The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1880-02-13

A few mornings ago one OF the best-known
rag pickers of Paris was found dead in her
bed in q noisome house at Montmartre, Paris
Her bedy was hall devoured BIZ rats when It
was discovered. Although in appearance she
was an object OF misery, yet large sum of
gold and hil7er was found in stocking near
the bed. A still more singular circumstance
connected with this tragedy was that the
brother OF the dead woman had been seeking
her for several days to announce to her that
she had inherited fortune of $4,000:
Reports have been received that during d
hurricane at the Philippine islands several
merchant vessels were wrecked and Spanish
gunboat with all her crew was lost
The pope is reported to be in failing health
Az Lucan, Ontario, twenty or more dis
guised tnissn surrounded the house of family
named DoAnelly, suspected of incendiarism
and other outrages, and killed James and Judy
Donnelly, Thomas, the youngest son, and
Bridget, a niece, after which they set fire to
the building. The only inmate of the house
who escaped was boy visitor named Com
nors, At about. the same midnight
another party called at the residence OF VIII
liam Connolly, three miles distant, and killed
his brother John, who came to the door in
answer to their knocks.
Mr.. Parnell the Irish agitator now in
America, having charged that the famine
money entrusted to the Mansion House
relief fund committee Of Dublin was unjustly
distributed, the committee have telegraphed
extracts from numerous letters of Catholic
bishops and archbishops in denial OF Mr.. Par
nell's charge.
The American demand for iron is said to be
caueing unprecedented activity in Great
Britain. Four vessels loaded with over 5000
tons OF pig iron and rails sailed from Iseith
for New York the other day, and thirteen
vessels are at present chartered to load iron
for American ports.
Byarailroad collision at Asgenteuil, France,
seven persons were killed Outright, twenty
five seriously and many others slightly in
tired. ..ls!tjs
Queen Victoria read her speech in person at
the opening of the British parliament.
A volcanic eruption in Dominica, Central
America, caused the Rosean river to over
flow and submerge surrounding estates. The
town OF Roseau was visited by q heavy storm
of sand, mixed with sulphur, anthony and
iron; and in short time this deposit thickly
covered the ground and house tops. The
town was enveloped in darkness and many
persons were overcome with nausea, occa-
stoned by the anthony with which the air
was charged.
General Roberts, commander OF the British
army in Afghanistan, reports that in all about
100 Afghans have been executed at Cabul for
attacking the British residency and various
other crimes.
About twenty-five vessels, including four
foreign frigates, were wrecked and forty six
persons drowned during the recent hurricane
in the Philippine islands.
Tom Henry, Jim Dorsey, William Randall
and James West, four desperadoes, attacked
and killed Joseph Carson, the city marshal Of
Los Vegas, New Mexico, because he had
made himself obnoxious to them bv seeking
TO recover a buggy which they had stolen
During the fight which followed Carson's
death Randall was killed and his three com.
panioas were arrested. A few days atterward
all three were taken from jail by a crowd and
lynched.
Mount Vesuvius is again reported in a
state of eruption.