Arkansas weekly mansion., 1883-11-03
ThG EAST.

FIVE dwelling houses, a planning mill
and Il million feet of lumber were de-
stroyed by fire at Pittsburgh the other
morning.
The F. B. Tower, a large fishing
schooner, of Boston, went ashore at Prince
ton on the 18th, having lost its Captain
and eight of the crew.
4 SCHOONER capsiZed on the 25th off
Vineyard Haven, Mass, and the Captain
and three seamen were drowned.
TIE failure is announced of William H.
jenkins Il Co., door manufacturers, of New
York, for $4,000.
The death of Rev. |. w. Pembroke, the
oldest Congregational minister in New
Hampshire, occurred on the 25th at Con-
cord.
WHILE Captain Cribbens, stroke-oarsman
of the life-saving crew at Erie, Pa, was at
tempting to cross the bay there the other
night his boat foundcred and he was
drowned.
THE Captain and first officer of the
steamer Tropfc, for violating the neutrality
of the United States by furnishing arms
and ammunition to the Haytian insurgents,
were SENTENCED | at Philadelphia on the
26:h to one years imprisonment and to
pay fine of 500 and costs.
A REPORT from Dun's Mercantile Agency
on the 2Gth showed that business was
improving, wltn 4 Ilarhel lllCiettSo HI
cIcarirys Profits were not large, but
money was being made, and most all
traders felt satisfied with the seasons
bu- iucas.
The Democrats of Massachusetts on the
o6th nominated for Lieutenant Governor
James = GrinnelI, for many years Chief
Clerk in the Department Of Agriculture at
Washington
LEWIS BROTHERS, liquor dealers in New
York City, failed on the 2Gth for $11s,OOO.
Ina fit of insanity Mabel Stone, young
daughter of Il retired banker of West New
ton, Mass, obtained revolver a few days
ago ami killed herself.
THE icwelry store of L. S. Stowe & Co.,
in Springfield, Mass, was entered by
burglars on the 2Sth and the safe broken
open and robbed OF goods Valueu aI lroiii
SD 900 to S15,0 900.
EDWIN n. BENSON'S country residence at
Germantown, Pa, was burned a few days
ago, involving Il loss of 100000.
OK the 21th Lord Coleridge sailed from
New York for England.
In Washington County, n. V, David Adj
ans starved himself. The sum of Slo,ooO
had on the 9th been found secreted IN his
house, and the heirs were searching Tor
$4,000 more. His wife died of starvation
ten years ago.
\ FEW DAYS ago James huSaH, aSt"
eighteen, of Newcastle, Pa, deliberately
placed a revolver at the head OF W1lhe
Harris, aged sixteen, and pulled the
trigger. infiicting a fatal wound. Hagan
claimed he did not know it was loaded.
AMONG the passengers of the steamship
Alaska which arrived in New ork on
the aSth, was Pere Hyacinthe.
AN explosion of fire-damp OH the after
noon of the 39th ult. in the Pennsylvania
Coal Company's shaft near fItt'ton,
caused the death of two men and injured
six others, three seriously. The bodies OF
the victims were badly burned.
NEAR Brooks Tunnel, Pa, on the Balti-
more & Ohio Road, the dynamite IN a
magazine mysteriously exploded on the
2Sth ult., blowing five men TO pieces
buildings, for distance of fifteen miles
were shaken, and all the windows within
radius of seven miles were shattered oy
the conclusion. The shock also burst rocks
in twain and uprooted trees.
YOUNG woman named Annie Z.
Cbeever was found dead on the 29th ult In
pho County. Pa, with a bulleS-hole near
ber be,rt. and her left breast riddled by
small shot.
THE death of G. N. Fox, Assistant Secreta-
rv of the Treasury under Gideon W elles, oc-
Cured in New York City few days ago
,JAyEs STEELE, one of the persons VINO
was burned in the recent squib explosion at
Kingston, Pa, died on the 2sth ult. ne was
the seventh victim of the disaster ana the
fourth member of his family burned 10
death.