The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1880-05-14
NEWS EPITOME.
eastern and Middle states.

A dispatch from Lykens, Pa, says that By
an explosion in tAe Short mountain calliery
George West Simon Kneilly and Michael
Douglass, all married, were instantly killed
and two other men tatally injured.
The New Hampshire Democratic State
convention for the election of delegates to the
national convention was held at Concord
Four delegates .at-large and six district dele
gates, with alternates, were chosen and .
platform adopted which denounees the Re-
publican party and the election of 1876 as Q
conspiracy and fraud"
George B. Roberts, first vice-president Of
the Pennsylvania Railroad company, has been
elected president, as successor to Colonel
Scott.
Since January nearly l00, 900 smigrantz
have been landed at Castle Garden, N. 7.
Two men were attempting to explode a
nitro-glycerine torpedo in an oil well on the
border lands, about eight miles northeast OF
Bradford, Pa, when there was terrific ex-
plosion, which scattered the engine house,
boiler house, derrick and machinery In q
thousand different directions. The oil caught
fire and shot up into the air hundred feet in
blazing column. The ground for miles
around was covered with a thin layer Of oil
and oil soaked leaves. A strong wind was
blowing from the west and the fire spread
with trightiul rapidity in the direction of
Rev City, village OF about 100 houses. The
oil-well property, tanks, rigs and machinery
were one sheet of fame for q distance OF two
miles to Rev City. The people of that place
were paralyzed with fear and tried to remove
their household goods before the fire reached
them, but such was the awful speed OF the
flames that nothing could be saved and the
village was totally consumed. The people
ran for their lives and sough q place of shell
ter in an open field While this fire was in
progress an oil well in the town OF Gilmore,
about six miles west OF Rev City, ignited, and
still third fire broke out at Custer City, four
miles south of Bradford. The country for
miles around was one seething mass OF fame
and about 800 oil wells were burned in an
hour, together with hundreds Of thousands OF
barrels OF petroleum.
The New Jersey Republican State conven.
Hon, held at Trenten, elected four delegates
at-large and seven district delegates to the
national convention, and adopted resolutions
declaring that the presidential nominee at
Chicago would be cordially supported by
them. On the same day the New Hampshire
Republican convention, held at Concord,
elected delegates to the national convention
and adopted resolutions declaring that while
they were in favor of sending an uninstructed
delegation to Chicago they believed that
Blaine was "the man for the times" etc.
The Delaware Republicans, in convention at
Dover, appointed an unrestricted delegation
to Chicago and adopted resolutions declaring
they would support any candidate Endorsed by
the national convention.
The jury OF investigation into the reoapt
fatal accident at the Madison Square garden
in New York, by which four persons lost their
lives, rendered verdict censuring the owners
oil the structure and the department of build
ings, and recommending that the entire
building be torn down.
At a meeting of the Loyal Legion of the
United States, held in Philadelphia, General
W. S. Hancock wss reelected commander.
A fire in Williamsport, Pa, destroyed two
lumber yards containing three million feet of
lumber, and six tenement houses, entailing
loss OF $4,000.
A fire which broke out in the house OF
Justice Cline, at Rexford, Pa, communicated
to the adjoining structures, and before the
flames could be subdued eighty buildings were
laid in ashes. The houses burned embrace
the principal hotels. stores, business places,
and several large oil tanks containing many
thousands OF barrels OF oil. On the same day
the business part of the village of Undertook,
N. z, was destroyed by fire, and at Ale
gheny City, Pa, about thirty building we're
burned to the ground.