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NEWS SUMMARY.
Eastern and Middle 6tates

NEWS SUMMARY n.
Eastern and Middle States
The convention Of the Pennsylvania Repub-
licans for the nomination of q State ticket was
held in Harrisburg. Mayor Stokely, Of Phila-
delphia, was chosen chairman. The ticket
nominated was For governor, General Henry
NJ. Hoyt; for supreme judge, James T. ster-
rett t; for acknowledgements, Charles W..
Stone ; for secretary OF internal ahalrs, aaron
K. Dunkel. The platform adopted does not
allude to the Administration, but opposes free
trade and the tariff bill declares that labor
and American commerce should be fostered by
the national government asserts that the
public lands should be reserved for actual
settlers opposes the payment Of Southern
claims" and unjust freight discrimination !;
sympathizes with Southern Republicans, and
endorses the State administration
The New York Legislature has adjourned.
Mrs. Lydia Sherman, who WAS serving a life
imprisonment in the Connecticut State prison
for poisoning her husband, and whose escape
and ~recapture some months ago will be remem-
bered, is dead. After her sentence for killing
her husband she confessed to having poisoned
three husbands and four children.
Twenty thousand barrels Of oil were lost at
Bradford, Pa, by the bursting OF r. W. Evans
& Co.'S oil tank.
John D.. Payne, %bookkeper for Alvin J.
johnson & Son, New York publishers, was
found to have stolen over Sl2,O00 OF FUNDS De-
longing to his employers and Was arrested.
In Johnston, R. l., Martin Head, aged six
teen years, fell dead while playing base ball,
hay!.:;; burst q blood vessel.
At Pittsield, Mass, the jury in the case OF
John Ten Eyck, indicted for the murder OF
MIR. Stillman, brought in a verdict OF murder
in the first degree, and ne was sentenced W De
hanged on August 16. =,
The grand jury Of New York city has brought
twenty-nine indictments against the proprie-
tors Of as many Observation-Disclosures,
fat renderers, etc.-from which foul ooors
emanate.
At Myersburg, Pa, John Stoeyer, q respected
and trusted citizen, confessed on MS oeaIn
bed that during the past twenty-five years ne
had been concerned in four murders, giving
details and naming his accompllces In crime.
party of young men visited Daniel OBrien'f
house in Lowell, Mass, to get liquor, and!
upon his refusing them admission, kicked al
his door. O'Brien fred upon them, fatally
wounding Edward Allen.
The daughter Of Patrick O'Neal, aged mir
years, was fatally burned in the woods IN
Cumberland, R. I. She was walking with he'
father, and he threw away a lighted match,
which set fire to the dry furze, and the tames
caught the child's clothing.
Western and Southern States.
The Ohio Legislature has adjourned.
The Ohio Democratic State convention Will
be held at Columbus June 26.
st, Agnes Female Academy at Memphis
Tenn, caught fire and was entirly DESTROYED
Loss estimated at ESQ, 900 insurance S25,00O
Mrs. Anne Barbara Kors arrived in Balti'
more from Dayton, Ohio, intending to leave or
the following day for Germany. As she did not
come down to breakfast on the next morning
at the hote.. where she was stopping, her room
was broken open and she was found sufocated,
She had blown out the gas instead Of turning
it off when ratiring.
Brown Bower, q noted desperate, was hang.
ed at Gonzales. TToAsS. .nr the murder OF
Thomas Holderman in 1872.
A fire at Massilion, Ohio, destro..e led a portion
of Russell & Co.'S agricultural wtc!ts, dam
aging the property to IN amount exceeding
$75, 600.
Over one hundred houses in st. Louis were
more or less seriously injured by q heavy wind
and rain storm, and a number Of persons are
injured. The pecunisry damage done reaches
$50. 600.
The Dime Savings Bank, Of Sacramento,
CAL, suspended, owing $4,000, mainly t
children. It proved to have been O sham con
Germ, never having been incorporated.
The other day Wheeling, W. Va, was visited
by the most disasterous storm OF wind and hal
known in that section since 1869. Hailstones 81
large at q hens egg fell in great masses, break
- kho,,oo,5o ~ nanaa ~ O1aQa and almost To-
tally running the fruit and other crops in the vi
cinity. During two days extremely severe
storms also prevailed in various portions OF
Illinois, in many Instances proving very dis
astrous. At Petersburg four pereons were
killed by lightning and many buildings shat
tered. At Fairbury growing crops were con.
sidersbly damaged and live stock killed by
Lightning. Near Quincy bridges were washed
away. fruit injured, and wheat beaten down
Near Lincoln two women and o girl were Killed,
and great damage done by hail. At Odell
hotel was struck by, lightning, and the eart1
80 drenched that planting will be retarded
many days. Dispatches from Chatsworth,
Springfield, Urbana, Streaton, Cairo, Jackson.
vile, and other towns in Illinois, represent the
storm to have been one Of unusual severity.
From Washington.
The Senate has confirmed the nomination OF
George F. Cutter to be paymaster-general OF the
navy and of William q. Hunt, to be Judge OF
the court Of claims. It has also ratified q treaty
with France, providing for g convention at
Paris next summer, with a view to the adoption
Of a metrical system OF weights and measures.
It is expected that all the principal European
nations will participate in the convention.
The President and Vice-President Of the
United States, representatives OF the executive
departments, members OF Congress-, the Sd
preme court Of the United States, the judiciary
of the District of Columbia, the courtof claims,
Sir Edward Thornton, the Japanese minister
nv Of National Sciences, the Philosophical
Society of Washington, the Alumni Assocla'
ton of Princeton College, officers OF the army
and navy, the Washington Monument Society
and q large concourse Of citizens attended the
funeral Of Professor Henry, late secretary OF
the Smithsonian Institute.
The Senate committee on pensions has agreed
to report o bill to increase the pensions OF 81
soldiers who lost both legs, both arms, or both
eyes, from $50 to $72 q month. There are
only sixty-fve Of these cases. In thirty three
Of them the soldiers have lost both legs IN
thirty-one of them both hands and one SOL
der lost both hands and both legs.
The Senate postal committee has decided tc
report as amendments to the annual post roads
bill several measures heretofore agreed upon Of
separate bills. Among them are the bills PROV.
ing for q new classification Of mail matter and
the registration of newspapers admitted to pound
rates Of postage, and regulating the compensa,
ton for railway transportation on the basis Of
both car space and speed Of trains.
The President has sent a brief message te
Congress, inclosing a long letter from Secretary
Evarts in regard to the payment Of the Halifax
fishery award. Mr.. Evarts reviews the whole
matter Of that award, and the manner in which
it was rendered. He states that the American
commissioner protested against the verdict
and that the opinion in Canada and England
had been. previous to the declaration OF the
award, that the verdict should be unanimous
BE states further that the award exceeded the
statement of damages set forth in the case,
and that it was therefore excessive. He rec
ommends that this government confer with the
government OF Great Britain in reference to
the principles involved in the matter, III orde,
that there may be o permanent settlement Of
the questions in dispute. An appropriation fol
the payment Of the award is advised. IT