The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1880-04-29
FEES AND CASUALTIES.

JOHN HURST, president of the National
Exchange Bank Of Baltimore, died at
an advanced age, on the 18th inst.
THEODORE GUD1N, a marine painter,
died at the age Of IS, in Paris, on the
14th inst.
DR. Thomas Joseph Brown, a Roman
Catholic bishop of Newport and Menevia,
died in London on the 14th inst.
DIR. William Sharpey, an eminent med.
ical professor and author, died in Lon.
don on the 14th inst.
Col. JOHN NICE, Of the 174th Pennsyl-
vania volunteers and mayor of Milford
Pa, died on the 18th inst, aged 50.
A SCHOONER, with all hands on board
was lost in Long Island Sound during a
gale on the 10th inst.
Two men were killed in the New Jer.
Soy Iron and Steel Works, at Trenton on
the 10th inst, by the falling of an iron
bar.
A TRENTON, N. j. dispatch of the 18th
says forest of pine and cedar fifteen
miles long and ten wide has burned over,
and the fire is still raging.
A DISPATCH from Fredericksburg,
Virginia, of April 18th states that great
forest fires in the region Of the wilder,
ness are doing serious damage.
A FARMER while out hunting, on the
14th inst, near Cedar Rapids, Iowa, acci-
dentally shot himself in the right side.
The charge passed through the flesh just
above the hip. He will probably die.
HARRY MoAK, of Minneapolis, yard
master of the Minneapolis and Eastern
railroad, was crushed to death on the 10th
inst, by being caught under freight
car which was thrown from the track by
an incoming freight train.
CHARLES E. WoRTHEN of Boston, has
just received verdict in his favor for
SIS, 900, against the Grand Trunk rail
way says q telegram of the 14th.
Worthen was travelling salesman OF
Field, Lighter & Co. of Chicago. The
suit was for the loss of a leg in an acci.
dent in 1876.
THE body'of George Woodarn, drown.
ed several weeks ago by the upsetting OF
boat a short distance above Burlington,
Iowa, was found on an island few
miles below Burlington, on the 14th inst
An inquest was held and verdict rem
dered Of accidental drowning. The re.
mains were taken to Oquawka, ILL.,, fol-
burial.
WHILE a freight train on the Mime
apolis Eastern Railroad was rounding q
curve within the city limits, on the 17th
inst, three cars jumped the track and
were pcecipitated into the Mississippi
Harry Moak; yardmaster, was caught
under the cars and crushed, so that he
died soon after.
THE w. E. Frost manufacturing com
pany's planning mill and sash, door and
blind factories was, says Chicago dis
patch of the 10th, burned. The building
was owned by Barton Jones; loss to ma
chinery and building $25, 1000; insurance
$4,000. Frost & Co. place their loss a
$40, 900, but that estimate is regarded a
too high. Insurance $4,000.
A DAY or two ago Mrs. George Paul
the mother of the victim of Merrick
the wite.murderer, who was hung las
year, was fatally burned at her home
south of Indianapolis. Being insane
she was confined to chair, and while
alone draft of air carried the blankets
in which she was wrapped against thl
stove, igliting them. When discovered
she was fatally burned, On the 14th inst
A DISTRICT of dense pine fores! ant
cedar swamp, fifty miles long and tel
miles wide, has been burned, and cute
fires continued to rage on the 18th inst
in N. J. Thousands of game and othe
birds, and many cattle were suffocated
The smoke was so dense tha! the sun wa
not seen for:two days. The district burne,
over was sparsely populated. The fame
were extending through Cumberlant
and Atlantic counties, and unless heav
rain comes will only be extinguishe
when they reach the sea.
By an unfortunate accident, on tn
14th inst, 9. H. Gilman, ex-count
judge of Ottawa. Ill., ,sfell from his oftic
window. on the second floor, to the paw.
ment, striking upon his head an