Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-01-26

den at Marysville Tuscola county, Mich, burn
ed on the 18th. Loss $4,000.
The explosion of an oil tank at Point Breeze,
Pa, on the 18th inst, fired the great warehouse
of the Atlantic Petroleum Storage company.
Both were destroyed, causing loss of $780,
600. The conclusion broke windows mile
distant.
fire in New York, on the 18th. in build
ing owned by the Lorillard estate, inflicted dam
age to the amount of about $50, 600.
The residence of ex-senator Fitch, at Lo-
gansport Ind. containing some valuable works
of art was burned on the 18th inst.
The Great Storm.
The storm of the 21st inst. blockaded all the
works in the vicinity of Kingston, Ont, drifts
in the vicinity of Kingston Mills, four miles
from the city, being thirty feet high.
On the Dist instant a storm of sleet and rain,
which gradually developed into snow, broke
over section of New England, causing meal
culable inconvenience and damage to the COM
mercial interests of the entire country, through
the complete stoppage of Geographic commu-
nication. Hundreds of miles of wire were rem
dered useless through breaks occasioned by the
accumulation of snow and ice, and for the first
time in many years the New York newspapers
were cut off from their usual supply Of tele-
graphic news. In New York City the streets
were in deplorable condition-Broadway be-
ing almost impossible. An unusually high tide
into cellars on the river front. The hands of
the clocks on churches and other ediices were
stopped by being clogged with snow. In Brook
Ign untold damage was done. large number
of telegraph poles being Frustrated, the en-
tangled wires making some of the thorough
fares impossible. A portion of the city hall
towerfell, causing damage to the extent OF $685.
0Q0 An immense amount of damage was in
fiicted along the Jersey coast, at AsbuTy Park. q
mammoth hotel in course of erection was de-
mohshed. and a partially completed cottage
blown to pieces. The full extent of the dam
age by the storm cannot be ascertained until
the telegraph lines are repaired.
violent storm is reported from Kearney,
Neb., and points west of them. Heavy loss of
stock is feared. Thus far one herder reports q
loss of 600 sheep.
terrible snow storm occurred on the 18Th
extending all over the United Kingdom. Sew
eral vessels are reported as wrecked off the
Scllly Islands and other points along the coast
With the restoration of telegraph lines pros
trated by the storm in Great Britain comes re-
ports Of persons being frozen to death and over
whelmed by snow IN various districts. Railway
trains were abandoned in snow drifts SO deep
that only the funnel of the locomotive was Wis
lble. Dover pier was damaged to the extent of
tlO,O0 solid masses of concrete being scooped
out by the waves, and stones weighing more
than ton washed away. A pier on the Thames
opposite Midway was carried away by ice, and
boat engaged III rescuing people from the
pier, swamped, drowning eight persons. A
French vessel sunk off Great Yarmouth, with
a loss OF twenty lives, a brig stranded at Gar
lesion, eight of the crew perishing. and on the
Suffolk coast the bark Barone Vranyczany, was
wrecked with loss of ten lives. Railroad
communication in the United Kingdom was en-
tirelv suspended.
TragicaI.
At Atlanta, Ga. on the 22d inst. Carrie
Stokes, colored, was murdered, and her body
partially burned.
An insane man named XIX Marsh murdered
Daniel Blake, clerk of steamer, on board the
boat, when near Memphis Tenn, on the 22d
Kirk was secured after great difficulty.
On the 22d inst. near Chattanooga, Tenn,
the bodies of two murdered men, named Var
nell and Howe, were found. Two men named
Brooks and Griffin were arrested on suspicion,
and during the night both were shot dead, pre-
sumably by YarneIl's friends.
VIM. Van Ballroom, farmer living near
Genoa, Livingston county, Mich, shot bis wife
dead on the Goth inst, and then killed himself
Cause, drink and family troubles.
A row occurred in a saloon kept by man
named Tafforty, at Nelsonville O., on the night
of the goth inst. Tafforty elected two men
named Altman and Jones, when they broke
through the door and killed him with a chunk
of iron.
At Delaware Bend, Red River county, Texas,
on the Goth inst, Noah Bowling assaulted G.
Barnett with murderous intent and was shot
dead by the latter. At San Angelo, in the
same state, gambler killed soldier of Co. F.
Sixteenth infantry.
Two Lafferty brothers, living near Parkes-
burg, West Va. got into fight on he Goth inst ,
when the eldest stabbed and killed the youngest
Two notorious Bodie, Cal, characters, Dave
Damon and Ed. Ryan, had a terrible combat in
barroom at thatplace on the 21st. They began
tbn fr.av in nils nj no o1o how
had their arms around each others neck at the
same time shooting each other. Bannon fell
dead and Ryan was mortally wounded.
DR.. De Haven. formerly clown in Dan Rice's
circus, had an alteration with Nat Parish in
Glasgow KY, saloon, on the Goth inst. when
Parish pulled out a knife and cut De Ravens
throat.
Two negroes named Spearman and Fair out
ragged and murdered Miss Bessie Werz in New
berry county, S. c., on the 18th inst. The
guilty wretches were arrested, and promptly
confessed. whereupon an unfuriated party of
citizens shot Spearman dead on the spot where
the crime was committed and hung Fair.
From Madison county, Ohio, come the par
ticulars of a horrible and mysterious triple muir
der, on the 18th inst Ophelia Clark, spin
ster, aged 80 and blind, an adopted boy aged
IA. and Miss Maria Scott were found dead in
their house, having been brutaIy murdered
with huge bluLgeon. The indications are
that Robert Garner, rejected lover of Maria
Scott, the young lady, outraged her and then
murdered the entire family to hide the crime
Garner is under arrest.
A dance at Las Mia, a small village in New
Mexico, ended in free fight between Ameri-
cans and Mexicans, in which two of the former
and one Of the latter we're killed. The names
of the American victims are Doc Hodges and
Frank Smith.
vigilantes hung Joseph Daroche at Bodie,
CAL, on the 18th inst, for the murder of Thos.
A. Treloan. whose wife Daroche had made ad-
vances to.
Near Grayson, Stanislaus county, Cal, On the
18th inst, a rejected sutton for the hand of
Miss Lizzie Kuene, attempted to shoot her. but
the plucky girl anticipated the villains inten-
ton and shot him dead.
At Lapeer Village, seventy miles north of
Detroit, Mich, on the 10th inst. Mrs. Bernard.
in fit of religious excitement went to the
house of Rev. E. Curtis, the Baptist minister.
overpowered his wife, an old lady 65 years of
age, poured gasoline over her clothing and fred
it Mrs. Curtis was fatally burned
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