New Ulm weekly review., 1881-01-05
The East.

The East.
A PROMINENT Boston banking firm gave Its
clerks over $4,000 in Christmas gifts.
Brooklyn, N. Y, was fired by an explosion OF
kerosene, and Mrs. Whine was fatally burned.
AFTER the longest session on record the
Vermont Legislature adjourned sine die on
the 24th Among other bills passed was one
taxing the gross earnings of express and tele.
graph companies two per cent.
A PEW days ago James E. Owen, the "a
nous wrestler, died 1T Fairfield, VT, Of q
bronchial affection.
On the Oath Albert Magee, residing near
Bradford, Pa, put can containing thirty
seven pounds of nitro-glycerine, which had
CONCEALED, into tub Of warm water to lique-
fy it. An explosion followed, and Magee
was blown to atoms, and Thomas Perry, 4
companion, who was some distance away at
the time of the explosion, was thrown against
. wall and badly bruised.
On Christmas night Barney Duffy and John
Mahoney, two tramps, went to sleep on aheal
of rolling mill cinders near Paterson, N. j.
Duffy was overcome by the gas which escaped
from the smoldering heap. His companion
came to his aid, made coffee for him In an
old tin can, and afterwards took him to q
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
q crisp.
On the 26th the centennial anniversary OF
the establishment of the first Universalist
Church in New England by the Rev. Johr
Murray was celebrated at the Old Murray
Church in Gloucester, Mass.
A BOILER in Dodge's shoe factory ct New
buryport, Mass, exploded on the 9th, killing
three employees and seriously injuring ssv
szal others.
He Farmers Fertilixing Company, . co.
operative institution of Philadelphia, recent.
ly suspended, with liabilities of $l57, 200, OF
which $50, 600 was due the Directors for i'd
vances made.
AT Utica, N. T., a 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.
Bank, N. j., the other day.
Rev. DIR. E. H. CHAPLIN, the eminent New
York Universalist preacher, died in that city
a few days ago, aged sixty-six years.
JACoB GoaEL 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-
lieved to have been the murderer, and an In
furiated mob of citizens caught him, and
after detailed. confession of the crime
hanged him to tree. It seems he had beer
refused the hand of their daughter by hi
victims, and he thought to possess her sftel
their death.
Immigrants to the number of 91S, ,937 ar.
rived at the port of New York from January
to December q, 1889.
GEORGE BODD1CKE, letter-carrier arrested
in New York on the 28th, confessed that he
had been robbing the mails for the past year,
his plumber averaging about tlve dollars pei
day.
On the 23th the statue of General Philir
Kearney in the Military Park at Newark, N.
j., was unveiled.
CAMBRIDGE Mass, celebrated the 250tl
anniversary of it's settlement on the 2Sth
President Eliot, Colonel Higginson and Pro
fessor Longfellow delivered addresses ant
DR.. Holmes read poem.
On the 2Sth Congressman Vorhis was ar
raigned in the County Court at Hackensack
N. j., for embszzlement, and his case set fo
trial in April.
A SPECIAL Congressional election in tn
Third New Hampshire District was held OF
the 2eth, at which Ray (Rep.) was elected t.
succeed the late E. W. Farr
;. IT is announced that the Western Unio1
Telegraph Company has been for severa
weeks successfully using, between New York
and Boston, An invention by which five mes
sages are simultaneously sent from each enc
of a WIRE!
On the 10Th William Wait, the eminent le
gal author, died at Johnstown, N. T., of con
sumption.