Stevens County tribune. (Morris, Minn.) 1877-1880, 1879-07-24
CASUALTIES.

There was $4,000 fire at Macon,
Georgia, July Is.
There was 100000 fire in Indiana
polls, July 10.
A telegram from Calcutta states that
the cholera has appeared in Cabul.
July Is there was $50, 900 fire in New
Orleans, and $25, 600 fire in Philadelphia.
Miss Mamie Daniels was found drowned
in Lake Winona, Mimi, on Monday July Is.
Accidental.
At Buffalo, N. Y, July 10, section Of
the new round house of the Erie Railway
company fell and a number of workmen were
injured.
A Halifax telegram of July II gives
an account of the loss of the steamer State of
Virginia, from New York to Glasgow, which
went ashore at Sable Island Saturday, July 10.
Three women and five children were lost in
the surf while landing. The vessel had "a
passengers. 104 head of cattle and a general
cargo. Sixty cattle were saved.
A terrible hail storm and hurricane
passed over Wells River, vt, July IA, lasting
fifteen minutes, followed by thunder storm
Hail stones were two inches in diameter. A
third of the glass in the place was broken
large trees torn up, fences destroyed, houses
unro0fed and barns blown over, 1t was the.
most severe storm ever known there The
people were much alarmrd.
Edward r. Adams, a discharged sol
der, his time being out, is in Jail at Cincin-
natl, O., at his own request, he confessing to
having committed murder. He says he
killed Harvey Brewer, in November, 1870,
about one mile from the village of Rome, and
yet claims that he did it in seH-defense. Ad-
ans general appearance is that of dissip-
ated man, and vet it is alleged that he has q
frankness about him, calculated to awaken
sympathy.
July 16 advices from st. Louis, Mo-,
say, the temperature of that day was very try.
ing. In the middle of the day the mercury
stood at Sc, and at 4 o'clock at 90. 1t was not
until after dark that any relief was expert
eneed. Four cases of sunstroke was treated
at the dispensary, none fatal. Four other cases
occurred in the southern suburbs Of the city
Three deaths from sunstroke were recorded
with the mortuary clerk. The distribution Of
free ice among the deserving poor was GEN.
menced to-day, and on Saturday series Of
free excursions on the river under the auspices
of the fresh air mission for the benefit of the
sick children, win be given.
A Boston, July 18th, telegram says,
one of the severest tempests ever experienced
here swept over the city this afternoon. The
duration of the storms greatest violence was
about twenty five minutes, and in that period
great damage was done to life and property
Reports from various points down the harbor
contain accounts of serious damage and dis
tressing accidents. Many small yachts and
other boats were capsized. The most serious
disaster yet reported is that the small
schooner Myrtle, of Charlestown having or
board six persons, consisting of four women
man and boy. The schooner was capsized
off Bird Island, and all excepting the man
Thos. Durham, who chung to the topmast
were drowned. The women were Margaret
Durham, wife of Thomas, Mary Ann Dunbar
and Susan Durham, sisters, Lizzie Durham
his niece, and boy named Arthur Ryan.
boy named Walker Hittenbaum was alst
drowned by the capsizing of boat off Hull
The damage throughout the city can hardl!
be ascertained at present. Other towns wer
visited with death and destruction, such a
Pittsfeld, Fitchburgh, Springfield, Worcester
East Hampton, and others.