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NEWS sUMMARY
Eastern and MIddIs staiss.

NEWS SUMMARY.
Eastern and Middls St,iss.
Andrew Tracey, atyoung lawyer, was
| hanged tile other day at Smethport, Pa, tor
the murder of his cousin, Mary Reilly, q young
lady with whom he WA in love. On the trial
| insanity was set up as q plea in his defense,
and after his conviction strenuous efforts
were made to obtain q Communication OF the
sentence, without avail. During his conine-
ment Tracey read a great deal n wrote
! verses. He was a young man OF considerable
intellectual endowments, but had always been
of a morose disposition. At lao P. n. Tracey
was led to the scaffold, which was erected in
the Jail. Ten minutes later the sheriff cut the
rope and Tracey's body went down through
the trap, and q horrible scene was presented.
The knot unloosened and he fell heavily to
the stone floor. Tracey was lifted up through
the opening by the sheriff and the reli giou
ceremonies were continued. A new rope was
secured and Tracey, at 1:56, was dropped into
eternity. He uttered no word after the iall,
and had nothing to say on the scafold.
: While Dennis Lynch, @. A. Nourse and
Dennis Reardon were engaged in shoveling
grain in Ellis Packard's floor mill at Brockton,
Mass, the -four gave way, and the men fell
twenty feet into the cellar and were suffocated
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-all in
valids and OF these twenty.seven were car
ried out in safety; but three children lost their
lives.
The lair held by the Seventh regiment Of
Now York LASTED three weeKs and proved q
great success, the net profits being estimated
at $500, 000.
BY the explosion of q hy-wheela at the Rens-
selaer rail mill in Troy, N. Y, a heater named
James Wallace was killed and damage was
done to the extent of $40, 0c0. The f1y-wheel
was thirty feet in diameter and weighed sixty
tons. 1t burst into ten pieces, one OF which
assembled through the roof and came down
through the roof OF a neighboring mill, having
passed $50 feet through the air.
Hon. Winthrop W. Ketchum, Judge of the
United States district court for the western
district of Pennsylvania and an ex-member OF
Congress, died in Pittsburgh, Pa, a lew days
ago, aged ftty-nine years.
John B. Cough spoke at q 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, q block OF wooden tenement
houses and the German Lutheran Church,
causing an estimated loss OF $500 0. This
is the most disastrous fire that has occurred in
Troy since 1862.
The second international dairy fair was
opened in New York by Mayor Cooper.
There was a fine exhibition of live cattle and
dairy products.
At a meeting in New York about 100 dele
yates, representing more than twenty States,
formed a national society in the interests OF
farmers, to be called "The American Agricul-
tural Association" The aims Of the associa-
ton are similar 10 those of the Royal Agri-
cultural Society in Great Britain, which are:
|. The dissemination of knowledge relative to
the best methods of agriculture. 2. Testing
OF competing agricultural implements. 3. In
vestigations into diseases OF animals. A The
education OF veterinary surgeons, tenants and
sale OF manurcs, feeding stuffs and seeds.
6. Embodiment OF useful Information con-
tained in agricultural publications. 7. TO en-
courage men OF talent in their attention to
agriculture. s. The destruction OF insects and
weeds.
The house of Miles futile, near Rochester,
n. Y, was destroyed by fire n few mornings
ago, and Mr.. futile and one child that he was
trying 10 rescue were burned 10 death.
Western and Southern States.
Medford Waters, q colored youth eighteen
years old. was har ged tho other day near
Elkton, Nd, tor the murder, in 1878, OF
Jenkins Whaley, also colored.
Denis Kearney, the California a~gitator, has
announced his intention of being present at
the conference OF Greenbackers in Washington
on January 8.
Governor Marks, of Ten aessec, hns issued a
proclamation calling an extra session OF the
legislature to consider Memphis yellow fever
natters, and to provide a tax tor improving
the sanitary condition Of that city.
A dispatch from Los Pinos agency, in Col.
orado. snys that the Ute Indians in consulta-
ton with the United States commission ut
that place consented to deliver up those OF
their number who participated in the late
massacre OF Agent Meeker, provided the pris-
oners would be tried in Washington and not
in Colorado. Chief Curry said the Colorado
whites were all enemies to the Utes, and a
fair trial could not be obtained in that State.
The scene at this meeting Of tho commission
and the Utes WAS at one moment extremely
thrilling, both sides drawing their weapons
and preparing for a bloody encounter, which
WAS, however, happily averted.
Anumber OF buildings were demolished and
several persons fatally injured by a terrific
wind storm which passed over the town OF
Renick, Mo.
The American Poultry Association hold its
annual exhibition OF poultry, pigeons and pet
stock at Indianapolis, Ind, beginning january
9Th and continuing to the 18th.
From Washington.
Hon. Henry P. Baldwin, appointed as n
senator to I'LL the %unexpired term OF the Hon.
Zachariah Chandler, OF Michigan, deceased,
was sworn in and took his seat....Mr Beck
introduced a bill to authorize the payment OF
custom duties in legal-tender notes; also, q
bill amendatory OF title No. 4S OF the revised
statutes so as to authorize the purchase OF
ioreign-built ships by citizens OF the United
States Tor use in the ioreign-carrying trade,
both OF which were referred to the committee
on finance. Mr.. lIayard introduced a joint
resolution removing the legal.tender quality
OF the grecnbacks and making them receivable
by the government for MI dues except duties
on imports 80. Mr.. Ingalls, offered n resolution
that, in the opinion OF the Senate, the present
volume of United States notes should not be
reduced, and That said notes oughtto continue
to be O legal. tender in the payment OF debts.
Laid on the table and ordered to be printed.
Adjourned.
A Washington dispatch Gays that the Green
hackers have held a caucus at which they
agreed to throw the weight OF their individual
and collective influence against "turthcr en-
croachments OF the money power They
will oppose ull legislation looking to the retro.
mept of the greenback or to the checking OF
silver coinage, or to any attempt to substitute
national banks notes for greenbacks. Tho
will press the bill offered Mt the extra sessioy
10 substitute treasury notes Tor bank note
and that offared the other day by Mr.. We ave
TO increase the currency by the issue OF $500,
G0D,CO0 in greenbacks to pay the surviving
soldiers and sailors OF the war The difference
between what they got in paper and the value
OF the same in gold.
Several hundred colored people have ar
rived in Washington recently on their way
from North Carolina to Indiana, where they
intend to settle.
The nomination OF Secretary OF War Nc
Cmry TO be United States circuit Judge for the
eighth circnit has been tavorably acted upon
by the Senate judiciary committee.
The President has appointed ex-United
States Senator Ramsey, of Minnesota, to sue
eeed Judge McCrary az secretary OF war, and
the Senate in executive session has nnani-
mously confirmed the nomination. Alexander
Ramsey, the new secretary OF war, is a native
of Pennsylvania, and is sixty-iour years old.
He held the office OF register OF his county
when only thirteen years old. In 1910 he
was secretary OF the electoral college OF Penn
sylvania, and the next year clerk OF the Penn