Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 February 1883 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

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Tlie Gloucester (Mass.) fishing echooner James A. Garfield lost six men ovorboard during a snow-storm. Boyle’s distillery, located near Belle Vernon, Pa, and Its stock and appointments were swept away ljy fire, the los, of property aggregating $75 000. Three eoal trains, consisting of sixtynine cars, on the George’s Creek and Cumberland railroad, in West Virginia, while descending a grade ten miles from Cumberland, started downward at a terrific pace, finally jumping the track and falling down a steep hill about 100 feet in height Several persons were instantly killed, and several reoeived mortal injuries. Dr. George M. Beard, of Ne,w York, who testified as an expert in the Guiteau trial, died of pneumonia last week. Charles Delano, member of the Thir-ty-sixth and Thirty-seventh Congresses, died at Springfield, Mass, aged 68. A space of nearly forty acres above the Delaware and Hudson mine at Wilkesbarre, Pa, caved In, the dwellings sinking from six inches to two feet The cause is believed to be the decay of the prop a A charter has been issued in Pennsylvania for a Vanderbilt road 300 miles long, from Harrisburg into Allegheny county, with a capital of slß,ooo,ooft