The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1880-10-07
FIRES AND CASUALTIES.

EIGHT bodies were taken out of the col
lapsed Hudson river tunnel at Jersey City,
on the 2Stb. Four were identified.
A MAN named Jacob Zcarnzki was
buried, by caving of the earth, in a sewer
trench at Milwaukee.
SEVERAL extensive mercantile establish
ments at Fort Dodge, Iowa, were de-
stroyed by fire, on Sept. 50.
A FERRY steamer was capsized while
crossing the Garonne, at Bordeaux, on the
oath inst, and six persons were drowned.
FIRE in Cincinnati, on the 9th inst,
destroyed Marmet & Co s coal elevator
and a portion Of Lane 4 Bodley's ma
chine-shops.
The grain elevator and warehouse Of O..
P. CLANCY, at Canal Wincheste], Ohio, was
destroyed by fire on the 3Oth inst. Loss
about $4,000.
JAMES HANNA. of Oakland, Pa, and
! male companion, were found dead in bed
| at the Burnett house They blew out the
gas when retiring and suffocated.
ALyINE BARNEY, a patient at the In
the betting in the engine room and instant
ly killed, his head being crushed.
| SMALLPOX RACES with undated viru-
lence among the Indians Of Ontario, Can
ada. One tribe is nearly extinct, and
others have suffered appalling decima-
ton.
THE remains Of Peter Woodland, the
assistant superintendent, who persisted in
the Hudson river tunnel disaster, have
been recovered.
! MISS SARAH VANCE, patient in St. Vim
cents insane asylum, st. Louis, set fire to
her clothing, and was fatally burned.
AT a wedding reception in Hancock
county: ILL.,, the guests were mysteriously
poisoned with. something which acted as an
emetic 1t was by ali odds the most bril-
liant social event of the season.
THREE men were scalded fatally, and
two others painfully, by the explosion of
the steam-pipe of the packet Maggie
Harper, on the Ohio river, on the 29th
inst.
OK the morning of the 2Sth the steamer
boat, en- route for New Orleans, sunk at
Good Hope or Bullets Bay. La, six miles
above Natchez.
| A GENTLEMAN who has just returned
from Desert says 12O deaths have occurred
from smallpox. In one camp of sixteen
persons all but one boy died. The Tete
|
IMMENSE swarms Of grasshoppers ap
peared at Jacksboro, Tex. last week, COM
ing from the north, at times obscuring the
sun. Farms near there are completely de-
vastated, even cotton stalks being devour-
ed.
| JACOB SAUL, Jr.. Of Havana, ILL.,. boy
about II years old, fell out of a tree while
| gathering pecans, and broke one leg and
one arm, and tore three ribs from his back
bone. He fell distance of about forty
feet.
| AVN. DoNNELLY, farmer living near
Jericho, upon entering his cattle-yard,
with the sleeves of his red flannel shirt
displayed, was attacked by his bull and
was gored so badly that he died from his
injuries.
WOOD fires are destroying considerable
property at Kewaunee, Wis. The house
and barn of Carl Hoppe, and the barn of
Joseph Chmeila and crops of F. w: Smith,
of Pierce township, were DESTROYED on the
oath inst. Everything is very dry.
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.
DURING the heavy wind and rain storm
at Norway, a., Saturday afternoon, VIM.
Tanner and Filing Ellingston, while try
ing to cross Mud creek with their teams,
were swept down stream, and both were
drowned before assistance could reach
them. The team of the former was also
drowned.
| DURING the night Augustus Bernard,