Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 October 1884 — THE EAST. [ARTICLE]

THE EAST.

A vekdict for $75,000 for breach of contract has just been rendered at New York against the New York, West Shore and Buffalo Road. James Woemley, proprietor of Wormley’s Hotel, Washington, one of the most widely known colored men in the United i States, died at Boston... A fire which broke out in Plymouth street, Brooklyn, destroyed property worth $100,000.... .Benton & Nichol’s box factory at New Haven was consumed, and Easton, Pa., lost two sawmills, a store, and two ice-houses by fire.... Wreckers placed on the track of the Boston and Albany Road near Kinderhook, a pile of rails and sleepers, wedged together. A passenger train struck the obstruction. Engineer Davis was so terribly scalded that he soon died, and the fireman was fatally injured. A reward of SI,OOO is offered by the road for the capture of the wreckers. - ■