The interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1872-1881, 1874-12-25

progress, and some Of the engines we're ol
dered TO an extensive fire among some wood
en- buildings In Water street A boiler IA,
tory and several railroad ears were burned
and il was found necessary to turn the shin
adrift from the wharf.
CHARLES HOWARD, q murderer, latel
sentenced to imprisonment for life, wa
taken from the jail at Dcs Moines, at mid
night, by masked mob, and hung to
lamp-post.
TnR nail factory, rolling.mill, machin,
shops, and all the buildings on the soutl
side Of Ausable river, at Ausable, n. Y.
were recently burned. loss, sl25,oo0
partly insured.
THE Boston Herald says frauds Of magni
tude have been discovered in the Charles
town Navy.yard, and that the officials con
cerned have been suspended, pending an in
vestigation at Washington.
The large mill in Warehouse Point, Hart
ford, Gem, occupied by the Leonard Silk
Company and the Chaplin a Barber Silk Com
pany, was destroyed by fire this evening
The machinery was valuable. Loss, $500, 900
insurance, ssj, 900.
The kilroy House, st. Paul, Minnesota
has been destroyed by fire. Loss, $500.
A FIRE at Bangor, Maine, destroyed nine
stores and the Harrison House. Loss, 50,
600; insurance, $4,000.
I DISPATCHES from Forrest City, Ark, state
that all the town south Of the railroad has
been burned.
THE st. Charles Starch factory at st.
Charles, NO., has been destroyed by fre. with
considerable corn aud manufactured starch.
Loss, 900; insurance, $4,000.
The man captured at Helena, Ark, sup
posed to be White, the leader Of the Corinth
bank robbers, was not the man wanted.
THE Governor Of Pennsylvania has signed
the warrant for the execution of Samuel
Beighley, in Westmoreland county, on the
goth Of January, for the murder of Joseph
Kerr.
A SCHOONER, supposed to be the Robert
Pettis, of Providence, capsized in a squall,
and the crew Of Eve men perished, all leaving
families.
JAMES DILLARD, a colored boy employed
on the steamer John Il. Maude, was shot and
fatally wounded, near Memphis, recently,
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by James Devay, carpenter of the boat
Forn masked men, few days since, rode
up to the house of farmer, living about
twelve miles north OF Clarksville, in johnson
county, Ark, and, after shooting the farmer
aud choking his wife, robbed him of 500 in
currency and made their escape.
AT Portland, Maine, very recently, Samuel
Payson, Postmaster of North Warren, and
his wife, we're found dead in their beds,
sufiocated by coal gas. Another couple were
nearly dead when discovered.
JouS CLARK, engineer Of the Water.
works, at Harrisburg, Penn, was killed, and
a laborer seriously injured, by the pressure
Of water forcing off a cap on q twenty.inch
main.
A DEADLY afiray occurred at Kingston,
Tenn, during which man named Cook had
his skull crushed with bowlder, thrown at
him by John Isom.
Two negroes killed another on the Gin
cinnati Southern Railway, near Memphis,
Tenn, having been hired TO do il by third,
for ten dollars The murderers escaped, but
the employer was arrested. Fatal afrays
are almost daily occurrence among the
iaborers constructing that r2nd
j. NJ. oATNAS, Suftnuendent OF the
Duquesne Coal works, fepn.. who was shot
IN the mine recently by some unknown per
SON. has died from the wounds received.
A BOY named Daniel sullivan, about thir-
teen years OF age, while jumping on and OH
an engine on the Pittsburg, Cincinnati and
st. Louis Railroad In Logansport, Ind, fell
under the wheels and had both legs cut on.
lie VIII probably die.
LAST week Dr. Richard inglis, one oil the
oldest and most popular physicians OF De-
troit, while dissecting the body OF child
who had died OF erys'pelas, aeeidentiy cut
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JAMES CoSSAGIS, a brakeman, fell be.
tween the ears ON the New Orleans and st.
Louis Railroad, at Fulton, Tenn, and was
mangled.
PETER MAURY, a brakeman on the Mem
phis and Louisville Railroad, met with sim.
liar death at Milan, Tenn.
HAYDEN, GERE 4 Co.'S new dam, at Hay.
densvillc, Mass, gave way a few days ago.
and the water demolished every object in its
course. The ice was covered with skaters
at the time. II is not known that any lives
were lost.
FREDERICK HRssER, Coroner of North.
County, was murdered at Coal
Run mines, near Shamokin, the other night.
There was great excitement, and the citizens
organized committee to investigate.
A LITTLE daughter, twelve years of age, Of
Judge Lowell, OF Boston, was brutally out.
ragged by a negro, a few nights ago, while
going home from a skating pond. The negro
was arrested.
Ton BALLARD, the notorious counterieiter,
has escaped from the Auburn, n. V, Jail.
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Vol SAMUEL fikk died at Leesburg, o.,
NJ ''o on ,he evening oi the 10Th from
paralysis lie Is SAID To have been the oldest