The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1881-07-22
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Hos. PHINEAs W. HfToHoooK, e1-United
States Senator from Nebraska, died the othe
day at Omaha, aged fifty years. He had been
classmate of President Garfield.
A BOILER exploded on Edward Sheehan's
farm near Easton, Nd, killing four men and
severely scalding five others.
HEAVY rains at Marshalitown, Ia, eliminated
in waterproof and In the rise of Linn creek
TO such an extent that about forty houses were
put afoat. and some of them swept down the
stream. The loss to property is estimated at
5000, 000
UNPREcEDENTEDLY hot weather is reported
from st. Louis, Cincinnati and othor Western
cities.
WITHIN few days Baltimore has had eight
fatal cases of Iockiaw arising from what ap-
psared to be trifing burns received by children
while handling toy pistols.
The Ohio Democratic State convention, held
at Columbus, put in the field full ticket with
J. W. Bookwaltef fot governor at it's head.
The platform favcrs the equality OF all people
before the law, equal taxation, unpolitical
legislation and free and pure ballot as she
cornerstone of free institutions; opposition to
monopolies and subsidies of all kinds; the
strictest economy in national, State and local
administrations, that labor may be lightly
burdened; the maintenance and advancement
of the common-school system;" den1unces
labor competition in State prisons; declares
FOR civil service reform, q tariff FOR revenue
and a commission to reform tie tariff and
deplores and denounces the recent attack upon
President GARFIELD.
AT the meeting of the American Hebrew
raise s5O0,00 for the endowment of college.
WILLIAM DoDsoN, Pleasant Adams, Richard
Bates and Joe Benton, four colored men con-
victed at Greenville, S. c., of burning the
ACADEMY of Music at that place on December
7, 1879, have been sentenced to be hanged on
September 9.
REPORTS from the flooded districts in Iowa
report unprecedented damage to crops and
railroad property.
WHILE working at the mouth of railroad
tunnel near Cincinnati gang Of laborers were
overwhelmed by landslide which killed two
men and injured four Others.
The 14th was generally observed in
Arkansas as day of fasting and prayer for the
recovery of President Garfield, it having been
set apart by Governor Churchill for that pur.-
pose.
FIVE persons were hanged the other day at
different places. At Van Buren,, Ark, William
Reeves was hanged for the murder of William
Drake last December, and made desperate
attempt on the scaffold to escape, knocking his
guards right and left, and for time creating a
scene of wild discord. At Mariana, Ark.
Isaac Green and John Hardin, both colored,
were hanged, each having killed man. At
New Madrid, No., Meyers and Brown, two
desperadoes we're hanged for having murdered
young man and then killing one of the
sheriff. posse sent in pursuit of them.
A TERRIFIC tornado has wrought death and
desolation in Minnesota. At Birds Island,
the new Baptist church, with several other
buildings, was totally wrecked. Near orion
vile four buildings were demolished. Then
the tornado swept farmhouses along it's course
for thirty miles, increasing in fury as it went.
Horses, barns and farm machinery were strewn
in all directions, and stock killed by the whole
sale. small hamlet called Fairfield was in
the track Of the cyclone, and nothing but the
stone foundations of the buildings remain to
show where the village stood. About fifteen
persons were killed and wounded. The people
were left in the most pitiable plight, without
shelter or clothing.