Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1877-12-08
SUMMARY OF NEWS.
Eastern and Middle States.

Eastern and Middle States.
The late president Of the Security Life /,
suranoe Company Of New York. Robert l.. Cas-
labor on = conviction for perjury In swearin
falsely to the condition Of the company
affairs.
Examination into the condition OF tho Unio
Dino Savings bank Of New York, upon whic
heavy run was made recently by alarmed do
posters, shows that the institution " solvent
tho assets being %, COS, 92O.99 and the liabili
ties ss,235, 1884, leaving u surplus Of $SGs,
03i 10.
At Troy, N. Y, two suicides occurred In on,
day. Charles +. Moore, q real estate broker
shooting himself on account Of fear OF hnsncis
ruin, and Thomas Cornell, q butcher, hanging
himself during q ut Of dcspondon,y.
The trial at wilkesbarre. Pa, Of forty men,
bers OF cigilane committee, accused Of un-
warrantable firing upon 3 procession ut Scran
ton during tho railroad troubles and causing
the death Of three mon, ended In an acqnittal
by the jury.
William II. Humphrey, secretary OF tho New
Rochelle Savings Bank, OF New Rochelle, N. y,
mysteriously disappeared, and an examination
into the banks affairs showed that many OF
the depofitors had much less sums credited to
them than they had deposited For instance,
one lady's pass book showed deposits amount
ing TO 81 900, while the books Of the bank had
credited her with Sl00 only. Humphrey was
president OF tho village and justice OF the
peace. and was held In general esteem.
Tie steamer G. II. Northam, Of the New
York and Hartford line, lying at the foot OF
Seventh street. New York, caught fire and
men woro on board the vessel at the time, and
all succeeded In making their escape except
three George Smith. Allen Hogan and George
Jackson, all colored- were burned TO death.
The Northam was worth about 100000 and
WAS fully insured.
At an auction sale OF coal in New York one
hundred thousand tons were sold and brought
considerably lower prices than at similar sale
month ago.
Mr.. John Welsh, recently appointed minister
to England from tho United States, was given
q banquetin Philadelphia.
David Stillman. farmer eighty years old,
and his wife, aged about seventy, were found
murdered in his house at Sheffield, Mass.
Mr.. Stillman was found on lounge. with his
head crushed. while his wife was discovered at
the foot OF the cellar stairs with her hoad cut
open. An AK was lying near by and everything
was bespattered with blood. The murderer,
after committing his bloody deed, had attempt
cd to burn the dwelling by starting fire in the
attic with kerosene, but the woodwork was
chsrred only. John Ten Eyck, colored man,
was arrested for the murder, several suspicious
circumstances leading to the belief that he had
committed the crime, the object OF which was
robbery.
Peter b. Sweeny. prominent member Of the |
Tweed ring, transferred real estate in New !
York to widow named Bradley. The property |
thus made over is valued at million dollars
and considerable conjecture is aroused as to the |
motive OF the transfer.
Westorn and Southern States.
The following resolution was adopted by the
Not ~ t,o.v ,,.G |
The National Grange, representing as it does
the agricultural element Of every part Of the
United States, without intending to infringe
on any feature Of its organic law, which forbids
the discussion Of any question Of party politics,
believes 1t to be not only its privilege but its
its membership in condemnation Of all such
legislation, either on the part of the general or
State government, az tsnds to the injury Of the
great productive Industries. In this spirit, and
with no purpose to take part in the partisan
bur disapprobation Of the law demonetizins
silver, and committing the government arbi-
.rarly to any fixed day in the future for the
of specie payment, and do there
Ore hereby express our sympathy with the
'ffort now being made in Congress for the
epeal of these obnoxious measures The
'ote on the silver proposition stood to 81 i;
hat on the anti. resumption IA to 80. Both Z
we're carried. the West and South voting for
nd the East against them. (
About twenty colored people were drowned
" the recent heavy food in the vicinity of l
Va, while the destruction to all
inds of property was immense, bridges and
ouses having been swept away and families q
ut without shelter or food. in Richmond the t.
amage done by the flood to private property &
mounts to between $4OOO 900 and 100000. =,
On the twenty-seventh the South Carolina :.
legislature assembled at Columbia i
Thomas Cooley was killed and Thomas
homas fatally injured by premature ex- q
losion in Taylor Williams coal mine in Rock .
STAND county, Iowa.
Ex-Governor Hendricks delivered his first a
the benefit Of a Protestant Epis-. n
opal church-at indianapolis, Ind, his subject -
cling Revolution"
Governor Hampton, in his message to the Il
outh Carolina Legislature, urges the settle I,
rent of the public debt upon basis which will
ct impair the credit Of the State. 81
The special committee appointed by the il
outh Carolina Legislature to examine into the a.
ection OF United States Senator Patterson. g.
sport that about twenty ex-members Of the q
gislature testified that they had been bribed n
Y either Patterson or his agent to vote for his =,
cotton, the amounts paid ranging from 500 u
, $4,000. al
The Second National Bank Of Lafayette, Ind, at
appended, owing to defalcatiou Of the
'shier, Charles T. Mayo, amounting to s57, 900. OF
The destruction to property by the floods II
Hardy county, W. Va, will reach 1900, 600. nj
arms havc been swept completely away and
lndrcds of farmers are ruined III
The eight and five-year-old children Of Eliza III
urse (colored), were burned to death at ii,
dalia, Mo, during the mothers absence. -,
The bodies Of Capt. Ryan, commander of the ~. ~,
'ecked man of-war Huron, and other officers Gil
we been recovered. w
From Washington. ~
The ambassador from the island OF Samoa. 49,
+. Lemanea, had an interview with the secre- ~
ry Of State and stated that his people pre- yC
rred annexation to this country, but in any I'll
ent were desirious Of arranging treaty Of
nity and commerce advantageous to the United
ates.
DR.. Linderman, director OF the mint has
omitted his annual report, which shows the m,
erations of the mnts for the last fiscal year
have have been as follows : Gold bullion received XII
d Operated upon, $50, 282, 5O276; silver bull So
n received and operated upon, S97. 429, 329 49,
tai, $97, 811, S32.6O. Deducting redeposlts. pc
rs made and issued by one institution and so
nosited at another, the deposits we're: Gold .
! 07s 1893 silver, $2S, $40, 1886; minor, $685. i"
J. Total S72,69O, 299. tn
An increase OF the United States navy is re- tn
by Secretary Thompson in his M,
nual report. CHI
The Senate committee on commerc. ooreea col
report unfavorably on the Presidents tlomi- clr
ion of successors Of the New York custom ,,o,
lse officers. ce'
Foreign News. ne
The Italian chamber Of deputies has abol- the
ed capital punishment in Italy. IT,
Delegates of the trades council of Paris have
Used President MacMahon to submit to the Ter
OF the people as expressed at the recent we
,tions. m.
he failure in London Of Richard Hooper & a.
Is, wine and spirit merchants is announced. a'l
bilities, Sl,250,000. lnq
ohm Williams, who murdered his wife last IN,
'tember, was hanged at Toronto, Canada. -,