The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1878-04-03
lAIARY OF NEWS.
Eastorn and Middle states.

The Home Savings Bank, of Boston has sus
pended. It is believed the depositors will be
paio in full but long time will be required to
wind up the affairs.
fire in Jersey City, Nj destroyed five
dwellings, and made over one hundred families
destitute. Loss on buildings and to occupants,
about S26,000
Robert MoAdam and Charles Patton, boys
aged about twelve years, quarreled in Philadel-
phia over the possession OF a stick OF candy.
Patton drew pirtol and shot McAdam through
the head instantly killing him.
The election in New Hampshire resulted IN a
victory for the Republicans. Governor Pres
cott was reelected, and Republican legis-
lature and council were also chosen.
Three buildings Of the American Powder
Company, at South Acton, Mass, were COM
petely demolished by an explosion, and two
men, named Foster and Turpenty, were in
stantly killed. So heavy was the shock Of the
explosion that it was heard for distance Of
twenty-five miles.
Jehisl Reed & Co., wholesale hat dealers
and Joseph H Marks, commission merchant
OF New York city, have suspended the former
owing 5000, 600 and the latter $4,000.
Benjamin Noyes, who was indicted in New
Jersey more than year ago for his acts as
president of the National Capital Life In
surance Company, in connection with the trans
fer Of assets of the New Jersey Mutual Life
Insurance Company, and whose ba at that
time was declared forfeited because he did not
appear when wanted, was rearrested in Wash
ington and taken to Newark, N. ].
The Pennsylvania Senate has passed a bill
creating banking department. whose duty 1t
shall be to annually examine into the sound
ness and stability of the States incorporated
banks.
Students Of the Princeton On. J. } Theological
Seminary we're attacked by Princeton College
students and two of them severely beaten. Six
OF the college boys were arrested.
Mrs. Ann Eliza Leggett, wealthy widow
residing in Tuckahoe, N. Y, was shot and in
stantly killed in the presence Of her daughter
by neighbor named Thomas Merritt, who then
hurried to his own house and shot himself
through the heart. The parties to the tragedy
) were related by marriage, and Merritt had
been drinking at the time of the shooting, but
the cause Of the double crime remains mys-
terry. The verdict OF the coroner's Jury was
that Merritt was suffering from temporary
alteration Of mind.
The Newburyport (Mass.) Five-Cent Savings
Bank has been enjoined by the State bank
commissioner from doing further business.
Joseph La Page, alias Joseph Parish, was
executed at the State prison in Concord N. H,
Tor the murder OF Josie A. Langmaid, at Penn
broke, N. H., on the 4th Of October, 1876.
Miss Langmaid, girl Of seventeen, and
daughter OF one Of the most prominent citizens
of Pembroke started for school on the day of
evening her body was discovered in dense
swamp, few rods from the road. Her head
was cut off and missing, and the body was
otherwise mutllated, evidently for the purpose
Of concealing the evidence of brutal crime.
The head was found a third of q mile distant
from the scene of the murder. La Page was
arrested and convicted on circumstantial evil
dence and sentenced on January 10, 1877, to
be executed. He was granted new trial.
which resulted in similar verdict and sem
nv aFNf1 Il Dadr half v-0I
during his trial. murdered Miss Ball school
teacher, at st. Albans, Vt, in 1874, but es-
capped through lack of evidence. Previous to
his execution he confessed the murder of both
Miss Ball aud Miss Langmaid. His whole his
tory is characterized by acts of excessive bru-
tality. He was accompanied to the scaffold by
his spiritual advisers. He made no remarks
before the death trap was sprung, and his
death seemed an almost painless one.
Calvin Stewart, who killed Ira Cole, the rail-
road engineer, at Dover N. j., last june and
was sentenced to be hanged on April 8, has had
his sentence committed to twenty years inn
prisonment.
There has been run on several of the Bos.
ton savings banks by frightened depositors.
Alexander Barlow, treasurer of the Fishkill
en- Y.) Savings Bank, has been indicted on
four charges-two for embezzling $61 900 and
two for grand larceny ip taking $4,000.
Western and Southern States.
Eleven buildings were destroyed by fire at
Hulbardston, Mich, and loss incurred of
$11,C01.
The Farmers and Traders Bank. of Lexing-
ton, Ka., has suspended payments. Its de-
posits aggregate $90,OO0.
The recent heavy snow storm in Nebraska
and Wyoming Territory was one of unpre-
cedented seyerity, and numerous persons
ranchmen, sheep herders and others-lost
their lives, while the loss Of live stock is very
large.
The State Bank, OF Arkansas, at Hot Springs,
has gone into liquidation, in conse equence of
losses during the recent fire.
A heavy storm of hail and rain in Jefferson
county, W. Va, destroyed thousands OF acres
OF wheat and other grain, unroofed and blew
down houses and killed cattle. The loss will
reach over $3.50, 900.
The new Virginia funding bill has pas ed in
the State Senate-ayes, 20, nays, 5. The pre-
amble opposes increase of taxation, recognizes
the necessity OF preserving and lnsuring the
continued existence of the Institutions of the
Sta Q, including the public school system, and
expressing Willingness and anxiety to restore
The former equality Of the public creditors by
distributing rateable among them the entire ex-
cess OF public revenues derived from the pre-
seUt rate Of taxation, after most economical
administration of the State government.
A party of men who we're lynching a colored
man at Pensacola Fla, for assaulting a little
girl, were fired upon by a sheriffs posse; one
man was killed and five were dangerously
wounded.
II is reported that Sitting Bull is preparing
for another Indian war
Gus Johnson, white man, was hung in
Rome Ca, for the murder OF Daniel Afford
oOlOred man. The cause of the crime was
Affords refusal to hurry in taking flatboat
across the CoOsa river to Johnson who there
upon shot him dead. Before he was hung
johnson confessed that he had murdered two
men aud helped to kill two more.
The hard money league Of the West met
at Chicago and issued an address to the peO-
pie Of the United States, opposing "all paper
Imitation and consequent depression in favor
Of coin and paper of equal value and equal
purchasing power. and convertible into each
other at the will of the holder.