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THE EAST. AN aged man named Jules Barber was knocked down on one of the principal streets of New York on the 28th alt. by two highwaymen, who were in the act of rob bing him, when one of them was shot by a policeman. A FARMER named Samuel Warrick, aged sixty-five, cut his throat in Gloucester County, N. J.,on the 2 8th alt., and then walked to his barn, holding his half-severed head in one hand. He met his wife and she fainted. The husband lived ten hours. An extensive forest fire occurred near Bar Harbor, Me., on the 28th alt. Over 2,000 acres were burned over, doing great damage. On the 28th ult, the steamer Riverdale’s boiler exploded on the Hudson River near the foot of Fourteenth Street, New York. She had an at the time about 100 pas sengers. About fifty people lost their lives, some being blown into eternity, and others met their deaths by being drawn down with the whirlpool caused by the sinking of the vessel. Tugs and small boats put out in swarms from the New York and Jersey shores and rescued many of the drowning passengers and crew. CONSIDERABLE loss of property along the beach at Atlantic City, N. J., was occa sioned on the 29th alt. by the invasion of the ocean. The surf was by far the heavi est ever known there. Bath-houses, res taurants, photograph galleries and stores with dwellings attached, which were built so far from the surf that it was thought no sea could reach them, were undermined and carried bodily into the ocean and beaten by the waves into fragments. All railroad tracks between there and Abse com, except the West Jersey, are sub merged, and a branch of the Camden At lantic Railroad along the beach front was badly washed, compelling passengers to abandon the train and walk about six miles. The total loss will not be less than $74,000. An Italian named Vito Indrizzo was ar rested at New York on the 19th alt, for murdering and robbing a man named Felix Cappici, who worked under him when he was foreman of a gang of laborers on the Delaware Lackawanna Railway, near Moscow, N. Y., over a year ago. He es caped after the deed was committed, and was only found on the 29th ult. Verily “murder will out.” On the 30th ult. the conductor on an ex cursion train from Scranton to Mountain Park, Pa., put John Kerrigan, aged nine teen, who had no ticket, off while the train was going thirty miles an hour. The boy fell under the wheels and was killed in stantly. ELENOR and May Vail, aged eighteen and twenty, of Philadelphia, were drowned at Ocean Grove on the 380th alt. while bath ing. The Baltimore Grand Jury on the 30th alt. returned three true bills of indictment against members of the late Board of Fire Commissioners, ignoring all charges against Mayor White, or oficio member of the Board. On the 30th alt. an express train on the Philadelphia Atlantic Railroad which left Philadelphia for Atlantic City, N. J., was thrown from the track at Pleasantville by a loose switch, which swerved after the engine passed. The baggage car turned upside down and four passenger cars were completely wrecked. No person was killed but about thirty were injured. At Carlisle, Pa., on the 80th alt., at a meeting of the Board of Trustees of Dick inson College, Rev. A.L. Rittenhouse, of the Philadelphia Conference, was elected to the chair of Belles lettres; Fletcher Dur rell, late teacher in Pennington Seminary, N. J., to the mathematical chair in place of J. A. Lippincott, recently elected to the chancellorship of the University of Kansas. A FUGITIVE from justice in Germany named Henrich Mahle, was arrested on his arrival in New York on the 30th alt., for robbing a widow in his native country. Late on the night of the 30th alb., lunatic walked into the Keystone shoe factory at Erie, Pa., armed with a gun, and going up to the watchman said he thought he was Bob Ingersoll and that it WEST AND SOUTH. Gen. Joan Heapon, ex-Mayor of Du buque, Iowa, died at that place on the 28th alt., aged eighty-three. He was a native of Maine, and served in the Legis tute of that State a number of years. A DUEL was fought at six o’clock on the morning of the 28th ult. by two young men named Louis Phillips and Jacob Rosen brook, near St. Louis. Both were shot in the mouth, the latter being killed instantly and the former wounded so bad that he died a few hours after. An old grudge was the cause, The American schooner Dot, (formerly the Canadian schooner Mary Merritt,) with a cargo of iron ore, foundered off Grand Mariat, Lake Superior, on the 27th alt. The crew were