The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1873-07-31
CARBOHYDRATES.

I New York, July 3O-Edward Raricke 4
Co, importer Of glassware, whore books
have been seized by the custom officers, end
| asainet whom suits have been commeLced To
| recover penalties for alleged violations Of
the revenue laws, aaeert that all violations
Of Law were committed by one clerk, who
was in charge Of the business here during
| the sbsence Of the firm in Europe, and that
| while he altered the Custom House charges
| he made the proper entries in the books Of
the firm, and that when Q sufficient number
of these alterations had taken place TO var
rant a good case sgainst the firm, he vol;n-
tarily retired from their employ, having pre-
| viously arranged With the cGssom officers To
get one-four,h Of the amount recovered from
the company BY Compromise or conviction.
| 1t IL estimated that the damage BY the
rain storm at Newark vii! amount l., over
f2OO. 900. Nearly all The easements in the
city are flooded. sevrrsi buildings damsyeti
and some set on Gre ~ lightning. One
house was blown down and completely de-
molished. Two grocery stores were ruined
BY the flood; alAo On. shoe store Hundreds
Of poor people in the lower par, Of the city
we're driven out Of CELLAR, several having
narrow eacapes from drowning.
A fre was discovered in the ti.th 4 ~ cf
wich street about half past 10 tonight The
streams from the steam fire engines were in
efectnal, and the fire speed rspidlv along
and through the upper stories some TOO
hundred feet on Greenwich street. The
building extend. some two hu dre.. feet :"
Church Street. T~o a,liiiirral alarms y.rs
.ent Gu, for engines from ui-'own. The
flames continued to incrsap, AMI at Ties
hour, ii 30, the entire roof, witch IL Man.
sarl, on the Greenwich side of The Si;i.iirx.
and two upper stories have been burned
bakery adjoining - also burned. S,vera,
tenement honses we're in imminent danger.
but the 6remen have evidently now
obtained control Of the IRE, and wii,
undoubtedly keep il confined to the z .ver,-
ment store uses. The building was iill.d
With valuable good, and those not destroyed
By fire are undoubtedly ruined b. vx;ss.
The los will be great. A heavy brick wi,
only prevented the fire from working through
10 Thames street, which lie filed with ten--
ment houses, crowded with poor Irish fami-
lie,, among whom the utmost conservation
prevailed. The large atone school house Of
Trinity parish esasped, although the
flames vas At one time within twenty feet of
the rear portion Of the building. The vor..
houaes are in charge Of W. II. Darling.
government appraiser. No fires have been
ased in the building since last winter. anil
the fire Is supposed to be cau-ed by sIonfa-
neous combu.ti0n.
The los cannot be correctly estimated,
but il will not fall short ~ half million on
goods OF all kinds. owned by a'grest number
Of firms. Ln.a on building owned u, GOV
eminent so 900.
ACCIDENT.
Chicago, July 80 "A terrible accident oc-
CURED Last evening at the North Chicsgo
Rolling mills, situated in the extreme north
ern suburbs Of the city. Abont dszen
workmen we're engaged in removing an i'm
perfect blast from one Of the furnaces, when
suddenly large mass Of cl:nker was de-
tached. making an opening in the furnace,
here rushed out q volume of gas, which,
coming in contact with the outer air, ex-
pIoded, filling the place With . sheet Of fame
which completely developed eight Of the
~orkmen, FIVE Of them. Jas. Mack. Mike
Haley. John Brett, James Shafirr end
Patrick Marney. The men were 20 horri-
bly, burned that not one Of them il expected
tn recover. Three Others, Owen Ci.risi,.
Th1mas Connor and Nicholas Scheliyah,
were seriously burned.
Fort Madison July 3O.-A fire which
broke ont 81 O'Clock in the boiler chop Of
he Iowa Peniientisry on the north side Of
he grounds, burned the boiler chop, carpen-
Ter shop, trip hammer shop. and partly
destroyed the dry kiln. The authorities
elegraphed to Burlington for fire engines.
At s:l5 the engine arrived. At 1880 the
Try kiln took fire, but wa, soon s'oPprd by
he engine. The loss to the state il $4,000.
Lon to contractors abou, $4,000. No pri,-
'ners eacaped. No lives were los'