The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1880-03-10
CASUALTIES.

There was $4,000 fire at Davenport,
Iowa, March 4.
Wilkcsbarre Pa. had a 100000 fire on
the night of March 2.
There was a 10000 fire in Winchester,
Kentucky, March 4th.
BY boiler explosion at Glasgow, Scot
land, March S, Is persons were killed.
Two soldiers were drowned at Fort
Smelling by breaking through the ice on the
night Of March s.
The steamship Massachusetts, on her
passage from Boston to Liverpool lost over
board 70 head of CATTLE
Gilboith's spinning mills at Glasgow,
Scotland were burned March 5. Loss ESQ,
900. Two lives were lost in the fire.
On Saturday, March 6, Charley A. Tay-
lor, of Chicago, died OF hYdrophobia. He had
been bitten by dog six weeks previous.
The Cincinnati & Muskingum Valley
railroad bridge, at Centreville, Ohio, was
struck by tightening and burned, Match 4.
Two men were killed and asnumbes,
wounded at Watertown, N. r., March 5, by the
breaking OF skip in q shaft Of the Shuttleff
iron mine.
A London correspondent of March 4,
says the inhabitants OF the Island of Irinishark
in the county Of Mayo, Ireland, are in a terri
bic state of restitution.
Part Of the Dantorth locomotive works
at Patterson,N.J j. were burncd,March 6,throw-
ing 800 men out of employment. Loss on
buildings and machinery S175O00.
o. w. Case, one of the county commas
sioners of Mower county, residing in Grand
Meadows, was found dead in his bed at the
Fleck house, in Austin, on the morning of
March 4.
Eugene Bernard, ST., died suddenly at
his residence in St. Paul, on the evening of
March g., Of appoplexy. He came to st. Paul
in 1856, and had held the Office of the justice
OF the peace for twenty consecutive years
A fire supposed to be incendiary broke
out during the storm on the night Of March
5, at New Albany, Indians, in the chemical
works and pot house of Depaw's plate glass
manufactury. Both were destroyed. Loss
between $4,000 and $4,000: insurance $780,
600 all in eastern companies, except $4,000
in the American Central, of St. Louis
During the prevalence of a heavy wind
and rain at Toledo, Ohio, March q chimney
OF the Buckeye Brewery was blown down. fall
ng on and crushing the engine house, in
which Policeman John Hasset and NJ. F. DOYLE
and the night watchman ut the brewery had
taken refuge. The two former were killed
The later was severely injured. The wind at
tanned velocity of 70 miles per hour, doing
considerable damage to roofs, freight shed and
prostrating telegraph lines in all directions.
Joe Hardy of St. Paul fell from pas
senger train at o'clock on the merning of
March 4th, and had one arm shatterd by the
wheels running over it, his left shoulder, and
left ribs crushed and broken and his head in
Jured. His recovery was not expected, though
he was alive about sc hours after the accident
He died at a quarter to o'clock on the even
ing of March 5. His remains were taken to
st. Paul for interment
A violent storm of wind and hail pre-
vailed at Louisville, Kentucky, early on the
morning of March at 500 A. NJ. the speed Of
wind was forty eight miles an hour, the high
est ever recorded at this station, blow last
month having reached forty-two miles, next
highest. From 800 to A. NJ the rain and
thunder continued but the wind quieted down
gradually, from 20 to 10 miles per hour So
far rs heard, there was no damage beyond the
blowing down of few fences and signs