saved. At Indianapolis, Ind., on the 29th alt.,a lawsuit was the cause of the death of three men. Jacob Oldenberger and Jacob Bush were the interested parties, and after the suit was decided Oldenberger met Bush on the street and shot him. Turning from Bush he shot Samuel Campbell, who was passing at the time, probably fatally. He then crossed the street, and putting the pistol to his own head shot himself dead. It is probable the shooting of Campbell was accidental, as he was in no way connected with the suit. A MAN named Henry Crickers was found dead in his wagon at Peoria, Mich., on the morning of the 28th air. The inquest de veloped evidence of poisoning. John Woll ner was arrested for the crime and taken to Coruna, ChicaGo merchants, on the 50th alt., effected an organization known as the Chi cago Freight Bureau, for the purpose of obtaining uniform rates on railroads and against discrimination. About all the large wholesale and manufacturing firms of Chicago are members. Dr. D. Newer, a prominent Chicago physician, suicided on the 29th ult. Cause, financial revenses and ill-health. FE. J. OLpE Co.’s store at Mt. Clemens, Mich., was robbed of $1,000 worth of dry goods on the night of the 29th alt. A SEVERE hailstorm practically de stroyed the entire tobacco crop of Rock County, Wis., on the 28th alt. The damage is estimated at fully $100,000, and on the same day the storm extended over a terri tory fifteen miles long by ten miles wide, near Sterling, Il. The loss to crops is ap proximately estimated at $59,000. A TRAIN on the Wabash Railroad ran over a cow near Clifton, Mo., on the 30th alt., derailing the engine, a baggage car and coach, and killing the engineer, Hall. THE postmaster at Marksville, La., Charles F. Hensman, has been arrested for embezzling $1,509 of money order funds. John Cor, a convict in the Southern Penitentiary at Chester, Ill.,cut the fingers of his left hand off on the 30th alt. to es cape hard work. PETERSBURG, Ind., was visited by a dis astrous fire on the 30th alt., the third time within a year. The principal square of the town was burned. Loss, $60,000; insur ance, *49,000. 9 _ A report of the Grand Jury of New Or leans, made on the 30th alt., suggests as a sanitary measure that a crematory be es tablished under the direction of the officers of the Charity Hospital for the purpose of burning the bodies of those who die of con tagious diseases. A dispatch from San Francisco, Cal., says earthquake waves disturbed the waters of the Pacific on the 29th alt. The disturbances were caused by the earth quake that almost depopulated Java. A SAD occurrence is recorded of the family of Frank Knight, of Pittsboro, N. C. On the 29th alt. three children died in quick succession. The day after the death of the last of these, two of the remaining children were playing in the yard. A scream caused the mother to rush out, to find that a rattlesnake had bitten both children. Soon they were in the agonies of death. The crowning horror then came upon the dis tracted mother when she discovered that a large pot of boiling soap had fallen from the fire and scalded the baby past recov ery. The account is in all respects accurate and is vouched for. A COLORED burglar named Frank Burns was shot dead at Atlanta, Georgia, on the 29th alt. by Police Officer Green, whom he furiously assaulted with a dirk. A SHOWER of wheat straw rained down for five minutes from a cloudless sky at Big Spring, Meade County, Kentucky, on the 29th alt. On the 30th alt. Texas cattle fever broke out in the herd of a milkman in Detroit, Mich. The whole herd of twelve cows are infected. Several have already died. A herd of forty-one steers, brought by a Gen essee County farmer for feeding some two weeks ago, have also been attacked by dis ease and five died. A CASE of cholera was reported to the health office at Milwaukee, Wis., on the distrit. Dr. Belowski, the physician in charge, has had experience in Turkish hospitals, and declares the case to be gen uine cholera. Mack Marspen, who is notorious in Jef ferson County, Mo., as a murderer, thief and generally bad man, was shot from am bush while riding along a road in that county on the 381st alt. ONE million feet of lumber and a plan ing mill belonging to Eldridge Son’s, of Fort Howard, Wis., was burned on the List alt. Loss, $200,000. Five railroad cars were burned at the same time. At Carson City, Col., another oil well was found on the 3ist ult. at a depth of 1,069 feet. The oil is a heavy, pure lubri cating.
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