Arkansas weekly mansion., 1883-07-14
The East.

On the 9TH the steamer Bolivia arrived in
NV York with Il; .assisted' immigrants
on board.
LIGHTNING struck Blcakie & Co.'S mill,
ii Armstrong. Mass. few days ago. and
il WAS destroyed, causing Il loss of SiU.'p-
y STORM at Dover, \. H., on the night of
t;. -,ch caused the bursting of sewer,
whic.. Hooded the Cochec" Print Works.
DANA giu:c print, ready for shipment and
other stock to the extent of $4,000 Seven
persons were struc. by lightning and three
persons were killed.
CRorS have been seriously injured by
continuous rains i'll the vicinity of Scran-
ton, Pa, and additional heavy rains fell on
- the :Ith. accompanied by thunder and light
ning. which caused loss of life.
y RAIN, hail and thunderstorm in the
vicinity o. Brattlrboro, Vt, Il few days
a-o resulted i'll great damage to crops.
I.and-sli,irs on the railways delayed all
trains
BY the capsizinG of plcasure-boat off
Staten Island, y. Y, Il few days ago three
men were drowned.
hattie on the fth of the Thirteenth Regi-
nrent, of Brooklyn, twenty-five men We're
prostrated by the heat. The mercury stood
at ninet y-eiGht degrees.
AN aeronaut named Grimley, who
a>,.ended from ITomesdnle. Pa, on the 4th.
in 4 balloon, landed on the 9th in the Cats
kill Mountains, y. ", and had Il terrible
experience.
MINERS at Ely, VI, who could not get
their wages, threatened to destroy the
town with gunpowdcr on the 9th, and had
already committed acts OF violence. The
Governor ordered four companies of militia
To- the place, and would also attend himself
to prevent outragcs.
SERIOUS injury was don" by wind and
rain on the Gth in the vicinity of Albany,
y. y, trees, ice-houSes and barns being
demolished, and crops injured.
IT is announced that Timothy Smith, a
clerk i'll the office of Il firm of brokers in
Boston, las confessed to having stolen
SI1.uro and lost it i'll gambling
An nil-tauk at Oil City, Pa, was struck
by lightning on the evening of the 9Th, set
tils- it fire, and 5000 barrels of oil were
consumed.
IL Philadelphia six cases of sunstroke
occurred on the 9th, five of which proved
fatal.
GREAT mortality among children in the
tcrl.Inrftt dis rictS of New York has been
caused bv the hot wave. Up to noon on
tIic 9TH the total deaths for three days
numhrrrd iHi. There was also twcnty-six
cases of Sun~troke on that iay-tllree fatal
The steamer City of Rome arrived i'll
New York on the 9th with thirty assisted
immigrants. mainly from the work-house
at Ballanis!oe.
j. ID. BALDWIN, of Worcester, Mass,
proprietor of the S,,a, died suddenly on
the S;h. He served three terms i'll Con-
:ress-
WHILE bathing i'll the Schuylkill at Read
img. Pa, two brothers, Aaron G. and Wash
iu.ton l. Dtstweilrr, prominent and wealthy
physicians, were drowned few evenings
a-r"-
EX-JUDGE A. Is. JAMES, of the Supreme
Court of New York, and eN-Congressman.
died at Os,iensburG Il few days ago
INTEx y heat prevailed in New York on
the .th. There were 1.6 deaths, with thir-
teen fatal cases of sun-stroke. Each street
was patrolled by carts loaded with blocks
of ice and covered by tarpaulins. The
deaths for the week numbered ,OJl, against
1l6 the previous week.
WHILE August Ahlers and child We're
riding in a small boat on the river at AL
hanv, " Y, on the 18th a storm overlook
them, and they sought shelter under
bank The fierce wind blew down tree,
which struck the boat and killed both the
occupants
\ FIRE recently destroyed the State
AlIns-hou>c buildings at BridGewater,
Mass causing Il loss of Sl5o,OoO. The SIX
hundred inmates were removed in safety.
James Gilmore, n negro inmate, confessed
that ne fired the buildings.
On the 9Th five families of "assisted"
Irish immigrants landed at Castle Garden,
New York. \
UNDER command of Governor Barstow, !
four companies of Vermont militia went ,
to the copper mines at Ely on the 9TH and !
captured eleven of the striking rioters. 1t
WIS found that the families of some min /
ers were on the verge of starvation.
OK the Sth seven deaths from Sun-stroke |
occurred at Philadelphia.
EIGHTEEN deaths from the excessive heat |
occurred in New York City on the 9th, five |
being caused by sun-strokes.
AN agent at Pla.tsburgh, y. Y, informed |
the Treasury Department on the 9sh that
large numbers of .'assisted' Irish lmml- !
grants were entering the United States
from Canada, some being ticketed to the
Western States. Many who were helpless
and starving were sheltered In the Erie
County Aims House. The Treasury ota-