The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-04-26
NEWS SUMMARY.
The East.

seriously injuring Patrick o'Hara and James
Stone..... Daniel ID. Hunt, a prominent Free
Mason of Newark, n. j., hanged himself
on Sunday, owing to financial embarrass-
ment.
DR.. WooDnULL, one Of the husbands Of
Victoria C. Woodruff, died in New York on
Sunday night, from the effects of morphine
and whisky IA 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 l6 feet below the canal
level. 1t is estimated that it will take at
least ten days to repair the damages.
A TERRIBLE railroad disaster occurred on
Wednesday morning on the New Jersey
Midland railroad. The train leaving Pat
erson for Hackensack, at S a. m, was passing
over the saddle river 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 precarious condition. Isaac Wortendy,
Probate Judge of Bergen county, was ter
ribly injured. Twenty-Five or thirty pas
sengers were taken from the wreck in a
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 acct
dental. Loss S45 900; insured for $50, O00......
The Union Hotel, of Saratoga, was sold at
auction on Tuesday, to an agent of A. I.
Stewart for $685. ,000...T Two colonies from
Pennsylvania, numbering 800 families, left
Allentown on Wednesday for homes in Rus
el county, Kansas....A fire at Oil City, Pa,
Wednesday morning destroyed the Gait
louise, the Bonn House, Fishers large tank,
he Model Refining Company's tank, and
rye school house, the loss is about $4,000.
le fire engines were burned, but others
Nre sent from Titusville and Franklin.
@ whole city was ia danger at one time,
al q nigh wind was prevailing.
he tug. boat Davenport was blown to
aims Thursday morning by a boiler explo-
si' at Jersey City, instantly killing six of
hecrcw. Scarcely fragment of the tug
wato be seen after the explosion, both the
botand victims being literally obliterated.
IA blind man, named Richard Cain, at
teraking his way alone through New
Iorstore for many years, fell through
halfway on Wednesday afternoon, and was
insttly killed .....A locomotive attached TO
freht train on the Boston and Albany
railrd exploded on Wednesday at Grant
vileNass. J. w. Stoughton, fireman, was
scald, and has since died. Michael Man
noy, brakeman, will probably die from
scaldk ..... The wool and packing establish
nent Hitchcock & Freese, Jersey City,
was daaged by FIRE on Thursday morning
to the tent of 100000.
OSLYne Of the killed by the explosion of
hn tue NJ III
day, 10, Caulfeld, has been recovered.
Efforts e being made for the recovery Of
the remning five. The Davenport was
known toe an utterly worthless craft. TIE
explosions attributed TO a lack of water Ia
the boilc owing to the negligence Of the
engineer d fireman, who were witnessing
dog hcLon one Of the barges.....A com
mittee OF ne Georgia Legislature has COM
menced alnvestigatiJn at New York into
the financl acts of Ex-Governor Bullock.
IA Hahx N. s. dispatch Of the 18th
says: a ainstorm is producing heavy
ireshets, wlch have done great damage 10
roads, bridg, and lumber throughout Nova
Scotia. ThtWestern railway track, near
Windsor, IS ght feet under water
fro at ser, Mass, on Saturday night,
destroyed thentire business portion Of the
town, and 40 number of residences.
Loss estimate at 5000, 600 insured for
about S45,O OO....The first Charleston straw
berries sold inNew York on Saturday az
S2.5O@3 per aart....A fire at Pottsville,
"a; on Saturdy, destroyed ten tenement
buildings. Loi, 81 900 .... / lieutenant y.
Mahoney, of he Fourteenth Infantry,
dropped dead Friday evening at tie
American House Boston .... The MetrOpOl-
itan Paper Colla Factory, New York, was
burned on Satursy night. Loss, $4,000.
Five hundred gis are thrown out of en-
ployment.
BENJAMIN TILLlNEr, young German, was
crushed into an recognizable mass on
Monday, between to cars on the Cleveland
and Pittsburg Railrad The Grand Jury
of Philadelphia ha. indicted Charles A.
Dana for the libel # ex-State Treasurer
Kemble, in an articlan the New York Sun,
relative to the Evans raud
Tho Vest.
AT sandusky, o., on Monday, Mr. J. Z.
Merck, architect, aged about so years, fell
from scafold, striking n his head and III
hicting injuries which cmsed his death in
about two hours.....On Monday morning
the depot building of the Louisville. New
Albany and Chicago railroal, at New Provi-
dence, Ind, was entirely Destroyed by fire,
including the telegraph opehtor's and rail
road books, railroad tickets, lostofice books,
etc. Loss $4,000.
On the morning of April 6, terrible tor.
nado visited the vicinity of Newton, Jaspar
county, H., unroofng barns, iemolishing
houses and forests, and destroying life The
house of one Ezra Mehaney was demolished.
and Mrs. Mehaney killed. This was eight
miles southwest of Newton. One mile far
ther it struck the house of James Reed, de-
molished it, killing Mr.. Pope, Mis- Little,
and Mr.. Pope's fatker-in-law, and wounding
seven others. Two miles further on It's dew
astation ceased.
d. Wooster, surgeon of the United States
Marine Hospital at San Francisco, is sued
for $50, 900 by patient for alleged NAL prac-
tice..... Letters from Lone Pine, Cal, say
that the whole of Owens Valley has sunk
fourteen feet. Over seven thousand shocks
have occurred TO date, and still continue,
but not of sufficient force to do damage.
THE steamer occanus, from Red River to
st. Louis, when near Brooks Point, thirty
miles above Cairo, at O'Clock on Thursday
morning exploded her boiler, blowing her
upper works almost entirely away immed-