The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1880-10-21
FIRES AND CASUALTIES,

PROFESSOR BENJAMIN PIERCE, the cele-
brated mathematician and professor al
Harvard college, is dead.
JOHN T. L. VOORHEES,, aged IS, living
at Greggs town, fell from ladder on the
9TH inst. and broke his neck.
GENERAL STEWART, of Virginia. post
master of the national house of represen-
tatives, is dead
A FIRE in the servants department of
the st. Charles hotel, at New Orleans.
$4,000.
The Chase and Faulker mills at Lowell,
Mass, have been destroyed by fire. Sew
eral hundred people are out of employ
ment.
The Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific
railway bridge crossing the Little Vermil-
hon river at La Sale. ILL.,, has been de-
stroycd by fire.
BENJAMIN WATKINS, a farmer living
near North Harmony, n. y, was kicked
in the stomach by his horse, Oct. 18th, and
lived but a few minutes.
A GRAVEL-TRA1N ran into a drove of
COWS near Stillman Valley, ILL.,, on the
Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul railway,
ditching ten cars and killing several men,
including John Ryan, section man.
FRENCH & Wards wooden mill at West
Stoughton, Miss, burned on the 9th. Loss
S3o,o 900; probably covered by insurance.
Over 300 employees are thrown out of
work. Several Of them injured
GREAT numbers of large white butter
flies have made their appearance in Lack
awana, Pa, to the alarm of the farmers.
The mass is so dense in places that it pre-
sents the appearance of snow-storm.
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 a year old, the other wears.
HENRY THREsHER, of Fond du Lac,
Wis.,, saw-fler in Grifith's mill, had his
arm so badly shattered by the bursting of
an emery wheel on the 18th inst, that
amputation is necessary.
RUSSIAN cotton manufacturers are soon
to meet at Moscow to discuss the threaten
ed crisis in their industry. The wages
of operatives have been reduced until
great misery prevails among the working
people, and serious outbreaks are appre-
4 DISPATCH from La Crosse reports six
cases of epizootic in that city, showing that
the disease does not spread westward TAX
ing cities in a range, but breaks out here
and there where last expected. Similar
reports come from other towns in the in
terror.
CHARLES SCHENCK, aged 20 years, son of
VIM. Schenck, of Sandusky, o., went out
hunting, on the 4th 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.
ANNIE TALBOT, aged years, daughter
of widow S. A. Talbot, Of Decatur, ILL.,,
while preparing dinner picked no can
of coal-oil and poured the fluid On the
live Goals. There was an explosion. An
MES clothes took fire, and now she is in a
very dangerous condition, being very bad
~ burned about her face.
GEORGE TAYLOR, of Logansport, Ind,
Panhandle, brakeman, fell from train
at Amoka Junction, on the 18th inst. and
Goth legs were horribly crushed and
died within two hours He leaves a wife
and child, who reside on the corner of
Seventh and Wright streets. The deceased
had run on the Panhandle road for ten
years past, and was an exemplary and
popular man.
The I1ribuae's La Crosse Wis, special
says: A singular and fatal accident &C.
Cured there on the 9th inst, Joseph Ma
Der, farmer, living four miles from La
Crosse. while returning home in company
with his wife was fatally burned and his
wife terribly injured by fire. He was un.
der the influence of liquor and having
carelessly thrown lighted match in the
hay in the wagon, the hay ignited and
their clothing Immediately caught fire,
with the result above stated. The wagon
was entirely consumed.
A TERRIBLE accident occurred at Pitts
burg on the 11h inst, on the Pennsylvania
railroad. Wallis accommodation, which