Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1879-07-16
News Items.

ing water Thursday, and was fatally
scalded.
A fire last night in Houston, Texas,
started by lamp explosion, consumed
nearly whole square OF frame build
lugs. Loss s45, 900.
John II. Tompklns, a graduate Of
Cornell in 1868, was drowned near
POughkeopsie, n. Y, Charles Nc.
CafIerty, aged l6, was drowned while
bathing near Troy.
BY a powder mill explosion near
Laurel Run Station, Pa. on the Lehigh
Valley railroad, VIM. Whitehead, Jno.
McKeal and James Burns were fatally
and several others seriously injured.
John Davis, colored, was hung at
Smithville, y. c. for the murder OF
Henry McDuflie last December. About
1000 persons were present.
A heavy rain and thunder storm at
Charleston, S. c., last night, lowered
the temperature oyer 20 degrees. Ten
white men and five negroes died from
sunstroke in Charleston, Saturday.
Michael Sullivan. a farm hand in the
employ of Henry Richards, of Spring.
field, n. j.. has been committed to Jail
for burying aliye a. new born child to
which his (Sullivan'S) ffteen-year-old
daughter gave birth.
The barn on the farm of Joseph
Grub, near Wilmington, was struck by
lightning and burned Friday night, to =
gether with large quantity Of gram.
William ALEU-, aged 16years, was
drowned while bathing in Murphy's
mill pond, near Clayton, Del, Friday
afternoon. On Saturday afternoon,
James Tonner, aged 10 years, was
drowned IN the Brandywine, at Will
mington, Del, Both accidents resulted
from bathing.
A special postal agent has arrested in
New Mexico a mail robber from Texas
but as the United States marshall has
no money to pay the expense Of trans
fcriny the rObber to Texas the post,
flee agent has taken he prisoner on
himself, providing provisions for the
SOO-mile journey and guarding the des-
perado himself.
John II. Burke has begun another
suit in San Francisco against James G..
Flood, the Nevada bank, ct al, for
81, 800 900 alleged excessive charges or
discount on bullion and interest on
loans to the Consolidated Virginia and
California Mining Companies.
At Hartford, Conn.,, IN a fit of jeal.
ousy. John Herr, a German baker,
stabbed Henry Meisterling and plunged
butcher-knife into his wife fifteen
times. Neither Of the victims was
killed, and possibly both will live.
Herr was arrested.
The Dunkard church forbids a man
to marry divorced woman. George
Hoover, Of Hagerstown, Ind. was a
Dunkard, yet he marie woman who
had been divorced. The church warned
him beforehand, and expelled him alter
ward. The expulsion grieved him so
much that he refused to eat, and starv-
ed himself to death, in spite Of his wiie's
entreaties.
1t is reported that our cotton crop
this year will amount to 5, $50, 600 bales.
This is a decided increase over last
year and is 100000 moro bales than
the South produced before the
war, when in the full enjoyment Of the
profitable slave labor about which we
have heard so much.
Another plot for the wholesale re
lease Of prisoners in the Massachusetts
State prison, at Concord Junction, has
been discovered and frustrated. An IN
tercepted letter from one convict tc
another revealed the plot, which was
to capture certain officials, stampede,
capture railroad train and get away.
Yesterday (Friday) was selected fol
the enterprise. Had escape been at
tempted many lives would, no doubt
have been lost and the prison emptieC
Of nearly all its occupants.
A severe storm swept over Mifilin,
Juniata county, Pa, unrooling the
Presbyterian and Methodist churches
the public school-ho use and row o.
ten stores, and slightly damaging the
Lutheran church. The carriage factory
of Shower & School was badly damaged
and number of carriages were destroy
ed. Other buildings were mere or less
injured. Total loss $4,000 Mrs
lCreswell, aged 70, was killed by the
roof of the Presbyterian church crush
ing into her residence. At Lewisburg
Mifflin county, seven houses were un
rooted.
An old building in Boston, in process!
of demolition, fell last Friday, entrar
ping a large number of children whC
were gathering scraps of frewood. The
were speedily extricated from the ruins
by large crowd who gathered i'm
mediately at the scene. Peter Kiley
aged l6, was taken out insensible. will
his thigh fractured George McCaflerty
aged IL, had his head bruised and bacl
injured, and several others were injured
but not seriously. The children, il
getting wood, had undermined tn,
supports of floor above. The build