The Centre reporter. [volume] (Centre Hall, Pa.) 1871-1940, 1878-01-10
NEWS SUMMARY
naste,n ana Middle state.

/ Two bodies were recovered from the ruins
caused by the explosion la the New York candy
I factory, while the number Of wuuudpd reached
over forty. Several persons we're Htlll missing
on IA Q day following the disaster hut the list
~ dead viii not bo 90 large az Was az first sup
posed. II Was also aSocrtaincd that the on
ploslun Was not caused by the bursting ~ the
boiler aud the real origin uf the disaster is yot
. 10 bo AscoftAinod.
/ The unon League Club of New Yurk gave a
Z reception 90 President HAYES About i've
Z thousand persons were present, among them
being Mrs. Hayes, fotor Cooper, Attorney
0ouerAl Duvens, Secretary Of State Eyarts and
others
The large shoe factory ~ + AN. Copeland
A Co., - South hrAntTre, Mass, Was do
stfoyod hy hro, causing l0ss Of AbOuts 5O, COO
uu which there is about sas, 900 insurance
John Van Dyke, youth Of nineteen Was
hung st Canton, n. I. for numbering his wife
last July, after having been married to her
week.
President Hayes aud wife assisted at the
opening of the American Museum ~ Natural
History ia New YORK Hpoeehss were made BY
President Eliot, Of Harvard College, frofos
sor q, G. Marsh and others and tho museum
formally opened by President Hayes, la
the evening the President attended the seventy
sucund annual dinner uf the Nos England
Society and responded 10 the toast " Tho
President Of the Uuitod StGlus
Owen Murphy, president uf the New York
board uf excise, twice a member uf the ASSEM-
bly. Absoondod With nearly S51. 900 belonging
60 tho excise board. lie had been expected al
n meeting OF the board aud when lac failed 90
put ia Ah appearance hiH colleagues made All
investigation, which resulted Ia discovering
that be had drawn from the bAnk large sum
u public money under hls care, besides large
amount Of his own funds, aud then He'd.
Three Wall street (New York; brokers were
arrested As members OF gang OF counterfeit
cts engaged la extensive forging Of railroad
and other bOnda large amount Of which had
been pat upOn the market
Fires Az HOlbroOk, Mas. the town house
and Winthrop Church were burned aud loss
incurred 0t sl5 600, ou which thvrv is = partial
Insurance AZ Pottsyille, Pa, the planning mill
OF William Beehloy hfed BY All lnoondiAry,
and damage done 20 the amount Of s25, coo, on
which there 10 $4,000 Insurance aud AZ
Springfield W., the buildings Of the Union
Manufacturing Company Wuru destroyed BY
Iire with loss Of -, OlO aud 81, $50 insurance
Herman II. MAtsrne and fransis Doagherty
were dAngcrously, aid perhaps fatally. stabbed
during al alteration ~ tho corner Of bleochrr
and sullivan streets, New York, Charles
Crutehet, whe MAS found with a large hatcher
kuifu covered With blood up his Sleeve. and
Thomas GFu~nAn WrFv arrested uu the charge
Of having done the stAbllus.
About thfco hundred u the shoe operators
Ia Lynn, Macs, STRUCK against = contemplated
reduction in their wages.
Nettug A Co, New NUgk brokers, suspended
with liabilities Variously estimated az between
s2o0 O1O and s5i0, 900.
OWen Murphy, the ahsoondlng Nuw fork e1-
cise commissioner ls believed 60 b- ia Canada.
lie has been expelled from the TalimAIly Hall
. H.
Crimes and casualties During a drunken
row ~ the farmhouse OF ueorge SlAde, an
EnghshmAu, Ia Mcthuen, Mass, Michael
nOrAu, aged lSSuty-thTcc wAs Allied by shoi
Ia the brcAst from a gun az Albany, y. l.,
two men named Desmond and PuWerp were
scuiiing Ia a liquor saloon, when the former
VAS STRUCK on the head with pitcher by the
after aud had hIs skUll fractured auuIplosion
Of = kerosene lamp TOOK place IN tenement
house Al Randout, y. L.. seIting frv o. the
building, and before all the inmates could sui
away tho vito and little daughter of james
Hruphy serv burned O. death and a fliis-
bufgh. Pa, James Boyd. member of the e!iy
council, wAs Allied ~ tho foundry ~ which hc
Was foreman, BY having crane fall on hial-
The hrsi " National Congress Of the WORK
ingmoa's Party sAs opened a. Newark, y. J.
delegates from all pArts of the country being
present
CAAnoollUr Raayun. o. New Jerary, has Ap-
pointed Thomas l. Ogden receiver for the
Delaware and North Shore railroad The IN
dcbtcdness OF the road 10 s310 COO
Courtney, the champion uAgsmAn OF the
United Siztes. has accepted challcuge from
Irlrkcit, the Australian oArsmsn and chAmf iJn
" GruAi Britain, % ruW . T2cC on OwAaoo lAkt,
y. T.. for the championship u the world.
William Springstcln aud bis daughter CatiA-
rlue as$e4 a1tcon Herc arrested III Brooklyn
\. l.. Tor making and passing counicrfuu nNo
and trn-ornt silver plpous.
Ten men who iuirrfercd With mining opera
uous during q s;Tlko last August were sen-
fenced Ia Wllkcsb4rrc, Pa. 90 various degrees
Of punishment, from sl0O Gne % = 81 inc and
nine months IA the county prison.