The Newtown bee., 1879-11-26
SUMMARY OF NEWS


attempted to xii herself at Philadelphia by /
placing her head upon the railroad track, but |
was observed IN time and her purpose irus- /
trated. Letters were found upon her adj
dressed to several newspapers, stating that
poverty and failure to End employment led to
he act.
The President has COMMITTED the sentence
of Isaac jacobson from death by hanging to
Tor eighteen years. The change
in the punishment was made on the recon-
mendation OF Judges McKenna and Butler
and District Attorney Valentine as they be-
lieved jacobson no more guilty than the
other sailors who, with jacobson, fatally as
saulted Brooks, mate OF the Sea King, and
when the vessel arrived at Philadelphia were
tried tor murder. jacobson was sentenced to
be hung and the other members from six to
ten years.
Courtney and Hanlan, the oarsmen, with
their Representatives met in Rochester, and
after a discussion which lasted several hours,
,rticles of agreement were signed to row
ace on the Potomac river at Washington, on
December 8, Tor purse OF $6,00O.
A terrible fire, resulting in the death of five
persons, and serious injuries to two others,
took place in New York tenement house
few days ago. The flames were discovered at
about three O'Clock in the morning, when all
the unfortunate inmates OF the crowded tene-
ment were fast asleep. Almost as soon as the
engines arrived John Butzek, who lived on
the top floor, appeared at the window, clad in
his night clothes, and screamed loudly for
help He held up his child and called out that
the starways were impossible to pass down
because OF smoke Then, frantic with fear,
he put down the child and sprang into the air
from the open window, out OF which the
smoke was then pouring. He fel to the
street, forty feet below, and was taken up a
corpse. When the flames were fully under
control, less than forty minutes alter the ar
rival of the engines, the tremen entered and
removed the dead bodies they found there. On
the upper floor, in a little room in the front,
the body of Mrs. Buick was found. She was
crouched over the corpses of her two children
as though the last effort OF the expiring women
had been dictated by maternal love. One
little boy, her son Frank, aged seven, had his
arm around her neck and his face pressed close
TO her bosom, while her younger son, aged
three, had buried his face in the folds OF his
mothers dress and died there. On the floor
below the body OF Mary Gounder, widow,
aged seventy, was found. She had tried to
make her way through the smoke OF the stair
way, but had fallen helpless, and died almost
| on the threshold OF an escape. Her daughter,
Mary Burbeschel, widow, having dropped
| her two children from window into the arms
OF fireman, jumped to the ground herself,
| breaking her leg. Patrick Lynch, fireman,
WAS severely burned while trying to save lite.
| The fire is believed to have been OF incendiary
origin.
The building in New York occupied by the
! Chuj Gilman, g religious newspaper, and Other
business firms, was burned out q few days ago
and damage done to the extent OF about 800
GOO. The janitor's wife fatally injured by
| leaping to the ground from the top story.
U. S. Heyman s. Co., manufacturers O
artificial flowers on Broadway, New York
tailed with liabilities amounting TO 100000
Charles DrewsTsand Franklin Stichler were
banged at Lebanon, Pa, for the murder O
Joseph Raber at Indiantown Gap on the I'll
OF December last. The men hanged are two
of the six tried and convicted OF the murde
of old Raber, upon whose life they had takeI
out heavy insurance policies. Zechman on
OF the six, was acquitted on his second trial
Wise, who confessed first, has never beer
sentenced. Hummel and Brandt have thei
cases before the supreme court, and Drew
and Stichler are the only ones yet brought u
the scaffold. Religious services were con
Quoted in the cell by seven clergymen OF tn
| United Brethren and German Reforme
h churches. At ten minutes to eleven o'clocl
the condemned men were led to the gallows
which they assembled firmly. Drews, an oil
man of sixty years. appeared totally indiffer
ent to everything, but young Stichler claspes
his hands, upturned his paid face to The
rain and inoaned and muttered seemingly
heartfelt prayers. The religious services upo
the scaffold occupied almost twenty minutes
First there was prayer in German, the
a
hymn, There is a fountain filed with blood;
, then there was a prayerin English followed b
q prayer upon Bonded knees in German, an
then the singing oil a German hymn, and the
anoher PRAYER p English and thep t nw hef
ing. buibg III lhis oicMs esase ao"h ~
eyes and seemed to take no interest in th
proceedings, but Stichler ever prayin
tervently. The men made remarks excer
, to bid everybody "Good by" When the ira
. was first sprung, through mistake In nc
removing the prop, it did not hall. The nut
F., terings OF the men could be heard throug
/ their white caps. At ten minutes past elsve
: O'Clock, however, the platform parted and til
moose did its work. Both men died only attic
> great struggling. the same day that Drew
+. and Stichler were hanged in Pennsylvania
1 Myron A. Buell. suffered similar tate {
Cooperstown N. Y. for the murder of Catl
crime Richar Is, the daughter OF farmer
g Plainfleld, Otsego county, with whom Bue
|. lived. He assaulted the girl, strangled ht
q with rome and left her in the stable OF ira
tious bull after turning the animal loose, tn,
. creating the impression at first that the bu
a had killed her. The condemned man left
confession of his guilt in the hands OF his coul
!, sci. BuelPs father, mother, sisters and frient
" left him at about ten o'clock. The scene /,
I the survivors was heartbreaking one. II
: condemned man then spent the rest of his tin
i. in his cell in prayer and receiving the con
q munion. The death warrant was read in Il
I
= there. Buell. appeared very calm. At qua
ter to eleven the prisoner, clergyman and of
GERS entered the Jail yard and the condemn
y man took his place on the gallows. His arr
q were tied, his feet strapped, the black cap W
II put on, the sheriff pulled the cord, and he W
launched into eternity.
The shore end of the new French oce
cable has been successfully landed from t
steamer Faraday at North Eastman, on t
Massachusetts coast. From North Eastha
the land lines OF the American Uniou TIE
graph Comp any will afford shore transmissi
al to all points in the United States and Canas
The Ponyer Quertier Cable Company is co
o. posed oil Frenca ana American stockllolde
III the former holding the balance OF power, q
10 has paid up capital OF about SIS, o 90 10 so
to be increased by the additional amount
g s., 0oo,t03. The cable extends from Bre
he France, to st. Pierre, Miqueion, and IL, m
III Pierre to North Eastman.
a. A Buffalo dispatch says that the schoo,
~ G. G.. Breed was Wondered in Lake Erie.
=, T, crew, consisting OF the captain and seven m,
~ are supposed to have been lost, with the
a. ception OF Frank Davis, who was picked
of by the propeller Milwaukee, after being nea
-, thirteen hours in the water.
- the fair given by the Seventh regiment
Us New York, in aid Of the { completion of II
n armory, was opened IN that structure by Pr,
5, dent Hayes. The exercises consisted of
!, address OF welcome by Mayor Cooper, folls
!. ed by an Grafton by George William Cur
[e sitter which the fair formally decla
nd open by the President.
)r. A fleet OF tug-boats, scows, dredges
a. derricks was wrecked on Lake Ontario,
=. Sackett's Harbor. N. Y, during a storm,
u nineteen lives were reported lost.
lis The two sons of Mrs. II. P. Beard, a
nd ten and twelve years, were burned to de
.e- in their room at Andover, Mass.
Later rep0rfs Of fhe diaa IN q tr,py
=. Lake Ontario, opposite Sackett's Harbor,
al Y, state that twenty-five persons out
ut thirty one were saved.
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