The Lamoille news. (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1877-1881, 1878-01-02
SUMMARY OF NEWS.
Enstern and Middle States.


aged about thirteen, pulled out revolver and
tired At the little fellow, who lived but an hour.
The story o. the shooting, - gwen vas told
bv Mary Gronin, agod six, the victim + sister,
Who was present at the time.
A Are occurred in the immense structure
occupied " the American Desk Mandatory
in New York-One Of the largest establish
ments Of its kind in the country-and before
the flames could be subdued damage 10 the
amount Of about $780, 600 was done.
Mrs. Calharine Ryan, her four children, and
girl related to Airs. Ryan were suhocated IN
Boston by coal gas.
Shortly after five O'Clock in the afternoon
a boiler in the cellar OF the large wholesale
candy factory of Greenfield & Sons, 63 Barclay
street, New York, exploded with loud report,
and Immediately thereafter flames were seen to
issue from the building and the front wall top
pled in At the time Of the explosion there
were over $50 persons in the building, and OF
these about twenty-five were taken to the
HOSPITALS, suffering from burns and bruises,
while number received fatal injuries. Many
OF the employees, in their desperate efforts to
escape, lesped from the burning building, and
il il believed that a large number OF persons
we're buried underneath the falling walls, one
CORPSE having been recovered but il will take
some time 10 remove the ruins and ascertain
the exact number Of victims. Before the fire
was aubdued Nos 81, G3, Go, o. and So Barclay
street were destroyed, and many other build
ings in the naighborhood were more or less
damaged. involving an aggregate estimated
loss of about 100000, which is nearly all
covered BY insurance. When the explosion
occurred the proprietor Of the candy manufsc-
tory and his two sons were in the Office, and
several persons were in the showroom making
purchases. Upon these people the disaster
came without the slightest warning, and they
were surrounded with fie and escaping steam
and hardly psCaOed with thair
lives. Many persons rushed to the fire-escape
and got ont in that way, while others in the
upper stories escaped by means Of ladders.
Intense excitement prevailed in the vicinity OF
the disaster, and thousands Of persons on their
way home from work hocked to the scene.
Two bodies we're recovered from the ruins
caused by the explosion in the New York candy
factory while the number Of wounded reach cd
over forty. Several persons we're still missing
on the day following the disaster, but the list
of dead will not be so large as was at first sup
posed. 1t was also ascertaiped that the eX-
plosion was not caused by the bursting OF
the boiler and the real origin of the disaster
is yet to be ascertaihed.
The Union League Club Of New York gave
reception to President Hayes. About five
thousand persons were present, among them
being Mrs. Hayes. Peter Cooper, Attorney
General Devens, Secretary of State Evarts and
Others.
The large shoe factory OF =. & N. Copeland
& Co., at South Braintree, Mass, was de-
stroyed by fire, causing a loss Of about $4,000,
on which there is about S38, 900 insurance.
John Van Dyke a youth of nineteen, was
hung at Canton, n. Y, for numbering his wife
last July, after having been married to her a
week.
President Hayes and wife assisted at the
opening of the American Museum of Natural
History in New York. Speeches were made by
President Eliot, of Harvard College, Professor
0. G. Marsh and others, and the museum was
formally opened by President Hayes. In the
evening the President attended the seventy
second annual dinner of the New England
Society and responded to the toast "The
President of the United States.'
Owen Murphy, president Of the New York
board Of excise, twice member of the assem-
bly, abscOnded with nearly $50 0G0 belonging
to the excise board. He had been expected at
meeting Of the board, and when he failed to
put in an appearance his colleagues made an
investigation, which resulted III discovering
that he had drawn from the bank large sum
of public money under his care, besides large
amount of his own funds, and then fled.
Three Wall street New York; brokers were
arrested as members of q gang Of counterfeit
ers engaged in extensive forging Of railroad
and other bonds, a large amount of which has
been put upon the market.
-Four men engaged in midnight quarrel at
the corner of Blocker and Sui ivan Streets
New York, and two of them-Herman H.
Heterne and Francis Dougherty-were seri-
Ously, if not fatally, stabbed. Charles Crut-
chet and Thomas Greenan were arrested, the
former having large butcher knife covered
with blood concealed in his sleeve,
The town house and Winthrop Church in
Holbrook. Mass, were DESTROYED by fire. Loss
about $4,000 partly insured.
About three hundred of the operatives en-
plOyed in shoe manufactures in Lynn. Mass,
struck against prOposel reduction Of wages.
The planning mill of William Pechley at Potts
vile, Pa, was destroyed by fire Loss, $685.
600 insurance, $4,000. The buildings of the
Union Manufacturing Company at Springfield
VT, were burned, and a loss incurred Of So, 000
on which the insurance is $4,h50.
Western and Southern States.
Two more heavy failures have occurred in
Chicagc-that of Kelley, Morley 4 Co., coal
dealers, whose liabilities will reach $1,000
and that Of II. W. Wetherell, wholesale. mil
linery and fancy goods merchant. whose LA
bilities were also large. Other failures in the
West recently are recorded in Henry, i'll
where L. B. McFadden & Co., heavy operators
in coal mines, went under, owing 1870, 900, and
in San Francisco, where the Cosmopolitan
Savings and Exchange Bank suspended owing
depositors $4,000. ..E
BY the explosion of dynamite cartrige in
tunnel of the Gunpowder Water Works in
Baltimore county, Nd, Augustus Daniels
(colored) was killed, Thomas Porter danger.
ously and two others slightly injured.
The Maryland and Delaware railroad waf
sold at trustees sale in Easton. Md, foi
$94. 900, the purchaser being VIM. T. Hart, Of
Boston.
The Indiana Democratic State convention
will be held at Indianapolis on February 90
1878.
r. H. Norfolk was hanged in Annapolis, Nd
for the murder of his wife in May last. The
murderer killed his victim in order that HI
night marry her sister, girl of sixteen.
Russell R. Peck, Of Chicago, lumber dealer
has failed, with liabilities amounting to owe
S65, 600
A fire in Toledo. Ohio damaged the carpe
establishment of Messrs. Buchanan q Male
and several other buildings to the extent O
about $4,000; partially insured.
The Tennessee Senate voted to settle tn
debt Of the State with fifty per cent. bonds, a
four, five and six per cent interest.
A San Francisco dispatch says that an en-
campment of $50 Indians near Janos, Sonora
was attacked by body of Sonora troops VIII
were defeated with a loss OF twenty-sevel
killed and number wounded The Indian
then stripped the surrounding country.of stock
Tolle Holton & Co., wholesale dry good
dealers Of Cincinnati, Ohio, have failed TO
over 100000.
While half asleep Detective William G. Pride
Of Memphis Tenn, imagined he heard burglar
at his window. He seized a revolver and in al
tempting to cock it the weapon went off, tn
bullet striking his wife and fye-mouths-ol
child, both of whom died in a short time.
From Washington.
William Poor, aged nineteen, died in Wash
ington, of hydrophobia He had been bite
by a small dog eight weeks previous to hi
death. - gs
John A. Joyce, one of the st. Louis crooke