Milford chronicle., 1883-12-14
NEWS OF THE DAY
GENERAL ITEMS.


eleven days without water when reached.
Fifteen of the crew left the vessel two
days before, and are supposed to have
been lost.
-Four Mexican murderers are said to
have been lynched.
The feeling of opposition to the
Dominion government in Winnipeg is
said to be on the increase.
The Victoria Parliament, sick of the
Chinese, will restrict their immigration.
AT Rockport, Mass, the Annisquam
Cotton Mill was almost completely de-
stroyed by fire. The loss is estimated
at 100000.
The Mount Hickory Rolling Mills,
at Erie Depot, Pa, were destroyed by
fire, involving a loss of about $275, 900.
The exploring expedition into the
Everglades of Florida has successfully
accomplished its object.
Thursday afternoon the boiler of the
sawmill at Branchville, Va, owned by
Joyner, Whitehead & Cooke, exploded,
wrecking the building and scalding SIX
cOlored men, four of them fatally.
Messrs. Whitehead and Cooke were
very badly hurt, having bones broken
and their bodies cut and bruised. The
mill was a new one, and commenced
work only that morning.
-Peterboro, Ont, is now suffering
from an epidemic of scarlet fever.
The burning of Pullman car on a
moving train Of the Hudson River Rail-
road is one of the most singular accidents
recorded. Two passengers were in
jured.
james M. Underwood was hanged
at Dardanelle, Ark, for the murder of
Robert J. Pendergrass. He admitted
his guilt, but declared he was impelled
to the crime by the wife of the victim.
For forging a name to a postal
money order sentence of two years
imprisonment was passed in Phila-
delphia, Pa.
"A broken yawl boat, believed to have
belonged to the pilot boat Columbia,
which was run down by the steamer
Alaska in New York harbor, has been
picked up at sea. About 81, 1000 has
been raised for the families Of the lost
pilots.
AT st. Johns, N. F., intelligence
has been received of a melancholy acci-
dent at Southwest Arm, involving a
complete household wreck. The only
particulars at hand are as follows: Mr..
Henry Warford, with his family, were
proceeding in a skiff from the Southwest
Arm of Notre Dame Bay to Little Bay,
when a squall struck the little craft,
capsized her and buried her living freight
IN watery tomb.
The students who left the National
College of Pharmacy, at Washington,
d. O., on account of the admission of
colored man have returned.
"A hideous sea serpent was seen of
the Jersey coast by life-saving crew
as reported
The N. Y. Chamber of Commerce, at
the suggestion of Mr.. Morris K. Jesup,
adopted strongly worded memorial to
the Legislature, asking for law at once
to prevent the devastation of the Adj
rondack wilderness, where the cutting
away of the forests is already menacing
the waterways of the State.
"A snow and wind storm visited
Denver, Col., Thursday night, which,
In disastrous effects, is without parallel
in the history of Colorado. The snow
attached itself to the telephone wires
until they were two inches in diameter.
At four o'clock in the morning the wind
blew almost gale and in about half an
hour 800 poles, eighteen inches in diam
eter, were blown down, carrying mass
of wires. Several streets were blocked.
All trains were delayed until the even
ing. Outside communications were
completely cut off. No loss of life is
reported.
Fred Burke, a prisoner undergoing |
an eleven years sentence in the River !
side Penitentiary, Pa, attempted to es-
cape Thursday by crawling through
sewer, but before reaching its mouth he !
was overcome with gas, and when found |
was in an unconscious condition. 1t is
thought he will die.
The trial of Freeman, the Pocasset,
Mass, fanatic, for the murder of his lit
tie daughter Edith in a religious frenzy,
ended by a verdict of not guilty by rea-
son Of insanity. He was sent to the In
sane Asylum for life.
After much suffering the crew Of
the abandoned barge Hamilton J. Mills
were rescued in Georgian Bay. Two ac-
companying barges are supposed to
have foundered with all on board.
News has been received at Ottawa
of threatened Indian revolt in British |
Columbia.
Joseph Jewell, hanged at San Jose,
CAL, was troubled on the scaffold to set
tle In his own mind why he killed his |
victim. Later he criticised the tie of |
the halter, as the result proved, justly.
"A servant, who fell from third
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