The Newtown bee., 1879-04-29
SUMMARY OF NEWS.
Eastern and Middle States.

The loss during the past three months was twenty vessels of ], ,563. l2 tons.
 Andrew Trautz, ST., aged sixty, of Highland Falls N. r., was bitten by his Spitz dog last August, and recently taken sick with disease which his doctor said was hydropho- bia. He began to spit and froth, and died in great agony.
 At the Academy of Music, in New York, novel entertainment has taken place - game of chess with living pieces. The kings were stalwart men, with flowing boards, wearing | crowns and long, rich eloaks. The queens wore handsome robes; the knights wore | armor; and the bishops wore miters and full priestly attire. The pawns were girls in the attire of pages All the pieces were person. ated by members of a chess club and their lady friends
 Christian Leslie, of Norristown, N. J., shot and dangerously wounded his wife and then killed himself with the same weapon. Excess sive drinking led to the tragedy.
 Hezekiah Shaffer was hanged at Chambers burg, Pa., for murdering his wife by poison in February, 1877. Shaffer was too weak to stand, from an attempt at suicide, and had to be carried to the scaffold.
 An association of nineteen banks and bank ing firms in New York and Boston has sub- scribed to $150, ,000 of the four per cent, bonds and $40, 900 900 funding certificates, which closes the l0-40 bonds.
 The New York World has a general review ol Ine business OUTLOOK Tn the shape OI reports from correspondents all over the country. Ac cording to these reports business confidence has returned and prosperous times are assured. Mayor Cooper's charges of inattention to business against three of the New York Police Commissioners have resulted in the removal of Commissioner Nichols, with the Governors approval.
 The forty men who started on six days walking and running match in Gilmore's Gar den, New York, for the championship of America and money prizes, had dwindled down to seven wearied contestants on the sixth day of the race. Panchot, of Buffalo, came out first, covering 480 miles; Merritt, of Bridge port, Conn.,, was second, w tn 475 miles to his credit; Krohne, the third m made 455 miles, and OBrien was fourth with Smiles
 Six hundred dogs were on Exhibition at the opening of the dog show of the Philadelphia Kennel Club.
 The Millerstown Iron Company, of Macun- gie, Pa, has suspended, with liabilities amount ing to $l4O,O0O
 Martha Sladder, of Groveville, N. r., was found burned to death in her bed, with bottle of whiskey and pipe beside her.
 As three children of Oliver Stout were going to bed in Penobscott, Pa., a coal-oil lamp ex- ploded setting fire to their clothing. They ran toward a neighbours house, but the oldest child, girl, fell in the road and so badly burned that she died early the next morning. l ne OIn6r Slrl u1eu the next ana the child, boy, was not expected to recover.
 Western and Southern States.
 The mysterious murder of Josiah Bacon, treasurer of the Goodyear Dental Vulcanite Company, of Boston, in Baldwin's Hotel, San Francisco, has been cleared up by the render ot Dr. Chalfant, dentist who con- fessed that he killed Bacon in fit of anger. Bacon had brought suit against Chalfant for in- tlingement ot patent, and it was during an it,fa ,xyie hot tha t,yn in "a room that the murder took place.
 The St. Louis Grand Jury has indicted all owners, vendors and attaches of the Missouri State Lottery, some sixty in number
 Some time ago William James called at the Baltimore business house in which his former friend, Denwood B. Hinds, was employed, and the two at once engaged in q terrible duel, each emptying his revolver at the other. Both were severely wounded, but recovered. James charged Hinds with having betrayed his sister, and the young ladys death subsequently, asserted by her relatives to have been the re- suit ot her betrayal. Ever since his daughters death, her father, an engineer on the Balti- more and Ohio railroad, had been in an excited mental condition, and threatened to kill Kinds on sight. A few days ago the two men met, and Mir. James at once began firing on Hinds, who returned the slots. The old man was | wounded four times, and died he reached doctors office, to which he had been taken. Hinds was wounded in the arm.
 The trial of J. P. Olive, known the king oi the cattle men in Lopp county, Neb., and one of his herders, on the charge ot taking two innocent prisoners from a sheriff's guard last December, hanging them to a tree and then building a fire under the swinging bodies, re- suited in verdict of murder in the second degree, and they were sentenced to imprison- ment for life. The two victims were Ami | Ketchum and his father-in-law, an old man | named Mitchell, both of whom owned home steads in Custer county. The sheriff in whose charge they were, with several other herders, was also implicated in the murder The citizens of Wyandotte, Kansas, have | issued an appeal for pecuniary help ou behalf ot | destitute colored persons, sevenleen hundred | of whom have recently arrived in that place 1 from various points in the South. The mayor of Kansas City, Mo-, which is close to Wyan- | dotte, also appealed to the Secretary of War | for an order for the issuance of rations from Fort Leavenworth, and Secretary McCrary re- | piled that he was without authority to issue such order, and that application should be ! made to Congress.
 | Great destruction to lite and property has | resulted from a heavy storm which swept l through the lower portion of South Carolina | and a section of Georgia In the village of | Waterboro, s. C., more than one hundred dwellings and all the churches were swept | away, and three-fourths of the inhabitants were | rendered homeless. Fifteen persons were | killed and many wounded. At Oakley, a | station the Northeastern railroad, all the | houses occupied by negroes were leveled, and one negro killed and many were hurt. | Similar casualties are reported from various points in the track of the tornado. At Water | boro the residence of Dr. G. N. Reeves was blown down, and the doctors wife, daughter, and Mr. Philemon Sanders were killed During the races at New Orleans the favor | ite horse in race-Judge Hancock-fell,
 
 | The ship Great Republic went ashore at l Astoria, Oregon, and became total wreck. l Ten of the ships crew were drowned A fire at Eureka, New, destroyed halt of the | town, including the heaviest business houses, the hotels, newspaper offices, telegraph office, | the Masonic building, and great number of | dwellings. Three hundred families were desti- tute and two thousand people were without | shelter. The loss is estimated at $l 100000. | Henry H. P. Tudor and Louis II. Ayme, who propose to ride on horseback to Patagon1a, ar | rived at Tuscumbia, Ala, the other day. | Thomas R. Baker entered Miss A. M. Sim | gleton's grocery store in Nashville, Tenn, and treated several persons to beer, for which he refused to pay. Miss Singleton demanded 6 settlement, which Baker refused to make, whereupon she locked the doors and struck Baker over the head with a billet of wood. | Her brother, A. M. Singleton, then fired three | shots at Baker, inficting slight wound in his side. Baker returned the fire with 8 navy re- volver, shooting Singleton through the neck and killing him instantly. The coroner's jury returned verdict of justifable homicide. About one-halt the village of Kinsley, Kan, has been destroyed by fire.
 From Washington.
 A circular just issued by the Treasury De.
 partment says: stThe Secretary of the Treas.
 ury offers, at one-half of one per cent. above par, and accrued interest to date of subscrip | tion, $l50, 900 of the four per cent funded
 loan of the United States, in denominations
 viz: Coupon bonds of $50, $100, $500, ant