Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 February 1888 — WEEKLY BUDGET. [ARTICLE]

WEEKLY BUDGET.

THE EASTERN STATES. Damage to the amount of SIOO,OOO was the result of a fire in the Rogers Locomotive Works, at Paterson, N. J. Dan Driscoll, the leader of a band of desperate New York criminals, known as the “Whycs,” was hanged in that city on Monday for the murder of his mistress, Beezie Garrity. , Boston harbor is frozen over as far as the Narrows, and steamers and ferry boats can only proceed with the greatest caution. The Birst National Bank of Auburn, N. Y., has closed its doors, the result of a heavy defalcation on the part of its cashier, Charles O’Brien, who is supposed to have fled to Canada. Elmer E. Morse, the bookkeeper, is also missing.

A terrific explosion, the effects of which were felt for miles around, occurred at the dynamite factory at Bethayer’s Station, near Jenkintown, N. Y. Four men were engaged in the manufacture of dynamite cartridges when a large can of deadly stuff exploded, ' tearing the building to pieces and blowing the unfortunate workmen in the air and landing them torn and bleeding many yards away. All were fatally injured. The force of the explosion was so great that it rent the earth in many places a hundred yards away. Huge pieces of timber were sent flying afar as though they were so many chips, while every pane of glass within a half-mile of the spot was shattered into fragments. Near Huntingdon, Pa., threa masked men entered the hut of Henry Merritts, an aged woodsman, with the intention of securing the money which he possessed. He refused to confess its hiding place, upon which they bound and gagged him, held his bare feet to the fire, and otherwise maltreated him. The robbers carried off $3,000 which they found concealed under the flooring. Merritts is not expected to recover. The Eastern States, notably New England, have been suffering from the effect} of a blizzard which, judging from the telegraphic reports, was not a bit less severe than some of the boreal waves that so frequently sweep over the Northwest The temperature was below zero, the wind blew sixty miles an hour, and snow fell to the depth of from fifteen to twenty inches, placing a complete embargo on railway traffic. Several serious railroad accidents are reported as a result of the demoralization which spread among tram men all along the various lines.