Source: Daily National
Intelligencer (Washington (DC), District of Columbus) Vol:
XLIII Issue: 13067 Page: 3
Dated: Jan. 15, 1855
DEATH OF A VETERAN PRINTER - Mr. James M. Roche, the
oldest practical printer in Delaware, died at Wilmington on
Thursday, aged seventy-four years. He worked at his case
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DEATHS FROM CHARCOAL FUMES - On Saturday night
Patrick Flynn and his wife were suffocated in their room at
their residence near Glen Cove, Long Island, by the gas escaping
from a furnace full of ignited charcoal.
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DEATH.
At Aldie, Loudoun county, Virginia, on the
5thinstant, in the 80th year of his age, WILLIAM NOLAND, Esq.,
formerly several years Commissioner of Public Buildings at
Washington, and previously for many years a leading member of
the Legislature of Virginia; in each of which stations he was
faithful and efficient, and in all, as well as in his private
and social relations, universally esteemed and respected.
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OBITUARY.
The Widow of PHILIP S. RENSSELAER died
on Wednesday last, at her residence in Albany, in the 90th year
of her age. The Register pays the following tribute to her
memory:
"Mrs. VAN RENSSELAER has
been a resident of Albany, and her name and good deeds will live
long after her departure. Her kindness was a prominent
feature in her character, and her charities were unceasing.
During her long and blameless life it was her good fortune to
maintain a position that placed within her reach the facilities
necessary for the gratification of her active benevolence.
She presided over countless charities, and in making thousands
of hearts glad was rewarded with the consciousness of performing
a pleasant duty."
Captain ETHAN A. ALLEN, the
last surviving son of Gen. ETHAN ALLEN, of the American
Revolution, died at his residence in Norfolk county, Virginia,
on the 6th instant, in the 77th year of his age. He was
born in Vermont, graduated at West Point, entered the United
States army in 1804, and left it when the army was reduced in
1821.
The Hon. WM. RUFUS PUTMAN, of
Marietta, Ohio, died on the 1st instant, aged 83 years. He
was the son of GEO. RUFUS PUTNAM, who made the first
permanent white settlement northwest of the Ohio in 1788.
The deceased settled in Marietta in 1799, and resided there ever
since. In 1801 he was chosen one of the representatives
from Washington county to the Territorial Legislature. The
county then embraced nearly one-fourth of the present State of
Ohio. He was an honest useful man, and enjoyed the respect
of all who knew him.
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SAD ACCIDENT.
On Thursday morning, as the omnibus
running between Manlius and Syracuse, New York, was coming into
the latter city the horses became restive and dashed down the
hill. The omnibus was turned over, and Mr. A. W.
SPENCER, a merchant of Cazzenovia, was instantly killed.
Mr. LEVI MARTIN, the leader of a band in Syracuse, was
very badly injured, his left shoulder and arm being broken.
Mr. JOHN C. SMITH, from New York, was also badly injured,
and several others were severely bruised.
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FIRE AND LOSS OF LIFE - About midnight of the 8th
instant a fire broke out at Lafayette, Indiana, in the block of
buildings near the canal, occupied by John Rose & Son and
E. M. Weaver & Co., which destroyed the warehouses of
those gentlemen, and the stores of two or three other persons in
the same block. The warehouses were full of produce, and
the damage to property caused by the fire it is thought cannot
fall short of fifty thousand dollars. But the most
lamentable part of the catastrophe is that Mr. Rose, the
proprietor of one of the warehouses, and an Irishman attached to
the establishment of Messrs. Weaver & Co., were burnt to
death. Both were in their stores at the time the fire
broke out, but were unable to effect their escape.
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MORE PAUPERS SHIPPED ON US.
- There have just arrived in New York, via Halifax, 34 adult and
17 children paupers from Switzerland. They testify that
they were paupers at home, and were sent to this country by the
Mayor of their village, who paid their passage direct to New
York, but they were wrecked off Sable Island, and some party, to
them unknown, paid their passage from Halifax. Probably it
was the Swiss Consul. - N. Y. Mirror.
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HON. JOHN Y. MASON. - Letters have been
received in this city by the last steamer from Europe which
justify serious apprehensions in regard to the health of Hon.
JOHN Y. MASON, our Minister to France. Mr. M.
was struck with paralysis on the 26th ultimo, and, according to
the last accounts from Paris - two days after the attack - his
situation was such as to excite the deepest solicitude on the
part of his friends. As he is attended by several of the
most eminent physicians in Paris, his situation, although highly
critical, is not such as to preclude all hope. - Union
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FIRE AT WINCHESTER, (VA) - We learn from the Winchester
Republican that a fire broke out there on Thursday morning in
the warehouse of Mr. WM. B. WALTER, which was entirely
consumed, together with two other buildings occupied by
Messrs. C. L. Wood and Co.
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