Marshall County Republican., 1872-02-22
NEWS SUMMARY.

Pa, on Monday morning. Three men were
killed and fifteen suffocated, but alive as
ar as can be learned......A fire occurred on
Monday morning in the passenger depot of
the Ogdensburg and Lower Canada railroad,
at Ogdensburg, destroying the entire build
erable freight. Loss 10000; insurance not
known......Juage Blatchford has decided
that Mrs. Fisk can succeed her
late husband as plaintiff in the
suits against the Union Pacific railroad,
Credit Mebilier and others, by simply filing
the proper petition George Van Neck,
formerly a Lieutenant in the British army,
and lately on the New York Herald, COM
mitted suicide at the Hoffman House, New
York, on Tuesday morning ....A fire at Oil
City, Pa, on Monday destroyed the Nation
al Hotel, the Taylor House, the Oil Ex-
change, q branch office of the Western
Union telegraph C ompany, the Office of the
Pacific and Atlantic Telegraph Company,
and two or three saloons. Loss estimated at
$4,000.
ONE Of Kidder 4 Atkins hosiery mills at
Troy, N. Y, was destroyed by fire on
Wednesday morning. Loss 100000.
AT Hunters Point, L. l., on Wednesday,
three men were fatally burned by the ex-
p1osion of an l-tank, while they were
making repairs in the furnace. An italian,
~ aged SO wears, died of starvation in New
York on Monday, he being unable to obtain
aid from the authorities, to whom he had
applied......H. W. Toner, a Philadelphia
slawye-, has disappeared, leaving liabilities
sto the amount of S75 ,O0O......In the budget
Z presented to the Ontario Legislature by the
SGegernment are SIS, 900 reward for the ar
rest of the murderer of Mr.. Scott, and
$4,000 to promote immigration. The Leg
islature has voted to adopt the use of the
English Emigration Society as part of the
colonial emigration system.
The son and daughter of Mrs. Thomas,
aged 81 and IL, perished in a FIRE in scran-
ton, N. J., on Saturday ..... Porter and Thos.
Brixley, fashionable burglars, were arrested
j., in New York on Saturday with the imple
me1ts of their profession. They offered
$1,000 each to the officer to be released.
They have heretofore moved in aristoeratic
society ......A clerk in the Paymaster's Office
of the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western
Railroad Company, in Scranton, Pa, abb
seconded on Saturday night with $4,000 of
the company's funds......John Henry, bar
tender, was fatally shot on Saturday night
in lager beer saloon in New York, by
Charles Garvin, who was arrested.
THE oil-cloth factory of Potter, Son & Co.,
at Philadelphia, was totally destroyed by
Ere on Sunday night. Loss 500, ,eO0......A
Scranton dispatch says that the Coroner's
Jury in the recent explosion in the Henry
mine, gave verdict that the explosion re-
suited from want of care in ventilation.
1.-THE City Council of Springfield, Mass,
has elected Mils S. J. Williams City Ply
So as'( ~ The West.
Two laborers named John Kearns and
Patrick Grady were almost instantly killed
in st. Joseph, No. on Monday. They were
engaged in excavating earth, and the bank
fell upon them crushing their lower extrem-
tiles almost to a Jelly.
FIVE persons were killed and eight severe
ly injured by collision between apassenger
and freight train on the Rockford, Rock
Island and st. Louis railroad, near Upper
Alton, on Wednesday. 1.-The store of Small
ley & Co., at Cambridge City, Ind, was
burned on Wednesday morning. Loss
$4,000 Insurance 81 ,OO0......A fire at Port
Huron, Mich, on Wednesday, entirely de-
stroyed the buildings and stocks of D. Ora
ham, hats and furs; D. Guerin, boots and
shoes; F. A. Weyers, groceries; J. B. Far
rand, dry goods. Loss $4,000; insurance
$2s,OOO... This season, Yosemite tourists
will be carried by rail within eighty miles
of the valley. by either the Mariposa or the
Coulterville route The horseback ride is
reduced to two and half miles. The fare
from San Francisco will be $22; time, one
day and a half......T The Kansas Senate on
Wednesday passed the House memorial to
Congress to admit Canadian lumber free.
.....A colored cook named Charles Moore, re-
Gently employed at the Commercial House
in Gardner, ILL.,, eloped on Tuesday with a
white girl named Susan Bridlestine.
THE celebrated old Methodist divine, Rev.
Peter Cartwright, was stricken down with
paralysis on Monday last, at his home in
Pleasant Plains, Sangamon county, ILL.,, and
is now speeehless and helpless. The attend
ing physicians say his death may occur at
any moment. This venerable man is 81
years old, and has been in the ministry 6S
yesrs..-..The Coroner's jury sitting on the
bodies of the persons killed by the railread
accident near Alton on Wednesday, returned
verdict that death was caused by the
criminal negligence of Frederick Baker
conductor of the freight train, as the princi-
pal, and Patrick Halpin, engineer, as acces-
sorry Quite a shock of earthquake was
felt at Cairo, ILL.,, on Wednesday morning
about five o'clock. k......Jesse Zimmerman, the
aged wife murderer, of Rockford, H., has
been sentenced by the Court to life imprison-
ment in the Penitentiary. 1t will be re-
membered that he killed his wife with
scratch-awl, several months ago.
The Diamond FIGURING Mill, at ,Youngs
town, Ohio, owned BY Noel Brown 4 Co., was
burned on Thursday morning. Loss s45, 900
insured for $40, ,Oo0...... The stage between
Mineral Hill and Eureka, New, was robbed
on Thursday by two highwaymen......A
locomotive attached to the Winneconne
Wis, freight train burst its boiler neal
Schwarzburg on Thursday morning, killing
VIM. Tiel, brakeman, and Ransom, fireman
was fatally scalded.....A memorial to Con
gress has passed the Kansas Legislature
asking money to build Court House q
Topeka, and Post Office and Custom House
at Lesvenworth. afs sb ~ &
TIE Rockford, Rock Island and st. Loui.
Railroad Company have offered a reward o
$500 for the apprehension Of Frederick Ba
ker and Patrick 4alpin, the conductor anG
engineer Of the heig train, near Alton, or
"wednesday last......A lad named Earnes
Priest, "A years of sge, broke through tht
ice en- the lake at Milwaukee on Sunda,
morning, and was drowned.
TIE tnow blockade onlthe Union )Pacif.
still continues between Creston and Washa
l.