The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1880-08-19


pork-packer, has failed, with liabilities of
100000
BURGLARS blew open a safe in Bronson
Mich, and got away with $500 on the 10th
inst.
The post office at Erie, Michigan, was
entered on the 9th inst, and the safe blown
up and $3.50 stolen.
A FIRE took place in the Manhattan Vim
egar company's works, Brooklyn, and when
the flames were extinguished the charred
remains of watchman Henry Susa, were
found
A BRocKToN, Mass. dispatch of the End
says the freight-house of the Old Colony
railroad with a large quantity of freight
was destroyed by fire; loss heavy.
ANNIE BOOTH, years of age, who was
bitten by mad dog on the 18th Of June,
died at Lancaster, Pa. in great agony on
the 5th inst.
A BARK loaded with naphtha was burned
at Williamsburg, n. Y. Other vessels
were injured by the flames, all the losses
aggregating 100000.
BAPrIsrE FERscHNElDER, cook at the
United States Hotel, Saratogs, N. Y, was
shot dead by his friend and roommate,
y
in fun at Ferschneider.
WHILE Charles Splittgarber, a young
man from Pekin, ILL.,, was at work raising
an iron cupola to the dome of the Jewish
synagogue, a rope broke, and Splittgarber
was thrown to the ground, distance OF
fifty feet. es-- +
Two or three boys at Pocasset,- Mass,
undertook to teach their little brother, 3
years of age, to swim by taking him to the
middle Of swiftrunning river and drop
ping him. He got out all right once or
twice, but was drowned the succeeding
time.
CHARLES NJ. CARRIER, carpenter and
Joiner, while working in the new Salmon
block in Beloit, Wis, stepped backward
into an open stairway and fell sixteen feet
to the floor below, striking on his head:
He was taken up unconscious, the blood
flowing from his ears and nose, and car
ried to his home, where he died in about
two hours.
AT Newburg, Preston county, Va, ter
rible accident happened. Mrs. Halbritter
and Miss Halbritter were walking on the
railroad, when the fast line came along
and struck both of them, killing Mrs. Hal
britter instantly, and inficting injuries
upon Miss Halbritter from which she died
in few hours.
A LAD about IA years old, named Eddie
Boston, of Sandusky, Ohio, while riding a
| horse to bring home COWS from pasture,
| fell or was thrown to the ground and
dragged nearly half mile before becom-
ing disentangled from the~ halter-strap,
| which had been twisted around his wrist.
When found, on the edge of town, life was
extinct, and his body was frightfully man
gled and the clothing torn from it.
| PETER DoRE, German baker, was
drowned in Rock river, on the 18th inst.
kHe was out in a boat alone. about two
miles from the city bridge, when steamer
passed He changed his position to look
at the steamer, and weighing two hundred
and forty five pounds, his boat, which was
small one, capsized and threw him into
the water. He swan to within twenty
feet of shore, and where he might have
touched bottom had he tried, when he
sunk to rise no more.
A SPECIAL from Laramie city says: A
man named A. G. Angelo was found dead
beside the Union Pacific track this morn
ing bv section hands. He had been run
over by the cars and ended his life by
shooting through the heart. The mans
name is probably Stanbrey G. Angelo, a
correspondent of the Liverpool Courier
who was with Prince Napoleon in Zululand
where the latter was killed. Angelo has
been writing up the west for his paper and
had left Cheyenne.
The engine of threshing machine
owned by Jas Graham, at the farm Of
Alias McCann, near Lakeland, MiEn., ex.
ploded its boiler on the l1th inst, killing
| the foreman and two men, and woundine
six or seven of the hands employed about
the machine, some of them seriously. The
names of the killed are James Graham
Hub. Young, and Ellsworth Fay: The
right arm of the latter was torn off and :
fiye-inch bolt driven into his forehead.
AT ball in Dallas, Texas, during th'
progress of quadrille, pistol dropped
from the rear pocket of Billy Mitchell, ;
guest, and was discharged. At the TIM
he was dancing with. Miss Susan Cameron