The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1881-01-06
The East.

The East.
PROMINENT Boston banking firm gave Il
clerks over $4,000 in Christmas gifts.
On the 18th the residence of Patrick Whine
Brooklyn, n. T., was fired by an explosion 9
kerosene, and Mrs. Whine was fatally burned
AFTER the longest session on record tn
Vermont Legislature adjourned sine die o.
the Gath. Among other bills passed was on
taxing the gross earnings of express and tele
granh companies two per cent.
A FEW days ago James E. Owen, the IA
nous wrestler, died at Fairfield, VT, of
bronchial affection.
On the oath Albert Magee residing nea
Bradford Pa, put a can containing thirty
seven pounds of nitro-glycerine, which hat
CONCEALED, into a tub of warm water to lique
fy it. An explosion followed, and Mage,
was blown to atoms, and Thomas Perry,
companion, who was some distance away q
the time of the explosion, was thrown agains
avail and badly bruised.
On Christmas night Barney Duffy and Johr
Mahoney, two tramps, went to sleep on a eal
of rolling mill cinders near Paterson, N. j.
Duffy was overcome BY the gas which escaped
came to his aid, made coffee for him in an
old tin can. and afterwards took him to 9
hospital. Mahoney then returned to his for.
mer resting place, probably not knowing the
cause Of Duffy's sickness. He was found on
the cinder-heap the next morning burned to
crisp
On the 26th the centennial anniversary OF
the establishment of the first Universalist
Church in New England BY the Rev. John
Murray was celebrated at the Old Murray
Church in Gloucester, Mass.
A BOILER in Dodge's shoe factory at New
buryport, Mass, exploded on the 9Th, killing
three employes and seriously injuring sew.
eral o hers.
The Farmers Fertilizing Company, . CO.
operative institution of Philadelphia, recent
ly suspended, with liabilities of $l57, 100, OF
which $50, 100 was due the Directors for ad-
vances made.
AT Utica, N. Y, few days ago Henry
Ostrander, twenty-nine old, became jealous
OF his brother George, aged twenty-six, be-
cause their little sister Carrie caressed the
latter. He spit tobacco juice into the girls
face. and, on being demonstrated with by
George, shot the latter dead.
Two MEN persisted in snow-storm at Red
Bank, n. j., the other day.
REV. DIR. E. H. CHAPLIN, the eminent New
York Universalist preacher, died in that city
few days ago, aged sixty six years.
JACOB GoGEL and wife were found dead in
bed at their home near Bethlehem, Pa, on
the evening of the 9th, their heads being
nearly severed from their bodies. Joseph
Snyder, who boarded with them, was be-
lievei to have been the murderer, and an in
furated mob of citizens caught him, and,
after detailed confession of the crime.
hanged him to tree. 1t seems he had been
refused the hand of their daughter By his
victims, and he thought to possess her after
their death.
Immigrants to the number of BIS, 937 ar
rived at the port of New York from January
to December "a, 1881
GEORGE BoDDICKE, q letter-carrier arrested
in New York on the 18th, confessed that he
had been robbing the mails for the past year,
his ylunder averaging about five dollars Der
day.
On the 2sth the statue of General Philip
kearney in the Military Park at Newark, N.
D., was unveiled.
So"onADVE3 3AooSss dtCU tu0 1sIUGu
anniversary of its settlement on the 2Sth.
President Eliot Colonel Higginson and Pro.
lessor Longfellow delivered addresses and
DR.. Holmes read q poem.
On the 18th Congressman Vorhis was ar
raigned in the County Court at Hackensack,
n. j., for embezzlement, and his case set for
trial in April.
A SPECIAL Congressional election in the
Third New Hampshire District was held on
the 2Sth, at which Ray (Rep) was elected to
succeed the late E. w. Farr.
IT is announced that the Western Union
Telegraph Company has been for several
weeks successfully using, between New York
and Boston. an invention by which five mes
cages are simultaneously sent from each end
OF q wire. .sf
On the 10th William Wait, the eminent le-
gal author, died at Johnstown, N. T., of con-
sumption. r.