The true northerner., 1880-04-30
DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE.


Madison Square Garden, in New York
city, has been the scene of a shocking accident,
involving the death of several persons and the
serious injury of many more. A fair was be-
ing held in the building, and many people
were in attendance. At the portion
fronting on Madison avenue a dancing-hall
and art gallery had been arranged, and
it was here that the disaster occurred. The
Madison avenue wall fell outward into the
street, and that portion of the roof was at once
precipitated upon the heads of the dancers and
the occupants Of the art gallery, burying many
people beneath the ruins. Several persons were
killed outright, and a number manned and
bruised, some of them fatally.
Ten thousand tons of ice, stored on the
banks of Lake Champlain, slipped into the
water, and the owners, who had contracted to
deliver the stock to New York firm, mourn the
loss of 100000.
BY break in the Erie canal at Utica,
n. Y, much damage was done by the overflow
that resulted. The break is a very serious one
and will interrupt canal navigation for three or
our weeks.
Three men were killed in New York
city, the other day. by the fall of scaffold.
Over 800 families have been rendered
destitute in Ocean county, N. j., by the recent
forest fires. They lived principally by the cul-
tivation of berries
Frank Grill, a murderer, who was exc
cuted in New Jersey, last weak, was very par
hcular man. Just before going to the gallows
no akad tho Sberf IN xrn,,,o ta bo ON ffe ond
moose. brass band played in front of the Jail
while the trapeze act was in progress.
The five men-ex- Treasurer Kemble,
Representatives Hamburger and Petroff, ex-
Representative Salter and Jesse r. Crawford
who were recently convicted Of having bribed
members of the Pennsylvania Legislature in
connection with the passage of an appro-
priation to pay for damage done and
property destroyed in Pittsburgh by the
railroad rioters in 1877, were arraigned
at Harrisburg for sentence last week. Each
of the culprts was sentenced to one year at
hard labor in the penitontiary and to pay
fine of $1,000. The Judge, in passing sem
tence, dwelt at some length upon the enormity
of their crime and its shameful frequency in
Pennsylvania.
West.
BY concentrating his forces Gen. Hatch
recently surrounded, captured and disarmed
the whole band of Mescalero Apaches, in New
Mexico, numbering AGO persons. Just as the
troops were preparing to escort their prisoners
to place of safety about thirty of the savages
made break for liberty, but well-directed
volley brought down fourteen of them, only
sixteen of them making their escape.
1t is estimated that not less
than 200 persons were killed and $4,000, 600
worth Of property destroyed throughout the
West by the recent tornadoes.
Seven men, who recently left Point
Ste. Ignace, on the northern shore of Lake
Michigan, in q small boat, intending to 20 10
Black river, have been drowned.
A Chinaman named All Lee was
hanged for murder at Portland Ore, last week.
A body of forty masked men broke in
to the Moberly (Nfo.) Jail, and took therefrom
three persons who were charged with having
murdered an old man. They hanged two of
them and set the third at liberty.
A. B. Adair, whom the Greenbackers
have nominated for Lieutenant Governey of
Illinois, is printer, and foreman Of the Chi
cago Daily Ne,os.
At Memphis, No., three men lost
their lives by boiler explosion
Western Kansas is Suffering from a
severe drought, and a partial failure of the
ci ops il predicted.
Charles De Young, one Of the proprie-