Milford chronicle., 1883-04-20
NEWS OF THE DAY
GENERAL ITEMS.

eXamlnatlOa or trial, charged with rob
bing the Panama Railroad Company o.
$4,000, have been released, and mum
n Der of them have arrived in this country
-Bradstreet's Commercial Agency il
New York City was burned out making
a lively Sundays fire at Reade street
and Broadway, with loss Of S10l 600.
A dispatch received from Viii
liam's Ranch, Texas, says that a
great meteor fell in the outskirts of the
town, killing several head of cattle and
; destroying the dwelling house of Marti
nez Garcia, a Mexican herdsman, who.
with his family. consisting of a wife and
five children, are buried beneath the
ruins. The meteor was the largest ever
known. and filled the air with sulphurous
gas.
The Yale class crews have decided
that the annual class races shall be
rowcd in the New Haven harbor this
year.
At Dubuque, Iowa, the bodies of a
woman and her three-year-old.son were
found at the bottom OF well fifty feet
deep.
Alfred G. Packer, the white canni-
bal, who with five others was lost in a
snow storm, and killed and eat his com
panions, has been found guilty Of muir
der at Denver, Col, and sentenced to be
hanged For nine years he has eluded
| justice.
Judge Lawrence, of New York City,
dismissed the suit Of Emma e. Yates
brought to recover dover in the estate
of her husband, Alonzo G. Yates.
"A verdict of 500, 700 was rendered
against ex-Mayor DeBevoise, of Long
Island City, n. Y, for money embezzled
from the city funds
Much damage by freshets took
place in Northern Vermont and Canada,
in the districts tributary to the st. Law
renee River Several bridges have been
carriedaway, and one woman was crushed |
to death in her kitchen 10y the ice from |
the Rideau River.
The testimony closed in the star
route trial in Washington and the clos
ing arguments have commenced.
The new postal law will effect ma
ierial change in the pay of postmasters
IN small offices and the amount derived
from such offices by the government.
Two men were hanged for the crime
of murder on Friday, James Z. Robin
son, at Carrollton, Miss, and Robert
Massey, at Fort Smith, Ark
The first iron sailing vessel ever con
structed in this country was launched
on Friday at Roach's yard, on the Della
ware, at Chester, Pa.
The Connecticut Legislature passed
% hill u-afoI ftrallrr /
tmming in the State.
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Company has executed Il mortgage to
trustees to secure n loan of S12. 600, 600 !
at four per cent interest for usein build
ing its line from Baltimore to Philadel-
phia. g
-Stilwell H. Russell, late United u
States Marshal for the Western district
IF Texas, was sentenced to two years
Imprisonment for deirauding the govern C
nent of nearly $4,000. .
The Postmaster at Pipersville, Pa. Il
las been arrested for alfixing cancelled Il
tamps to letters and retaining the
money paid for postage. 81
Sitting Bull will soon be admitted d
nto the communion Of the Catholic Il
church. n
The tlIal of a suit for $50, 600 dam c
ges for breach of promise of marriage. Il
r0ught by Ernestiua Cloos against n
David W. Bruce, the well known type
lunder, was held before Judge Van Il
'ruut, in the Court of Common Pleas. G;
! New York City The jury gave the fc
laintiif a verdict for So, 1872. IL
The steamer Wiley struck the pier Sc
a bridge ON the Chattahoochee River p'
labama. She turned, careened, and
ent to pieces Immediately. Twelve OF fc
or crew were drowned. n,
Henry d. Mcdaniel has been NOM fc
ated to succeed the late Alexander II.
Iephens as Governor of Georgia. III
A Lehigh Valley engine ran into II
hiladelphia train filed with passengers
j the Reading road, near Bound Brook. n,
obody was killed, but thirteen persons W
ere injured. One car was burned and
Iother left in ruins. \,
The steamship City of Merida collided
it'll a schooner off Hatteras, during a II
g, and, leaking badly, left the latter
Id headed for the shore, landing her n,
ssengers at Old Point Comfort and
aching herself near Fort Norfolk, Va.
ne schooner is supposed to be lost with
hands.
The bill prohibiting the Passion :
ny passed the New York Senate and sh,
IS referred to the Assembly. 90
The improved new fve-cent nickels ]
We the word "cents stamped under che
e "V." We
A I,;lI ,-,. ;,,4,.o1,,oa1 =, A., Dow, Z
lvania Senate to prohibit the manufac- to-
re and sale of Internal machines and dia
vices to destroy life and injure prop Per
ty. A bill was also introduced pre- +
nting any attempt to personate any 81.
ing recognized as a divinity in the II
w or Old Testament. 'aIi Il
An accident, the most disastrous to yea
man life that ever occurred in any of =,
Lake Superior mines, happened at sbir
Keelridge mine, Menomenee Range, p
chigan Iron District, Tuesday after hog
N, when about ninety feet of ground
ween the main engine house and Num- Mn; @IH
One shaft caved in. The engine q,
se, in which were nine men and Stea
the mine machinery and four deli,
e boilers, went down a distance of nS.o4
n 1000 to 1000 feet. All the men "'Sl r,
e either killed outright or buried W
G, except Ed. Wicks, who went down Xxx
hundred feet and then remained on !, As
of the debris, with his leg broken al Ne New
thigh, and one of his ribs fractured w.
mine was about to be abandoned II,
he ore body was exhausted. All the 81. III
were on the surface hoisting the ambe
m pipes out of the shaft. &c.
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