Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 May 1884 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

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A pale on Lake Champlain injured the piers at Burlington for two miles, causing a damage of SIOO,OOO. Fitzgerald won the 6ix days’ walking match in New York, making 610 miles to Rowell's 602. He was presented with a silver goblet lined with gold. About five thousand persons witnessed the finish. Judge Thayer, in Common Pleas Court No. 4, at Philadelphia, admitted Mrs. Carrie B. Kilgore to practice, notwithstanding the other Common Pleas Courts had refused to admit her. At Gouverneur, N. Y., a boiler explosion in Whitney's marble works killed five men and fatally injured two others. Forest fires in the Catskill Mountain region of New Y T ork and the Blue mountains of Pennsylvania have - done vast damage. Near Ashland, in the latter State, a tract of fifty square miles of timber was burned over. The village of Gilman’s Depot, on the Port Jarvis Road, in New York, was wiped out by flames. In the vicinity of Elkton, Md., thousands of acres of valuable timber were destroyed. The towns of Brisbiu and Thompson, in Tioga County, Pa., were swept away by the flames, the inhabitants being compelled to flee for their lives. The thriving town of Houtzdale, Pa., also fell a victim to the flames, scarcely a house being left, and the destitute citizens have sent out an appeal for help. The damage wrought by these forest fires will amount to many millions of dollars.