The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1879-12-12
NEWS SUMMARY.
Eastern and Middle States

The Pennsylvania and the Lehigh valley
coal companies have advanced their miners
wages. 81 u Il 81
Washington L. Hall, a New York city in
spector OF election in 1873, who failed to
append to his returns specimens OF the ballots
cast, thereby acting contrary to the law, has
been sentenced to eighteen months imprison-
lnent
The town election in New Haven, Conn,
a few days ago, resulted in victory for the
Democrats, who elected all officers by ma
jorities ranging from 500 to 800. kss
The SEVENTEEN birthday OF Oliver Wendell
Holmes was celebrated few days ago by
banquet at which was present tho most nota-
bic gathering of literary men and women ever
witnessed in Boston. All the prominent
writers in the country were either present or
sent letters OF congratulation. At the BAN
quet DR.. Holmes read poem, and poems in
his honor by Whittier, E. c.. Stedman, j. 7.
1rowbridge G. P. Cranch and Helen Hunt
were read. Addresses were delivered by
President Eliot, OF Harvard college, w. D.
Howells. editor Atlantic Monthly, Mark
Twain, ]. W. Harper, Colonel Higginson and
others. EH
Andrew Tracey, young lawyer, was
hanged the other day at Smethport, Pa, for
the murder OF his cousin, Mary Reilly, young
lady with whom he was in love. On the trial
insanity was set up as plea IN his defense,
and after his conviction strenuous efforts
were made to obtain communication OF the
sentence, without avail. During his confine-
ment Tracey read a great deal and wrote
verses. He was q young man OF considerable
intellectual endowments. but had always been
OF morose disposition. At l:4g P. II. Tracey
was led / O the scaRold, which was erected in
the iail. Ten minutes laterethe sheriff cut the
rope and Tracey's body went down through
the trap, and horrible scene was presented.
The knot unloosened and he fell heavily to
the stone for. Tracey was lifted up through
the opening by the sheriff and the religious
ceremonies were continued. A new rope was
secured and Tracey, at :56, was dropped into
eternity. He uttered no word after the tall,
and had nothing to say on the scahold
While Dennis Lynch, c. A. Nourse and
Dennis Reardon were engaged in shoveling
grain in Ellis Packard's -four mill at Brockton,
Mass, the floor gave way, and the men teH
twenty feet into the cellar and were suffocat-
ed under 5000 bushels OF corn.
Late at night flames were seen issuing from
a frame building belonging to Bellevue hos
pital in New York. The building was occupied
by twenty women and ten children-a1t IN
valids-and OF these twenty-seven were car
lied out in safety; but three children lost their
lives.
Inc 1alI n0lO Uy ID0 o0foHtu I0S4IioHb VI
New York lasted three weeks and proved
great success, the net profits being estimated
at 100000. ~ III
By the explosion of a fiy-wheel at the Rens-
selaer rail mill in Troy, N. Y, a heater named
James Wallace WIGS killed and damage was
, done to the extent OF $40, 900. The fy-wheel
was thirty feet in diameter and weighed sixty
tons. 1t burst into ten pieces, one ofiwhich
assembled through the roof and came down
through the root of a neighboring mill, having
passed 80 feet through the air.
Hon. Winthrop W. Ketchum, judge OF the
United States district court for tie western
district OF Pennsylvania and an ex-mernber OF
Congress, died in Pittsburgh, Pa, few days
ago, aged ffty-nine years.
John B. Cough spokeatR temperance meet
ing in Brooklyn the other night.
A fire at Troy, N Y, destroyed two large
brick buildings, occupied by six shirt and col
lar manufactures, block of wooden tene-
Inent houses and the German Lutheran
church, causing an estimated loss of $3.50, 0C0.
This is the most disastrous fire that has &C.
CURED in Troy since 1862.