The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1878-01-16
SUMMARY OF NEWS.
Eastern and MIddIe states.

Two bodies were recovered from the ruin
caused by the explosion in the New York cand-
factory, while the number.of wounded reac' OF
over forty. Several persons were still missing
on the day following the disaster, but the lis
OF dead will not be 80 large as was at first sup
posed. II was also ascertaiued that the ex
plosion was not caused by the bursting oil
the boiler, and the real origin OF the disaster
is yet to be ascertained.
The Union League Club Of New York gave
reception TO President Hayes. About five
thousand persons we're present, among them
being Mrs. Hayes, Peter Cooper, Attorney
General Devens Secretary of State Evdrts and
others.
The large shoe factory OF ?. & N. Copeland
4 Co., at South Braintree, Mass, was de-
stroyed by fire, causing loss of about $5O, 600,
on which there is about SSs, 900 insurance.
John Van Dyke, youth Of nineteen, was
hung at Canton, N. Y, for numbering his wife
last July, after having been married to her
week.
President Hayes and wife assisted at the
/ opening OF the American Museum of Natural
History in New York. Speeches were made hy
President Eliot of Harvard College, Professor
o. @. Marsh and others, and the museum was
| formally opened by President Hayes. In the
evening the President attended the seventy
second annual dinner Of the New England
| Society and responded to the toast 1.-THE
President Of the United States"
Owen Murphy, president OF the New York
| board OF excise, twice member of the assem-
bly,, absconded with nearly $50, 900 belonging
! to the excise board, He had been expected AT
a meeting of the board, and when he failed TO
! put in an appearance his colleagues made an
! investigation, which resulted in discovering
that he had drawn from the bank large sum
| OF public money under his care, besides large
amount of his own funds, and then fled.
Three Wall street (New York; brokers were
! al Or
ers engaged in extensive forging of railroad
and other bonds, a large amount of which has
been put upon the market
-Four men engaged in midnight quarrel at
the corner of Bleecker and Sui ivan streets
New York, and two of them-Herman H.
Heterne and Francis Dougherty-were seri-
ously, II not fatally, stabbed. Charles Crut-
chet and Thomas Greenan were arrested, the
former having large butcher knife covered
with blood concealed in his sleeve.
The town house and Winthrop Church in
| Holbrook. Mass, were DESTROYED bv fire. Loss
about $75,OO0 partly insured.
! About three hundred Of the operatives en-
| ployed in shoe manufactures in Lynn. Mass,
struck against proposed reduction Of wages.
The planning mill of William Bechley at Potts
vile, Pa, was destroyed by fire Loss, 500
600 Insurance. $4,000. The buildings of the
Union Manufacturing Company at Springfield,
VT, were burned, and loss incurred of $S 900.
ON which the insurance is $4,050
Meter & Co., New York brokers, suspended
with liabilities variously estimated at between
$200,0 900 and $500,000
Owen Murphy, the absconding New York ex-
else commissioner, is believed to be in Canada
He has been expelled from the Tammany Hall
general committee, of which he was a member.
Crimes and casualties Duriug a drunken
row at the farmhouse of George Slade an
Englishman, in Methuen, Mass, Michael
Doran, aged twenty-three. Vas killed by a shot
III the breast from gun; at Albany, N. Y,
two men named Desmond and Powers were
scuffling in a liquor saloon, when the former
was struck on the head with a pitcher by the
latter and had his skull fractured an explosion
OF kerosene lamp took place in tenement
house at Rondout, N. y, setting fire to the
building and before all the inmates could get
away the wife and little daughter Of James
Brophy were burned to death and at Pitts
burgh, Pa. James Bond, member Of the CITY
council, was killed at the foundry in which he
was foreman, by having crane fall ON him.
The first National Congress Of the Work.
ingmen's Party was opened in Newark n. j.,
delegates from all parts of the country being
present.
Courtney, the champion rover of the United
States, has accepted the challenge of Trickett,
the Australian oarsman and champion of Great
Britain, to row a race for the championship OF
the world, and has named Owasco lake, n. Y,
ds tue pace IOf Jne struggle.
The Brooklyn On. " police arrested William
Springstein and his daughter Catharine, aged
sixteen, Tor manufacturing and passing coun-
terfeit five and ten cent silver pieces, plaster
of-paris moulds having been found in their
possession.
Thomas /. Ogden has been appointed re-
ceiver for the Delaware and North Shore rail-
road by Chancellor Runyon, of New Jersey.
The company indebtedness is 5000, 900.
Western and Southern States.
By the explosion of dynamite cartrige in
a tunnel OF the Gunpowder Water Works in
Baltimore county, Nd, Augustus Daniels
(colored) was killed, Thomas Porter danger
ously and two others slightly injured.
The Maryland and Delaware railroad was
sold at trustees sale in Eastop. Md, for
$9i, 900, the purchaser being VIM. T. Hart, OF
Boston.
Tie Indiana Democratic State convention
will be held at Indianapolis on February 20,
1878.
r. H. Norfolk was hanged in Annapolis, Nd,
Tor the murder OF his wife in MAY last The
murderer killed his victim in order that he
might marry her sister, girl of sixteen.
Russell r. Peck, of Chicago, lumber dealer.
has failed, with liabilities amounting to over
$G5, 900.
A fire in Toledo, Ohio, damaged the carpet
establishment of Messrs Buckman d Mallet
ana several other buildings to the extent Of
about SSO.0O0 partially insured.
The Tennessee Senate voted to settle the
debt of the State with fifty per cent bonds, at
four, five and six per cent. interest.
A San Francisco dispatch says that an en-
campment of l3O Indians near JanOs, Sonoro
was attacked by body OF Sonoro troops, whO
were defeated with a loss OF twentyseven
killed and number wounded. The indians
then stripped the surrounding counhyof stock.
TOlle Holton a Co., wholesale dry goods
dealers of Cincinnati, Ohio, have failed for |
over $4,000.
While half asleep Detective William q. Pride. /
Of Memphis, Tenn, imagined he heard burglars |
at his window. He seized revolver and in at |
tempting to cock it the weapon went of the /
bullet striking his wife and fye-months-old |
child, both Of whom died in a short time.
collision occurred between an express and /
freight train near Cbavenua Wvon,iro, par.;