The Newtown bee., 1879-01-28
NEWS SUMMARY.
gastern and Middle states.

Eastern and Middle States.
 Irregularities in the accounts Of William A. | Burroughs, treasurer of the New York and | New Haven railroad company, led to an exani- | nation Of his books, when 1t was dieeoverod that he had misappropriated sums amounting | to SIT 0O0, and his resignation was at once de- | manded and promptly tendered. Burroughs | had beeu in the habit of loaning the company's | funds to his friends. As his bonds amounted i to $50 900. the company loses nothing.
 At convention to form national militia as | sociatioD, held in New York, delegates from f thirteen States were present, and an organiza- i tion was effected by electing General Barney, l of Rhode fsiahd, chairmah.
 Martin Bergin, convicted of the murder of | Patrick Burns, clerk for company of coal | operators, in 1870, WAS hanged at Pottsville, 1
 Another large fire with heavy losses has beefi l added to the list in New York, Four massive | iron buildings in the heart of the region occu- | pied by wholesale dry goods houses were de- ! stroyed by the flames, causing an aggregate | between s1, BOG, ,Ooo and $4,eO0, ,o0O. At one time it was feated the immense sttucture oceu- i pied by Fl. B. Clafn $ Co., the largest whole | sale dry goods house in the city, would sue l but the Wss saved 6y the hurried to the fire, which was visible from all parts of the city.
 About fifteen hundred men and boys em- ployed in the mines of the Philadelphia and Heading Goal and Iron company, at Girardville, | Pa., went on strike, claiming two months back pay.
 Friction of the machinery caused an ex- plosion which blew lip the bastine-tuse factory Of Toy, Bickford < Co.,, at Simsbury, Conn.,. killing Lizzie Wall aged twenty, Annie Wall and Nellie McNulty, both aged seventeen.
 Charles Ulrich and Henry 0. Cole, two of the most notorious counterfeiters in the coun. try, have been captured by United States off cers, after some months of watching in Phila- delphia and other places All the most skillful counterfeits of national bank notes executed during the past few years were the work of Uirich, who was among the best engravers in the United States while Cole has handled and passed more spurious money than any other person in the country
 Twenty-four Princeton college students oc- cupying two large sleighs were arrested in the streets of Trenton N. J., for disorderly con- duct, and fined $3 80 each.
 Matthew T Brennan, ex-sheriff of New York; and for some time prominently identified with local politics. is dead in his fifty-seventh year. l Senator Conkling was renominated for the | third time to the United States Senate by the Republican legislative caucus, the Democratic caucus nominating Lieutenant Governor Dor | sheimers
 A billiard tournament for the championship l or EH6 WOTlu duu pFlZS ulOB0ty Wdb Optuco III 1 the Cooper institute, New York. | Mrs. Pennypacker was thrown from sleigh l at Trappe Pa., kicked in the temple by the runaway horse and instantly killed. | The destruction by fire of John Brown Sons' woolen mills, in Philadelphia, caused g loss of over $200, GOO.
 | john Blair Scribner, head of the publishing ! house of Charles Scribners Sons, died in New York 8 few days ago, aged about twenty=eight years.
 l The Pennsylvania legislature reelected J.. 1 Donald Cameron to the United States Senate. Roscoe Conkling has been reelected to the United States Senate by the New York legisla- | ture.
 Orville H. Platt Republican) has been elect | cd to the United States Senate Ey the legislas ture of Connecticut.
 l George s. Hiliard, American author, died at | his residence in Longwood, Mass, a few days since, aged sixty seven years.
 Many political clubs and visiting organiza- l tions took part in the inaugural ceremonies of Governor Hoyt, at Harrisburg. Pa. The new | governor read his inaugural address after the l parade, and in the evening there was display /! of fireworks and public reception. Judson's bank, at Ogdensburg, N. T., one of ] the oldest and most trusted institutions in | northern New York, suspended. owing de- l rositors in the neighborhood of SA00,000s MT. | Judson expressed belief that if the credi itors I | in full
 | The Marquis of Lorne (Canada's governor | generaD, and his wife, the Princess Louise (Queen Victoria's daughter), visited Niagara l Falls, and crossing over to the American side, ] paid their first visit to the United States.
 A large meeting of Socialists was held in New York to protest against Bismarck's re- strictiye policy in Germany.
 That people cannot be too careful in hand ling kerosene lamps, has been sadly illustrated at Hyde Park, Pa., where Mrs. Davis and her ore -year-old child were burned to death by 8 fire caused by an exploded lamp.
 William oBrien and two sons were found burned to death in the ashes of their camp fire, at Milbury Brook, Pa
 western and Southern States. l The inauguration of Governor Marks, of | Tennessee, took place at Nashville. The entire business portion of Allenyille, Ky. has been destroyed by fire.
 William G. Coffin, teller in Cincinnati bank,
 lived a fast life, and has ended with abscond-
 ing with over $10,000 of the institutions funds.
 The Teller Senate investigation committes has ended it's labors in New Orleans and left all unfinished work to Morris Marks and B. l F. Jonas, respectively representing the major ity and minority of the committee.
 The greater part of the Catholic church pro-
 psrty in Cincinnati has been turned over to a
 board of trustees in the interests of creditors
 of Archbishop Purcell, with whom many mem-
 bers of the church deposited their savings, and
 who recently became financially embarrassed.
 John HoIson, engineer, and Michael Burke,
 blacksmith, were fatally injured by an ex
 plosion of dynamite in the GunpoHder Water
 Works, near Baltimore.
 The United States grand jury, at St. Louis,
 have indicted the president, cashier and one
 director of the broken National bank of the
 State of Missouri, for fraudulent practices in
 connection with the business of the institu-
 tion. No indie ment was brought by the jury
 against Capt. Eads, the well-known engineer, as was at one time reported.
 Florida jury found the Brevard count,
 canvassing board including the sheriff and
 justice Of the peace guilty of falsifying re
 turns in the late congressional election.
 Matt. H. Carpenter (Republican) has beer
 elected by the Wisconsin legislature to succeed
 Senator Howe in ths United States Senate. From Washington. The memorial services held by Congress il
 the Hall of Representatives, in honor of th,
 late Professor Henry, secretary of the Smith sonian institute were attended by the Presi
 dent and cabinet. supreme court justices botl
 houses of Congress and many invited guests After opening prayer by Dr. James McCosh of Princeton college, addresses were delivered by Vice-President Wheeler (Mr. Wheeler read
 iug the address of Senator HamIin, of Maine
 who was unable to be presant); Senator With
 CTS Professors Gray, of Harvard, and Rogers
 of Boston; Representatives Garfield, and Cox
 of New York, and General Sherman.
 The commissioner of pensions estimates tha
 the bill passed by the House and Ssnate to pay
 arrears of pensions will require $40 900, ,00l
 to pay such arrears. The bill provides that al
 ensions which have been granted under tho
 general law regulating pensions, or which may
 hereafter be granted, in consequence of deatf , which originated in the United States servics
 during the rebellion, or in consequence o wounds received or disease contracted in sucf service, shall begin from the date of death o discharge.
 The Geneva award bill has been passed il the House. The bill divides claims into thre' . In1n, Mdar doran hu ara