Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-10-19
CURRENT NEWS.
WASHINGTON.

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CURRENT NEWS.
WASHINGTON.
The President has pardoned W. j. b.
denhamslt, who pleaded guilty to embez-
zling public money while Receiver of the
Land-ofice at Springfield, Mo-, and was
sentencedsto three years. irnprisonment.and
to pay a fine of $15, 200. "a, oy.4 @ ran.
President Grant returned to Washington
on the 9Th. '4l
James TX. Hill, one of the Indiana whis.6
conspirators, who was sentenced to two and
a half years. Imprisonment and to pay a
fine of $500, has been pardoned bythe Pres
ident. stt s...at. 7rB iatH .s.
Official notice has been. published by the
Post-ofice Department, that hereafter no
letters will be returned to the writers by
the Dead-letter Office, except those con-
tanning valuable Enclosures. It is further
announced, that for want Of sufficient cleri-
cal force, no additional m0ney-order Offices
will be established until the commencement
of the next fiscal year.
An order was issued on the Sth, by direc-
ton of the President, for the closing Of the
Executive Departments in Washington on
LuO lCtu1 IL udy 2 dPolb ehO
of the Mcpherson statue
VIM. w. Ireland, Chief Clerk OF Third
Assistant Postmaster Generals office, and
Charles Andrews, clerk in a division OF the
same office, have been dismissed from
Office, it having been proven that they were
concerned in furnishing evidence against
the Department to the Committee on EX-
penditures in the Post-ofice Department
during the session Of Congress last winter.
EAST.
The New York Chamber of Commerce has
, forwarded Sis, 900 to the Savannah Relief
Committee.
One thousand workmen in the shops Of
the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western
Railway Company, at Scranton, Pa. struck,
ON the 9Th, in consequence of a reduction of
ten per cent. in their wages. f, -
Three persons died from the effects of
eating toad stools in Union County, N. j.,
on the 9Th. They were Louisa Crane and
Emma Baker, young ladies, and George
Melville, u boy. ~
An Erie Railway train was thrown from
the track near Genesee, N. T., on the night
of the 9Th, killing the engineer, Clark, and
seriously injuring a fireman, brakeman, and
a tramp.
Five ship-caulkers, engaged at their oc-
cupation in the hold of the bark Europa,
in dry dock in New York, were burned to
death on the It'll by a quantity of hemp
King fire and filling the hold with flames.
Two other workmen were seriously burned,
but escaped with their lives. The Europa
was engaged in the petroleum trade, and
tho firnhars hcino oafIratol with flo oil
the flames spread with frightful rapidity,
cutting off all escape Of the men working
below. "
Eight hundred bales of cotton, valued at
$37, 900, and belonging to Inman, Swan &
Co., of New York, were destroyed by fire
in Brooklyn on the 9th.
The one-miilion suit against Wm. NJ.
Tweed and the seven-million suit against
Peter b. Sweeney were called at New York
III the 9th, and adjourned until November
10th, no Judge being ready to try the cause.
Mr.. John F. Cleveland, for over 80 years
a member of the New York Tribune editor
ial staff, died ON the 9th.
At the Lehigh Colliery, New Boston, Pa,
on the 9th, four miners were instantly
killed. The rope attached to a train of
loaded cars parted, and the cars ran back
to the bottom of the pit, crushing the men
to death.
The entire business portion of Sandy Hill,
N. Y, was burned ON the night of the 10th.
Losses over 5000, 900.
A terrible casualty occurred in Pittsburgh
. on the 18th. At S:45 a. M. the boilers in
i the nail-mill of Tug & Co., Thirteenth and
Etna Streets, exploded, demolishing the
entire building and more than half of the
rolling-mill adjoining. There were $50 men
and boys at work in the nail mill at the time
of the explosion, at least 16 Of whom were
instantly killed or died soon after from in
juries. The roof Of the building was raised
by the explosion, and in falling rested upon
the nail machines, SO that the uninjured
were able to crawl out and escape from the
ruins, which had taken fire. The wounded
numbered 20 or more, their injuries being
mostly of a very painful character. The
cause of the explosion is unknown. 1t is
stated that the boilers had been thoroughly
tested about five weeks previous, and they
were in charge of a competent engineer.