Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-06-15
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
Fall of Buildings--Accident at the Brock
lyn Bridge--West Point Cadet Killed
Mail Robber Arrested--Quebec Rioters
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BURIED BY FALLING WALLS.
ROCHESTER, N. Y, June 1.-THE walls of two
large brick stores in this city, fell with terri
BILE crash this afternoon, burying number of
people in the ruins. Four were recovered alive
but badly injured. One of the buildings was
occupied by Graves candy factory, the other
by the United States express company, print
ing offices, etc. The express employees all es-
capped. Col. W. h. Smith, printer, was seri-
ously injured.
FATAL BRIDGE ACCIDENT.
NEW YORK, June l4.-While workmen on the
Brooklyn bridge were lowering into place one
of the large cables, the tackling at the anchor
age on the New York side parted, and Thomas
Blake and Henry Supple were killed, and Peter
Arbergh and James McGrath were dangerously
hurt.
When the tackle parted the huge iron shoe
weighing nearly nine hundred pounds shot
over the houses demolishing chimneys and
telegraph wire and lodging in a pile of granite
near the bridge tower. The cable itself slit
apart and several strands were bent and twisted
into every conceivable shape and dangled from
the roadway of the great stone pier between the
piers. The tackling which broke and caused
the disaster has been used previously in lower
ing the great cables into place.
FIFTY THOUSAND DOLLAR FIRE.
ALBANY, June 14.-The entire stock of Isaac
White Sons, wholesale dealers in notions and
dry goods, was destroyed by fire this morning.
Loss 1000; insurance 1926, 1000.
ANOTHER CHANCE.
CHARLESTON, s. c., June A.-Jeff. Davids.
sentenced to be hanged, has again been granted
respite till July -.
STOLEN BONDS RECOVERED.
BOSTON, June 14.-Detectives have recovered
ffty-two Thousand dollars worth of stocks and
bonds stolen from the Lechmere bank, Cam
BRIDGE Mass, last March.
DIED FROM HIS INJURIES.
NORTHAMPTON, Mass, June 14.-Rev. G. C.
Burleigh died last night from injuries received
by the recent railroad accident at Florence.
CoUNTERFEITERs ARRESTED.
OMAHA Neb., June 1.-Two counterfeiters,
named J. NJ. Oliver and John d. Sullivan, were
arrested here to-day by the Omaha detective
agency for having dies and material in their
possession. They were preparing to make coun.
terfeit trade dollars. They will be examined
tomorrow. They protest their innocence.
RoBB1NG THE POST OFFICE.
Alfred Early, colored porter in the Omaha
post office, was arrested to-day by special agent
John B Furrey, having in possession forty-one
letters that he had stolen and opened. The
thieving has been going on since last Deem
Der. Early has been bound over to the court
in the sum of two thousand dollars.
LIEUT.. TOTEM KILLED.
NEW YORK, June 14.-Lieut. !Totten, who was
graduated yesterday at West Point, was in.
stantly killed to-day by being run over by the
st. Louis express at Cold Spring, nearly oppo-
site West Point.
POUGHKEEPsIE, N. Y, June 14.-Lieutenant
Totten killed near Cold Springs by the cars
graduated at West Point in 1865, and was sta
toned at Fort Adams, Newport.
AFTER THE TRAIN ROBBERS.
New ORLEANS, June 14.-The Galveston Ne,r,
Decatur special says: Lieut.. Peakes State
troops and the sheriff's party had lively fight
with the Bass party who robbed the train on
the Northern Texas lately at Salt Creek, in this
county. One of the robbers was killed, and
several horses wounded and killed, and the
balance captured. The robbers escaped on foot
The rangers are in hot pursuit.
MURDERERs HANGED.
GoLDsBoRoUaH, N c., June 14.-Noah Cherry
Harris Atkinson and Robt. Thompson, colored,
murderers of the Wormley family, were exc
cuted to-day, in the presence of six hundred
people. They proclaimed their innocence t.
the last, and were very defiant and bitter to
wards the prosecuting attorneys. The neckt
of Cherry and Atkinson were broken, and
Thompson strangled to death.