Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 January 1888 — WEEKLY BUDGET. [ARTICLE]

WEEKLY BUDGET.

THE EASTERN STATES. Gen. Washington Seawell died at San Francisco of enlargement of the liver, aged 86. He was in the service forty-seven years, from his graduation from West Point m 1825. A Haverhill (Mass.) dispatch gives the following particulars of a fearful railway accident: The scene of the disaster was near the Haverhill bridge which suans the Merrimac river between Bradford and 'Haverhill. The Boston and Portland express train, consisting of eight cars, does not stop at Bradford, and was going at great speed. The Georgetown branch train was standing on the track near the water-tank house at the Bradford end of the bridge, waiting for the express to pass over to Haverhill. As the express rounded the curve two cars left the rails and went crashing into the watertank house, demolishing it. In this house a number of section-hands were eating dinner. John O'Brien, a retired merchant of Bradford, was talking to the section-hands and was killed, together with William Taylor, one of the laborers, The car that crashed into the tank house knocked the foundation out, letting the heavy tank down upon the car, crushing through the top of the car and doing fearful work within. The next car behind telescoped the one ahead of it, adding to the havoc. The killed and wounded were mostly in these two cars. Nine persons were killed almost instantly, and between forty and fifty more or less seriously injured. In the case of Miss Campbell against Millionaire Arbuckle for a breach of promise the jury at New York rendered a verdict giving the plaintiff §45,000 damages. The court also granted the prosecuting counsel SI,OOO. A motion to set the verdict aside was rejected, and the case probably will be appealed. Fuller, the man who murdered Archbishop Seghers in Alaska last year, has been found guilty of manslaughter and sentenced to ten years’ imprisonment and to pav a fine of SI,OOO.