The Newtown bee., 1879-08-20
NEWS SUMMARY.
Eastern and Middle States.

The Governor of Pennsylvania has signed warrants for the hanging, on October 9, of John O'Neil and Peter McManus, the North umberland county Mollie Maguires convicted of the murder of Coroner Hesser, near Sha- mokin Pa., in 1S74 also for the hanging of Andrew Tracey, a lawyer, of McKean county, Pa, who murdered a girl to whom he was paying attention.
 Three workmen in a New York candy man. ufactory were terribly burned and dangerously injured by an explosion of superheated pow dered starch, in the drying-room of the es- tablishment where they were at work. This explosion will have the effect of throwing light upon the origin of the explosion and fire on Dec. 20, 1877, at No. 63 Barclay street, New York, by which the candy factory of Greenfield X Son was completely destroyed and thirteen persons lost their lives This catastrophe created profound sensation at the time, particularly as no satisfactory con- clusion could be arrived at as to the origin ot the fire. fire marshal made an examina- tion which extended over several mont,4s, and the coroner also made searching investiga- tion, but what caused the explosion and fire remained a mystery. It was believed at that time that the disaster might have been occa- stoned by the explosion of a cloud ot finely powdered starch coming in contact with an open light or heated surface. and, in view of the circumstances surrounding this latter ex- plosion, it is lrendered almost certainty that the Barclay street fife had its origin in the same manner.
 Frank Brennan, a Troy (N. Y.) teamster tried to quiet disturbance, when a man named James Garrett stabbed him in the groin with chisel, severing the main artery. Brennan died in fifteen minutes.
 At Fairview, Pa., the six-year- old daughter of Edward Ryan endeavored to cross the rail road by crawling under a freight train. Her nurse, Cassie Laffin, aged eighteen, started to bring her back, when the train moved and both girls were run over and killed.
 Prisoners confined at Blackwell's Island New York, apparently do not have much trouble to escape when they make up their escaped from the boats in which they were rowing under the eyes oi keepers, two ot | whom were found drunk and arrested.
 At the Saratoga races the great two-mile race for the Kenner stakes was won by the Kentucky horse Falsetto in :354-the fastest l two-lnile race ever run in this country with the weights up.
 Although not positively known it is gener- ally believed that the body of Alexander T. Stewart, stolen from St. Marks chu ch- yard in New York on the seventh ot last Novem- | Der, bas been recovered by the payment of 8 1 heavy reward to the thieves and reinforced secretly, preparatory to being finally deposited in the memorial crypt at Garden City, Long Island But now comes the New York HerGLd with long statement to the effect that the body "has neither been discovered nor the crime itself laid to rest by a compromise" :" The Her0d gives what purports to be his tory of the negotiations for the return of the body. It says the robbers wrote from Mon- treal to New York lawyer, employing him as a medium between themselves and Judge Hilton that they sent the lawyer package containing the cotfin-plate and knobs attached | to the coffin in which the remains rested when stolen; that they demanded $250,00 for the body's return; that failing to make terms with Judge Hilton, negotiations were opened with Mrs. Stewart, who was under the impression the body had been recovered, and that Mrs. Stewards fears that the story was true were allayed by Judge Hilton's assurance to the 1 contrary.