The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1880-12-02

Two-thirds of the town of Newport Ark, on
the Iron Mountain railroad was destroyed by
fire lately, involving a loss of $2OO,000.
The printing department attached to the Hos
letter & Smith Stomach Bitters mandatory at
Pittsburg, Pa, was burned recently. Loss,
$4,000.
William Hill, musician at Deadwood Black
Hills, was knocked down and run over by an
incoming Pierre coach lately, and died within
few minutes.
John Awe of Hudson, Wisconsin, was acct
IDENTIFY killed at Grover & Johnson's logging
camp. near Clear Lake. His mother lives at
Little Falls, this State.
The Park hotel in the Bad Lands, atthe cross
ing of the Little Missouri, was burned lately. 1t
Loss, So, 500; no insurance.
Thomas Ashley, a miner, fell distance of
seventy feet down the shaft of the De Smet mine
at Central City, Black Hills, recently, and was
instantly killed He lived at Franklin, N. H.
The cheese factory eff Huntley & Taft, at
seargent Bluffs, six miles east Of Sioux City,
%s b$1nd do eGS n H. dLoss nsu r.
London.
Francis Hatchkiss, a retired merchant and
banker of New Haven, died very suddenly. A
few minutes before his death, his wife who had
gone in to see him, on being informed that he
was dying fell dead.
Eddie Curtis, son of a prominent citizen of
Madison, Wis, was drowned in lake Mendoza re-
Gently, while venturing out on the newly frozen
ice for the purpose Of catching wild ducks which
had been frozen fast in the ice.
At reception rendered Joel Hebree and wife,
at the residence of the BRIDES father, Col Dali,
near Kingston, Tennessee, arsenic was used by
mistake for soda. Five persons have died from
the effects, and about thirty others were dang
erously poisoned
1oe
18th of November for Collingwood was wrecked
on Lake Huron. 1t is supposed she went down
with Is men and there is no survivor of the
calamity. She was an old craft and had been
twice burned and repaired.
A boiler exploded recently in Andrew Moore's
foundry at Charlotte, Michigan, entirely demol-
ishing the building, killing outright George
Moore, his son, and another man unknown,
severely scalding and otherwise injuring four
others, one or more fatally.
The propeller California, after loading 49,
900 bushels of wheat and corn at Toronto was
about to proceed to Ogdenburg, when it was
found that she had been cut through at the wa
ter line by ice and filling rapidly sunk in twelve
feet Of water where she nOws lies.
The steamer Ortiga came in collision with the
French steamer Oncle Joseph, near Spezzia.
The Oncle Joseph was so much injured that she
soon sank She had 800 persons on board, on
ly about fifty of whom were saved. The Ortiga
has arrived at Leghorn, having also been Sc
verely damaged.
On the Kokomo extension of the Denver and
Rio Grande railroad, the laborers noticed pine
trees trembling and in an instant a slide came
with loud roar tearing up the track for dis
lance Of quarter of a mile and burying sixty
men. John Dine was killed, nineteen men bad
ly injured and eleven others slightly
Michael Krutz, a young unmarried man of
Detroit, Michigan, celebrated Thanksgiving by
filling up with cheap whiskey, and in the after
noon accepted wag ger to drink pint more.
Soon after he lapsed into state of apparently
helpless drunkenness, in which condition he
laid away in barn to sober off. At six o'clock
he was found dead
The warehouse and grain elevator of H. B.
Graft & Co., at Lancaster, Pa, was destroyed
by fire Thursday morning The building was
owned by H. B. Graf, and valued at $40, 1000;
insurance, So, 500 The contents of the build
ing consisted Of grain, apples, potatoes and to-
bacco, owned by Graft & Co., and others The
total loss on contents is $50, 900; insurance,
$25, 200!