The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1880-10-14
FIRES AND CASUALTIES.

=; FIRES AND CASUALTIES.
HUDSON, Mass, had $4,000 fire on
the 7th inst.
A CANNON exploded at Plymouth O.,
on the eth inst, killing two young
men.
The Steamship Isaac Bell, loaded with
cotton for New York, took fire at the Nor
folk, Va, wharf, on the 3rd inst, and was
burned to the waters edge.
THE Albion print-works of Conshohock-
en-, having an office.at PHILADELPHIA, have
suspended, with heavy liabilities.
THE schooner America has been sunk
oft Two Rivers point, in Lake Michigan,
in collision with two scows loaded with
stone.
A FIRE in the servants department Of
the st. Charles hotel, at New Orleans,
damaged the building to the extent of
$4,000.
JACOB BALL, the geologist and natural
list, died recently in his tent in Willie
berger county, Texas, where he had gone
on scientific expedition.
Owing to the 10 per cent. reduction in
wages in the mills of A & w. Sprague,
manufacturing company, of Providence,
the Natick operatives struck and the mills
are shut down.
Two children of Edmund Arkland, a
machinist of Clinton, o., got hold of
bread and butter spread with strychnine
poison for mice, and ate it. Both died.
One was year old, the other 5 years.
a fire at Trenton, n. Y, on the I'd inst,
destroyed property belonging to the
Merchants Transportation Co., West,
Clark & Case, wholesale grocers, and Grant
& Sons, coal dealers, to the value of $780,
GEO.
The writing-paper mill at Elkhart,
Ind, owned by j. Il. Beardsley, John
Cook. and Mrs. B. L. Davenport, has
been destroyed by fire on the 9TH inst.
Loss, $4,000; insurance, $4,000.
Two boilers of The Pittsburg Cranage
Mill, Bay City Mich, exploded, on the
3rd inst, demolishing the boiler house, the
drill house. and SCATTERING one end of the
mill. The fireman, George E. Parker, was
killed in the ruins; lad named Daniel
McRae, was badly scalded, and several
others injured.
JOHN ROBERTS. who was bitten on the
finger by one OF his own dogs. near Cross
wicks, n. j., about three weeks ago, died
Of hydrophobia on Friday. He was seized
with commissions on Wednesday, and died
in great agony. He was so years old
ONE death from yellow fever was re-
leans, on the 9TH inst. the victim being a
alarm is felt over the appearance of the
disease, as the season is now too far ad-
vanced for it to gain foothold.
a. A.
engine house of the Vigilant Fire COM
pany, of Augusta, Ga, with the steamer
and all the company's property. Loss,
work of an incendiary.
CHARLES SCHENcK, aged 20 years, son of
VIM. Schenck, of Sandusky, o., went out
hun ting, on the 18th inst, with double
barreled shot gun. He fired one ba rrel,
and was in the act Of blowing the smoke
out of the gun, when the other barrel was
accidentally discharged, and the whole top
Of his head, from mouth up was blown
off.
DURING the night Augustus Bernard,
Waterman at the Michigan Central rail-
road shops, went to caldron in one of the
car houses where water for car washing
is heated, and sat on the edge of the ket-
tie while his coffee was getting hot in the
water During his wait he fell asleep and
into the boiling water of the caldron.
WM. SLY, of Nicholsville, Clermont
county o., went to Cincinnati, on the 29th
inst, and exchanged three thousand five
hundred dollars of four per cent. bonds
for gold, and put it in a valise; and on the
cars on his way home he found his valise
exchanged for enc containing three
bricks. No clue to the robber.
FIRE in one of the shafts Of the Chryso.
lite mine. at Leadvi]le, communicated
with the underground workings, and in a
short time the worked-out caves, which
were supported by heavy timbers, were
filled with flames. The miners were
driven out in great confusion, some of
them suffering from the poisonous gases.
The Inter Oceans Gibson, ILL.,, special
says, terrible accident occurred here
while workmen were renewing the props
from the arch of tile kiln at Spaulding
4 Eggles', the tile factory arch gave
way and the immense weight of brick and
mortar fell upon and buried the six men
at work inside. When help came and
they were taken out all were badly used
up. 1t is thought that Thos. Nelson will
not live. Fred. Hummell died half an
hour after being taken out. Four others
were seriously but not fatally hurt.