The Lamoille news. (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1877-1881, 1878-11-06
SUMMARY OF NEWS.
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One OF the m0ht Fiulrmt tiofAh WI a .
perienced in this country sgtpi over pott.,sns /
~ tbe Middle ana Eastern states, the other I
dav. causirE some loss % life and doing an /
in5meuse Emonnt Of dsmago 10 property on /
every description. In New York city many ]
Telegraph poles were overturned, trees up I
rooted, windows broken and chinneys bloNn
over-one young man being struck on the head |
BY q falling brick and fatally injured. Az
philsdelphiA over forty churches and several |
hundred dweling-honsea were unToofed or
other rise damaged while some buildings were /
entirely demolished. Along the river front over |
aftv storehouses we're blown from their fEsten- |
ings, and great quantities Of goods hoAted on
with the tide. Six persons were killed by
falling roofs or trees and about seventy
ave injured in different degrees OF severity. AT
PottstoWn, Pa. the nail plate mill OF the Potts
town Iron company, bridge across the schuyl-
kill river, and Fishers steam planning mills were
blown down, causing combined loss q ABOUT
$50 OOO while two churches also lost thelr
spires and many private dwellings we're I'M
rooted. At Chester, Pa, seventy houses were
unroofed, nineteen being blown down altogeth-
er, while three churches were partially destroy.
cd, and eleven manufacturing places damaged
TO such an extent that work was suspended for
time throwing alarge number OF persons out
OF employment. At Albany, n. y, and Trenton
n. J., the story OF unroofed houses, Overblown
trees and other damage to property was re-
heavily, aud some lives were lost. Inc schoon-
er Mary Tice sunk near New Haven, and the
captain and steward we're drowned. schoon-
er loaded with lumber went ashore on the New
Jersey coast, four miles south OF Great Egg
Harbor, and several OF her crew were drowned.
Along the line OF the West jersey railroad
many cattle were killed. barns destroyed and
fences blown down. 1t would be impossible to
state with exactness the amount of damage
done in the various regions which suffered
from the fury OF the storm, but the total sum
will run up into hundreds OF thousands OF dol
lars.
Detailed reports from Philadelphia state
that during the recent heavy storm $50 build
ings were unroofed or badly injured. OF these
there we're 3S4 dwellings, and stores, thirty-one
churches, twenty three schools, thirty five
factories and warehouses, five hotels, two ele-
vators and City other large buildings such as
depots, ferry-houses mills and railroad offices.
Eight vessels we're reported sunk and twenty
two damaged in the harbor, and the pecuCiary
damage done in and about the city is estimated
at over 90 000, 900.
General James s. Whitney, who presided at
the recent Democratic convention in Boston,
died suddenly the other day Of heart disease,
while on his way to his home in Brookline.
Mr.. Barlow, cashier of the ruined Fshkill
! IN. W bank, was found guilty OF embezzle-
ment and sentenced to five years in the Albany
penitentiary.
Two New York steamers were wrecked dur
ing the late storm, though fortunately without
| loss OF life. The City of Houston, from New
| York for Galveston, Texas, was lost on Frying
Pan shoals, off the North Carolina coast the
passengers and crew-about seventy in all
taking TO the boats and being picked up by
another steamer. The General Barnes. from
Savannah for New York, foundered off Cape
Hatteras, but her crew and passengers were
saved by passing schooner.
While the Rev W. H. Il. Murray was duck
shooting on his farm near Madison, Conn, his
gun burst badly SCATTERING his right hand.
As John J. Morris, New York alderman,
was walking up Sixth avenue early in the
morning. man suddenly confronted him and,
stabbing him rapidly three times, disappeared
in the darkness. Alderman Morris made bis
way to his home, where he was attended by
physicians, who found three wounds in the
vicinity Of the heart, none Of them, however
necessarily fatal. The wounded official Wal
unable to describe his assailant accurately, anC
could not tell why he had been attacked.
One of the heaviest bank robberies tina
ever took place in this or any other country
has just occurred in New York, where thu
Manhattan savings bank was entered by
band OF seven masked burglars and robbed o
money. The thieves entered the bank JAM
tors room according to the story told by tina
individual - handcuffed him and his wifi
and forced him to surrender the KEYS Of tn
vault and the secret of the combination Of tn
lock. They then entered the vault and re
msined there nearly three hours, breakin
open the safe and riang IL - G?:rtio-1 90 II
contents, carrying away 80, TAT, 700 in securitie
and $11 600 in cash. Most OF the securitie
taken were not negotiable The bank official
issued notice stating that in order to prever
loss to depositors no payments would be mad
within sixty days The police stated that til
whole affair was one OF the most remarkab
aud mysterious in the annals of the depar
ment
Sylvester Seals was instantly killed and job
Reardon fatally injured at the Thomas Ire
4 Company's min 8, High Bridge, N. j., by fal
ing one hundred feet down an old shaft.
Another bold robbery has been committed
8 New York-the victim this time being lad
Mrs. Clarence Ogden, proprietress of fasl
ionable boarding-house on Fifth avenue, ha
D retired for the night, shortly after elevt
o'clock. Some time afterward che WAS ava
e ened by noise in her room, and on lookir
v mp she saw two men, with masks over the
faces. Before Mrs. Ogden could give an alar
U the lntruders clapped towel saturated Wi
chloroform over her face, aud she became n
conscious and did not regain her senses uni
d noarly noon the next day. After renderil
!. their victim helpleBs, the thieves ransack,
the apartment stripping it of money, Jewel
and other valuables. They took one diamoI
>. ring from Mrs. Ogden's finger and cut Il
~ stones from another which they could not g
& of. Early the next morning Mrs Ogden W
found in an unconscious condition, and tn
was the first intimation the people in t
e house had that a daring robbery had boz
committed in their very midst
WeatArn and 2nnAtn,n Etnfa.