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NEWS SUMMARY.
Eastern and Middle States

Eastern and Middle States
Fires: At Holbrook, Mass, the town house
and Winthrop Church we're burned and q loss
incurred of S75, 900, on which there is a partia!
insurance at Pottsville, Pa, the planning mill
Of William Bechley WAS fired by an incendlary,
and damage done to the amount OF S25,0oO, on
which there is $40 insurance; and at
Springfield, Vt, the buildings OF the Union
Manufacturing Company were destroyed by
fire, with a loss Of ss,Oo6 and $4,000 insurance.
Herman d. Materne and Francis Dougherty
were dangerously, ard perhaps fatally, stabbed
during an alteration at the corner Of Bleecker
and Sullivan streets, New York. Charles
Crutchet, whe was found with a large butcher
knife covered with blood up his sleeve, and
Thomas Greenan were arrested on the charge
Of having done the stabbing.
About three hundred Of the shoe operators
in Lynn, Mass, struck against o contemplated
reduction in their wages.
Meter l. Co., New York brokers, suspended
with liabilities variously estimated at between
5000, 600 and $780, 900.
Owen Murphy, the a%bsconding New York e1-
else commissioner, is believed to be IN CANADA;
BE has been expelled from the Tammany Hall
general committee, Of which he was q n member
Crimes and casualties During 3 drunken
row at the farmhouse Of George slade, an
CukubuL1but III uQctAuoA, woon'l nAS
Doran, aged twenty-three, was killed by q shot
in the breast from o gun at Albany, N. T.,
two men named Desmond and Powers we're
~scuf1ing in a liquor saloon, when the former
WAS struck on the head with q pitcher by the
latter and had his skull fractured an explosion
OF q kerosene lamp took place in q tenement
house at Rondout, N, Y, setting fire to the
building, and before all the inmates couIo get
away the wife and little daughter OF James
Brophy we're burned to death and at Pitts
burgh, Pa, James Boyd, a member Of the city
council, was killed at the foundry in which he
was foreman, by having a crane fall on hin.
The first " National Congress Of the Work
ingmen's Party" was opened at Newark, NJ,
delegates from all parts Of tho country being
present.
Chancellor Runyon, Of New Jersey, has ap-
pointed Thomas l.. Ogden receiver for the
Delaware and North Shore railroad. The in
debtedness of the road is 100000.
Courtney, the champion oarsman Of the
United States, has accepted q challenge from
Trickett, the Australian oarsman and champion
Of Great Britain, to row a race on Owasco laks,
N. Y, for the championship OF the world.
William spriHgstein and his daughter Catha-
rine, aged sixteen, were arrested in Brooklyn,
N. Y, for making and passing counterfeit hVe
and ten.cent silver pieces.
len WGu WHO lQUcTI6Tcu WILL ullulii6 OHOla-
tions during a strike last August were SEN
fenced in Wilkesbarre, Pa, to various degrees
| Of punishment, from 800 fine to $50 fine and
nine months in the county prison.
The Rockland County National Bank Of
Nyack, N. Y, Las suspended payment.
The body Of Herzberger, the engineer in
the New York candy factory, where the recent
terrible explosion took place, has been recov-
cred from the ruins.
By an explosion in a mine near Wlkesbarre,
Pa, seven persons were injured, one mortally.
Seventy-fve thousand tons Of Scranton coal
we're sold in New York ut an advance on pre-
vious prices.
The trustees Of the West Boston Savings
Bank voted to close up the institution in the
most economical manner possible.
After a trial Of several days Mayor Ely with
drew the charge of inefficient and capricious
enforcement Of the laws. made against the
police commissioners Of New York.
George NJ. Brooks bank of Lowville, n. Y,
has suspended payments, the liabilities being
placed at $50, 600.
At a dinner given to General Banks in Bos-
ton Hon. Benjamin F. Butler made q speech,
denoupciatory of the President for not uphold
ing Packard and Kellogg in Louisiana.
