Milford chronicle., 1883-04-13
NEWS OF THEDAY
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GENERAL ITEMS.
The Canadian government is said to
have positively refused to allow the tenn
porary importation of United States
whisky in bond.
Captain Fuller, of the whaler Pilots
Bride, wrecked off the Island of Desola-
ton, tells the story Of the disaster. The
crew were fourteen months on the island,
exposed to suffering and privation. They
were finally rescued by a ship that went
in search of them.
The boat in which three men sailed
from Havre de Grace having been found
bottom up in the river, its occupants
aresupposed to be drowned
The value of petroleum and
petroleum products exported during
February, 1888, was 50, 6S9, 721; during
February, 1882, 50, $50, ,S61; during the
eight months ended February %, 1888,
eos. 600. 237, and during the correspond
ing period ended February 28, 1882,
s34, ,453, SOL.
The Ende Hotel, a three story brick
building, at Greenville, the county seat
of Hunt county, Texas, was blown down
or fell down, about one o'clock Sunday
morning, and the ruins were then de-
stroyed by fire. There were nearly fifty
guests in the house, and of them thirteen
(13) were burned to death and others
were badly injured.
jacob Van Noory, aged about fifty
years, and his wife were both killed while
walking on the tracks of the Erie Rail
road, about mile west of Port Jervis.
Three officials of the San Francisco
municipal government have been indicted
for forgery, perjury and obtaining money
in the Street Cleaning Department at
the rate Of 100000 per annum.
While playing with an old gun
nine-year-old boy at Clinton, Ga, sue
ceeded in killing one lady and wounding
another and baby.
james Stowell, a lad of thirteen,
has been arrested and confined in Syra-
cuse for the probable murder of an In
dian with hammer.
The funeral of Peter Cooper took
place Saturday. A brief service was
held at his residence in the morning, at
which only the immediate family were
present. The coffin was then carried to
All Souls Unitarian Church, of which
Mr.. Cooper was n member, by COM
mittee Of the Alumni of the Cooper
Union, and the public were admitted to
view the remains. The throng was i'm
mense. The services at the church were |
in charge of the Rev. Robert Collyer, OF
the Church of the Messiah, who was
assisted by the Rev. DR.. Howard Crosby,
and the Rev. DR.. Thomas M. Peters. |
After the public services, the coffin was
carried to the hearse by graduates OF the
institute, and then the procession started |
for Greenwood Cemetery.
The master of the steamer Glouces-
Ger City, which was lost off the banks of
Newfoundland, has been suspended for
six months.
The town of Niagara Falls, Ont,
has been flooded by the downpour of
rain for thirty consecutive hours.
The town treasurer of Sparta, Wis,
a candidate for reelection, is said to be
a defaulter to the amount of $500
All the money necessary to construct
the Delaware Ship Canal is said to have
been raised, and the work will be COM
pleted within four years.
Mexican advices report that the
band Of Alaska Indians has
been driven from Sonora into Arizona,
)ut before crossing the line the savages
dlled fifty-two people south of the
Mexican boundary.
-Four convicts who attempted TO
,scape from the prison at Chester, ILL.,,
we're brought back quickly, three of
hem being shot by the guards.
The President appointed Judge W.
,. Gresham, of Indiana, Postmaster
General.
"A Sioux Indian, at the Pine Ridge
D. T) Agency, having lost one Of his
yes while chopping wood, writes to
Washington asking that the "Great
Father" will send him another one, as,
lie says, he can have it put in at the
gency.
About forty citizens of Hastings,
Neb., at eleven o'clock at night lynched
wo men for the murder Of Cash. NJ. Nil
ct, a grocer of that town.
Two men were killed and number
# others injured by gas explosion in !
Baltimore on Wednesday.
President Arthur has gone to Florida
n fishing vacation.
--Brigadier General Joseph X. Barnes,
etired, late Surgeon General Of the
United States Army, died at his resi-
ence in Washington Thursday morning,
f Bright's disease.
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