charles
Dana for the libel of ex-State Treasur,
Kemble, in an article in the New York Slt
relative to the Evans fraud.
THE school building and boarding hou
of B. F.. Mills, at South Williamstow
Mass, was burned on Sunday afternoo
Loss SIS, 900 insurance $12, ,OO0...... .Leona1
F. Fowler, ell-known Western counte
feiter, was arrested in New York on Tue
day while engaged in negotiating aquanti
of $40 and $40 bills on the Poughkeeps
National bank. He was held in $500
bail.
The West
Os the s=orning of April s, terrible to
nado visited the vicinity Of Newton, Jasp
county, ILL.,, unroofng barns, demolishil
houses and forests, and destroying life. II
house of one Ezra Mehaney was demolshe
and Mrs. Mehaney killed. This was Gig
miles southwest of Newton. One mile ia
ther it struck the house of james Reed, d
mofshed it, killing Mr.. Pope, Miss Lift
and Mr.. Pope's father-in-law, and woundil
seven others. Two miles further on its de
astation ceased.
D. Wooster, surgeon of the United Stat
Marine Hospital at San Francisco, is su
for $50 900 by patient for alleged malprs
tice...... Letters from Lone Pine, CAL, S
that the whole of Owens Valley has SUI
fourteen feet. Over seven thousand shoe
have occurred to date, and still continl
out not of sufficient force to do damage.
The steamer Oceanus, from Red River
st. Louis, when near Brooks Point, thil
miles above Cairo, at o'clock on Thursd
morning exploded her boiler, blowing I
upper works almost entirely away, imme
ately after which the wreck took fire, bun
ing to the waters edge. There were abe
forty cabin and thirty-ive deck passenge
which with the crew made total of neal
one hundred souls, about sixty of whom g
supposed to be lost......A fire at Kalamaz
Mich, on Wednesday destroyed five bull
ingsToelonging to n. B. Wager, and Geor
Goss. The contents were mostly save
Loss $40, ,O09...-.A piece of stone cornice
the State National Bank building, in
Louis, fell on Thursday and struck J..
Warmer, an old and respected citizen, on t
haad kiltino him instantly The on rt