Five buildings were burned in Jamaica,
Long Island, and q loss incurred Of S12, 900 /;
and in Westerly, r. L., several houses were de-
stroyed by fire, the damage being estimated at
$4,000.
At Boston, Mass, the arrest Of George B.
Bigelow, o well-known lawyer, took place on
the charge Of having Incorporated the sum
$40, 900, which was held in trust by HIM.
Western and Southern States.
l-.k.l r,ooo So~ Tie no;soo otofoo that q
body of 100 Indians encamped near Janos,
Sonora, were attacked by white troops, who
we're routed with a loss Of twenty-seven killed.
and a number wounded. The Indians followed
up their victory by stripping the surrounding
countrybf live stock.
Detective William C. Pride, Of Memphis,
Tenn, while half asleep imagined he heard o
burglar at his window. He caught up q pistol
from under his pillow and attempted to cock
it, when the weapon was discharged, causing
the speedy death Of his wife and child Of five
months.
The failure of Tolle, Holton 4 Co., whole
salo dry goods dealers Of Cincinnati, Ohio,
has taken place, their liabilities being placed
at over $500, 900.
A collision occurred between an express and
freight train near Cheyenne, Wyoming Terri
tory, and the fireman Of the latter, Michael
Callhudl, WAS IubIdQLly h1llC0j WALO ~ ~
gineer, Michael Mcguire, had both legs cut of
and died in two hours.
A party of Arizona marauders, who killed q
mail rider recently, were struch by a detach-
ment Of the Sixth cavalry. The mail Was re-
! captured and fifteen dead Indians we're left on
the ground, while more we're killed.
Colonel William Randolph Berkeley was sit
ting in his Office at Farmville, Va, conyersing
with a gentleman, when a knock was heard at
the door, and as he arose to open it two shots
we're fired at him, causing wounds from the
effects Of which he died in half an hour. The
assassin, Capt. W. q. Kennedy, a hotel proprie-
tor, then shot himself in the head, inflcting a
wound which caused death the same evening.
Colonel Berkeley was g prominent Yirglnian,
one OF the leaders Of the Conservative party in
the State, and had been favorably spoken OF
as a gubernatorial candidate.
According to dispatches from various parts
OF Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Minnesota and Wis
consin nearly all business Was suspended,
owing to the extraordinary amount Of mud
prevailing in the localities mentioned. Every
CITY, town and country road, lane or alley was
covered with the liquid nuisance to such an
extent that traffic was at q standstill, and far
mers ventured out only in cases Of necessity,
while cattle, hogs and grain and all kinds of
produce were kept from market. In Laporte,
IND, Six ClLlZeL6 TOuo LuIouSu ~ PlluClPaA
streets in q boat drawn by mules, the mud be-
ing nearly two feet thick and in a liquid state.
At indianapolis Judge Gresham appointed
L. A.. Millbank receiver Of the Anderson,
Lebanon and st. Louis railroad on applca-
lion Of the creditors Of the road.
The stockholders of the Real Estate Savings
Institution of st. Louis resolved to suspend.
Carl Mas and wife, Of Crawford county
Iowa, locked in their three children, aged re-
gpectively one, two and q half and four years,
and went to husk corn. During their absence
the house caught fire and the three children
were burned to death.
A loss Of $l5. 900 was caused by the destruc-
ton by fire of six buildings in the business
portion of Napoleon, Ohio. They were insured
for So, 700.
An immense crowd witnessed the hanging Of
Jack Harris ut Clinton, Tenn, for the murder
Of Isaac White in 1863. After his crime Harris
escaped capture for over twelve years.
The number Of lives loss on Western rivers
during the past year-mainly the result Of the
burning or explosion Of steamboats-is seventy,
and the pecuniary loss is set down at 49, 3O, 900.
A convention lasting ten days was held in st.
Louis by the colored school teachers of Mis-